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Pleading with murray to give him a powerful and dangerous drug called propofol. randy taraborrelli is a jackson biographer and a life-long confidant. >> he would have paid $1 million for a good night's sleep. that's not an exaggeration. he actually would have. >> michael jackson was plagued by insomnia for years. >> journalist jim moret spent years covering michael jackson. >> he was plagued with this horrible inability to go to slem and he would rely upon doctors to provide him with medication so that he could sleep. >> according to police, jackson's final hours, beyond these windows, involve...

This is a man who lived his life on his own terms. >> after hours of denying jackson propofol police investigators say dr. murray finally relented. at 10:40 a.m., he gave him the pop legend the anesthetic drug through an iv drip and jackson finally went to sleep. according to the search warrant affidavit, at 10:50 a.m., dr. murray got up to go to the bathroom. a few minutes later, murray says he returned to find his very famous patient no longer breathing. he began cpr. >> the cook at the house told me that there were certain things that seemed to happen every day. around 8:00, 9:00 in the mor...

Doubt that michael jackson knew what drugs he wanted and when he wanted them. and michael jackson appeared to be able to get whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. >> according to the affidavit, as dawn broke at 100 north carolwood drive on june 25th, 2009, still awake and apparently restless, he wasn't taking no for an answer. >> he didn't like to be told no on what to do. that is a huge issue. anyone who knew michael and worked for michael will tell you this is a man who lived his life on his own terms. >> after hours of denying jackson propofol police investigators say dr. murray finally re...

Was still awake, so murray told police he tried another drug, a sedative. that didn't work either. what jackson really wanted according to murray was the anesthetic propofol. murray told investigators jackson repeatedly asked for the drug that final night but insisted he repeatedly denied the singer. murray claims he was actually trying to wean jackson off of propofol at the time fearing he had formed an addiction. ed chernoff is murray's attorney. >> he doesn't have any specialized training in addiction recovery, that's true. who else is addicted to a drug like propofol? there's no protocol f...

He said, yes, but i just want you to see i can't sleep. >> michael requested propofol, a drug few people had heard of. it is a powerful anesthetic that's only used in operating rooms or other clinical settings. propofol is not available as a pill and can only be given intravenously. it puts a patient out almost instantly. >> i looked at him and that was the first time i got this chill through my body, and i said, michael, if you take that medicine, you might not wake up. >> weeks later, lee heard from michael jackson one final time. he wanted to see her right away. the singer complained one si...