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MICHAEL JACKSON'S DERMATOLOGIST SUES ESTATE


By Liz Hodgson - Posted on 30 October 2009

Michael Jackson's former dermatologist is suing his estate for nearly $50,000 in unpaid bills – including $7,500 for one Saturday visit.
Dr Arnold Klein wants $48,522.89 for treatment from March this year, including four treatments performed just four days before the singer's death on June 25, aged 50.
The treatments include Botox under his eyes and on his forehead, a glaucoma treatment called Latanoprost, acne surgery, sunscreen, a lip treatment and Restalyne, a wrinkle-filler.
There were 51 references to an IM injection, which another dermatologist told celebrity site TMZ, which obtained a copy of the lawsuit, is often used as a billing code for the powerful opiate painkiller Demerol.
On April 23 Jackson had three IM injections at $60 each – and two days later, a Saturday, he went to Dr Klein's Beverly Hills office for four more IM injections and a dose of Restalyne, for the whopping $7,500 fee.
In total the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, lists 179 procedures.
Dr Klein's lawyer Bradley Boyer said in a statement: “Any and all treatment Arnold Klein provided to Michael Jackson was reasonable, appropriate, and medically necessary.
“The document filed today is a normal part of the probate process.”
Jackson had been a patient of Dr Klein since 1986. He met his second wife, Debbie Rowe, mother of his two eldest children, when she worked at his surgery.
After Jackson's death there was speculation that Dr Klein could have been the sperm donor who fathered Prince Michael 1, 12, and 11-year-old Paris.
Also in the wake of his death his office was searched for details of Jackson's medical treatment.