Perhaps the most anticipated autopsy in the history of celebrity culture was that of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who was found not breathing in his bed on the afternoon of June 25, 2009 by his personal physician Conrad Murray. Jackson was working hard rehearsing for a series of comeback concerts in London. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011. According to People, "prosecutors portrayed Murray, 58, as a reckless doctor who, for $150,000 a month, sold out the Hippocratic oath, and to treat Jackson's insomnia, gave the King of Pop a nightly drip of propofol, an unpredictable and potentially fatal anesthetic."

However, that wasn't the only drug found in Jackson's system. Reports revealed that the pop legend was operating on a cocktail of midazolam, diazepam, lidocaine and ephedrine at the time — drugs that "have no place in an unmonitored setting or in unskilled hands," a physician told CNN. Plenty of other secrets were also revealed by the autopsy. "There was no indication from the autopsy that there was anything anatomically wrong with him that would lead to premature death," Dr. Christopher Rogers found during his examination of Jackson's body, but what he did find were some bizarre aesthetic alterations. Rogers revealed that singer's lips had been tattooed pink and that the front of his scalp had been inked black so that his wigs blended in better, reported CNN.