Jackson doctor denies dangerous role

“I was not one of the doctors who participated in giving him overdoses of drugs or too much of anything,’’ Dr. Arnold Klein said in an interview that aired yesterday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.’’

“In fact, I was the one who limited everything, who stopped everything.’’

Investigators looking into the cause of Jackson’s death have homed in on drugs that were administered to the insomniac musician. The powerful sedative Diprivan, also known as Propofol and usually administered by anesthesiologists in hospitals, was found in Jackson’s home, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to comment about the matter.

Any drugs he used with Jackson were at very mild levels, Klein said. “How am I going to prescribe Diprivan when I don’t know how to use it?’’ he said.

Klein said he saw Jackson three days before he died on June 25. In response to rumors that the musician was dangerously thin at the time of his death, Klein said he saw nothing to make him worry.

“He danced in my office,’’ he said. “He danced for my patients.’’

Klein also said that Jackson was “at the hands of plastic surgeons who didn’t know when to stop,’’ and that the singer viewed his face as a piece of art.

Still, Klein said he was always concerned about Jackson because he knew that whatever he wanted, he could always find someone to give it to him.

As the world paused to remember Jackson, authorities released his death certificate, which did not list a cause of death. The official determination will probably wait until toxicology results are completed, which could take weeks.

Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Jackson’s brain, or at least part of it, was still being held by investigators and would be returned to the family for interment once neuropathology tests were completed.

Jackson’s final resting place was another unknown. Permission is needed to bury him at his former home, Neverland Ranch. A private memorial was held at a cemetery in the Hollywood Hills that is the resting place of many stars, but it does not appear Jackson will be buried among them.

Then there is Jackson’s money. He died deeply in debt, but left an estate potentially worth $500 million and his enduring star power with its tremendous earning potential.

Jackson’s financial adviser, Tohme Tohme, said on “Today’’ that he had fired staff members of Jackson’s in an effort to get the star’s finances untangled.

“I saw that there was a lot of money being wasted and a lot of people taking advantage of the situation,’’ Tohme said.

He said Jackson didn’t appear to care about money. “He said, ‘It’s your department, not mine.’ ’’