A 'SEVERELY emaciated' Michael Jackson weighed just over 50kg and was disfigured and virtually bald after years of physical abuse, reported The Sun of London, based on leaked results from an official autopsy carried out by Los Angeles County's Chief Medical Examiner last Friday.

Details from Friday's preliminary examination of Jackson's body were published in Britain's The Sun newspaper on Monday after the daily said it had seen a copy of the autopsy report.

According to the paper, pathologists found Jackson's stomach empty apart from partially-dissolved pills. Jackson's body was also reported to have weighed only 50.8kg at the time of his death.

The Sun said that the bridge of Jackson's nose had disappeared and the right side had caved in. It also reported unexplained bruises on his knees and shins and bruising to his back suggesting a recent fall.

The experts also found that several of Jackson's ribs had been broken as paramedics tried to revive the 50-year-old singer after he collapsed at his rented mansion in Belair on Thursday. There were also signs of four adrenaline jabs administered directly to his heart during the failed resuscitation.

A source close to the Jackson entourage told the newspaper: "He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and he had been eating nothing but pills when he died. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he'd been in terminal decline for years."

However the Los Angeles County coroner's office strongly rejected the report, describing parts of it as 'totally false.'

'The report that is being published did not come from our office,' said Assistant Chief Ed Winter. 'I don't know where that information came from, or who that information came from.'

Meanwhile lawyers for personal physician Conrad Murray - who was with Jackson in the hours before his death - went on the attack, with attorney Edward Chernoff insisting his client was blameless.

'There's nothing in his history, nothing that Dr Murray knew, that would lead him to believe he would go into sudden cardiac arrest or respiratory failure,' Mr Chernoff told CNN on Monday.

'There was no red flag available to Dr Murray, which led him to believe he would have died the way he did. It's still a mystery how he died.'

Speculation has been rife that excessive use of powerful prescription pain killers may have played a role in Jackson's death, but Mr Chernoff insisted that contrary to news reports, Murray 'never prescribed nor administered' two particular drugs - Demerol or Oxycontin - to Jackson.

He also defended how Dr Murray responded to the immediate crisis after Jackson lost consciousness last week, recounting step-by-step the failed effort by the doctor to revive the singer. -- AFP