An AEG finance executive Thursday verified a 2009 company budget that allotted $300,000 to be paid to Dr. Conrad Murray for two months of caring for Michael Jackson. Julie Hollander, vice president/controller of event operations for AEG Live, testified in the wrongful death trial that Murray’s salary of $150,000 each for the months of [...]
AEG Live considered “pulling the plug” on Michael Jackson’s comeback – 11 days before he died, the show’s choreographer testified Tuesday. Travis Payne, who worked closely with Michael Jackson in his final days, earlier testified that in Michae’s last rehearsals before his death, he was “not at show standards but he was rehearsing, he [...]
Michael Jackson appeared paranoid, repeating himself and shivering from chills in his final days, his longtime makeup artist Karen Faye testified Thursday (May 9). “This was not the man I knew,” she testified. “He was acting like a person I didn’t recognize.”
Faye, who did Michael’s makeup and hair for 27 years, was the sixth [...]
Michael Jackson’s doctor was not qualified to treat him for insomnia or medical drug addiction and botched resuscitation efforts, an expert cardiologist testifying for his mother told a jury on Tuesday.
Dr. Daniel Wohlgelernter said he reached his conclusion after reviewing the credentials of Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael [...]
A week after AEG’s lawyer refused to concede for legal arguments that Michael Jackson is dead, he acknowledged his death in court.
The stipulation — an agreement between two parties in a case that something is a given fact — could save time in a trial that is expected to last several months. While acknowledging [...]
Conrad Murray appeared to be on trial again Wednesday as a lawyer for Michael Jackson’s mother tried to show the physician’s desperate financial situation drove him to extremes in his treatment of the superstar.
Attorney Brian Panish, questioning a police detective, hammered away at the depths of debt that enveloped Conrad Murray when he agreed [...]
