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*Conrad Murray’s severe financial problems were to blame for Michael Jackson’s death, a Los Angeles police detective told the court at the trial between the King of Pop’s mother, Katherine Jackson, and promoters AEG Live, who had booked MJ to play 50 shows at London’s O2 Arena. On Wednesday, Detective Orlando Martinez testified that he [...]
*Just one of Michael Jackson’s brothers and sisters can sit in the courtroom at one time in the family’s wrongful death suit against AEG Live, a judge ordered Tuesday. AEG Live lawyers argued at the start of the second day of the trial that there was “a risk in allowing any of them in the [...]
*With a multi-million dollar wrongful death trial pitting Michael Jackson’s mother and kids against concert promoter AEG Live underway in Los Angeles, Jackson’s ex-wife and the mother of two of his children has resurfaced. And sources say she’s grown particularly close to the daughter she never really knew, reports People.com. In recent weeks, Debbie Rowe [...]
*Opening statements are scheduled to begin this morning in a case filed by Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine against AEG Live, the company promoting his planned series of comeback concerts. The remarks in Los Angeles court will provide a roadmap of the case, which may last 90 trial days. Katherine is claiming AEG failed to properly [...]
*The civil trial over the death of Michael Jackson is set to get formally underway at Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, April 29, after jury selection was completed on Tuesday. Jackson’s 82-year-old mother, Katherine, is suing AEG Live, the promoters of his never-realized series of 2009 London comeback concerts, for the wrongful death of [...]
*A jury of six men and six women was accepted by both sides on Monday for the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Michael Jackson against AEG concert promoters, reports the AP. Lawyers immediately began questioning prospects to sit as alternate jurors. The jury was seated a week after a [...]
*Six degrees of separation to the King of Pop seemed to hamper jury selection in his mother Katherine Jackson’s lawsuit against promoters AEG. According to the Associated Press, extensive connections of Michael Jackson, his family and friends became a challenge Monday for a judge trying to seat an impartial jury for his mother’s wrongful death [...]
*Attorneys and a Los Angeles judge have selected 81 people to remain in the jury pool for the case between Michael Jackson’s mother and concert giant AEG Live. Nine people were added to the pool Wednesday after the sixth day of jury selection, reports the Associated Press. Screenings will continue today and Friday to try [...]
*Jury selection began Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson’s mother against AEG Live, the promoter of the late singer’s planned comeback concerts. Dozens of prospective jurors answered written questionnaires that gauged their ability to serve on the trial, which may last three months, reports the Associated Press. One 24-page section of the questionnaire [...]
*A Los Angeles judge has set the parameters for a civil suit by Michael Jackson’s mother against concert giant AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the company negligently hired Dr. Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s death. The judge’s rulings Thursday anticipate a three-month trial that will revisit events preceding [...]
*Katherine Jackson has filed a motion asking the judge presiding over her wrongful death case to ban evidence about the conception of Jackson’s kids, Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket. The Jackson family matriarch is suing promoters behind her son Michael’s doomed This Is It comeback tour, claiming they were negligent in ignoring life-threatening health concerns. [...]
*A “smoking gun” e-mail allegedly connecting a concert promoter to Michael Jackson’s death was revealed this week as a judge unsealed documents in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother and children, reports CNN. The trial next month in Los Angeles could shed new light on the pop icon’s last days as Dr. Conrad [...]
*A jury should decide whether the promoter of Michael Jackson’s final concerts negligently hired and supervised the physician convicted of causing the singer’s death, a judge tentatively ruled Monday. If the ruling stands, it will allow the case by Jackson’s mother, Katherine, to go forward and present the theory that concert giant AEG Live controlled [...]
*Michael Jackson’s former personal assistant has filed a lawsuit against the late star’s tour promoters AEG Live, claiming they robbed him of $7.5 million dollars in compensation. Michael Amir Williams says he and several other plaintiffs lost out on more than $7.5 million dollars in compensation after the King of Pop’s death in June 2009. [...]
*Concert giant AEG Live is seeking book drafts and manuscripts by Jermaine Jackson that it claims may reveal details about his superstar brother that will help its defense in a lawsuit filed by the singers’ mother. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] AEG is wants the material from Jackson’s recent book, “You Are Not Alone,” [...]
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