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*Michael Jackson’s doctor was not the only person working on the singer’s ill-fated “This Is It” tour without a fully executed contract, a corporate attorney for concert promoter AEG Live LLC testified Monday. The tour’s director Kenny Ortega was being paid based on an agreement laid out solely in emails, AEG General Counsel Shawn Trell [...]
*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 [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray, currently serving four years for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death, maintained his innocence and broke into song during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. Speaking by phone on “Anderson Cooper 360,” Murray said when his sentence is up, he wants to “motivate people and continue to do selfless acts.” [...]
*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 [...]
*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. [...]
*Former doctor of Michael Jackson, Conrad Murray, has been trying to wiggle his way out of jail since the beginning. Now he’s conveniently complaining of constant pain. TMZ says he left a voice message with a friend, and it sounded as if he was crying uncontrollably. He complained of the lack of rights behind bars [...]
*Oh god. This can’t be good. According to TMZ, Katherine Jackson actually needs Conrad Murray’s help. Mrs. Jackson is suing AEG for the wrongful death of her son, Michael Jackson. Her claim is that they negligently hired the doctor without providing proper supervision. Yes, it sounds like she actually expects Conrad Murray to admit he [...]
*Former doctor Conrad Murray is not going home from lockdown. Unfortunately his legal team failed at convincing the judge that he’s worthy of getting let out the cage after being convicted of manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. According to TMZ, the California Attorney General doesn’t believe Murray when he says he’s not a [...]
*HBO has chosen “Stick Fly” as their latest Broadway to cable-movie venture. The drama that opened in 2009 in Los Angeles, is about a wealthy African-American family who vacations on Martha’s Vineyard, and the issues they are exposed to while on vacation. Stick Fly made its way to Broadway in 2011. Playwright Lydia Diamond is [...]
*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,” [...]
*Michael Jackson’s father has dropped his wrongful death lawsuit against Conrad Murray, the former doctor who was convicted of causing his son’s death. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Court records show Joe Jackson’s request for a dismissal was granted Monday, reports the AP. The filings don’t give a reason why he’s dropping the lawsuit, but [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray may be unsafe in jail. Not for obvious reasons of course, but because it looks like there was a security breach when a complete stranger came to visit him. According to TMZ, his lawyer confirmed that a middle aged woman of Eastern European descent visited the former doctor in jail Thursday, claiming [...]
*Michael Jackson’s former doctor and former brother-in-law are reportedly on the same cell block in Los Angeles. The King of Pop’s personal physician Conrad Murray is said to be neighbors at Los Angeles County Men’s Jail with singer James DeBarge, who was famously married to Janet Jackson for a year in the 1980s. Murray has been [...]
*A lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray has blasted Los Angeles prison officials for treating Michael Jackson’s former physician “like Hannibal Lecter,” insisting it’s “offensive” to keep him in isolation and heavily shackled. The doctor has been behind bars since early November, when he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering the fatal dose of anesthetic [...]
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