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Top AEG attorney called Michael Jackson 'the freak' in email
Hours before Anschutz Entertainment Group executives were heading to Michael Jackson’s Holmby Hills home to sign multimillion-dollar contracts for his concert series in London, the firm’s top lawyer called Jackson “the freak” in an...
Tags: Litigation, Witnesses, Propofol (drug), Conrad Murray, Prosecution
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Carmen Trutanich's defeat sown in a broken pledge
The seeds of one-term Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's resounding election defeat Tuesday were planted in his ill-fated run for district attorney last year. The candidate himself acknowledged that with less than a quarter of the ballots counted....
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Dennis P. Zine, Eric Garcetti
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Michael Jackson referred to as 'freak' in AEG email
In his opening statement in the Michael Jackson wrongful-death suit, an attorney for AEG said his side would expose the singer's secrets. "We're going to show some ugly stuff," Marvin Putnam said. But on Wednesday, it was lawyers for the singer's family...Tags: Propofol (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Conrad Murray, Justice System, Michael Jackson
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Witness: Michael Jackson passed medical exam 'with flying colors'
A few months before Michael Jackson’s death, AEG executives were told that the performer had passed a medical exam “with flying colors,” an in-house attorney for the company testified Wednesday. Shawn Trell, senior vice president and...Tags: Insurance, Witnesses, Propofol (drug), Artists, Michael Jackson
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Director feared Michael Jackson 'could have hurt himself'
Michael Jackson tour director Kenny Ortega wrote in an email to the president and chief executive of AEG Live that the singer "could have hurt himself," according to court testimony. The email, in which Ortega said the singer was in frail mental health,...
Tags: Propofol (drug), Conrad Murray, Kenny Ortega, Michael Jackson, Entertainment
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Michael Jackson's family offered to settle lawsuit, lawyer says
A lawyer for Michael Jackson’s family said they offered to settle their wrongful-death suit against concert promoter Anschutz Entertainment Group, but that they never got an answer. Kevin Boyle, an attorney for Jackson’s mother and three...
Tags: Michael Jackson Comeback Tour (2009), Entertainment Events, Propofol (drug), Michael Jackson
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AEG sought life insurance on 'basket case' Michael Jackson
In the days before Michael Jackson’s death, AEG executives were still attempting to secure a life insurance policy on the performer who had been acting erratically at rehearsals for his comeback tour, according to testimony and emails revealed in...Tags: Insurance, Michael Jackson Comeback Tour (2009), Witnesses, Entertainment Events, Propofol (drug)
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No background check on Conrad Murray, AEG official testifies
An in-house attorney for AEG testified Tuesday that his company did not look into the background of Conrad Murray, the doctor who gave Michael Jackson a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol two weeks before the singer was to perform in a series of...
Tags: Propofol (drug), Health and Medical Professionals, Conrad Murray, Rentals, Live Nation
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Murray didn't have a signed contract with AEG
Dr. Conrad Murray, who administered the fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to Michael Jackson, did not have a signed contract with the promoter of the London concerts by the singer, who died two weeks before they were scheduled to begin. Whether...Tags: Propofol (drug), Kenny Ortega, Conrad Murray, Entertainment, Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson paranoid, anxious, obsessive, director says
Five days before he died, Michael Jackson was in such a sorry mental state that the director of his ill-fated “This Is It” concert series said he needed a psychiatric evaluation. Kenny Ortega sent the June 20, 2009, email to Randy Phillips,...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson, Psychiatrists, Los Angeles International Airport
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AEG paid Michael Jackson's manager $100,000 a month
The promoter and producer putting on Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" concert series was paying his manager $100,000 a month, the only time entertainment giant AEG made such an agreement, a company lawyer testified Monday. Shawn Trell, senior...
Tags: Propofol (drug), Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's This Is It (movie), Michael Jackson, Entertainment
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Tour of California: Asian cycling team makes Tour debut
San Jose Mercury NewsThe only Asian continental cycling team made its debut in the Amgen Tour of California this year. Champion System Pro Cycling from Hong Kong didn't make headlines as the eight-day, 750-mile tour finished Sunday in downtown Santa Rosa. But no one in...Tags: Cycling, International Travel, Cycling Trial, Road Race Cycling, Tour de France
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