Lawsuit ... tragic star Michael Jackson and witness Sharon Osbourne
SHARON Osbourne will be a key witness in the $40billion lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson’s family against a concert promoter, it emerged yesterday.
The X Factor star vowed to “do her duty” after being served papers to appear at court in Los Angeles. She says she will support claims AEG Live ignored health concerns about Jacko while organising his comeback shows. Sharon, 60, said after hearing she had been called as a potential witness: “Somebody asks you to come to court, you are subpoenaed and you do your duty.”
But last month she said: “There were certain people that worked at that company AEG Live that knew that Michael Jackson was not well and didn’t care because...
it was business.
“Whether he performed or he didn’t, they would still make money, and I’ve had conversations with certain people at that company who have said exactly that to me. “If they would like me to go to court, the Jackson family, I will stand up and tell you who said that to me.”
Yesterday in LA’s County Superior Court a cop told how Jacko’s doctor Conrad Murray was crippled with debts and may have acted recklessly to ensure he continued to get his £100,000-a-month salary. Murray, 60 — who has eight kids with seven women — faced student loans, home loans, child support obligations and credit card payments that were in arrears.
Jackson family lawyer Brian Panish said the debts totalled nearly £650,000.
Detective Orlando Martinez said on the third day of the wrongful death trial: “He may break the rules, bend the rules, do whatever he needed to do to get paid. It might solve his money problems.” He also told how Murray “made a call” to his girlfriend as the megastar lay stricken in an ambulance on its way to hospital.
Murray was jailed for four years in 2011 for the involuntary manslaughter of Jacko.
The King of Pop, 50, died from an overdose of sedative propofol before the This Is It shows at London’s O2 Arena in 2009.
Jacko’s mum Katherine, 82, and kids Prince, 16, Paris, 15, and Blanket, 11, hold AEG liable because it hired and supervised Murray. Katherine is reportedly seeking more than $40billion for loss of future earnings and other damages. Jacko’s entire family stayed away from court yesterday — a day after they were told they could not all attend.
The sun reports
The X Factor star vowed to “do her duty” after being served papers to appear at court in Los Angeles. She says she will support claims AEG Live ignored health concerns about Jacko while organising his comeback shows. Sharon, 60, said after hearing she had been called as a potential witness: “Somebody asks you to come to court, you are subpoenaed and you do your duty.”
But last month she said: “There were certain people that worked at that company AEG Live that knew that Michael Jackson was not well and didn’t care because...
it was business.
“Whether he performed or he didn’t, they would still make money, and I’ve had conversations with certain people at that company who have said exactly that to me. “If they would like me to go to court, the Jackson family, I will stand up and tell you who said that to me.”
Yesterday in LA’s County Superior Court a cop told how Jacko’s doctor Conrad Murray was crippled with debts and may have acted recklessly to ensure he continued to get his £100,000-a-month salary. Murray, 60 — who has eight kids with seven women — faced student loans, home loans, child support obligations and credit card payments that were in arrears.
Jackson family lawyer Brian Panish said the debts totalled nearly £650,000.
Detective Orlando Martinez said on the third day of the wrongful death trial: “He may break the rules, bend the rules, do whatever he needed to do to get paid. It might solve his money problems.” He also told how Murray “made a call” to his girlfriend as the megastar lay stricken in an ambulance on its way to hospital.
Murray was jailed for four years in 2011 for the involuntary manslaughter of Jacko.
The King of Pop, 50, died from an overdose of sedative propofol before the This Is It shows at London’s O2 Arena in 2009.
Jacko’s mum Katherine, 82, and kids Prince, 16, Paris, 15, and Blanket, 11, hold AEG liable because it hired and supervised Murray. Katherine is reportedly seeking more than $40billion for loss of future earnings and other damages. Jacko’s entire family stayed away from court yesterday — a day after they were told they could not all attend.
The sun reports
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