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jackson s friend, doctor friend, who he had met many years prior because he d taken care of his children and it was michael jackson who brought him into this sphere, but where s the responsibility? that s up to the court. so, debra, knowing that there were no contracts signed, what chance to the jacksons have in winning this case? the remaining cause of action which is the negligent hiring by aeg would fall down to the evidence. it would be in the form of testimony. it would be in the form of e-mails. if there s no signed contract, was there an unsigned contract. from what i understand, conra murray will not be testifying, so you won t hear from him. naturally you re not going to hear from michael jackson, so i would look to any e-mails or intercommunications between aeg and conrad murray if they, in fact, exist. my understanding is there may, in fact, be an e-mail from ceo or an executive at aeg which discusses who murray worked for, so these are evidence pieces that are going to
a series of concerts. you may remember for his role in this murray is now serving a four-year sentence for manslaughter. official panel of michael jackson experts joins me now to talk about this. debra opry is a former jackson family attorney and diane dimond is a reporter and author of be careful who you love, inside the michael jackson case. diana, i want to begin with you, does the multimillion dollar case come down to who hired murray? how do you prove that? the case had a lot of other components to it in the beginning, but it has been reduced to that. who actually hired, who was going to pay conrad murray and i should tell you right off the top there were no contracts ever signed and conrad murray for all the time he worked for michael jackson expecting $150,000 a month salary never got paid a penny, so how do you prove with no contract signed who hired him, who paid him, whose responsibility he was? he was actually michael
important for the trier of fact. and actually, debra, the family does say they have an e-mail proving aeg live was paying dr. murray s salary. here s what the aeg live ceo wrote about murray just 11 days before jackson s death. it said, we want to remind murray that it is aeg, not michael jackson, m.j., who is paying his salary. we want to remind him what is expected of him. could this could this be the smoking gun? absolutely. this piece of evidence if it goes to a jury and those 12 jurors are inside a deliberation room, they re going to say why would this e-mail have ever been sent if aeg was not taking the position that he was employed? remember, under the negligent hiring cause of action which is the only remaining cause of action left, they have to prove that aeg had hired him. when an executive at aeg says, remember who hired you, that s a piece of evidence.