it goes to show that michael jackson had a substance abuse problem of some sort even before this this is it concert tour set to start. but it shows he s a fragile, vulnerable person. i think aeg, miguel is right, aeg is going try to paint an ugly picture of michael jackson having a mess of a life, long before they ever entered his life and entered into this contract with him. but then the jackson side can counter, you knew how frail he was, how dare you, you kept pushing and pushing him. there s another e-mail. i think that you ll bring up, that talks about conrad murray let s read that one. this is the one that says, 11 days before jackson died aeg s ceo wrote to the director and choreographer, we want to remain murray it s aeg, not m.j., paying his salary. we want to remain him what is expected of him. how will that be used?
not mj, who is paying his salary. we want to remind him what is expected of him. there you have it right there where it says aeg hired jackson. miguel, we know aeg will say, but it was michael jackson who recommended dr. conrad murray. it is michael jackson who said, i can t go on unless it is dr. murray. that s exactly what they are arguing in there today. and it will be that s the huge question before both sides. what is very clear from what happened this morning, though, is this is going to get very, very nasty in there very quickly. we haven t gotten to the basics of the trial, and they are arguing now about whether to allow cameras in this courtroom and i can tell you, the judge sounds disposed to it, it might happen that we get a camera in the court proceedings here. but the lawyers really going forward for michael jackson really going after aeg and doing
kenny or tay ga saying it s aeg not mj who s paying his salary. we want to remind him what s expected of him. can this e-mail be explained away? sounds like they re saying we paid him, picked him, that s a drink. that s a tough bun for aeg. i do think that they can explain it. bottom line is this case comes down to who was responsible for hiring dr. conrad murray? who did he work for? aeg can say i didn t have a contract with him. michael jackson brought dr. murray to the table. we never paid him a dime. and most importantly, they can point to what dr. murray said himself to detectives. he said, it was my understanding that although aeg paid for me, paid my check, was going to cut my check, i worked for michael jackson. that came from dr. murray himself. i think that right. when you look at it altogether they have a strong case defending itself. mark, sunny makes the case
the one that employed and paid for conrad murray. and because of that, they were the employer so they should be responsible for his actions. that civilly they caused the death of michael jackson. that they knew or should have known or should have been foreseeable that conrad murray, being so much in debt, was so in need of $150,000 a month that he would do anything so that michael jackson could take the stage. there s a critical e-mail, ashleigh, that the plaintiffs are definitely going to rely upon which is from an aeg official to kenny ortega. and it was after conrad murray did not allow michael jackson to go to rehearsal 11 days before he died. and the e-mail states, you tell mr. conrad murray that we, aeg, are the ones that pay him, not michael jackson. do you know what, i have that e-mail and he has responsibility, and he knows what that is. let me read it verbatim. we want to remind murray that it is aeg, not m.j., who is