woman contractor who was serving pizza slices started acting strangely when she refused to put down a knife she was holding, they tased her but she kept coming at them, they say. at least four shots were fired then if woman 28-year-old scott died. one of the deputies was treated for injuries that may have come from a ricochetting bullet. now the michael jackson trial. stunning new piece of evidence could help determine the outcome of the jackson family s wrongful death suit against concert promoter aeg live. it sen aerks mail from aeg live s co-chairman barning that michael jackson s personal physician had to get the king of pop in shape to perform on stage. and in a cnn exclusive, we will show you paul gongaware s response when questioned by the jackson family s attorney. a potential bombshell t in the trial against aeg, concert promoter managing the this is it concert tour.
aeg has long contended that they did not hire dr. conrad murray, the physician convicted of administering the lethal dose of the anesthetic to jackson. instead, aeg has maintained that it was the king of pop that hired murray. but in an e-mail the jackson family attorneys are calling the smoking gun co-ceo of aeg live paul gongaware, allegedly pressured murray into having jackson ready for rehearsals despite his ailing health. gongaware writes, quote, we want to remind murray that it is aeg, not mj, who is paying his salary. we want to remind him what is expected of him. gongaware says he doesn t recall the message. i don t remember this e-mail. reporter: cnn has exclusively obtained gongaware s videotaped deposition that was shown to the jury. based on the assumption that aeg is your company and mj is michael jackson, do you have an understanding of what that means? no, i don t understand it because we weren t paying his salary.
obtained his videotaped deposition that was shown to the jury. based on the assumption that aeg is your company and mj is michael jackson, do you have an understanding of what that means? no, i don t understand it because we weren t paying his salary. why would you write that? i have no idea. let s go on to the next sentence. when you say his salary, who are you talking about? i don t know. reporter: cnn digital reporter allan duke has been in the courtroom since the beginning of the trial. to watch paul try to dance around it and explain this e-mail was very interesting in court. at times today there was laughter because of his the perception of his evasiveness. reporter: the jackson family is suing aeg stating they negligently hired and supervised murray for serving time for involuntary manslaughter. if aeg is found liable it could cost the company billions of dollars. so much money at stake here. you know, paul gongaware s long
stash of propofol when dr. murray first started treating michael jackson. there s evidence that he was on propofol okay. let me jump in and speak it s been fascinating to watch you both go at it. he s obviously already been tried and is in jail as a result. let s move to what this new trial is basically going to come down to, which involves a responsibility aspect of who was really employing conrad murray. and i ll remind you of an e-mail from the aeg live co-ceo paul gongaware. we want to remind murray that it s aeg, not mj, michael jackson, who is paying his salary. we want to remind him what is expected of hip him. now what did that e-mail mean? what was expected of conrad murray, and is it true that it was aeg paying conrad murray directly, not michael jackson? first of all, i would like to point out that conrad murray never received a dime for caring for michael jackson. he took care of him for two months and was not paid a dime. the contract was supposed to be
there s evidence that he was on propofol okay. let me jump in and speak it s been fascinating to watch you both go at t. he s obviously already been tried and is in jail as a result. let s move to what this new trial is basically going to come down to, which involves a responsibility aspect of who was really employing conrad murray. and i ll remind you of an e-mail from the aeg live co ceo paul gongaware. we want to remind murray that it s aeg, not mj, michael jackson, who is paying his salary. we want to remind him what is expected of hip him. now what did that e-mail mean? what was expected of conrad murray, and is it true that it was aeg paying conrad murray directly, not michael jackson? first of all, i would like to point out that conrad murray never received a dime for caring for michael jackson. he took care of him for two months and was not paid a dime. the contract was supposed to be retroactive to may 1st and he still has not been paid a dime for his care of jackson.