Michael Jackson Civil Trial Update [VIDEO]: AEG Live Employee Testifies About Hiring of Doctor Conrad Murray; Prince Takes the Stand Describing Support For Sister Paris Jackson

Michael Jackson civil trial update news: According to the testimony of lawyer Kathy Jorrie, Dr. Conrad Murray claimed he was giving up a $1-million-a-month medical practice to serve as Michael Jackson's doctor.  Dr. Murray's criminal trial revealed this not to be the case.

Kathy Jorrie negotiated and wrote the contract between AEG Live and Murray.  She was called as a witness in the wrongful death civil suit of the concert promoter.

Murray, agreed to work as Jackson's full-time physician for his comeback concerts for $150,000 a month.  He is serving a prison term for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's drug overdose death.

Katherine Jackson and Michael Jackson's three children Paris Jackson, Prince Jackson and Blanket Jackson, are suing AEG Live.  The contend the concert promoter was liable in his death because it negligently hired, retained or supervised Murray.

Testimony in Murray's criminal trial revealed he only operated two clinics.  A Los Angeles Police detective testified that Murray was more than $1 million in debt and that Murray's Las Vegas medical clinic faced eviction before he was hired to treat Jackson.

Jackson lawyers argue AEG Live executives were negligent because they failed to check Murray's background.  The Jackson family contends this would have revealed his debts and misrepresentations.

AEG Live executives testified that they relied on assurances by Jackson that Murray was his "longtime personal doctor," concluding that he was competent for the position of tour doctor.

A music industry veteran hired as an expert witness by Jackson lawyers testified earlier that AEG Live's negotiations with Murray were "highly inappropriate."

The agreement to pay Murray $150,000 a month set up a conflict of interest in which the physician was beholden to the company and himself before Jackson's interests,  according to the testimony of David Berman, who once headed Capitol Records and worked for decades as an entertainment lawyer.

According to Berman's testimony, The contractual relationship between AEG Live and Murray was "not unlike the team doctor for a football team, where the quarterback is injured and the doctor comes to the medical conclusion that the quarterback should be taken out of the game for a period of weeks, but the team doesn't want him out.  There is an inherent conflict."

Berman noted that the contract said AEG Live could terminate Murray if concerts were postponed or canceled.

"The fact that if the tour is even just postponed that AEG Live has the ability to cease any further compensation for Dr. Murray, giving Dr. Murray even greater conflict of interest since he was in financial dire straits. He did need this gig and if it was postponed, which could hypothetically be in the best interest of Michael Jackson, he ran the risk of losing any further compensation."

Prince Michael Jackson recently testified in the Michael Jackson civil trial over his death against AEG Live.  His testimony included a harrowing account of Michael Jackson's drug overdose, and the way Michael Jackson's death affected sister Paris Jackson, who is currently in treatment for a suicide attempt.

Prince Michael Jackson described the events of Michael Jackson's drug overdose death for the courtroom in the Michael Jackson Civil Trial: "My dad was hanging half off the bed, and his eyes kind of rolled in the back of his head."

Prince described for the courtroom how much the death of Michael Jackson had affected his sister Paris Jackson: "My sister came upstairs, but we kept pulling her downstairs. She was screaming the whole time saying she wants her daddy

"I told my sister something that my dad always told us, that angels were still watching over him, and there had to be angels on Earth."

Paris Jackson recently attempted suicide by taking 20 ibuprofen and cutting her wrists.  Paris was taken the the hospital.

The family of Michael Jackson is allegedly trying to keep Paris Jackson away from the Michael Jackson Civil Trial, according to a source: "She can't be near that trial or hear the horrible things being said about Michael. He was a saint to her, and she doesn't believe anything bad about her father. She gets so distraught when she hears that stuff."

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