27 June 2013

Prince Jackson Gives Shocking Testimony In Michael Jackson Wrongful Death Suit

Michael Jackson's eldest son Prince Jackson told a court that his late father had feared the gruelling rehearsal schedule for his 'This Is It' Tour would be the death of him. 

Prince, full name Michael Joseph Jackson Jr, 16, told the jury in Los Angeles that his father had been left in tears by talks with AEG Live chief executive Randy Phillips days before his planned 02 comeback gigs.

After he got off the phone, he would cry. He’d say, ‘They’re going to kill me, they’re going to kill me,” Prince said yesterday.

Prince testified in a lawsuit accusing concert promoter AEG Live LLC of negligently hiring Dr Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jackson an overdose of the anaesthetic propofol.

AEG denies it hired the physician or bears any responsibility for the entertainer's death.


Prince claimed that he saw Phillips at the family's rented mansion in a heated conversation with Murray in the days before his father died. The teenager said Phillips grabbed Murray's elbow. Phillips "looked aggressive to me," Prince testified. His father wasn't at home at the time and was probably rehearsing, he said.

He said Jackson had told Phillips he wanted more time to rehearse and was unhappy with pressure to perform his 50 scheduled comeback concerts entitled This Is It. 

Murray's lawyer Valerie Wass and AEG defence lawyer Marvin S. Putnam later denied outside court that the meeting between Murray and Phillips that Prince described ever happened. Putnam said Prince would be re-called to the witness stand during the defence case later in the trial.
"I think as the testimony will show when he is called in our defence that's not what happened," Putnam said. "He was a 12-year-old boy who has had to endure this great tragedy."

Prince's testimony began with the teenager showing jurors roughly 15 minutes of private family photos and home videos.


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