The trial involving Michael Jackson’s family suing entertainment company AEG, claiming they’re responsible for his death due to hiring Dr. Conrad Murray, is already underway but the late “King of Pop”’s siblings are not allowed to attend all together.
Jackson’s brothers and sisters; Janet, Jermaine, Jackie, La Toya, Marion, Rebbie and Randy, have been banned from the courtroom. The $40 billion trial started Monday.
Marvin Putnam, an attorney for AEG Live, said that with all five siblings in the same room as the jury, they might sway opinions.
Katherine Jackson’s lawyers, however, have requested that a judge allow at least one of her children in the courtroom every day of the trial to sit with her. Judge Yvetter Palazuelos agreed that one "can remain but you cannot have five in the court room,” Entertainmentwise reports.
Marvin Putnam, an attorney for AEG Live, insists there is "a risk in allowing any of them in the courtroom.”
New York Daily News reports that Randy and Rebbie were with their mother in court on Monday.
The trial is expected to last three months and will likely reveal a lot of information about Jackson in the months leading up to his death.