Closing arguments are expected to be heard on Monday in the wrongful death lawsuit the Jackson family has launched against AEG Live, the promoters of Michael Jackson’s would-be tour.
On Wednesday, the defense rested, leading to both sides agreeing to start closing arguments the beginning of next week.
Katherine Jackson, the mother of the “Thriller” singer and her three children are accusing AEG of being negligent in hiring Dr. Conrad Murray, who gave him a lethal dose of propofol. They deny hiring him, saying Jackson did.
According to NY Daily News, AEG ended with calling Allan Metzger, Jackson’s longtime doctor to the stand. Metzger portrayed the King of Pop as a “doctor shopper” who was secretive about it.
“(He was) secretive about medicine, secretive about procedures, secretive about all kinds of stuff, that was part of his mystique,” he said. “I was worried about someone giving him something that could intermix with something else.”
The 21-week trial is coming to a close, with Metzger’s testimony being a big part of it. He said he got a call from Jackson in February of 2009 saying “he was fearful” about the This Is It tour “because this was it and he needed to do a lot of perfectionalizing. He wanted it to be something that had never been done before,” USA Today reports.
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