Michael Jackson’s management knew he was terribly ill, days before his death, with one of MJ’s most trusted aides begging a doctor to do blood tests, according to evidence presented in the family’s lawsuit today.
Lawyers for Jackson’s loved ones, suing concert promoters AEG Live, played a voicemail in court from the singer’s late manager Frank DiLeo to Dr. Conrad Murray.
“He’s [Jackson] sick. I think you need to get a blood test on him today,” DiLeo said in a June 19, 2009 message to Murray. “We got to see what he’s doing.”
Jackson’s family wants to prove that AEG knew of the singer’s failing health and didn’t do anything to help.
The family’s lawyer, Brian Panish, suggested that if DiLeo knew Jackson was sick, so did AEG officials.
Concert promoters have insisted they had no idea MJ was that ill, or that Dr. Murray was pumping him with painkillers and a powerful anesthetics.
The deadly mix of medications killed Jackson on June 25, 2009.
Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and is serving four years behind bars. Jackson’s family is suing AEG, claiming Murray was acting as an agent of the company.
LAPD Det. Orlando Martinez, lead investigator into Jackson’s death, today repeated his suspicions of Murray based on the doctor’s $150,000-a-month deal to be MJ’s physician.
“For that amount of money would he [Murray] bend rules, or do what he should be doing to get that money?” Martinez testified.