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Katherine is wearing a navy blue jacket and Rebbie is wearing a black and white dress with black jacket.
7:29 PM - 29 Mai 13

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Katherine Jackson and daughter Rebbie just entered the courtroom. We're still outside waiting to get in.

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AEG's Gongaware is in the hallway. Shawn Trell also present, chatting with his attorneys. Jacksons attorneys here, but no family members yet

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Judge Palazuelos has one more case and two ex parte (emergency) to hear before trial can resume. Busy morning so far.

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Several Michael Jackson fans are in the hallway waiting. We're told it will be at least another 30 minutes before trial resumes.

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Gongaware's testimony yesterday covered several areas and was confusing at times. I believe the tweets reflect that. ;-)

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AEG's Co-CEO Paul Gongaware is set to resume testimony. This will be his second day on the stand and he's expected to take all day again

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Trial was supposed to begin 10 minutes ago, but Judge Yvette Palazuelos is hearing other cases.

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Hello from the courthouse in downtown LA. We're waiting outside the courtroom waiting to be let in for Day 19 of Jackson Family vs AEG trial

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Judge Yvette Palazuelos adjourned session for the day. Trial resumes tomorrow at 9:45 am PT with Gongaware on the stand. See you then!
2:32 AM - 29 Mai 13

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About 10 minutes into Gongaware’s testimony, AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips walked into the courtroom. (He left before the lunch break.)
9:11 PM - 29 Mai 13

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Jacksons vs AEG - Day 19 – May 29 2013 – Summary

Katherine and Rebbie Jackson are at court.

Paul Gongaware Testimony


Jackson direct

"My understanding Michael Jackson is a party (to the contract)," Gongaware said about Dr. Murray's contract. He said he never saw it, though.(ABC7) Gongaware told jury he’s never looked at Conrad Murray’s contract to serve as Michael Jackson’s tour doctor. (AP)

Panish: Why did AEG have to enter into a contract with Dr. Murray? Gongaware: I don't know. About AEG terminating Dr. Murray, Gongaware said he didn't believe they could do it, because he was Michael's doctor. Gongaware said it was fair to say he didn't know why AEG would enter into a contract with a doctor for Michael Jackson. Panish asked Gongaware if MJ negotiated the price/contract with Dr. Murray. "I believe he did through me, he instructed me what to offer" (ABC7)

Gongaware said he didn't know for sure whether Karen Faye was an independent contractor or not. (ABC7)

"Dr. Murray would've been 100% charged to Michael Jackson," Gongaware testified. (ABC7)

Gongaware said he didn't know what the $300k budgeted for medical management was for. (ABC7)

Panish tried 'impeaching' Gongaware, which is the process of calling into question the credibility of an individual who's testifying. Yesterday and today the plaintiffs' attorney would ask a question then play parts of the deposition to catch Gongaware in contradiction. (ABC7)

At one point, a portion of Gongaware’s deposition was played in which he discussed a meeting at Michael Jackson’s house with Conrad Murray. At depo, Paul Gongaware said the meeting “was about Dr. Murray and engaging him.” Gongaware later changed testimony to state “him” meant MJ. That change was read to the jury, leading attorney Brian Panish to question Gongaware about what he meant by word “engage.” “Here I think we were talking about making sure Michael Jackson was engaged and focused,” Gongaware said. (AP) Gongaware told the jury he was concerned in getting MJ involved and focused, engaged mentally. "I believe that was Kenny's concern, that he wanted him to be focus," Gongaware explained. MJ had gone before without rehearsing, Gongaware recalled. "When he got to London, MJ was going to be sensational." (ABC7) Gongaware said he thought at the meeting they discussed Jackson’s nutrition, not his health (i.e. sleep issues.) (AP)

Gongaware said Dr. Murray didn't discuss with him MJ's sleeping problems. In his deposition, Gongaware said he didn't remember. Panish asked Gongaware what made him remind that Dr. Murray didn't talk to him about MJ's sleeping problems; example of impeaching witness. (ABC7)

Panish asked Gongaware about another meeting at Jackson’s house in which the singer showed up late after a visit to Dr. Arnold Klein. “I didn't know what he was under the influence of, but he was a little bit off,” Gongaware said of the meeting. (AP) "I don't know way he was on, he was a little off," Gongaware said, adding that he didn't know what kind of drugs Dr. Klein was giving MJ. (ABC7)

Panish then asked Gongaware whether he was involved in getting Jackson a nutritionist. Lots of back-and-forth on this issue. Panish showed emails in which Gongaware emailed others at AEG telling them Jackson needed a nutritionist and physical therapist. “I was trying to find a nutritionist, but I wasn’t involved in his nutrition,” Gongaware said. (AP)

Obviously I was looking for a nutritionist for him, but I wasn't involved in his nutrition," Gongaware said. Panish played Gongaware's deposition where he said he was not involved in finding a nutritional person. Gongaware explained he believes nutritional person and nutritionist were not necessarily the same. (ABC7)

On June 15, 2009, Gongaware sent and emai to Ortega in response to request for nutritionist and physical therapist for MJ. Email: We're on it. AEG owns major sports teams in this market so we think we can find the right people quickly. Kenny responded: Super.Not a minute too soon. Let's turn this guy around! (ABC7)

Plaintiff’s attorney Brian Panish then asked Gongaware about a friend of AEG CEO Randy Phillips who was going to work with Jackson. Gongaware said he didn’t know whether this friend of Phillips was a nutrition specialist. He told Panish he’d have to ask Randy Phillips. (AP) Gongaware testified he remembers someone named David Loughner working with MJ. Panish pointed out Laughner is Randy Phillips' friend. "I don't know if he was a nutritionist, it was someone in charge of making MJ eat," Gongaware explained. Gongaware: He's a guy who's dealt with artists quite a bit Panish: Artists in trouble? Gongaware: Artists in general. Gongaware said he doesn't know what Laughner did, but he's seen him working with JLo and Enrique Iglesias. (ABC7)

Gongaware didn't know why MJ would need a nutritionist when he had a doctor hired. "Kenny asked for it," Gongaware explained. Gongaware said he told Dr. Murray he wanted him to have everything he needed. He said Michael Jackson had always been thin. (ABC7)

Gongaware said he didn't attend rehearsals frequently. "I was at the rehearsal facility at all the times but I wasn't in the arena much.". "We were always concerned about MJ's health and well being," Gongaware explained, saying he was responding to Kenny Ortega's requests. Gongaware said Kenny Ortega was responsible for keeping an eye on everything, including MJ and his health. (ABC7) AEG exec Paul Gongaware was then asked whether there was anyone responsible for handling AEG’s interests at rehearsals. Gongaware responded yes, that was Kenny Ortega. (AP)

Panish: Do you think Ortega was overreacting? Gongaware: Perhaps. I knew that when house lights went up, he was going to be there
Panish: You think Ortega was overreacting when raised concerns about MJ's health? Gongaware: I think I wasn't concerned as he was (ABC7)

"I was never concerned about Michael Jackson. I knew when the houselights went off, he would be there and on." (LATimes)

Panish asked Gongaware whether he thought Ortega was overreacting about Jackson’s health? “Perhaps,” Gongaware replied. “I knew when the house lights went out, he was going to be out there and on,” Gongaware said of Jackson. On whether Kenny Ortega was overreacting about Jackson’s health, Gongaware also said: “I wasn’t concerned as he was.” (AP)

Talking about the email Gongaware wrote saying he wanted to remind him (Dr. Murray) that it's AEG, not MJ, who's paying his salary. In his deposition, Gongaware said he didn't know what he meant to say in the email. Gongaware testified he spent some of the time himself looking at this email, putting it in context with the rest of the material he had. Panish: After meeting with your lawyers and talking about an hour or two about this email, did you refresh your memory what you meant? "I did come to conclusions a lot on my own, then I discussed it with my attorneys," Gongaware explained. Gongaware: After you go through you remember the facts Panish: You didn't have psychotherapy to refresh your recollection? G: No. "I still don't recall writing it," Gongaware said, "I don't recall writing it, but I admit I wrote it."(ABC7)

Plaintiff’s attorney Brian Panish asked him whether he’d met with AEG’s attorneys to refresh his memory. “It’s always been there,” Paul Gongaware said about whether his memory was refreshed by his lawyers. (AP)

Panish on Wednesday played for jurors a section of Gongaware's deposition, recorded in December, in which Jackson lawyer Kevin Boyle questioned him about what he meant when he wrote to Ortega, "We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ, who is paying his salary."
Boyle: "Based on the assumptions that AEG is your company and MJ is Michael Jackson, do you have an understanding of what that means?"
Gongaware: "No, I don't understand it, because we weren't paying his salary."
Boyle: "So why would you write that?"
Gongaware: "I have no idea."
Boyle: "Now, let's go on to the next sentence. When you say 'his salary,' who are you talking about?"
Gongaware: "I don't know."
Boyle: "Oh, but how do you know you weren't paying his salary if you don't know who we're talking about?"
Gongaware: "I don't remember this e-mail."
Boyle: "Didn't you just testify that 'we weren't paying his salary'?"
Gongaware: "AEG?"
Boyle: "Yes. No. You just testified 'we weren't paying his salary.' You just testified to that a few seconds ago, right?"
Gongaware: "I guess."
Boyle: "Well, whose salary were you referring to? Dr. Murray?"
Gongaware: "Yes."
After Gongaware began recalling in court Wednesday what he meant in the e-mail, Panish suggested it may be a case of "repressed memories" where "someone doesn't remember something for three or four years."
"You didn't have any psychotherapy to remember what you wrote here?" Panish asked. "You didn't like get put to sleep? (Judge Yvette Palazuelos injected: "Hypnotized?") to see if you remembered this?
"No," Gongaware answered. (CNN)

Panish went through every word of the email, which was to Kenny Ortega and Frank DiLeo. Panish: You're referring to Dr. Murray and what's expected of Dr. Murray, right? Gongaware: Yes"We did talk about Dr. Murray's salary, but a deal was never consummated," Gongaware said. "His responsibility was to take care of his patient," Gongaware said about Dr. Murray. Panish asked if he thought Dr. Murray knew what his responsibility was, so the need to remind him what's expected of him? "This thing was shorthand between me, Kenny and Frank," Gongaware explained. He said he should've been more careful choosing his words. He claimed he was referring to Kenny's email re nutritionist, physical therapist. "I certainly feel Dr. Murray should be competent to do that (be a nutritionist). He's a doctor!" Gongaware testified. Panish asked why Gongaware thought they needed a nutritionist when they had a doctor hired. "Kenny asked for one," he responded. (ABC7)

"If MJ were signed the contract and if MJ would've instructed us to pay him, we would've pay him," Gongaware said about Dr. Murray. (ABC7)

"I was writing in shorthand," Gongaware explained the email. Here's the email: Frank and I have discussed it already and have requested a face-to-face meeting with the doctor, hopefully Monday. We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ, who's paying his salary. We want him to understand what's expected of him. He's been dodging Frank so far. (ABC7)

“Frank and I have discussed it already and have requested a face-to-face meeting with the doctor, hopefully Monday," AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware wrote on June 14, 2009, 11 days before Murray administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to the singer. "We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ who is paying his salary. We want him to understand what is expected of him." Confronted with the email as he sat on the witness stand Wednesday, Gongaware said he didn't recall writing it. “I don’t understand it because we weren’t paying his salary," Gongaware said. “So why were you writing it?" asked Brian Panish, the Jackson family's attorney. "I have no idea," Gongaware replied. The AEG executive later said the email was "shorthand" between him, tour director Kenny Ortega and Jackson's manager Frank Dileo. “I was going through hundreds of emails a day. If I knew lawyers four years later were picking everything apart, I may have been more careful choosing my words,” Gongaware testified. (LATimes)

"Michael didn't like to rehearse, it didn't surprise me," Gongaware expressed, saying it was known that MJ didn't go to rehearsals.(ABC7) He said Jackson didn't like to rehearse, that previously Jackson didn't rehearse before the "HIStory" tour either. But when the lights went up, Jackson was "on," he stated. (KABC)

In May, Gongaware sent an email to Tim Leiweke's secretary, Carla Garcia, wrote that he couldn't tell her which day the "This Is It" concerts would open in London because Jackson hadn't shown up to rehearsal (LATimes) asking her to pray for him, since everything was a nightmare. Email on 5/5/09 from Gongaware to Carla Garcia: Pray for me. This is a nightmare. Not coincidentally, I have them now every night. Cold sweats too. Life used to be so much fun... (ABC7) It was not an admission that he was concerned about Jackson's ability to do the show, he said. "It was just playing around, joking," with AEG President Tim Leiweke's assistant, Carla Garcia, he testified.

"Carla is an absolute babe and I was just chatting her up," he said. (CNN) "Carla is an absolute babe, I was trying to chat her up," Gongaware explained. "I wasn't trying to hit on her. I don't have cold sweats, I don't have nightmares, I sleep great!" Gongaware said. Panish asked him if he was lying in the email, white lie? Gongaware: Let's just say I was joking. Panish: You ask people to pray for you joking? G: I did there (ABC7) Gongaware said he was joking in the message. "I don't have cold sweats," he said. "I don't have nightmares. I sleep great." (AP)

Response from Phillips on Jun 20: Bugzee, I know because I just got Kenny's message on my voicemail.What did he do when he got there and what happened between him and KO? I have a meeting with MJ tomorrow morning. (ABC7)

From Hougdahl (Bugzee)to Phillips, cc'd Gongaware: MJ came out and watched all the pyro demonstration and endorsed the all the effects then went into his room and asked Kenny "you aren't going to kill the artist, are you?" We assumed this was reference to pyro, but Kenny said he was shaking and couldn't hold his knife and fork. Kenny had to cut his food for him before he could eat, and then had to use his fingers. I don't know how much embellishment there is to this, but (Kenny) said repeatedly that MJ was in no shape to go on stage. He kept going on and on how no one was taking responsibility for "getting him ready". We might be getting beyond ... damage control, here. (ABC7)

"I didn't worry about, it sounded like he was sick and they were going to talk about it next morning," Gongaware explained. (ABC7)

Phillips replied: Tim and I are going to see him tomorrow, however, I am not sure what the problem is. Chemical or physiological? (ABC7)

Gongaware said he was at a family wedding and wasn't really paying attention to this. This was 1st time he heard something was wrong with MJ (ABC7)

Gongaware responds: Take the doctor with you. Why wasn't he there last night? (ABC7)

"Yes, if he (MJ) was sick, why wasn't he (the doctor) there?" Gongaware said he meant in the email. (ABC7)

Phillips responded and added Tim Leiweke in the chain: He is not a psychiatrist so I'm not sure how effective he can be at this point. Obviously, getting him there is not the issue. It is much deeper. "I think Randy is stating his opinion," Gongaware said. (ABC7)

Panish asked if Gongaware inquired what Phillips meant by "the issue... It's much deeper." He said no. Gongaware: Well, there was going to be a meeting that day to discuss it Panish: We're you concern? Gongaware: Not necessarily. Panish: Nobody told you anything where Dr. Murray was? Gongaware: No P: And never sought to find out? G: No (ABC7)

Response from Hougdahl to Phillips, about needing trainer/therapist: I've watched him deteriorate in front of my eyes over the last 8 weeks. He was able to do multiple 360 spins back in April. He'd fall on his a** if he tried it now. (ABC7)

"There was a meeting on June 20th. I wasn't there, I was back East," Gongaware recalled. (ABC7)

Email from Phillips: Unfortunately, we are running out of time. That's my biggest fear. "He was afraid of that, I wasn't," Gongaware said. (ABC7) "That is my biggest fear," Phillips wrote to Gongaware and the CEO of AEG Live's parent company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, on June 20, 2009, five days before Jackson's death. Gongaware said he didn't agree with Phillips' assessment. "He may have said that, but I didn't agree with that," Gongaware testified.(AP)

Katherine Jackson's attorney questioned Gongaware about whether the company put too much emphasis on the showbiz maxim, "The show must go on." Gongaware denied that was the case. He told the jury that he was concerned about Jackson's health, but that he thought "This Is It" tour director Kenny Ortega may have been overstating concerns about the singer's wellbeing. (AP) Gongaware agreed that in this business, the show must go on. (ABC7)

Gongaware said AEG has a policy that they check people out either by knowing them, by being known in the industry or recommend by the artist. (ABC7)

Gongaware testified he didn't know when Dr. Murray's contract was to begin. "That contract was for London and the shows for London, I believe," Gongaware said. (ABC7)

Email on 6/20/09 from Phillips to LeiwekeComm and Kazoodi: This guy is really starting to concern me. Read his email and my response. Dr. Murray and I are meeting with MJ at 4pm today at The Forum. (ABC7) Phillips also expressed concerns about Ortega, writing to Gongaware's private email address, "This guy is really starting to concern me." Gongaware testified Wednesday that he wasn't sure who Phillips was referring to, and his boss may have been expressing concerns about Jackson or Murray. (AP)

Phillips sent this email to Leiweke and Gongaware's private email accounts. "Kazzodi" is a private email address that belongs to Gongaware. "The artist's health is paramount. Without the artist, there's no show. The artist if the most important thing," Gongaware testified. (ABC7)

Email on 6/19/09 from Phillips to Leiweke: We have a real problem here. (ABC7)

There was a meeting that was going to happen the next day, Gongaware said, and he waited to see what would come out of it. (ABC7)

Email on 6/19/09 from Leiweke to Phillips: Let's set up a time for your and I to meet with him. I want Kenny in the meeting as well. (ABC7)

Ortega wrote back: I will do whatever I can to be of help with this situation. My concern is now that we've brought the Doctor into the fold played the tough love, now or .He appeared quite weak and fatigued this evening. He had a terrible case of the chills, was trembling, rambling an obsessing. Everything in me says he should be psychologically evaluated. If we have any chance at all to get him back in the light it's going to take a strong Therapist to help him through this as well as immediate physical nurturing. I was told by our choreographer during the artists costume fitting w/ his designer tonight they noticed he's lost more weight.: As far as I can tell, there's no 1 taking responsibility (caring) for him on a daily basis. Where was his assistant tonight? Email cont'd: Tonight I was feeding him wrapping him in blankets to warm his chill, massaging his feet to calm him and calling his doctor. There were four security guards outside his door, but no one offering him a cup of hot tea. Finally, it's important 4 everyone 2 know I believe he really wants this. It would shatter him break his heart if we pulled plug. He's terribly frightened it's all going to go away. He asked me repeatedly tonight if i was going to leave him. He was practically begging for my confidence. It broke my heart. He was like a lost boy. There still may be a chance he can rise to the occasion if we get him the help he needs. (ABC7)

Phillips responded: Kenny, I will call you when I figure this out,we have a person like that, Brigitte, who's in London advancing his stay. We will bring her back asap and Frank, too, however, I'm stymied on who to bring in as a therapist and how they can get through to him in such a short time. (ABC7)

Gongaware said Brigitte is a lawyer who was in charge of accommodations for MJ in London. (ABC7)

"This all happened prior to the meeting, and I was waiting to understand what the situation was," Gongaware explained. (ABC7)

"I think they are special," Gongaware said about artists. Gongaware: He was obviously concerned Panish: Seriously concerned, right sir? Gongaware: Seemed to be (ABC7)

Email response from Philips to Kenny urging him, and everyone else, not to become amateur psychiatrists or physicians on 6/20/09. Email: "You cannot imagine the harm and ramifications of stopping this show now" (ABC7)

Panish: Can you name a single person at AEG who checked Dr. Murray out? Gongaware: I don't know if anyone did. I didn't know anything about him," Gongaware said about Dr. Murray. "Some people work for reasons other than money," Gongaware opined, but said he didn't know whether Dr. Murray was in that category. "I believe every doctor is unbiased and ethical," Gongaware said. "I think it's a natural assumption on my part." Gongaware: I never checked any doctor that I used. I just go by recommendation, never checked anyone's financial situation. (ABC7)

Gongaware said everyone thought MJ had all the money in the world, and it was not unusual for him to see people asking for a lot of money. Gongaware said he never heard before today anything about Dr. Murray's financial conditions. (ABC7)

Panish: He knew MJ's health was declining based on what the doctor told I'm, right? Gongaware: Based on what his doctor told him, yes (ABC7)

"I did talk to him and he said the meeting went well," Gongaware recalled. (ABC7)

"This guy is starting to concern me," Phillips wrote in an email to Leiweke, Gongaware and Frank DiLeo. "It is not clear to me who 'this guy' is," Gongaware said. "I don't know what Randy meant here," Gongaware explained. "I can easily take 'this guy' is MJ here." (ABC7)

Gongaware said he was in a family wedding, hadn't seen the family for a long time and was not paying attention to work. Gongaware said he produced every email he had related to this case. (ABC7)

Email on 6/22/09 from Hougdahl (Production Manager, known as Bugzee) to Gongaware: Further to the earlier email Let's keep our 2 docu people out of here today, unless they stay in the dressing room area only. Tomorrow is another story... (ABC7)

Panish: Sir, Michael was sick this time, wasn't sir? Gongaware: I don't know, he showed up next day and was great! Panish: But you were not at the rehearsal, sir? Gongaware: I saw reports (ABC7)

Panish then asked Gongaware about his attendance at Jackson’s rehearsals. Gongaware said he didn’t attend many. Gongaware said he watched Jackson perform “Thriller” two days before he died, but that was the only time he spent at that rehearsal. (AP) Panish talking about June 24th rehearsing: "He appeared to me to be fully engaged," Gongaware said. "I recall seeing Thriller because it was the first time they were rehearsing with the costume and I wanted to see it," Gongaware said. (ABC7)

Promoter grilled about 'smoking gun' e-mail in Michael Jackson death trial

By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 8:41 PM EDT, Wed May 29, 2013



STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* AEG Live exec struggles to explain "smoking gun" e-mail
* Paul Gongaware: "I have no idea" why he wrote AEG was paying Dr. Conrad Murray
* Jackson lawyers argue e-mail shows the concert promoter hired the doctor
* Gongaware's repeated "I don't recall" answers draw laughs in court

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The phrase most spoken by AEG Live's co-CEO during his testimony in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial was: "I don't recall."

Paul Gongaware, who was in charge of producing and promoting Jackson's ill-fated comeback concerts, testified this week that he couldn't remember sending key e-mails or approving budgets that included $150,000 a month for Dr. Conrad Murray.

Gongaware also denied thinking that Jackson's health was frail in the last days of his life, despite e-mails from others in the production suggesting the singer needed help.

Jackson's mother and three children are suing AEG Live, contending the concert promoter is liable in the pop icon's death because it negligently hired, retained or supervised Murray.

AEG's lawyers argue it was Jackson who chose, hired and supervised Murray -- and their company only dealt with Murray because Jackson demanded they pay for him to be his "This Is It" tour doctor.

Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's drug overdose death and he is serving a prison sentence.

Gongaware seemed to dance around some questions like Jackson doing a "Moonwalk," including when he explained an e-mail to his boss' assistant in which he said he was having nightmares and cold sweats about the concerts.

It was not an admission that he was concerned about Jackson's ability to do the show, he said. "It was just playing around, joking," with AEG President Tim Leiweke's assistant, Carla Garcia, he testified.

"Carla is an absolute babe and I was just chatting her up," he said.

While that testimony drew laughter in the court, it was unclear how jurors and the female judge viewed it, because Gongaware also acknowledged his girlfriend worked at AEG.

Gongaware's repetition of "I don't recall" several dozen times under questioning by Jackson lawyer Brian Panish eventually drew laughs from jurors, including when Panish began answering for him with that phrase.

The 'smoking gun'

Panish questioned Gongaware about an e-mail Jackson's lawyers call the "smoking gun," which they argue shows AEG Live executives used Murray's fear of losing his lucrative job as Jackson's personal physician to pressure him to have Jackson ready for rehearsals despite his fragile health.

Show director Kenny Ortega e-mailed Gongaware 11 days before Jackson's death expressing concerns that Murray had kept Jackson from a rehearsal the day before. Ortega also raised his own concerns about Jackson's health. Gongaware testified on Wednesday that he thought Ortega was "over-reacting."

His e-mail reply to Ortega read: "We want to remind (Murray) that it is AEG, not MJ, who is paying his salary. We want to remind him what is expected of him." Gongaware, in a video deposition played in court on the first day of the trial, said he could not remember writing the e-mail.

Panish on Wednesday played for jurors a section of Gongaware's deposition, recorded in December, in which Jackson lawyer Kevin Boyle questioned him about what he meant when he wrote to Ortega, "We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ, who is paying his salary."

Boyle: "Based on the assumptions that AEG is your company and MJ is Michael Jackson, do you have an understanding of what that means?"

Gongaware: "No, I don't understand it, because we weren't paying his salary."

Boyle: "So why would you write that?"

Gongaware: "I have no idea."

Boyle: "Now, let's go on to the next sentence. When you say 'his salary,' who are you talking about?"

Gongaware: "I don't know."

Boyle: "Oh, but how do you know you weren't paying his salary if you don't know who we're talking about?"

Gongaware: "I don't remember this e-mail."

Boyle: "Didn't you just testify that 'we weren't paying his salary'?"

Gongaware: "AEG?"

Boyle: "Yes. No. You just testified 'we weren't paying his salary.' You just testified to that a few seconds ago, right?"

Gongaware: "I guess."

Boyle: "Well, whose salary were you referring to? Dr. Murray?"

Gongaware: "Yes."

After Gongaware began recalling in court Wednesday what he meant in the e-mail, Panish suggested it may be a case of "repressed memories" where "someone doesn't remember something for three or four years."

"You didn't have any psychotherapy to remember what you wrote here?" Panish asked. "You didn't like get put to sleep? (Judge Yvette Palazuelos injected: "Hypnotized?") to see if you remembered this?

"No," Gongaware answered.

The Elvis connection

Gongaware's career as a concert promoter started with Elvis Presley's last tour. He testified that he met Jackson when he was with Presley manager Col. Tom Parker in Las Vegas.

Elvis' name came up in the trial on Tuesday as Panish questioned Gongaware about his knowledge of drug use during concert tours. He should have been able to recognize red flags signaling Jackson's drug use because of his experience with Presley and his time as Jackson's tour manager in the 1990s, the Jacksons contend.

An e-mail to a friend two weeks after Jackson's death supports their argument, the Jackson lawyers contend.

"I was working on the Elvis tour when he died so I kind of knew what to expect," Gongaware wrote. "Still quite a shock."

AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam later told reporters that Gongaware was referring to the public reaction to Jackson's death, not saying he expected Jackson would meet the same fate as Presley.

Presley collapsed in the bathroom of his Memphis, Tennessee, mansion -- Graceland -- on August 16, 1977, at age 42. While his death was ruled the result of an irregular heartbeat, the autopsy report was sealed amid accusations that the abuse of prescription drugs caused the problem.

Jackson died on June 25, 2009, at age 50. The coroner ruled his death was caused by a fatal combination of sedatives and the surgical anesthetic propofol. Murray told investigators he gave Jackson nightly infusions of propofol to treat his insomnia. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, sentenced to four years in prison and stripped of his medical license.

Gongaware -- who has worked as a tour promoter for 37 years for bands including Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and many others -- testified that the only artist he ever knew who was using drugs on tour was Rick James.

Gongaware is currently the tour manager for the Rolling Stones North American tour.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/showbiz/jackson-death-trial/index.html

AEG email: Murray works for us, not Jackson

By Jeff Gottlieb
May 29, 2013, 3:55 p.m.

An email from a ranking AEG executive that was shown in court Wednesday could be among the most telling pieces of evidence in answering a central question in the Michael Jackson wrongful death suit: who employed Dr. Conrad Murray?

“Frank and I have discussed it already and have requested a face-to-face meeting with the doctor, hopefully Monday," AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware wrote on June 14, 2009, 11 days before Murray administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to the singer.

"We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ who is paying his salary. We want him to understand what is expected of him."

One of driving questions in the wrongful death case is whether it was concert promoter AEG or Jackson who hired and controlled Murray, who is now serving time for involuntary manslaughter,

Confronted with the email as he sat on the witness stand Wednesday, Gongaware said he didn't recall writing it.

“I don’t understand it because we weren’t paying his salary," Gongaware said.

“So why were you writing it?" asked Brian Panish, the Jackson family's attorney.

"I have no idea," Gongaware replied.

The AEG executive later said the email was "shorthand" between him, tour director Kenny Ortega and Jackson's manager Frank Dileo. “I was going through hundreds of emails a day. If I knew lawyers four years later were picking everything apart, I may have been more careful choosing my words,” Gongaware testified.

Gongaware also testified that in response to concerns over Jackson's health from Ortega, he was trying to find the singer a nutritionist and physical therapist.

Ortega replied in a June 15, 2009, email , "Super. Not a minute too soon. Let’s turn this guy around!”

Asked by Panish if Oretga raised his concerns about Jackson's health, Gongaware replied, "Perhaps."

"I was never concerned about Michael Jackson. I knew when the houselights went off, he would be there and on."

In their lawsuit, Jackson's mother and three children contend that AEG negligently hired and supervised Murray, who was supposed to be paid $150,000 a month. AEG says that any money it was supposed to pay the doctor was an advance to Jackson.

In another email exchange, this one with the assistant to Tim Leiweke, then chief executive of parent company Anschutz Entertainment Group, Gongaware wrote that he couldn't tell her which day the "This Is It" concerts would open in London because Jackson hadn't shown up to rehearsal.

“Pray for me," he wrote May 5, 2009. "This is a nightmare. Not coincidentally, I have them now every night. Cold sweats, too. Life used to be so much fun…"

Gongaware testified that he was joking in the email.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aeg-email-murray-20130529,0,732404.story

Paris bekommt wieder mal "nette" Tweets ... es ist erschreckend, wie viele Verrückte bei Twitter & Co. unterwegs sind ... :D


https://twitter.com/ParisJackson (Archiv-Version vom 20.08.2013)

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MJJCommunity ‏@MJJCommunity 29 Mai
From The Estate Of Michael Jackson ... We are happy to have had so many of Michael’s fans at the dress (cont) http://tl.gd/n_1rkho5m
9:38 AM - 29 Mai 13

(cont) http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkho5m

From The Estate Of Michael Jackson ...


We are happy to have had so many of Michael’s fans at the dress rehearsals and initial public previews of Michael Jackson ONE. As the show continues to evolve, heading toward the June 29 world premiere, we are thrilled to let you know that the audience reaction has been wildly enthusiastic!


Michael Jackson ONE is the ultimate loving tribute from a team that is passionate about honoring Michael’s artistry and messages of love, kindness and unity that are as relevant and powerful today as ever. Throughout the adventure on stage, the audience is treated to larger than life images of Michael displayed on 180° screens with many emotional and climatic moments – for both the cast and the audience. One of these moments comes in the form of an illusion that brings Michael’s spirit to the stage itself to interact with the cast during “Man In The Mirror” - an illusion that allows everyone to feel Michael’s energy as it is being shared with those on the stage and then throughout the theater. It serves to remind us that Michael remains on this journey in all of our hearts.


Stage shows have always used technology to create illusions that entertain in new and different ways – from the magician sawing a woman in half to the illusionist that makes a building disappear. All are intended to create the ultimate experience for the audience. Michael is unique and technology can never duplicate such an amazing artist, which is why this illusion aims only to evoke the incredible energy and spirit of a special man in a way that will enhance rather than compete with the image of him each of us continues to carry with us. As the name of the show conveys and as we all know, there is only “ONE” Michael Jackson.


The ultimate goal with this show is to entertain on a grand scale and to bring new Michael Jackson fans to the community.


John Branca and John McClain,
Co-Executors, The Estate Of Michael Jackson

s. a. MJJC
http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/threads/129488-From-The-Estate-Of-Michael-Jackson-quot-Michael-Jackson-ONE-quot

http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/threads/128454-Cirque-du-Soleil-quot-Michael-Jackson-ONE-quot-permanent-Las-Vega-show/page33?p=3832068&viewfull=1#post3832068

MJ Hologram bei "Michael Jackson ONE"
ein gaaaaanz kurzes Video ... leider nur 3Sek.

mjhologram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz-U9jsEdgY

dancingmachin3 * Veröffentlicht am 25.05.2013

Re: Cirque du Soleil "Michael Jackson ONE" permanent Las Vega show
Eintrag # 468 . User: Ivy

From Jesta on twitter

Kids, hologram technology (as I am aware) does not actually use authentic video. Most times it is a computer-generated image Or something specially shot for the illusion i.e. against a green-screen.

I don't want to keep going on about hologram technology, so I'll just say this: there are pre-requisites for ANYTHING like a hologram.

Most CGi (video game/film, mostly) models incorporate motion capture technology to create realistic movements. Holograms are no exception.

So for a flawlessly authentic hologram, one would need either an unedited full-body shot of one's entire performance, or MoCap files.

In the case of Michael Jackson, there was only ever one time where he performed with motion capture nodes, and that was in "Ghosts".

Tupac's hologram almost certainly used motion capture from someone else with CG skin. It's the norm for things like this.

So yes, the MJ hologram in "Michael Jackson ONE" was made purely as artistic license for the show and isn't sourced from footage.

No doubt if MJ was alive, he would've shot the necessary footage to create a hologram i.e. against a green-screen with MoCap nodes.

Otherwise, the technology just doesn't exist at this time to take someone out of Pre-HD footage flawlessly and create a hologram. Especially someone who moved the way that MJ moved.


Video nur über Proxy zu "genießen" ... eine kurze Vorschau auf "Michael Jackson ONE" ... fängt @2:35 an ...

Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque du Soleil Sneak Peek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu4bdUVJt5o

Qbee ‏@Qbees 29 Mai
From the Estate's message we see that It wasn't the shows intention to create an exact hologram likeness of (cont) http://tl.gd/n_1rkhpql
12:07 PM - 29 Mai 13


(cont) http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkhpql

From the Estate's message we see that It wasn't the shows intention to create an exact hologram likeness of Michael. for the reason they stated below -

Michael is unique and technology can never duplicate such an amazing artist,

which is why this illusion aims only to evoke the incredible energy and spirit of a special man in a way that will enhance rather than compete with the image of him each of us continues to carry with us.

As the name of the show conveys and as we all know, there is only “ONE” Michael Jackson.

Quelle: Jackson.CH ~ Schweizer MJ Forum ...


The Jacksons vs. AEG Live – Zeugen der Jacksons, 11. Teil

30. Mai 2013


Seit Dienstag ist Paul Gongaware, Co-CEO von AEG Live, im Zeugenstand. Am Vormittag kam Janet Jackson in den Gerichtssaal, um ihre Mutter zu unterstützen. Schwester Rebbie war auch anwesend, was die AEG Anwälte dazu veranlasste, Einspruch zu erheben, da am Anfang des Prozesses vereinbart wurde, dass neben Mutter Katherine jeweils nur ein weiteres Familienmitglied dem Prozess beiwohnen dürfte (siehe unsere Meldung vom 5. Mai, Absatz 7). Janet konnte bleiben und Richterin Palazuelos sagte, die Sache würde zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt diskutiert werden. Es ist zu erwarten, dass die Befragung von Paul Gongaware durch Brian Panish, Anwalt für die Jacksons, einige Tage in Anspruch nehmen wird. Man darf gespannt darauf sein, was Paul Gongaware aussagen bzw. wie er sich verhalten wird.

Paul Gongaware war während Michael Jacksons “Dangerous” Tour der Tour Manager. Er sagte aus, dass er damals wusste, dass Michael Jackson Schmerzmittel verabreicht wurden, er jedoch bis zur öffentlichen Ankündigung, dass Michael die Tour abbrechen und sich in eine Reha-Klinik einweisen lasse, nicht wusste, wie ernsthaft das Problem war. Der Gerichtsreporter von der LA Times berichtete, wie Gongaware sich locker im Sessel zurückgelehnt hatte, als er von Brian Panish in dieser Sache befragt worden war. “Hatte keine Zeit”, so Gongaware. Schliesslich musste er ja seinen Job erledigen.

Paul Gongaware begann ca. 1976 für Concerts West zu arbeiten. Concerts West wurde später von AEG übernommen. Eine interessante Zusatzbemerkung von LA Times Journalistin Corina Knoll hierzu: “[Paul Gongaware] arbeitete an Elvis Presleys letzter Tour, die mit dem Tod des Künstlers endete”. Was wollte die Journalistin damit implizieren? Dass Paul Gongaware zwei Superstars auf dem Gewissen hat? Aber zurück zu dem, was sich im Gerichtssaal abspielte.

Als Brian Panish den Zeugen dann fragte, dass er in dem Fall wusste, was zu erwarten war, als Michael Jackson gestorben war, antwortete Gongaware: “Ich hatte so eine Idee, was geschehen würde, ja.”

Am 25. März 2009 schrieb Randy Phillips an Gongaware: “Wir müssen jetzt den Stecker rausziehen. Ich erklär’s dir noch.” Gongaware sagte, dass sich dies nicht auf die “This Is It” Shows bezog, sondern auf Karen Faye. “Wir haben nie darüber gesprochen, die Michael Jackson Tour zu beenden, nicht dass ich mich erinnern mag”, so Gongaware. In einer weiteren E-Mail vom 25. März schrieb Kenny Ortega an Gongaware, dass Faye davon “überzeugt ist, dass dies gefährlich und unmöglich ist, wenn man MJs Gesundheit und Fähigkeit zu performen in Betracht zieht”. Gongaware sagte dazu aus, dass er glaubte Kenny Ortega wollte Kayes Anstellung beenden aufgrund dessen, wie sie die Situation gehandhabt hatte. “Sie versuchte den Zugang zu Michael Jackson zu kontrollieren und Kenny mochte das nicht”, so Gongaware.

In einer anderen E-Mail machte Gongaware Michaels Arbeitsethik schlecht. Er sagte seinem Assistenten, er solle die Farben im Kalender ändern, so dass Michael meinte, er hätte mehr freie Tage. “Finde einen Weg, so dass es ausschaut, als arbeite er nicht so viel”, so die E-Mail. Eine weitere E-Mail von Gongaware bezog sich auf den notwendigen Auftritt von Michael für die Ankündigung der Konzerttour in London. “Wir können nicht gezwungen werden, dies zu stoppen, was MJ versuchen wird, weil er faul ist und stets seine Meinung ändert, wie es ihm gerade lieb ist und passt”. Gongaware nahm Stellung dazu und erklärte im Zeugenstand, dass Michael Jackson es nie mochte zu proben. Er mochte diese Sachen nicht”. Dumme Frage hier, aber was hat diese Erklärung mit dem Inhalt der E-Mail zu tun?

In einem weiteren Teil der Befragung beschäftigte sich Brian Panish mit Gongawares Rolle betreffend das Budget für Conrad Murrays Dienste. Gongaware sagte aus, dass (obwohl er der Tour Manager war) er sich nicht um das Budget für die Tour kümmerte. Er vertraute darauf, dass der zuständige Buchhalter “wusste, wovon er sprach”. Und obwohl Conrad Murrays Lohn für mehrere Monate auf AEGs Budget aufgelistet war, betrachtete er es nicht als Geld, das dann auch wirklich ausbezahlt würde. “Potentielle Kosten werden ins Budget aufgenommen, so dass es später keine Überraschungen gebe”, so Gongaware.

Gongaware habe zweimal mit Conrad Murray telefoniert. Beim ersten Mal habe Murray USD 5 Mio. für seine Dienste verlangt, beim zweiten Mal war Murray mit USD 150’000 pro Monat einverstanden, einem Betrag, den Michael Jackson vorgeschlagen hatte. Conrad Murray habe zuerst gesagt, er wolle mehr. Als Gongaware ihm dann sagte, das Angebot käme von Michael Jackson, “akzeptierte er sofort”, sagte Gongaware aus. “Es war keine beschlossene Sache. Wir hatten uns auf die Lohnsumme geeinigt, aber es mussten noch viele weitere Sachen geklärt werden”, so Gongaware. Gongaware sagte ferner, dass er einen Freund von ihm, der Arzt war, gefragt hatte, wieviel er verlangen würde für diesen Job und dieser habe ihm gesagt USD 10’000 pro Woche, dh. USD 40’000 pro Monat.

Betreffend AEG Lives fehlendem Background Check von Conrad Murray sagte Gongaware, dass sie Murray im Rahmen ihres Standardverfahrens überprüft hätten. “Wenn wir jemanden überprüfen, verlassen wir uns entweder darauf, ob wir diese Person kennen oder sie in der Branche bekannt ist oder darauf, dass sie vom Künstler empfohlen wird. Und in diesem Fall wurde Conrad Murray vom Künstler empfohlen — der Künstler hat sogar auf ihn bestanden”.

Übrigens, nur so nebenbei, Mr. Gongaware, der Künstler hat einen Namen: Michael Jackson.

Sie hätten aber nichts gemacht um zu verifizieren, wer Conrad Murray sei und was er für einen Ruf habe, so Brian Panish. “Nun, Michael Jackson bestand auf in, empfahl ihn und das hat mir gereicht. Es liegt nicht an mir, Michael Jackson zu sagen, wer sein Arzt sein sollte”, so Gongaware. Panish fragte dann weiter: “Sie hätten Dr. Murray jederzeit sagen können, dass seine Dienste nicht länger benötigt waren, richtig?” Nein, so Gongaware. Aber AEG habe Michael Jacksons Kindermädchen entlassen, als ein Assistent von Michael Jackson das verlangt hatte, so Panishs Kommentar.

Als Panish Paul Gongaware zum Juni Meeting bei Michael Jackson zu Hause befragte, bei dem neben Michael noch weitere AEG Direktoren, Frank DiLeo und Conrad Murray anwesend waren, meinte Gongaware, dass es in dem einstündigen Meeting nicht darum ging, dass Michael nicht zu den Proben erschien, sondern darum, “ob Dr. Murray und Michael alles hatten, was sie brauchten, um sich um Michaels Gesundheit zu kümmern”. Daraufhin wurde den Geschworenen ein Polizeibericht, der das Meeting zusammenfasste, gezeigt. Darin stand: “Gegenstand des Meetings war Jacksons Gesundheit, dh. seine Ernährung, seine Ausdauer und sein Gewicht. Jackson war nicht zu Proben erschienen und man nahm an, er würde zu Hause tanzen. Jedoch fanden sie heraus, dass er sich nur Videos angeschaut hatte. Doktor Murray war empfänglich für die Bedenken [der andern] und sagte, er würde sich um die Situation kümmern”.

In einem separaten Meeting mit Michael Jackson habe Gongaware festgestelt, dass dessen Aussprache undeutlich war und er “ein bisschen Weg vom Fenster war… Ich glaube, er war unter dem Einfluss von irgendwas, denn etwas stimmte nicht mit ihm”.

Gongaware sagte auch aus, dass als sie Michael Jackson, den grössten Künstler seiner Zeit, für die Tour unter Vertrag nehmen konnten, diese eine riesen Sache war für AEG. In einer E-Mail im 2008 beschrieb Gongaware Randy Phillips gegenüber, wie sie Michael Jackson und seinen Manager für ein mögliches Comeback angehen sollten: “Wir müssen bei der Grundlagen anfangen. Wie packen wir es an. Der Unterschied zwischen [Live Nation] und uns ist riesig. Unser Fokus ist auf dem Künstler, sie sind Wall Street angetrieben. Wir sind schlaue Leute. Wir sind vollkommen ehrlich und transparent mit allem, was wir tun. So will es Phil [Anschutz, der Gründer von AEG]“.

Fortsetzung folgt.

Quellen: jackson.ch, latimes.com

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Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 14h
Emails show AEG Live execs expressed fears about Michael Jackson's health, comeback shows: http://yhoo.it/18zPhQg

Yahoo! News
Emails reflect AEG's fears about Jackson's health
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors hearing a lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live LLC have been shown emails in which top company executives expressed fears about Michael Jackson's health and the amount of...
2:18 AM - 30 Mai 13


Emails reflect AEG's fears about Jackson's health

Associated PressBy ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Associated Press – 14 hrs ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors hearing a lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live LLC have been shown emails in which top company executives expressed fears about Michael Jackson's health and the amount of time they had to get the singer prepared for his ill-fated series of comeback tours.

The messages were displayed Wednesday during testimony from AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware, who at one point sent his boss' assistant a message stating the show was giving him nightmares and causing him to break out in cold sweats at night.

Gongaware testified that he was joking, but it was just one of several messages expressing concerns about Jackson's health. Another message from Randy Phillips, the top-ranking executive at AEG Live, wrote after one of Jackson's missed rehearsals that, "we are running out of time.

"That is my biggest fear," Phillips wrote to Gongaware and the CEO of AEG Live's parent company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, on June 20, 2009, five days before Jackson's death.

Gongaware said he didn't agree with Phillips' assessment. "He may have said that, but I didn't agree with that," Gongaware testified.

His testimony came under questioning by an attorney for Jackson's mother, who is suing AEG Live and claims it failed to properly investigate the doctor convicted of causing her son's death. Gongaware and Phillips are also named as defendants in the case.

AEG denies that it hired former cardiologist Conrad Murray, or could have foreseen the singer's death. The company's defense attorneys have not yet questioned Gongaware on the stand.

The company's defense attorney, Marvin S. Putnam, said outside court that the emails reflect the company was concerned about Jackson's health, and expressed those concerns to Jackson's lawyer and manager before his death.

Jurors have seen numerous emails throughout the trial, including several sent by people working on Jackson's "This Is It" comeback shows in which they expressed concerns about Jackson's health. Production manager John "Bugzee" Hougdahl, wrote Phillips in the last week of the singer's life that Jackson was on a downward slide.

"I have watched him deteriorate in front of my eyes over the last 8 weeks" Hougdahl wrote.

Katherine Jackson's attorney questioned Gongaware about whether the company put too much emphasis on the showbiz maxim, "The show must go on."

Gongaware denied that was the case.

He told the jury that he was concerned about Jackson's health, but that he thought "This Is It" tour director Kenny Ortega may have been overstating concerns about the singer's wellbeing.

Phillips also expressed concerns about Ortega, writing to Gongaware's private email address, "This guy is really starting to concern me."

Gongaware testified Wednesday that he wasn't sure who Phillips was referring to, and his boss may have been expressing concerns about Jackson or Murray.

Six weeks before Jackson's death, Gongaware sent an email to an assistant for the CEO of AEG in which he urged her to, "Pray for me. "This is a nightmare. Not coincidentally, I have them now every night. Cold sweats, too. Life used to be so much fun..."

Gongaware said he was joking in the message. "I don't have cold sweats," he said. "I don't have nightmares. I sleep great."

http://news.yahoo.com/emails-reflect-aegs-fears-jacksons-health-001228183.html (Archiv-Version vom 09.06.2013)

https://twitter.com/mccartneyAP (Archiv-Version vom 03.10.2013)


Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 25m
The questioning about insurance prompted a lengthy sidebar in the judge’s chambers. She just came back on the bench.
7:26 PM - 30 Mai 13

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 25m
Panish said that Gongaware, a named defendant, is personally shielded from losses. AEG would pay any judgment, Panish said.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 25m
Panish then started asking Gongaware about whether he had any insurance to cover any losses if AEG loses the trial.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 26m
Panish asked Gongaware whether he thought the email was funny. Gongaware said yes. He also said he wasn’t concerned about Jackson’s health.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 26m
Bugzee email: “He needs some cheeseburgers with a bunch of Wisconsin cheesehead bowlers... and a couple of brats and beers.”

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 26m
Hougdahl, in response to concerns expressed by Travis Payne about Jackson’s weight, wrote singer needed a new diet.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 26m
This morning, Panish asked Gongaware about an email sent a few days earlier (June 20, 2009) by Hougdahl.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 26m
Hougdahl wrote an email 5 days before Jackson died expressing alarm about the singer’s health, said he’d been deteriorating over 8 weeks.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 27m
The production manager’s name is John “Bugzee” Hougdahl. He was at rehearsals and Gongaware said he knew a lot about how Jackson appeared.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 27m
Plaintiff’s attorney Brian Panish started out by asking Gongaware about emails from a production manager who wrote about Jackson’s condition

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 27m
Trial is back in session in Katherine Jackson vs. AEG Live. AEG executive Paul Gongaware remains on the stand.
7:23 PM - 30 Mai 13

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 7m
About to go back in session, I'll have other updates at the lunch break.
8:31 PM - 30 Mai 13

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 7m
Gongaware said it was his understanding that he wouldn’t be personally responsible financial if the jury sided with Jackson family.

Anthony McCartney ‏@mccartneyAP 8m
After the sidebar, plaintiff’s attorney Brian Panish was able to ask Gongaware about his exposure if AEG is found liable for Jackson’s death
8:30 PM - 30 Mai 13

Taj Jackson ‏@tajjackson3 1h
There is no $ amount large enough to equal the value of my uncle's life. MJ was not only taken from our family, he was taken from THE WORLD.
Es gibt keinen $ Betrag, der hoch genug ist, um den Wert des Lebens meines Onkels auszugleichen. MJ wurde nicht nur unserer Familie genommen, er wurde DER WELT genommen.
7:30 PM - 30 Mai 13

Smoking gun testimony in Jackson trial

CNN|Added on May 30, 2013

Former Jackson family attorney Debra Opri says AEG Live Co-Chairman Paul Gongaware "made a fool of himself."

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/05/30/exp-point-opri-gongaware.cnn.html

Quelle: MJJC . Eintrag #22 . User: Ivy
http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/threads/129265-Katherine-Jackson-vs-AEG-Live-Daily-Trial-Testimony-Summary/page2?p=3832152#post3832152



Jacksons vs AEG - Day 20 – May 30 2013 – Summary

Katherine and Rebbie Jackson are in court.

The court also heard an update on efforts to get emails and any other records from a computer used by Jackson’s former manager Frank Dileo. Apparently an LA attorney has a copy of Dileo's computer hard drive. Attorneys are working to get a copy of the HD to both sides. The copy was revealed during a deposition of Dileo’s widow earlier this week in Pennsylvania, plaintiff’s lawyer Brian Panish said. (AP)


Paul Gongaware Testimony


Jackson direct

Gongaware said he met with his attorneys again yesterday to refresh his recollection. (ABC7)

Panish asked if AEG was concerned about Mr. Jackson's health. "When he was sick we obviously had a concern," Gongaware responded. Gongaware said he understood MJ was sick from reading the chain of emails shown yesterday. But Gongaware told the jury he didn't have any particular concern about Michael Jackson. Other than on June 19th, no one told Gongaware about being concerned with MJ's health. (ABC7) Gongaware testified that he disagreed with Houghdahl's opinion, saying he had no "particular concern" about Jackson's health and ability to perform. (CNN)

Talking about the email Hougdahl sent saying MJ was deteriorating quickly, Gongaware explained: "I didn't see it the way he saw." (ABC7)

Hougdahl, in response to concerns expressed by Travis Payne about Jackson’s weight, wrote singer needed a new diet.(AP) Email 6/15/09 from Hougdahl to Gongaware He needs some cheeseburgers w/ bunch of Wisconsin cheesehead bowlers and couple of brats and beers. (ABC7 & AP) Panish asked Gongaware whether he thought the email was funny. Gongaware said yes. He also said he wasn’t concerned about Jackson’s health. (AP)

"Was he joking around about this situation?" Panish asked Gongaware, referring to Hougdahl.
"I think he was," Gongaware replied.
"Did you think that was funny?" Panish asked.
"I did," Gongaware admitted. (NYDailyNews)

Panish: Was Mr. Hougdahl joking about it?
Gongaware: A little bit (ABC7)

Panish inquired whether Gongaware had indemnity clause in his contract. Panish asked about indemnity in Gongaware's contract. The exec said indemnity means that someone else is taking on the responsibility. "I haven't read my contract in 12/13 years, I don't know what it says," Gongaware said. Gongaware said he does not know how many pages his employment agreement is. Panish asked if he AEG would cover for Gongaware should they be found guilty.(ABC7) Gongaware said it was his understanding that he wouldn’t be personally responsible financial if the jury sided with Jackson family. (AP) Panish: That means if you did something wrong... Gongaware: They would be responsible "I've been assuming that," Gongaware responded, adding that depending upon the size of the judgment, AEG could go after him. Panish asked how much AEG would be able to afford, and Gongaware said he didn't know. Panish emphasized there are various ways for AEG to pay a judgment, and Gongaware mentioned they had some sort of cancellation insurance. (ABC7)

Panish went back to discuss the email from Randy Phillips where he wrote Dr. Murray didn't need the gig and was unbiased and ethical. Panish: Is Mr. Phillips unbiased and ethical, sir? Gongaware: I think he is. Panish asked if it was ethical for Phillips to represent to Ortega that the doctor is 'extremely successful' and 'we checked everyone out'. Gongaware responded that he didn't know what Phillips knew at the time. (ABC7)

Panish: Is number one priority 'the show must go on'? Gongaware: I don't know if that's number one P: What's number one? G: Getting it right (ABC7)

Panish showed the email John Branca, Michael's attorney, saying he had the right therapist for MJ and asked if substance abuse was involved. "This is referring to the meeting that was going to happen and I was waiting to see the results of it," Gongaware said. "I didn't believe there was a substance abuse issue," Gongaware testified. "In the entire time I was dealing with him in this tour, I saw it once when he came back from his doctor," Gongaware testified. Gongaware said that was the only time he saw Michael with slurred speech and under the influence of something. Gongaware said he didn't know what Dr. Klein was giving Michael Jackson. When Panish asked Gongaware if he checked Dr. Klein out, he replied: "No, he was Michael's doctor and it was none of my business." (ABC7)

Gongaware said he once observed Michael looking "slow" and possibly intoxicated after a visit to his dermatologist but he didn't believe the singer had any serious health problems — even after Jackson appeared weak and disoriented at a June 19 rehearsal. "My observation of Michael Jackson was that he was healthy," Gongaware said. "They had a meeting to discuss (the June 19 incident), and he took a couple days off and he came back strong." (NYDailyNews)

Gongaware talked about the meetings he attended at MJ's house. He couldn't remember how many, but said one w/ Dr. Murray was in June. (ABC7)

On June 24th, Gongaware saw MJ rehearse the song 'Thriller'. He said he thought Michael was engaged and alert.(ABC7)

As to insurance issues, Gongaware said he was involved only peripherally. On June 25, Gongaware sent an email saying that if they didn't get sickness coverage in the insurance, they would be dropping the policy. Gongaware said he didn't know why he was pressing for sickness insurance on the day MJ died. Bob Taylor, the insurance broker, wrote back that it was always down to the medical issued from the word go. Regarding Randy Phillips asking for life insurance the day MJ died, Gongaware said he didn't pay much attention to insurance, didn't recall. (ABC7)

The day MJ died, Gongaware said Phillips called him and told him to get over to the house right away, there seems to be a problem. Randy followed the ambulance to UCLA. "The second call was that he informed me that he had died," Gongaware remembered. On June 25, Gongaware said he went to the rehearsal at the Staples Center and talked to Kenny Ortega. Panish: Were you sad Mr. Jackson died? Gongaware: Very much so (ABC7)

He was a business associate, Gongaware said about MJ. They did not didn't hang out as friends (ABC7)

Panish asked about Phillips' email directing Gongaware to remove thin, skeletal footage of MJ in red jacket from This Is It documentary. Gongaware testified today he remembered receiving the email. In his deposition played in court, Gongaware said he didn't recall the email. Panish: Did you change your testimony? Gongaware: No. I saw the email as part of my preparation (ABC7)
“Make sure we take out the shots of MJ in that red leather jacket at the sound stage where the mini-movies were being filmed,” AEG Live president and co-chief executive Randy Phillips wrote in Aug. 9 email. “He looks way too think (sic) and skeletal.” Gongaware replied to Phillips, his boss, “ok will have a look when it comes on screen.” (LATimes)

Gongaware said he didn't try to control any of the messages about MJ after his death to reflect he was fully engaged in rehearsals. Panish asked about an email from Gongaware okay'ing the band, singers and dancer to give interviews but asked them to keep it positive. (ABC7)

In another email July 9, 2009, email to music coordinator JoAnn Tominaga, Gongaware wrote, “We are ok with the band, singers and dancers doing interviews now. The only thing we ask is that they keep it positive and stress that MJ was active, engaged and not the emaciated person some want to paint him as being.” Answering questions from Jackson family attorney Brian Panish, Gongaware said he was not trying to control the film’s message. “We’re asking them to keep it positive,” he said.(LATimes)

"You're telling them what not to say, aren't you sir?" Katherine's lawyer Brian Panish asked Gongaware. "I'm asking them to keep it positive," Gongaware replied. "And not say he was emaciated," Panish shot back."Yes …we did ask them to keep it positive," Gongaware said. "So you were controlling the message as a producer of that documentary," Panish said, referring to the follow-up "This Is It" movie that included taped interviews. "I don't think so," Gongaware replied. (NYDailyTimes)

Email: The only thing we ask is that they keep it positive and stress that MJ was active, engaged & not emaciated person some want to paint
Panish: You were controlling the message as producer of that documentary, sir? Gongaware: I don't think so (ABC7)

Gongaware’s testimony again emphasized the contrast between the answers he gave during his deposition under oath in December 2012 and his responses in the courtroom. In testimony Wednesday, he agreed that Phillips meant “thin” in his email, instead of the word he typed, “think.”Asked during the deposition what Phillips meant, he replied, ”I don’t know what he meant.” (LATimes)

Gongaware said nothing was taken out of the documentary, which included rehearsals for the scheduled 50 concerts in London. (LATimes) Gongaware promised in a follow-up email to Phillips that he'd "have a look," but he testified Thursday that he never dumped any footage. "We didn't keep anything out based on what Randy wrote," Gogaware told jurors.(NYDailyNews) Gongaware testified that he did not know why Phillips would ask that. "We didn't keep anything out based on what Randy wanted." (CNN)

Gongaware said there were 15,000 tickets per show, $1.5 million in tickets per show, $47 million for all 31 shows. Tickets were selling at lightening fast, Gongaware said. "As fast as the system can sell.". The tickets were sold in March, Gongaware said. It was held by the arena, AEG had control of the money. Gongaware said merchandising was another way of making money. The building, which is owned by AEG, would keep the revenue of beverage sold. Gongaware said the beverage money would offset the arena rent, which Michael would not have to pay. Gongaware: His (MJ) potential was great Panish: Unlimited ceilings? Gongaware: If he was willing to work that hard, he would've done well. (ABC7)

Before lunch, Panish asked Gongaware whether “This Is It” was intended to be a multi-city tour. Gongaware said no, it was just going to be the 50 shows at London’s O2 arena. (AP) "The only thing we knew was 50 shows in London. Michael had not agreed to anything else," Gongaware explained. (ABC7)

Panish asked Gongaware by the time the show was sold out, how many people were in the queue to buy tickets. "250,000 people were still in the queue, which would be enough to sell another 50 shows," Gongaware answered (ABC7) During Murray’s trial, Gongaware testified that 250k people still wanted tickets. He told that jury “This Is It” would be a multi-city tour. (AP)

Panish: Did you tell the truth when you testified in this case, sir? Gongaware: Yes Panish then concluded his questioning of Gongaware. (ABC7)



AEG cross

AEG's attorney, Marvin Putnam, did the questioning of Gongaware on behalf of the defendants.

Putnam: Have you ever been sued personally for the wrongful death of anyone? Gongaware: No
Putnam: How are you feeling?
Gongaware: It's difficult, it's very stressful
Putnam: Are you nervous?
Gongaware: Yes (ABC7)

Putnam asked about Gongaware's memory and he said it's okay. (ABC7)

When AEG defense attorney Marvin Putnam took over, he asked Gongaware about some of the emails shown to jurors yesterday. Putnam was trying to show that not all the contents of the emails had been shown to jury. Some email addresses had been redacted. Attorney Brian Panish objected to the redactions, and got testy with the judge. It prompted another lengthy sidebar. When attorneys returned from the judge's chambers, Putnam resumed questioning Gongaware about email sent to his private account. (AP)

Putnam said Gongaware handed over more than 13,000 emails in discovery from the "This Is It" period. (ABC7 &AP)

Putnam inquired about Gongaware's Kazoodi personal email account. On 6/20/09, the chain of emails with "Trouble at the Front" was sent there. Gongaware said he didn't remember receiving this email. Gongaware said he had more than one "Kazoodi" email account. He said he was not using the account the email was sent to on 6/20. "The account was closed at the time," Gongaware testified, saying he never received the email. But he said he never denied it was sent. Gongaware claimed yesterday was the first time he saw the chain of email subject Trouble at the Front. (ABC7)

He presented Gongaware a document that indicated the private email account had been closed at the time a message sent him an MJ-related msg. The email in question was titled "trouble at the Front" and included concerns about Michael Jackson's health. Gongaware had testified that he'd never seen it. Putnam used the closed email account to try to show Gongaware's testimony was truthful (AP).

"Why could you not recall e-mails?" Putnam asked him Thursday. "I had not reviewed them and had not seen them in years," Gongaware answered. Some of the e-mails were new to him because he was so busy putting Jackson's tour together that he never read them, he said. "Mostly, it was just a time factor if it was something that didn't have to do with me."(CNN)

Gongaware said he was receiving hundreds of email a day at the height of 2008/09 tour preparation. Gongaware testified he didn't read all of them because of time factor or it was something it didn't have to do with him. (ABC7)

Gongaware said he doesn't have an office at AEG, and that he works in his own projects. He has an office at his house. Gongaware is the Co-CEO of AEG Live Concerts West with John Meglen. He said he was the co-founder of the company. Phillips is AEG Live CEO. (ABC7)

Gongaware explained be has been testifying about what he could recall. If he didn't remember, he said he told the jury he couldn't recall. Gongaware testified he looked at the emails after his deposition because he wanted to put everything together and see the bigger picture. Putnam: Did you try to give your best testimony? Gongaware: Yes, I did (ABC7)

Regarding the phone call between Gongaware and Dr. Murray where the doctor asked about $5 million, Gongaware said he remembers that call. The next call between the two, it was the $150,000 call, where Gongaware offered the doctor $150k. Gongaware said those were the only two calls he had with Dr. Murray. (ABC7)

Gongaware said the 1st time he met Dr. Murray was a meeting at MJ's Carolwood house. He said MJ, Kenny, Randy, Frank, Dr Murray were present. Gongaware recalled the other meeting with Dr. Murray was an encounter with him at The Forum. He remembers saying hello to him. Gongaware said he's sure he didn't meet with Dr. Murray other than on those two occasions.(ABC7)

Break down: Gongaware said he spoke with Dr. Murray on the phone two times and met with him two times. (ABC7)

Gongaware said he promoted couple of shows/dances in college. He graduated in '69 from Waynesboro College in Pennsylvania in Accounting. Gongaware worked for Arthur Andersen in NYC after college as auditor. He said one needed two years of experience in order to get CPA license.The company ended up shutting down after being involved in the Enron scandal, Gongaware explained. Gongaware said there's a continuing education requirement in order to maintain his CPA license, but he hasn't kept current. "I didn't like that work," Gongaware said about leaving the practice. "I wanted to do things and not just being an accountant." Gongaware said he ski bummed for a winter and would do bookkeeping to pay for his lodge. After, he promoted the Grateful Dead at Folsom Field in Boulder, CO. Gongaware said he didn't know the band, cold called them & got the work. (ABC7) His first big show was in Colorado -- he got The Grateful Dead to perform at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo. He said he didn't know the band or any of its managers, but asked them to come to Colorado. They did, and the show was a hit. (AP) The concert was sold out, Gongaware said, and he became an independent promoter. Around 1975, he met Terry Bassett who worked at Concerts West and Gongaware went to work for them in their Seattle's office. He worked for them for about 10 years. Gongaware said he went to work for the company because the money was steady. At Concerts West, Gongaware worked with Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Beach Boys, Chicago, Eric Clapton, among others. This Concerts West is not the same he is the currently the co-CEO. Jerry Weintraub was Elvis' promoter and Concerts West assigned him to work with Colonel Parker, Elvis' manager. (ABC7)

On Jun 25, 2009 Gabriel Sutter (a tech guy) wrote Gongaware a condolences email. "It was such an incredible shock to go through that experience," Gongaware explained. Gongaware's response on July 5, 2009: I was working on the Elvis tour when he died so I kind of knew what to expect. Still, quite a shock.(ABC7) Gongaware's response: "I was working for Elvis when he died so nothing came at me that I didn’t expect. Still, quite a shock."(AP) "You have all these people out of work," Gongaware explained. "At the Elvis some were without jobs permanently."(ABC7) Under questioning from Putnam, Gongaware said he didn't mean that he expected Jackson to die like Elvis. He was referring to the trauma of people losing their jobs because a tour is canceled, he said. (CNN) Putnam: When you wrote the email, did you expected MJ to die? Gongaware: No, not all P: Did you ever consider the idea MJ would die? G: No (ABC7) AEG defense attorney Marvin Putnam asked Gongaware whether he meant that he expected Jackson to die. Gongaware said no. Gongaware said he was referring to people working on the tour who would lose their jobs, and the estate taking control over MJ's legacy. (AP) Here's what Gongaware had to say about the role of the estate after Elvis died (and what he expected after Jackson's death.) Gongaware: "Then the estate takes over, and everything’s different. You have nothing to say about anything." (AP)

When one of his friends asked about his plans after MJ's death, Gongaware replied he was "trying to recover our losses from the show." (AP)

"MJ died of overdose of Propofol," Gongaware testified. He didn't die of being sick or malnutrition, Gongaware said. "It was overdose of Propofol." Gongaware said he had no idea of what Propofol was. (ABC7) "I had no idea" Jackson was using propofol in the weeks before his death, Gongaware testified. (CNN)

Gongaware was in his 20s when he worked w/ Elvis. He said when they'd announce Elvis concert, there would be lines at the box office 4 days. Gongaware said Colonel would buy ads on every radio station and promote the show. When tickets went on sale, Gongaware was to report to Colonel every hour regarding the ticket sales.(ABC7) Gongaware said he would update Parker on ticket sales for Elvis' shows. (AP) Gongaware said Elvis died of a heart ailment. ((On Tuesday, Gongaware testified Presley died of drug overdose)). Gongaware said he never met Elvis. At a point, Gongaware said Elvis was not performing. "The Colonel was keeping Elvis from work.".Gongaware said he came to find out later, after Elvis' death, that the artist had drug problems. (ABC7)

Although he worked advance promotion on Elvis Presley's last tours -- under the direction of Presley manager Colonel Tom Parker -- Gongaware testified he never met Presley.
"Did you understand he had a problem with drugs?" AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam asked.
"I understood that later," Gongaware said. "There was a period of time when we didn't work. I didn't understand at the time, but I learned that it was a drug problem and the Colonel said he couldn't work."(CNN)

Elvis Presley's death became a controversy at the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial as a man who promoted both artists' last tours testified.AEG Live Co-CEO Paul Gongaware testified Wednesday that Presley died of a drug overdose, but when his own lawyer questioned him Thursday he changed his testimony to say Elvis died of a heart ailment. Presley collapsed in the bathroom of his Memphis, Tennessee, mansion -- Graceland -- on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42. While his death was ruled the result of an irregular heartbeat, the autopsy report was sealed amid accusations that abuse of prescription drugs caused the problem.How Presley died is relevant because Jackson lawyers argue Gongaware's experience as Elvis's promoter should have made him more aware of drug abuse by artists, including Michael Jackson. (CNN)

Gongaware said he worked on MJ's memorial service. He was in charge of the tickets and worked closely with the family. He said he didn't charge for his work. Putnam: Why did you work at the memorial service? Gongaware: It was the right thing to do (ABC7)

Gongaware left Seattle and came to LA to work at Concerts West. He then went to Warner Miller Films. The company did primarily ski movies. Around 1992, Gongaware went to work on the "Dangerous" tour with MJ. This was his first time working with Michael Jackson. He worked with the Jacksons in 2000. But he remembered working on a tour with the Jacksons prior to 92 and said MJ was part of the group. "I was the tour manager, handled the logistics and travel for the B party," Gongaware said, adding he worked for MJ but not for A party. A party - artist B party - band and administration C party - crew D party - documentary people. Gongaware said there were several legs on Dangerous tour. It was a worldwide tour. He never met MJ on that tour, saw him on stage few times.(ABC7)

The first time Gongaware met MJ was in Las Vegas when he was visiting Colonel Parker. Steve Wynn's brother called and said MJ wanted to meet Colonel. Gongaware stayed and met MJ.(ABC7)

Putnam: Were there any doctors in that tour? Gongaware: Yes, two. Gongaware said Dr. Forecast was MJ's personal doctor. He didn't think Dr. Forecast treated anyone else, so they had Dr. Finkelstein also. Dr. Finkelstein, a general practitioner, was in the B party. They went to places where they didn't know the quality of local healthcare. Gongaware explained Dr. Finkelstein treated B, C and D parties. Gongaware said he did not see any doctor treat MJ. Dr. Finkelstein told Gongaware he treated MJ two times. Dr. Forecast wasn't in Bangkok yet, so Dr. Finkelstein treated him when he needed. The King of Thailand said MJ would have to do the second show because his friends were attending, Gongaware recalled. Gongaware said the King put armed guards outside their doors to make sure they didn't leave.(ABC7)

Putnam: During the Dangerous tour, have you come to have an understating that MJ had a problem with drugs or painkillers? Gongaware: No. The Dangerous tour in 93 was cut short in Mexico City, Gongaware said. He learned it had to do with drug addiction because MJ announced it. "My friends and doctors advised me to seek professional guidance immediately in order to eliminate what has become an addition. It is time for me to acknowledge my need for treatment " MJ said. Putnam played the audio with MJ's statement. (ABC7)

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Court is a half day Friday between the hours of 9 AM to 1 PM.

AEG email: Footage of a 'skeletal' Jackson ordered deleted

By Jeff Gottlieb
May 30, 2013, 2:03 p.m.

About six weeks after Michael Jackson’s death, an AEG executive told a producer for the “This Is It” documentary to delete footage of the singer looking too “skeletal.”

Witnesses in the Jackson family’s wrongful-death suit have testified that they were worried about the singer’s health and dramatic weight loss in the day before his scheduled comeback tour and had expressed concerns to tour officials.

The paramedic who came to Jackson’s Holmby Hills home after the 911 call on June 25, 2009, testified that the singer was so emaciated that he thought Jackson was an end-stage cancer patient who had come home to die.

“Make sure we take out the shots of MJ in that red leather jacket at the sound stage where the mini-movies were being filmed,” AEG Live president and co-chief executive Randy Phillips wrote.

“He looks way too think (sic) and skeletal.”

Phillips sent the email to Paul Gongaware, who was back on the witness stand Thursday for his third straight day of testimony. Gongaware, co-chief executive of AEG Live, was a producer of the documentary.

Gongaware replied to Phillips, his boss, “ok will have a look when it comes on screen.”

In another email, Gongaware wrote, “We are ok with the band, singers and dancers doing inteviews now. The only thing we ask is that they keep it positive and stress that MJ was active, engaged and not the emaciated person some want to paint him as being.”

Answering questions from Jackson family attorney Brian Panish, Gongaware said he was not trying to control the film’s message. “We’re asking them to keep it positive,” he said.

Gongaware said nothing was taken out of the documentary, which included rehearsals for the scheduled 50 concerts in London.

Gongaware’s testimony again emphasized the contrast between the answers he gave during his deposition under oath in December 2012 and his responses in the courtroom.

In testimony Wednesday, he agreed that Phillips meant “thin” in his email, instead of the word he typed, “think.”

Asked during the deposition what Phillips meant, he replied, ”I don’t know what he meant.”

The wrongful death case was brought by Jackson’s mother and three children against AEG, the promoter and producer of the London concerts.

The family contends that AEG negligently hired and supervised Conrad Murray, the doctor who gave Jackson the fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol. AEG says that the doctor worked for Jackson, and that any money the company was supposed to pay Murray were advances to the singer.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aeg-skeletal-jackson-20130530,0,4702553.story