Sonntag, 2. September 2012

Michael Jackson was HUNTED TO DEATH !!


 

For me, there's NO doubt, Michael was HUNTED TO DEATH by a bunch of greedy people!! 

Hopefully everything is revealed through this process, and the true face of Phillips, AEG and Co is detected.

 

 



Doubts surfaced early on Michael Jackson


Emails in Jackson insurance litigation show AEG execs knew of concerns about the pop star's stability.


The scene in Michael Jackson's London hotel suite left Randy Phillips in a panic.


"MJ is locked in his room drunk and despondent," Phillips said in an email to his boss at Anschutz Entertainment Group, the Los Angeles company staking a fortune on the singer. "I [am] trying to sober him up."


Across the Atlantic, where it was still early morning, AEG President Tim Leiweke read the message and fired back on his BlackBerry: "Are you kidding me?"


"I screamed at him so loud the walls are shaking," Phillips told him. "He is an emotionally paralyzed mess riddled with self loathing and doubt now that it is show time."


The story of Jackson's ill-fated comeback attempt has been told in news reports, a manslaughter trial and a feature-length documentary. But a cache of confidential AEG emails obtained by The Times offers a darker picture of the relationship between the down-on-his-luck idol and the buttoned-up corporation taking a bet on his erratic talents.


The 250 pages of messages illuminate the extent to which top executives were aware of doubts about Jackson's stability as they prepared for his 50-show concert run at their London arena.


The emails will probably play a central role in two lawsuits set for trial next year. The shows' insurers are asking a judge to nullify a $17.5-million policy that they say AEG got with false claims about Jackson's health and readiness to perform. Jackson's heirs are pressing a wrongful-death suit that accuses AEG of pressuring the pop star to carry on with a comeback despite indications he was too weak.


Michael Jackson was a megastar but also had a trail of burned investors and canceled performances that loomed large when AEG began contemplating a deal with him in the fall of 2008.


Even before meeting with Jackson, executives at the highest levels of AEG, including billionaire founder Phil Anschutz, were seeking insurance to protect the company's bottom line if the shows didn't come off, according to the emails.


Anschutz invited Jackson to a meeting at a Las Vegas villa in September 2008. Paul Gongaware, an AEG Live executive who knew Jackson, emailed colleagues a strategy memo. Wear casual clothes, he told them, "as MJ is distrustful of people in suits" and expect to talk "fluff" with "Mikey."


The company was proposing a world tour that would net the cash-strapped star $132 million, according to the memo. "This is not a number that MJ will want to hear. He thinks he is so much bigger than that," Gongaware warned. Talk in terms of gross receipts, he suggested.


The singer and AEG signed a deal in January 2009. According to the contract, AEG agreed to bankroll a series of London concerts at its 02 Arena and Jackson promised "a first-class performance." If he reneged, AEG would take control of the debt-ridden singer's company and use the income from his music catalogs to recoup its money.

 

AEG Live's president saw Jackson's problems first hand the day the pop star was to appear at the O2 Arena to publicly announce the shows.

There were doubters inside and outside the company. Dan Beckerman, AEG's chief operating officer, sent Phillips, the chief executive of concert division AEG Live, a YouTube link to Jackson's shaky 2001 MTV appearance and asked, "Can he pull this off?"



"He's as healthy as he can be -- no health problems whatsoever," Phillips told CNN two months later to refute reports Jackson's health was threatening the concerts.

 

Pressed by another promoter about Jackson's ability to deliver, Phillips shot back in an email, "He has to or financial disaster awaits."




Michael speaks out about O2 Arena residency 



"I went to bed knowing I sold 10 dates, and woke up to the news I was booked to do 50."




He has hit out at his London O2 Arena gig bookers, saying he believed he only signed up to play 10 shows - not the 50 he is scheduled for - at the venue.

Speaking to fans outside the Los Angeles dance studio where he's rehearsing for the gigs, the singer admitted that he might not be physically well enough to complete all 50 shows, reports The Sun. 



"I don't know how I'm going to do 50 shows," he said of the gigs, which kick off in July. "I'm not a big eater - I need to put some weight on."


The star then laid into the gig promoters, saying he only wanted to play ten shows at the O2 Arena.

"I'm really angry with them booking me up to do 50 shows," he said. "I only wanted to do ten, and take the tour around the world to other cities, not 50 in one place. 




Randy Phillips, head of promoters AEG, who organised the gigs, refuted Jackson's claim that he was not originally fully aware of the length of the residency.



"This is not true," he said in a statement. "The size and scale of this show would not be possible without an extended run which Michael has been fully on board with from the very beginning."





http://www.nme.com/news/michael-jackson/45043



AEG planned to announce Jackson's comeback in March with a London news conference. But as the date drew near, Jackson dropped out of sight. Inside AEG, there was growing fear.




Michael Jackson's decision to delay his forthcoming London O2 Arena residency is not due to ill health, the concerts' promoter has stated.

Yesterday (May 21) it was announced that
the residency will begin on July 13 as opposed to July 8, with four shows put back.

 

Randy Phillips of promoters AEG said in a statement that the delay was due to the logistics of the production, but tabloid rumours suggesting that Jackson was suffering from skin cancer had fuelled rumours that an ailment was the real cause.


Today (May 22) The Sun claimed that Jackson is due to have surgery for skin cancer. However, Phillips has moved to quash the story.


He said that the date shift was "absolutely nothing" to do with the singer's health, reports BBC news. He added: "I would trade my body for his tomorrow. He's in fantastic shape."




http://www.nme.com/news/michael-jackson/44806 


Michael Jackson gig promoters couldn't get insurance for O2 concerts




AEG Live, which persuaded Jackson to stage the mammoth 50-date run at its London venue, is understood to have faced difficulty insuring the This Is It performances after the initial schedule of 10 concerts grew.


The company is thought to have struggled to arrange cover for the full set of concerts, which reportedly would have taken the policy towards s300 million.

In March the firm said it was still negotiating with insurers over the Jackson dates as one million fans snapped up tickets to the sell-out programme.


AEG chief executive Randy Phillips said the company would be willing to "self-insure" to get the shows to go ahead and played down concerns over the star's health.


Trade magazine Reinsurance said that while the company had managed to secure cover for the first 10 concerts - thought to be worth about s80 million - the rest of the dates had met with little enthusiasm from insurers.

The additional 40 dates were understood to take the policy to around the s300 million level, it said.





Mr Phillips said in March that AEG would be willing to take on the risk of Jackson falling ill, adding that he was in "great shape" and would reveal an updated version of his moonwalk dance at the shows.


"The insurance brokers sent doctors and they spent five hours with him, taking blood tests," he said.

"But we would be prepared to self-insure to make up the dates.

"It's a risk we're willing to take to bring the King of Pop to his fans."



He said Jackson could make 50 million to 100 million US dollars from the London dates, rising to 500 million if he did a world tour. But he rejected suggestions that the singer's famously pressured finances were a motivation for the gigs.




http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/michael-jackson-gig-promoters-couldnt-1029169

 

"We are holding all the risk," Gongaware wrote to Phillips. "We let Mikey know just what this will cost him in terms of him making money.... We cannot be forced into stopping this, which MJ will try to do because he is lazy and constantly changes his mind to fit his immediate wants."


"He is locked. He has no choice … he signed a contract," Gongaware wrote.


Publicly, AEG projected confidence. "The man is very sane, the man is very focused, the man is very healthy," Leiweke assured a music industry symposium the day before the news conference.



Take a look on the liars!!!

 

 Randy Phillips and Kenny Ortega This is it conference on May 20th, 2009

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPN_U6A1_s&feature=youtu.be


Quote "By June 18, according to the complaint, Jackson had attended only a few rehearsals, prompting AEG Live's Phillips and "This is It" director Kenny Ortega to demand a face to face meeting with him at Jackson's Holmby Hills estate. Phillips and Ortega insisted that Jackson show up for rehearsals or AEG would "pull the plug" on Jackson's rented house and terminate the services of Murray if he missed another rehearsal, the complaint alleges."

 

THESE MEN THREATENED MICHAEL FROM BEGINNIG! THEY TOLD HIM HE WOULD LOOSE HIS CHILDREN. THAT WAS THE GREATEST OF THREATS THAT MICHAEL COULDN'T IGNORE. HE WAS LOST, AND COMPLETELY IN THE HANDS OF THIS CRIMINAL.

 


 

Jackson made it to London, but according to emails Phillips sent to Leiweke, the star was intoxicated and refused to leave his suite. In the end, the emails show, Phillips and Jackson's manager had to dress him.



"He is scared to death," Phillips wrote to Leiweke.

 

 

 


Those rehearsing with Jackson began sounding alarms in mid-June, according to the emails, a month before his scheduled debut in London. They complained he missed rehearsals, was slow picking up routines and would have to lip-sync some of his signature numbers.
"MJ is not in shape enough yet to sing this stuff live and dance at the same time," the show's musical director informed supervisors in an email. Jackson missed another week of rehearsals, and when he finally showed up June 19, he was too weak to perform.


Emails reviewed by The Times show far greater alarm about Jackson's mental state than has emerged previously.


"He was a basket case," a production manager wrote. "Doubt is pervasive."


"We have a real problem here," Phillips wrote to Leiweke.



A loud warning from Kenny Ortega, who worked closely with Jackson on previous tours, came in mid-June, just over a week before his death.


The show's director told Phillips their star was not ready for the comeback and called for a psychiatric intervention: "There are strong signs of paranoia, anxiety and obsessive-like behavior. I think the very best thing we can do is get a top Psychiatrist in to evaluate him ASAP.



"It is like there are two people there. One (deep inside) trying to hold on to what he was and still can be and not wanting us to quit him, the other in this weakened and troubled state," wrote Ortega, who had known Jackson for 20 years. "I believe we need professional guidance in this matter."




Phillips resisted the request for immediate psychiatric intervention. "It is critical that neither you, me or anyone around this show become amateur psychiatrists or physicians," Phillips wrote.


At a meeting that day, Jackson vowed to improve, and Murray said he would help. By all accounts, the next two days of rehearsals — the last of Jackson's life — were superb.

Numerous emails show that at the same time, Lloyd's of London was pressing AEG to schedule a complete medical examination for Jackson. The insurance company had to be convinced the singer was healthy before they would expand the policy to include illness and death, crucial coverage given reports from rehearsals.


That four-hour exam by Lloyd's in London would include three doctors, heart monitoring and blood work. AEG's insurance broker tried to persuade Lloyd's to drop the physical, according to the email discussions by AEG officials. AEG suggested Murray could provide an oral recitation of Jackson's recent medical history instead. Lloyd's refused.


Since agreeing to the policy in May, Lloyd's had sought additional information from AEG — medical records, details about Jackson's daily fitness program and responses to media reports about his health.


"Always with no response," a Lloyd's underwriter wrote.


Lloyd's also insisted on five years of medical records. The insurance company wrote that it wanted a thorough account for all doctor's appointments, hospital visits and cosmetic procedures since 2003.

Murray responded to the last of the requests June 25 in Jackson's darkened bedroom suite, according to emails presented at the doctor's criminal trial. He wrote that he had talked to Jackson and "Authorization was denied,"



Less than an hour later, Jackson stopped breathing, according to a timeline Murray gave police.








Phillips called Jackson's death "a terrible tragedy" in an e-mail weeks after he died, he added "but life must go on." 

 

"AEG will make a fortune from merch sales, ticket retention, the touring exhibition and the film/dvd," Phillips wrote. In fact, AEG Live was allowed to sell Jackson tour merchandise and share in the profits from the documentary "This Is It," produced from rehearsal video.



The celebratory documentary "This Is It," which AEG co-produced alone grossed more than $260 million worldwide.




 

 

 

"Under Randy Phillips and his entire management team, the last three years at AEG Live have been the best three years in our history; including 2011 -- our best year ever," says Leiweke.

 

Deep pockets behind Michael Jackson

 

Phillips had his eye on Jackson for some time. In 2007, Phillips approached the singer with a deal for a comeback, but Jackson, who was working with different advisors, turned him down. "He wasn't ready," Phillips recalled.

 

This time, however, Jackson was receptive. He needed the money, and he has a second, more personal reason: His children.


Doubts about Jackson's reliability are widespread because of his long concert hiatus. Those concerns were heightened earlier this month when the show's opening night was pushed back five days. Phillips and Ortega, the director, blamed production problems and said Jackson was ready to perform.

 



Phillips said that Jackson passed a rigorous medical examination. 

 

 

Phillips: „The concerts are a do-or-die moment for Jackson“. „If it doesn’t happen, it would be a major problem for him career-wise in a way that it hasn’t been in the past“. 


Even as Jackson's deep-pocketed benefactors assemble an all-star team -- "High School Musical's" Kenny Ortega is directing the London concerts -- there are hints of discord. 

 

 

 

 

  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/05/deep-pockets-behind-michael-jackson.html

 

 


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-aeg-jackson-20120902,0,6711027.story?page=2&sc=3270209077479548775



http://us.cnn.com/2012/09/02/showbiz/michael-jackson-aeg/index.html