K. Jackson-Klage gegen AEG- Der Prozess- Nur News -Keine Diskussion

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Anthony McCartney Anthony McCartney @mccartneyAP 9h

Court is done for the day in Jackson vs AEG. Makeup artist Karen Faye is going to be tomorrow's witness.

Karen Faye ist die nächste Zeugin.

[rip.michael]

Michael Jackson days before death: 'God keeps talking to me'
By Alan Duke, CNN
May 9, 2013 -- Updated 0935 GMT (1735 HKT)

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson told his tour director days before he died he was hearing God's voice, a producer testified Wednesday.

"God keeps talking to me,"Jackson said.

Those words spoken to Kenny Ortega and Jackson's frail appearance were so disturbing that it caused Ortega and associate producer Alif Sankey to burst into tears at a rehearsal, Sankey said Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother and three children.

Jackson, who was being fitted for his costumes, appeared "extremely thin" and "was not speaking normally" at the June 19, 2009, rehearsal, Sankey told jurors in a trial to determine if concert promoter AEG Live should be held liable in the pop icon's death.

Jurors saw a photo of Jackson at the costume fitting that showed an obviously thin and gaunt man.
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Sankey testified that she and Ortega cried together after Jackson left. On her way home, Sankey stopped her car to call Ortega "because I had a very strong feeling that Michael was dying."

"I was screaming into the phone at that point," Sankey testified. "I said he needs to be put in the hospital now."

Sankey became emotional as she testified about the call.

"I kept saying that 'Michael is dying, he's dying, he's leaving us, he needs to be put in a hospital,'" Sankey said. "'Please do something. Please, please.' I kept saying that. I asked him why no one had seen what I had seen. He said he didn't know."

Ortega sent a series of e-mails early the next morning that resulted in a meeting at Jackson's house between Jackson, Dr. Conrad Murray, AEG Live President Randy Phillips and Ortega.

An e-mail from Phillips after that meeting said he had confidence in Murray, "who I am gaining immense respect for as I get to deal with him more."

"This doctor is extremely successful (we check everyone out) and does not need this gig, so he (is) totally unbiased and ethical," Phillips' e-mail said.

The lawsuit contends that Phillips and AEG never checked Murray out. Otherwise, they would have known he was deeply in debt and vulnerable to breaking the rules in treating Jackson to keep his job, it argues.

Jackson lawyers contend that AEG Live is liable for Jackson's death because the company negligently hired, retained or supervised Murray -- who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.

Jackson's last rehearsal was at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on June 24, 2009. Security camera video shown to the jury Wednesday showed him walking with a blanket wrapped around him as he passed Sankey.

"He didn't look good," she testified. "I asked him if he was cold, and he said 'Yes.'"

Jackson sang two songs that last night on stage: "Thriller" and "Earth Song," she said.

"He did it," Sankey said. "He went through it. He wasn't in full performance mode."

Sankey said she was standing next to Ortega at a rehearsal the next afternoon when Randy Phillips called to tell him Jackson was dead.

"Kenny collapsed in our arms," she said.

The lawsuit contends that AEG Live executives missed a series of red flags warning them that Jackson's life was at risk because of Murray, who was giving him nightly infusions of the surgical anesthetic propofol to treat his insomnia.

The coroner ruled Jackson had died from an overdose of propofol in combination with several sedatives on June 25, 2009.

Murray told investigators he used the drugs to help Jackson sleep so he could be rested for rehearsals.

AEG lawyers argue Jackson, not their company, chose and supervised Murray, and that their executives had no way of knowing what the doctor was doing to Jackson in the privacy of his bedroom.

Michael's creativity

In contrast to six days of testimony mostly about Jackson's death, jurors did hear about the pop icon's creativity during Sankey's testimony

"Michael's imagination was endless," Sankey said. "He would visualize it, and it happened. It was amazing."

Katherine Jackson dabbed tears from her eyes as her son's "Smooth Criminal" video was played in court.

Sankey first met Michael Jackson when she was a dancer in the 1987 video production.

"We got to see Michael's imagination come to life," Sankey said. "That was my first time as a dancer, as an artist, that I was completely inspired by his craft and inspired by his attention to every detail. He was so detailed and he never missed a thing."

Working with Jackson was "magical," she said.

"I dream still to this day that I will be able to create on that level of magic that Michael created," Sankey said. "It was like living a dream of working with an artist like that, and I will treasure it and have it in my memory forever."

Sankey's work as an associate producer and dancer for Jackson's "This Is It" tour put her on the witness list in this trial.

"He shared with me that he was excited to do the show," she said. "He was excited to show his kids, finally to show them who he was, what he was all about; he was very excited about that."

Jurors heard about Jackson's relationship with his three children and their love of their father. Sankey described how they would come with their father to the set each day in early June when he was filming video elements for the show.

"Paris had a purse, and inside her purse, she had all this candy in her purse she didn't want her daddy to know about," Sankey said. "She had these little pictures of her father in her purse that were in frames. She had, like, a lot of them. Her purse was full of candy and pictures of her daddy."

"They loved their daddy," she said.

The "This Is It" concert would have been "a pretty big show," Sankey told jurors.

"It was going to be huge and it was going to be innovative, different," she testified. "From working with Michael in my past, I knew it had to be something that no one's ever seen. It all had to be new and pioneering."

The next witness when court resumes Thursday morning will be Michael Jackson's longtime hair and make up artist, Karen Faye. She was quoted in interviews after Jackson's death saying that the pop star was in ill health weeks before he died.

Spectators in the small Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday morning included Judge Lance Ito, famous for presiding over the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995. Ito was there to watch his friend, Judge Yvette Palazuelos, preside over this trial and then go to lunch with her.

[rip.michael]

Jacksons vs AEG - Day 7 - May 8 2013 – Summary

Katherine Jackson and Trent Jackson were in the court.

Producer/Dancer Alif Sankey testimony



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Alif Sankey is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Producer. She was hired the Associate Producer for "This is It"(ABC7). First witness is Alif Sankey, a choreographer, dancer and producer. She spends early part of her testimony describing her experience.(AP)

She first Met MJ working for him as a dancer on the Smooth Criminal music tour. She blew the first audition but got a call back anyway. Her first encounter with MJ he asked her who did her eyes? She said she did and then she wanted to Melt! Sankey said that was the best job she ever had because she got to watch MJ create and see his Genius up close. It has inspired her.(ABC7) Sankey says it took around three months to shoot “Smooth Criminal” music video. Says watching Jackson work influenced her creative process. She also worked with him at a couple live performances, but never went on tour with Jackson. She was later hired to work on “This Is It.”(AP) A few moments into the video, Sankey points out she’s the woman in the brown dress to the right of Jackson. (AP)

"It was magical to work with him ... It was like living a dream.” -Alif Sankey on dancing in #MJ's "Smooth Criminal" video (LAtimes)
“We got to see Michael’s imagination come to life,” she said. “That was my first time as a dancer, as an artist, that I was completely inspired by his craft and inspired by his attention to every detail. … It was magical to work with him, just absolutely magical and I dream still to this day that I will create on that level of magic that Michael created on. It was like living a dream.” (LATimes)

jurors did hear about the pop icon's creativity during Sankey's testimony. "Michael's imagination was endless," Sankey said. "He would visualize it, and it happened. It was amazing." (CNN)

"We got to see Michael's imagination come to life," Sankey said. "That was my first time as a dancer, as an artist, that I was completely inspired by his craft and inspired by his attention to every detail. He was so detailed and he never missed a thing."Working with Jackson was "magical," she said."I dream still to this day that I will be able to create on that level of magic that Michael created," Sankey said. "It was like living a dream of working with an artist like that, and I will treasure it and have it in my memory forever." (CNN)

Sankey said she was hired at the Associate Producer for "This is It" by AEG. She had worked with Producer Kenny Ortega many years. Dancer auditions started April 6th 2009 and hundreds tried out. They hired about 100 (huge show)!!! Sankey testified that the "This is It" tour was to revive MJ's career. Show the audience something they had never seen before.(ABC7)

The "This Is It" concert would have been "a pretty big show," Sankey told jurors.
"It was going to be huge and it was going to be innovative, different," she testified. "From working with Michael in my past, I knew it had to be something that no one's ever seen. It all had to be new and pioneering." (CNN)

Sankey said she saw MJ for the first time after being hired on the last day of dancer auditions. He looked thin. (ABC7)

Sankey also spoke about Jackson’s relationship with his children. “They loved him, they loved their daddy,” she said, and spoke about sitting at a rehearsal with Paris, who kept a purse full of candy and small framed photos of her father. Jackson himself appeared eager to perform with his children around, she said. (LAtimes)

Sankey: “He was excited to show his kids, finally, to show who he was and what he was all about. He was very happy and excited.” (LAtimes)

"He shared with me that he was excited to do the show," she said. "He was excited to show his kids, finally to show them who he was, what he was all about; he was very excited about that." (CNN)

Sankey said she based some of her impressions of Jackson over the years on how he felt when they hugged. "When I hugged him, he just felt like marble," Sankey said about Jackson early in his career. "But when I hugged, when I saw him briefly in 2006, he didn't feel like that anymore. He felt thin. He just felt thin." He was thin during the "This Is It" preparations, she said, and she became concerned when he missed multiple rehearsals. (AP)

Sankey was at a wardrobe meeting with MJ when he said to her she looked good..Had she lost weight? She said she works out. MJ nice to all (ABC7)

She spoke to MJ's assistant because she noticed MJ had holes in the soles of his dancing shoes. (ABC7)

The singer showed up at one rehearsal with shoes that had holes in the soles, missed rehearsals and appeared much thinner than earlier in his career, Sankey testified.(AP)

Michael Jackson complained his body was sore to "This Is It" choreographer, Sankey testified. (LATimes)

Sankey suggested MJ stretch, have a barre installed at his house, and pilates to get 50 year old body in shape for tour. (ABC7)

In June, MJ kids came to rehearsal. Paris had a purse with candy and pix of MJ. She asked Sankey not to tell MJ about the candy.(ABC7)

Sankey also described meeting Paris Jackson while footage was being shot for the "This Is It" shows.Paris Jackson shared a secret with Sankey, saying she had brought lots of candy stuffed into her purse to the studio and didn't want her father to find out.

There were also several tiny pictures inside her purse — all of her father. "Her purse was full of candy and pictures of her daddy," Sankey said. (AP)

Dancer and choreographer Alif Sankey told a jury that MJ appeared thin and unprepared for the rigors of the shows. She testified that a month before MJ’s death, she wrote an email to tour director Kenny Ortega urging him to try to improve the singer's health and spirits. She says she never received a reply. (AP)

Sankey wrote to Ortega: "Please help me help you to get him back into that Magical Light, please let me help you help him find what was lost, his GRAIL," She wrote that she knew what she could say to Jackson that would make him respond and also offered suggestions to help lessen the pain of rehearsals.(AP)

“I wanted to be a part of him being encouraged, being enlightened, believing in himself, believing that we all believed in him, that he could do this,” Sankey said. (LATimes)

Jackson lawyer Panish asked Sankey if she saw AEG Live take any action to protect the entertainer after she expressed her concerns.

“No,” Sankey testified.

“Were you concerned that nothing was happening?” Panish asked.

“Yes,” she responded. (Law360)

Ortega, she said, was frustrated with Jackson's absences. (LAtimes) Producers expressed concern on MJ rehearsal attendance by the beginning of June. Sankey was worried. Sankey testified MJ was not at rehearsal for the first week of June. He came to rehearsal June 6th. That was after a tough love meeting with MJ and the show Director and Producer that Sankey said was tough love. The Director sent MJ home on June 19th after his costume fitting according to Sankey. She met with Director after. Sankey and Director cried together after MJ left because of their concern for him and his physical condition. So thin... On her way home, she called Director and screamed into the phone that MJ was dying and someone had to do something. She said he had to go to the hospital. She made Director promise to do something. (ABC7)

On her way home, Sankey stopped her car to call Ortega "because I had a very strong feeling that Michael was dying." "I was screaming into the phone at that point," Sankey testified. "I said he needs to be put in the hospital now." (CNN)

"I kept saying that 'Michael is dying, he's dying, he's leaving us, he needs to be put in a hospital,'" Sankey said. "'Please do something. Please, please,' I kept saying that. I asked him why no one had seen what I had seen. He said he didn't know." (CNN)

“I said, 'He needs to be put in the hospital now,' ” Sankey said. “He kept listening to me because I kept going. I kept saying, ‘Michael’s dying, he’s dying.’”Sankey, who was emotional and paused during her testimony, said she begged Ortega to do something.
“Please, please. I kept saying that. I asked him, ‘Why is no one seeing what I’m seeing?’ (LATimes)

Ortega send a series of e-mails early the next morning that resulted in a meeting at Jackson's house between Jackson, Dr. Conrad Murray, AEG Live President Randy Phillips and Ortega. (CNN)

Sankey testified that the previous night, Jackson had been at rehearsal for a costume fitting but was sent home because he “was not looking good or feeling good.” (LATimes) According to associate producer Alif Sankey.Jackson, who was at the rehearsal for a costume fitting, appeared "extremely thin" and "was not speaking normally" at the June 19, 2009 (CNN)

Afterward, Sankey said that Ortega was worried about Jackson, who mentioned God was speaking to him. ”MJ told Kenny Ortega that "god was speaking to him," Sankey testified Both became emotional after discussing their concern for Jackson. (LAtimes) Sankey testified that she and Ortega cried together after Jackson left. (CNN) Michael Jackson's appearance and state of mind were so disturbing days before his death it caused producers to burst into tears at a rehearsal Sankey said (CNN)

“[Jackson] was not speaking normally to Kenny,” Sankey testified. “I was very concerned. I was highly concerned that night.” (Law360)

“[Michael] didn’t understand why God was speaking to him. We were both crying. We were crying because he seemed — he was not speaking normally to Kenny.”(LATimes)

"God keeps talking to me," Michael Jackson told Kenny Ortega six days before dying (CNN)

MJ was at rehearsal on June 23rd and performed most of the concert. MJ showed up for Rehearsal on the 24th wrapped in a huge blanket. Rehearsal was at the Staples Center. (ABC7)

Jackson's last rehearsal was at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on June 24, 2009. Security camera video shown to the jury Wednesday showed him walking with a blanket wrapped around him as he passed Sankey.
"He didn't look good," she testified. "I asked him if he was cold and he said 'Yes.'"
Jackson sang two songs that last night on stage: "Thriller" and "Earth Song," she said.
"He did it," Sankey said. "He went through it. He wasn't in full performance mode." (CNN)

On June 25th, the company was rehearsing at Staples. When Sankey arrived, she was told MJ was in the hospital. The Director kept the company rehearsing despite MJ hospitalized. Cell phones went off and no one answered...they kept working. (ABC7)

Sankey said she was standing next to Ortega at a rehearsal the next afternoon when Randy Phillips called to tell him Jackson was dead. "Kenny collapsed in our arms," she said. (CNN) The director, Kenny Ortega, took the call from Randy Phillips of AEG what MJ had died. Sankey says Ortega collapsed. (ABC7)

Sankey and Ortega went back to an office and cried. Then Ortega got the company into a circle and told them MJ had died. (ABC7)

AEG cross

On Cross Examination Attorney for AEG questioned Sankey on how close she was to MJ. She testified that she loved MJ but she really wasn't close to MJ. (ABC7)

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Makeup artist Karen Faye is going to be tomorrow's witness.

Zusammenfassung von Ivy MJJC #9

[Biggi25]

oh man, schön das ihr englisch könnt. ich hatte lieb darum gebeten auch an die nicht englisch sprechenden zu denken. es muß ja nicht alles sein, aber eine Zusammenfassung wäre schon schön!!!

[Kraehenkomitee]

dann knall den text doch in ne übersetzungsmaschine rein und fertig.. ist zwar nicht 1 zu 1 - aber den sinn sollte man sich doch dann erschließen können.
so lernt man auch die sprache..

[BlaueBlume]

Zusammenfassung in Deutsch:
Übersetzung von maja5809 aus dem http://www.mjjackson-forever.com

Alif Sanky ist Tänzerin, Choreografin und Produzent. Engagiert als Mit-Produzentin bei TII.
Sie war nervös, weil sie nie vorher in einem Prozess aussagte.
Traf MJ zum ersten mal als Tänzerin bei der smooth criminal music tour (?) wo sie beim zweiten Anlauf engagiert wurde.
Der erste Kontakt mit Michael direkt war, das er sie fragte: "Wer hat deine Augen geschminkt" sie sagte, sie selbst, und wäre fast weggeschmolzen..
Sanky sagt, es war ihr bester Job, weil sie Mj beim kreieren zusehen durfte und sein Genie ganz nah miterlebte. Es hat sie inspiriert.
Sie wurde von AEG als Mitproduzentin bei TII engagiert und hat viele Jahre mit Ortega zusammengearbeitet.
Die auditions der Tänzer begannen am 6 April 2009 und es kamen Hunderte.Etwa 100 wurden eingestellt.
Die TII Tour sei gemacht worden, um MJs Karriere wieder zu beleben. Das Publikum sollte etwas bekommen, was sie nie zuvor gesehen hatten.
Sie sah MJ zum ersten mal am Tag nachdem sie engagiert wurde. Er sah dünn aus.
Sie traf ihn in der Garderobe und er sagte, sie sehe gut aus, ob sie abgenommen habe. Sie sagte, sie macht ein Workout. Mj war zu allen nett.
Sie sprach mit MJs Assistent, weil sie merkte, das er in den Tanzschuhen Löcher hatte. Im Juni kamen seine Kids mit zur Probe. Paris hatte süssigkeiten dabei und sagte zu Sanky, sie solle MJ das nicht verraten.
Sanky schlug MJ vor, Stretchübungen zu hause zu machen, und Pilates um seinen Körper in Form für die Tour zu bringen.
Die Produzenten äusserten Bedenken, an der Teilnahme MJs an den Proben Anfang Juni. Sanky war beunruhigt.


Sankey hat auch eine Mail an Ortega geschrieben (juni 2009) sie bekam nie eine Antwort..

"Bitte hilf mir damit ich dir helfen kann ihn wieder zurück in dieses Magische Licht zu bringen, bitte lass mich dir dabei helfen, ihm zu helfen, das zu finden, was er verloren hat, seinen "Gral"
sie schrieb sie wisse, was sie zu Jackson sagen könne, damit er reagiere und bot auch Vorschläge an um die Schmerzen durch die Proben zu verringern.


Sankey sagt MJ war nicht bei den Proben in der ersten Juni Woche. Kam am 6. Juni.
Das war nach dem "tough love" meeting mit Mj und dem Show Direktor und dem Produzent
Direktor schickte MJ am 19.6 heim, nach der Kostümprobe. Sie traf sich mit dem Direktor (ich denke Ortega..) danach
Sanky und Direktor weinten wegen ihrer Sorge um ihn (MJ) und seine körperliche Gesundheit. so dünn..
Auf ihrem Weg heim rief sie Direktor an und schrie ins Telefon, dass MJ sterbe und dass jemand was tun müsse
Sie sagte er müssse ins Krankenhaus und lies sich vom Direktor versprechen, dass er was tun würde..

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The Jacksons vs. AEG Live — Zeugen der Jacksons, 3. Teil

9. Mai 2013

Gestern wurde Alif Sankey, Associate Producer der “This Is It” Show und ehemals Tänzerin für Michael Jackson, im Zeugenstand befragt. Sie sagte aus, dass Michael Jackson kurz bevor er starb zu Kenny Ortega gesagt hatte, “Gott spricht zu mir”. Diese Worte zusammen mit der zerbrechlichen Statur von Michael, brachten Kenny Ortega und Alif Sankey bei den Proben zum Weinen. Bei den Proben am 19. Juni, also sechs Tage vor seinem Tod, schien Michael Jackson “enorm dünn” und verwirrt, als er sprach. Den Geschworenen wurde ein Foto von den Kostümproben an jenem Tag gezeigt, auf dem Michael Jackson offensichtlich mager und ausgemergelt ausschaute. Als Sankey im Anschluss an jene Proben nach Hause fuhr, rief sie Kenny Ortega noch vom Auto aus an und sagte ihm, dass sie ernsthaft glaube, dass Michael am Sterben sei und dass er sofort ins Spital gebracht werden müsse. Sie bat Kenny Ortega inständig etwas zu unternehmen und fragte ihn, warum niemand sonst dies aufgefallen sei. Am kommenden Morgen verschickte Kenny Ortega einige E-Mails, die zum uns bereits bekannten Treffen mit Conrad Murray, Randy Phillips (dem CEO von AEG Live) und Kenny Ortega bei Michael Jackson zu Hause führte. In einer E-Mail von Randy Phillips nach diesem Treffen schrieb dieser, dass er Murray vertraue und “je öfter ich mit ihm zu tun habe, desto grösser wird mein Respekt für ihn. [...] Dieser Arzt ist sehr erfolgreich (wir überprüfen alle) und er braucht diesen Job nicht. Er ist also vollkommen unvoreingenommen und moralisch
einwandfrei”. Dies steht im Widerspruch zu dem, was die Jackson Anwälte mit den vorherigen Aussagen bereits aufzeigen wollten, nämlich dass AEG Live Conrad Murray nicht vorgängig überprüft hatten, da sie sonst auf seine zahlreichen beruflichen wie auch monetären Probleme gestossen wären. Als Michael Jackson für seine letzten Proben im Staples Center eintraf, hatte er eine Decke um sich gewickelt, wie das Video der Sicherheitskamera zeigte. Er habe nicht gut ausgeschaut, so Sankey. Sie habe ihn gefragt, ob er kalt habe und er sagte ja. An jenem Abend habe Michael Jackson zwei Lieder gesungen: “Thriller” und “Earth Song”. “Er tat’s, ist die Songs durchgegangen. Er war nicht in voller Performanceverfassung.” Sankey schwärmte anschliessend von Michael Jacksons unglaublicher Kreativität. Sie hatte ihn als Tänzerin beim Dreh für “Smooth Criminal” 1987 kennen gelernt gehabt. Das Video wurde den Geschworenen vorgespielt; Katherine Jackson kamen dabei die Tränen. “Wir sahen, wie Michaels Vorstellungen zum Leben erwachten. Das war das erste Mal für mich als Tänzer, als Künstler, dass ich von seiner Kunstfertigkeit und seinem Auge für jedes Detail vollkommen inspiriert war. Er war so fokussiert auf jedes Detail und nichts entging ihm.” Mit Michael Jackson zu arbeiten war “magisch”, so Sankey. Michael Jackson habe ihr auch gesagt, wie sehr er sich auf die “This Is It” Show freute und insbesondere darauf, seinen Kindern endlich zeigen zu können, wer er sei und wofür er stand. Michael Jacksons hatte seine drei Kinder Anfang Juni jeden Tag aufs Set mitgenommen, als er Videoelemente für die Show filmte. Paris hatte jeweils eine Handtasche dabei, die vollgestopft war mit zwei Sachen: Süssigkeiten und kleinen eingerahmten Fotos von ihrem Vater.

Quellen: jackson.ch, cnn.com

Weiterlesen unter http://www.jackson.ch/the-jacksons-v...cksons-3-teil/
Copyright © jackson.ch

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Jacksons vs AEG - Day 8 - May 9 2013 - Summary

Katherine Jackson was in court.

Karen Faye Testimony

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Karen Faye MJ's long time Hair and Makeup artist takes the stand. (ABC7). Faye starts out by listing some of her famous clients, including Michael Jackson, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening and Smokey Robinson. (AP)

Faye spends several minutes describing what she does. She talks about having to get close to someone when she’s doing their hair, makeup.(AP)

She says her relationship with MJ grew over the 27 years she worked with him to a brother and sister relationship. (ABC7) Faye and Jackson became "very close" starting in the early 1980s, she said. "It was almost like a brother and sister relationship. If I was having trouble, I could call him and he could call me. You talk, you share, you become very close, and imagine that over 27 years."(CNN)

Faye spent about 90 minutes testifying about her close relationship with Jackson, who hosted her wedding at his Neverland Ranch and enlisted her to travel around the world with him. She breezily described Jackson's meetings with Princess Diana and other dignitaries, his Super Bowl performance, and other larger-than-life moments from the singer's life. Jurors and spectators laughed at times as a parade of photos and videos shot during Jackson's performances were played. "I was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was just very normal," she told jurors. "I found myself working with this magical person." She said Jackson was like a brother to her. Even after she gave birth to her daughter, Jackson enlisted her for another tour."I said, 'I can't go all around the world with you. I'm a mother now,'" Faye recalled."Michael never took no for an answer. 'Yes you can, it'll be great for her,'" she recalled him saying. (AP)



KF sprach ungefähr 90 Min. lang über ihre enge Beziehung zu MJ, der ihre Hochzeit auf der Neverlandranch ausrichtete und sie anwarb, um mit ihm um die Welt zu reisen. Sie berichtet über Michaels Treffen mit Lady Diana u. anderen Berühmtheiten, seinem Super Bowl Auftritt, und anderen legendären Momenten aus dem Leben des Sängers.
Juroren und Zuschauer lachten einige Male als Fotos u. Videoaufnahmen von Michaels Auftritten gezeigt wurden.
"Ich war von Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ich war ganz normal, " erzählte sie den Juroren. " Und ich arbeitete mit dieser wunderbaren Person." Sie sagte MJ war wie ein Bruder für sie. Sogar nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter verpflichtete Jackson sie für eine weitere Tour. "Ich kann nicht mit dir um die Welt ziehen. Ich bin jetzt eine Mutter" erinnerte sie sich. "Michael akzeptiere niemals ein NEIN als Antwort. Doch, du kannst, sagte er, es wird toll für sie sein."


She’s asked about the 1984 Pepsi commercial shoot accident. She says she worked with Jackson after that to mask his injuries.(AP)

Jackson’s scalp was badly burned, she tells jury. “I had to figure out, along with him, how to hide his injury,” (AP)

Faye, a Pittsburgh native, tells jury she traveled the world with Michael Jackson. “I found myself working with this magical person.” (AP)

Panish asks Faye to describe Jackson: “He was a gentleman. He was elegant. He was brilliant.” _ she says as she starts to break down. (AP) After a couple more questions, Faye starts to cry. She gets emotional describing Jackson’s creativity and relationship with his fans. (AP)

The jury is shown a photo of Jackson doing Faye’s makeup, brush touching her face. Panish asks her how Jackson did. “I didn’t like it at the time, but now that I look at it, I look pretty good.” _ Faye says of Jackson's makeup job.Lots of laughter. (AP)

Panish next shows Faye and jury photos of just Jackson where she did his hair and makeup. One of images is an Annie Leibovitz shot for Vanity Fair. “Who’s Annie Leibovitz?” Panish asks. “Really?” Faye responds. There’s laughter. Panish in a continuation of his self-deprecating questioning of Faye, responds to her Leibovitz quip, “Hey, I don’t get out that much.” (AP)

One picture shows MJ with tape on his fingers...Karen explains that it was a trick to get the audience to follow his hands. She says she knew he couldn't wear the glove forever. (ABC7)

Lots of photos are shown, including a smoky image of Jackson standing on tippy-toes. Debate ensues over what brand the shoes are. Panish asks if they’re Air Jordans. No, Faye responds. Judge names another brand. Nope, Faye says. Faye says fans in the courtroom would know the brand of shoes. Before Panish can stop them, two or three voices call out, “LA Gear!” (AP)

Es wurden viele Fotos gezeigt, darunter auch jenes wo Michael im Nebel auf seinen Schuhspitzen steht. Es entstand eine Debatte welche Marke die Schuhe waren. Panish fragte sie, ob es AIR JORDANs seien. Nein, antworte sie. Der Richter nannte eine andere Marke. Nein, sagte Faye. Sie meinte die Fans im Gerichtssaal würden es sicher wissen. Und noch bevor Panish diese stoppen konnte, riefen 2 oder 3 "LA GEAR".



Jurors viewed a series of photos of Faye and Jackson together through the years, including one taken in January 1996, the day after Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Jackson.
Jackson was upset because just before filing, Presley called him and begged him not to file for divorce, she said."She begged and begged, saying please don't file," Faye said. Jackson promised not to file, only to see "the next morning it was all over the press that she filed before him." The photo of Jackson out with Faye "was to give the press something to talk about" with Faye being "the mysterious blonde." (CNN) "Lisa Marie Presley was calling Michael the day before (the photo) was shot, begging him not to divorce," she testified. "So he promised her he wouldn't file for divorce. But the next morning, it was all over the press she had gone ahead and filed. He was devastated." (NYDailyNews)


Die Juroren bekamen eine Serie von Bildern zu sehen, auf den KF u. MJ zusammen zu sehen waren. Eines war vom Jan. 1996, einen Tag nach dem LMP die Scheidung einreicchte. Jackson war ungehalten, denn direkt vor der Einreichung rief ihn LMP an und bat ihn sich nicht scheiden zu lassen. "Sie bettelte und bettelte, bitte tu es nicht," sagte Faye.
Jackson versprach es ihr, nur um dann sehen zu müssen, dass am nächsten Morgen die ganze Presse mit der Nachricht über die Trennung voll war. LMP hatte vor ihm die Scheidung eingereicht."
Das Foto von MJ u. ihr wurde an die Presse gegeben, damit diese was zu berichten hatten, über MJ und die mysteriöse Blonde.

Panish moves to videos of Jackson performances. He starts off with a performance of “Man in the Mirror” in Bucharest from “Dangerous” tour. In the video, fans are screaming, some being carted out on stretchers. Panish asks Faye if this is common for a Jackson concert.
Faye: “You obviously have not seen a Michael Jackson concert in your life.”
Panish: “I’m not answering that. I get to ask the questions.” (AP)



Part of Jackson's 1993 Super Bowl halftime show was viewed, including his rendition of "We Are the World" and "Earth Song." "It was a very big deal, sir," Faye said. "I think it started the trend of having a big artist at the Super Bowl."(CNN)

They viewed several minutes of Jackson's "Thriller," which Faye pointed out was a short film, not just a music video. A clip from a Jackson concert in Bucharest, Romania, showed jurors how fanatical his fans were, dozens of them fainting as he sang "Man In the Mirror."
When his 1995 MTV awards performance was shown, Faye noted, "He can moonwalk in a circle."Jackson's stamina during a show was remarkable, she said. "Some dancers would pass out, but Michael would be fine. He was able to do it."(CNN)

Faye tells jury she was responsible for keeping Jackson hydrated during shows. She says she’s never seen another performer like MJ. “Michael would do five songs to the dancers’ one. I never saw anything like it.” _ Faye says of Jackson’s performances. (AP)

A vintage video of Michael Jackson’s hair catching on fire during the third take of a 1983 Pepsi commercial was played for jurors as a Karen Faye testified about the devastating migraine headaches the pop singer endured because of the injuries.

“I never saw anything like that in my life," Karen Faye testified. "This was someone I knew and he was on fire." (LATimes)

She says when MJ was burned shooting the Pepsi commercial he did not know it and just kept singing. His friend Miko had to tackle him. He suffered migraines after that injury. He had several surgeries to try to repair the damage to his scalp. (ABC7)

“He was dancing. He didn’t know he was on fire,” Jackson’s trusted makeup artist Karen Faye testified, describing the footage. “His hair was gone.There was smoke coming off his head.” (NYPost)

Faye recalled that when Jackson's hair caught on fire, he continued dancing down the stairs, having no idea he was burning. Finally, a friend of his ran onto the stage and wrestled him to the ground to put it out."All his hair was gone and there was smoke coming out of his head." Jackson, she said, suffered intense migraines while the burns were healing, Faye said. (LATimes)


"His hair caught fire, but he kept dancing," she said, as jurors watched the infamous video of pyrotechnics igniting Jackson's head as he danced down stairs on a stage. "I was screaming and Miko (Brando) got through somehow and had to wrestle him to the ground, because he had no idea he was on fire. Miko put the fire out with his hand."The fire burned off a section of hair, which doctors tried to repair with surgery to stretch his scalp, she said. Jackson suffered migraine headaches after that, she said. (CNN)

"Seine Haare standen in Flammen, aber er tanze weiter," sagte sie, als man den Juroren das PEPSI-Video zeigte. "Ich schrie und Miko Brando kam angerannt u. warf ihn zu Boden, denn er hatte keine Ahnung, dass er brannte. Miko löschte die Flammen mit seinen Händen." Ein Teil seiner Kopfhaut verbrannte, welche die Ärzte mit Operationen versuchten wieder herzustellen, in dem sie die Haut streckten. Er litt danach unter Migräne, sagte sie.


Instead of suing Pepsi, she said, Jackson asked Pepsi to build a burn center at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City where the singer was treated. "Everybody thought he'd sue Pepsi because it was a mistake," the makeup artist said.(LATimes)

Jackson attorney Panish played a video of MJ falling several stories during a concert in Munich. Faye said Jackson fell three or four stories when a prop he was standing on collapsed. “When I saw what happen, I thought he could be dead,” Faye said.But Jackson, she said, pulled himself up and continued performing. "I can't disappoint the audience," she said he later told her. When he finished, he collapsed and security took him to the hospital, she said. (LATimes)

Later, a bridge suspended above a stage collapsed as Jackson danced on top of it during a show in Munich, Germany, she said."When I saw what happened, I thought he could be dead," Faye testified. But Jackson held onto his microphone, stood up and finished the song. "He said 'I can't disappoint the audience,'" she said. So he finished the show finale but collapsed in the dressing room when it was over, she said. "He suffered back pain from that moment on," she said.(CNN)

The fall, she said, left Jackson with back pain that flared when he was under physical or emotional stress. (LAtimes)

She said MJ had so much adrenalin while performing 2 hours that it took him a day or two to calm down and rest. On the early concert tours there was enough time between concerts for him to get rest but later tours got longer and show got closer (ABC7)

Jackson "was so buzzed by his own adrenaline after a show" it would "take him 24 hours to relax his body and, sometimes it would take two days to be able to sleep," said Faye.
"As the tour went on, shows got closer and closer, and he would have trouble sleeping," she said. "It would start out OK, but it would get worse and worse. He tried to find ways to deal with it."Dealing with it involved a series of doctors, she said.
"Michael always believed that a doctor had his best interest at heart," Faye said. "He believed if he got something through a doctor that it was safe and OK for him to use it."(CNN)

She says Jackson trusted the advice of doctors to help him sleep and deal with pain from injuries and performances. (AP)

KF sagte, Jackson vertraute den Empfehlungen der Ärzte, die ihm helfen sollten schlafen zu können u. mit den Schmerzen umzugehen.

He was doing a short film for the Adams Family - and suffering pain because of scalp surgery. Debbie Rowe would come with pain meds. (ABC7)


Während des Drehes eines Kurzfilmes für die "Adams Family" hatte er schlimme Schmerzen weg. der Kophaut-OPs. Debbie Rowe sei mit Schmerzmitteln kommen.


Faye says during the "Dangerous" tour, promoters asked that she give Jackson injections of pain medications, but she refused. She says a tour manager who later became a top AEG executive then enlisted a doctor to treat Jackson.(ABC7)

That Pepsi burn touched off Jackson’s reliance on painkillers -- though Faye said she really didn’t grasp it until his “Dangerous” tour in 1992-93. Faye said there were always two doctors around Jackson on that tour, willing and able to give him as many painkillers as necessary.(NYPost)

“I came to learn there was a balance of medication,” Faye said. “They [medication] had to be strong enough to overcome Michael’s pain but not so strong that he couldn’t perform.” (NYPost)

On one concert tour, Rowe asked Karen to carry pain medication and learn to give an injection. Karen said no. (ABC7) "Debbie Rowe asked me to learn how to give injections," she said. "I thought about it and said 'No.' I am not qualified to handle any kind of medications."(CNN)

Despite being asked by tour promoters, Faye said she refused to give the performer injections for pain. She said Paul Gongaware, a promoter who later became a top executive with AEG Live LLC, then brought in doctors who treated Jackson in 1993 on his "Dangerous" tour, which she told jurors had to be halted early due to the singer's prescription drug addiction.(AP)

A Doctor was added to the tour in Bangkok. He met Karen in the lobby of the hotel with the medication she refused to carry. The package had vials and syringes. The Doctor told her she might not have gotten into the country with the package. (ABC7)

When the tour was on its way to Bangkok, Thailand, Faye was asked to carry a package she was told contained medicine patches for Jackson's pain, she testified. She refused to travel with it, she said.Faye testified that the tour doctor -- Dr. Stuart Finkelstein -- later told her "I'm glad you weren't carrying it. It has vials and syringes. If you had brought this in, you might not be here." The implication was she could have been arrested for smuggling drugs. Gongaware, now the Co-CEO of AEG Live, was in charge of logistics for the "Dangerous" tour and was involved in the incident, Faye said. (CNN)

In Singapore she saw MJ stumbling and fell into a tree in his dressing room. She was afraid for him and told the Doctor. She told the doctor he couldn't go on in that condition but the Doctor said he could go on. She was afraid for his life. (ABC7)

Karen Faye testified that before a concert in Bangkok, Michael Jackson was having a hard time walking, seemed to be in a daze and stumbled over a potted tree in his dressing room before finally being led on stage to perform. (LAtimes)

Faye testified that while backstage in Bangkok, she turned to someone she knew as “Dr. Forecast” and urged him not to let the wobbly Jackson take the stage.

"I put my arms around Michael and said, `You can't take him.' "

“Forecast replied, 'Yes I can,' " she testified.

The makeup artist testified the man, who she said was “an insurance doctor,” backed her up against a wall and put his hands on her neck, choking her until she couldn't breathe.

"He said, `You don't know what you're up against,' " Faye testified.

The doctor, whose full name was not mentioned, took Jackson on stage to perform, she said. (LATimes)

Later in the tour in Singapore, Jackson stumbled into his dressing room before a show, she said. "He was having a very hard time walking," she said. "He was glazed over. He fell over a tree."
She told the tour doctor -- whom she identified as Dr. David Forecast -- that "Michael can't go on."
His show opened with him being thrust onto the stage by a "toaster," which requires him to "curl up and be shot up" from a small enclosure under the stage, she said.
"His arm could be severed," Faye said. "I feared for his safety, I feared for his life. I told Dr. Forecast 'You can't make him go out. You can't take him.' And he said 'Yes, I can.'"
The doctor "backed me up against the wall and put his hands around my neck and said 'You don't know what your doing,'" she testified. "I nearly fainted, and he grabbed Michael and took him to the stage." (CNN)

She said Dr. Forecast marched a disoriented Jackson to the stage, but the concert was cancelled nonetheless. (NYDailyNews)

Faye said she never witnessed the singer's treatments, but he appeared to become more dependent on prescription drugs in the years following the "Dangerous" tour. she said she worried every time she saw a doctor arrive to treat Jackson."I was always worried that Michael was in pain," Faye said under questioning by Brian Panish, an attorney for Jackson's mother. She said Jackson had a low pain tolerance except while performing.(AP)


KF sagte, dass sie niemals während MJs Behandlungen persönlich anwesend war, aber es schien, als ob er in den folgenden Jahren nach der Dangerous-Tour , immer mehr von verschreibungspflichtigen Medikamenten abhängig wurde. Sie sagte, sie sorgte sich jedesmal, wenn sie einen Arzt kommen sah, der Michael behandelte. "Ich hatte immer Angst, Michael litt unter Schmerzen". Michael habe eine niedrige Schmerztoleranzgrenze gehabt, ausgenommen während seiner Auftritte.

MJ on tour when the first allegations of Child Molestation hit the papers. MJ under a lot of stress. The world thinks he is a pedophile. That tour ended when Elizabeth Taylor came to Mexico to accompany MJ to a rehab facility. (ABC7) The tour, though, would soon come to an end in Mexico City, when Elizabeth Taylor flew down to take the singer to a rehab facility outside London, she said."Everyone knew Michael had a problem," Faye said. (LATimes) The tour ended early when it reached Mexico City "because everybody knew Michael had a problem," she said. Elizabeth Taylor came down to Mexico to get Jackson, and "we all went home."Faye later flew to England to join Michael at a rehab facility, which she described as a beautiful country home.(CNN)

Witness Karen Faye also recalled how Jackson's reliance on medications coincided with the first time he was accused of child molestation in the early 1990s."Michael had to go on stage every night knowing that the whole world thought he was a pedophile," Faye said, shaking her head and crying. (AP)

Faye also recalled an odd incident before Jackson performed at Madison Square Garden in fall, 2001.When she went to his hotel room to make up his face before a show, Faye testified that a doctor stopped her and said: “I just gave Michael a shot, he’s going to be asleep for the next five or six hours.” “I said that can’t be, he’s set to perform,” Kaye said she responded.She eventually got into Jackson’s room, woke him up and fed MJ bagels to keep him awake and ready to perform, that makeup artist testified.(NYPost)

The media put Michael Jackson "on display" during his molestation trial, Faye said, wiping tears. During that trial, MJ would wake, play classical music, watch 3 Stooges-anything that made him happy- before heading to court. Michael Jackson took care with his hair and dress but couldn't eat during the trial and lost weight, Karen Faye said. (LATimes) Faye cried as she described dressing him and washing his hair. They would get on their knees and pray, then hug each other and cry. They would play classical music and watch "Three Stooges" videos.While Jackson tried to be brave, “he couldn’t eat. He was afraid," she testified. "The pain got worse. He got thinner. " (LAtimes)

She was with him during the trial. She would do his hair and makeup for the "red carpet" at the courthouse. He wouldn't eat or drink during the trial for fear he had to go to the bathroom one of the guards would have to escort him. He was too shy. (ABC7)
Faye also described working with Michael during the 2005 molestation trial that ended with his aquittal. She would go to Neverland Ranch each morning before daybreak to help him wash and dress, she said.
"I wanted people to think he still looked good and was still strong," she testified. "I'd wash his hair in the shampoo bowl (and) blow it dry. We'd play classical music and watch 'The Three Stooges.'"
She said it was a particularly difficult time for the superstar.
"He was losing weight," she said. "He couldn't eat because he didn't want to throw up because he had to watch all these people he loved and cared about tell all those lies."
He also refused to drink in the mornings because he hated using the courtroom bathroom, she said.
He eventually got so frail that one morning he fell and had to go to the hospital, she said. That event led to the infamous "pajama" incident, in which Jackson arrived at court in his nightclothes because a judge threatened to send him to jail if he didn't appear immediately.
"There was no time (to change him)," she said, crying and dabbing tears with a tissue. "He went into court without his hair done in his pajamas." (NYDailyNEws)

Jackson's condition worsened during the singer's 2005 trial on child molestation charges, Faye said. Although he was acquitted, the pressure of the case and media attention took its toll, she told jurors."He couldn't eat," she said. "He was afraid. He was in pain. He got thinner. His physical pain, his back pain, it all kicked in." (AP)

Karen Faye said MJ asked her to be on the "This is It" tour and she said yes. (ABC7) Jackson attorney Panish asks who Faye negotiated with. She says AEG executive Paul Gongaware negotiated her rate to work on tour.(AP) Gongaware signed Karen Faye’s contract, which was finalized in May 2009. She was with Jackson a lot during "This Is It" preparations. (AP)

Faye, said she was concerned when she first saw the schedule for Jackson's 50 "This Is It" shows at London's O2 arena. "On looking at that, I said, 'He can't do this,'" Faye testified. "The shows are far too close together. I knew what he needed between shows. I thought he might last a week." When she raised the matter with show director Kenny Ortega, "he kind of fluffed it off," she said. "Michael's adrenaline and what it takes for him to perform with that much effort and what he himself puts into a show, he needed a lot more time to at least get some rest and sleep, and to be healthy and maintain that kind of longevity," she said. (CNN)

Panish asked Faye whether Jackson ever expressed concerns about the “This Is It” production. She says yes, but AEG objects. The attorneys went into a lengthy sidebar on whether Faye can tell jury what Jackson’s concerns were. AEG argued it’s hearsay. Katherine Jackson's attorneys had to tell Faye not to automatically say what other people told her, especially if AEG objected. (AP)

Faye testified that MJ wanted to do the Tour for his children. they had never seen him perform. He also wanted to do it for his fans. (ABC7)

Faye bestätigte, dass MJ die Tour für seine Kinder, die ihn niemals auf der Bühne sahen, und auch für seine Fans machen wollte.


Jackson appeared "very, very excited" in early production meetings, but "the first time he actually got up on stage and rehearsed, I saw the change in him.""The turning point was when he had to get up on stage and actually start performing," she said. (CNN)

She said the first time MJ went on stage to perform at the This is It rehearsals, she saw a change in him. (ABC7)

She said MJ's skin was very dry, his eyes were dry, he was losing weight, and he kept repeating himself. (ABC7)

She testified that MJ was showing signs of paranoia. That MJ had to see her when he was on stage always. He would repeat over and over (ABC7)

She had concerns about MJ and expressed those concerns to Kenny Ortega. (ABC7)

Jackson tried to avoid rehearsing for "This Is It," Faye testifies"They had to make him rehearse," she says. Eventually, "they had to make him rehearse," she said. "They're insisting to the point of going to his home." (CNN)

She said Director Kenny Ortega and AEG CEO Randy Phillips insisted MJ rehearse.She overheard Paul Gongaware from AEG yell into the phone to MJ security to get MJ out of the bathroom.(ABC7)

AEG executives continued to push Jackson, Faye said. She testified she overheard a phone conversation in which AEG executive Paul Gongaware told Jackson's assistant to get him out of a locked bathroom and to a rehearsal. Faye described Gongaware, AEG Live's co-CEO, as "angry and kind of desperate" in the conversation. She testified Gongaware told the assistant to do "whatever it takes."Faye said the only people she saw insist that Jackson rehearse were Gongaware and tour director Kenny Ortega. (AP).

At one point, Jackson locked himself in a bathroom at his home, refusing to leave for rehearsals at the Forum. AEG Live Co-CEO Paul Gongaware, who was in charge of the production, was "angry and kind of desperate to get Michael to the Forum," she said.
She overheard a phone call in which Gongaware was telling Jackson's security guard "to get him out of the bathroom. Do you have a key, do whatever it takes," she said Gongaware screamed. (CNN)

After a meeting between MJ, Ortega, and Phillips, Faye was told not to follow MJ's instructions anymore. She should show tough love. (ABC7) She said that after Jackson missed several rehearsals, Phillips told her to ignore the singer's instructions. (AP)

She became more concerned for MJ's health in the last few days. She forwarded several emails to producers and included her own concerns. Faye said Randy Phillips told her that he had read her emails and tried to do everything he could for MJ. That was at the funeral. (ABC7) Faye testified that Phillips told her at Jackson's funeral that "he tried to do everything he could."Did she believe him, Jackson lawyer Brian Panish asked.
"Sir, Michael Jackson is lying in a casket only a few feet away from me," she said. "I had no words to respond. That's not everything you can do." (CNN)


In den letzten Tagen wurde sie immer besorgter wg. seiner Gesundheit. Sie leitete mehrere Emails an die Produzenten weiter u. fügte ihre eigenen Bedenken hinzu. RP sagte ihr, dass er ihre mails gelesen habe u. dass er versuchen würde, alles für Michael zu tun.
Faye bestätigte, dass RP ihr an der Beerdigung erzählte " er habe alles versucht, was möglich war." Ob sie ihm geglaubt habe, fragte Panish. "Sir, MJ liegt in einem Sarg nur einige Meter vor mir" sagte sie. " Ich hatte keine Worte ihm zu antworten. Das ist nicht alles was sie tun können."

Faye said she informed Ortega, Jackson's manager and AEG Live co-CEO Randy Phillips about her concerns about Jackson's health during the preparations for the shows. She said Jackson was frustrated and after a costume fitting days before his death repeatedly asked her, "Why can't I choose?" (AP)

Faye, choking back tears, read portions of an email from one of Jackson's fans that she forwarded to his now deceased manager, Frank Dileo. It described the singer as a skeleton."If we do nothing, he will die," the fan wrote. "I know people who work for him cannot tell him anything. I know his own family tried to help him but he won't listen."Faye said she wrote Dileo that she agreed with the assessment, but the manager never responded in writing. By this point, Jackson was often cold to the touch and was becoming increasingly paranoid. Faye said he became obsessed with her being within sight when he was rehearsing onstage. (AP)

Michael Jackson appeared paranoid, repeating himself and shivering from chills in his final days, Karen Faye testified. "This was not the man I knew," Karen Faye testified. "He was acting like a person I didn't recognize." (CNN)


In seinen letzten Tage erschien ihr MJ paranoid, wiederholte sich ständig selbst u. litt unter Schüttelfrost. "Dies ist nicht der Mann, den ich kenne, er benahm sich wie eine mir unbekannte Person."

At a rehearsal in mid-June, Jackson was talking to himself, she said. "When I was around, he was repeating himself an awful lot, saying the same thing over and over again." (CNN)

Faye, who had to touch Jackson when she put on his makeup, said it was "like I was touching ice." At one rehearsal, she covered him with blankets and put a space heater next to him, she said. (CNN)

Faye said she raised her concerns once in June with AEG CEO Randy Phillips. He told her, "Yeah, this is bad. It's not so good. I had to scrape Michael off the floor in London at the announcement because he was so drunk," she said.(CNN)


Faye sagte, sie teilte ihre Bedenken irgendwann im Juni mit Randy Phillips. Er erzählte ihr, " Ja, das ist schlimm. Nicht sehr gut. Ich mußte Michael in London bei der Pressekonferenz vom Boden abkratzen, weil er so betrunken war."

http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/threads/129265-Katherine-Jackson-vs-AEG-Live-Daily-Trial-Testimony-Summary?p=3820796&viewfull=1#post3820796

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Faye did the makeup when MJ made the announcement that he was going to rehab. She said sh put false eyelashes on him for the video.
Faye machte das Makeup als MJ die Ankündigung machte, dass er in Reha ging. Sie sagte sie machte ihm falsche Wimpern für das Video.
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When Faye went back to work for MJ after the HIStory tour he made Debbie apologize to Faye for having a role in getting her fired.
Als Faye wieder mit MJ arbeitete nach der History Tour sorgte er dafür, dass Debbie sich entschuldigte eine Rolle bei ihrer Entlassung gehabt zu haben
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Faye said Rowe was jealous of their closeness.
Faye sagt Rowe war eifersüchtig über ihre Nähe (mit MJ)
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She said Debbie Rowe who was then MJ's wife had a role in her being removed from the tour. Debbie was pregnant and very in love with MJ
Sie sagt Debbie Rowe, die MJ`s erste Frau war hatte eine Rolle in ihrer Entfernung von der Tour. Debbie war schwanger und sehr in Liebe mit MJ
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Under Cross Examination Faye said he was released not fired from the HIStory Tour after the first leg.
Unter Cross Examinatiion sagt Faye sie wurde freigestellt, nicht gefeuert bei der History Tour nach dem 1. Leg

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She was asked to work on the "[lexicon]This is it[/lexicon]" film touching up MJ in the footage. She refused. She thought that would be a lii and couldn't
Sie wurde gefragt bei der Aufbereitung vom "TII-Film" zu helfen. Sie lehnte ab. Sie dachte es würde eine Lüge und sein konnte nicht.
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Faye said she prepared MJ's body for the family to see him after he died.
Faye sagt sie bereitete MJ`s Körper für die Famile vor, um ihn zu sehen nachdem er starb
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It was Kenny Ortega who came to her, hugged her and told her MJ had died. She said she became weak in the knees
Es war K. Ortega, der zu ihr kam, sie umarmte und ihr sagte, dass MJ gestorben ist. Sie sagt sie bekam schwache Knie.
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Mrs. Jackson is not at the trial today. Makeup artist Karen Faye is back on the stand for continued direct questioning
Mrs. Jackson ist nicht beim Prozess heute. Makeup artist K. Faye ist zurück, Direktbefragung geht weiter

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he trial resumes Monday at 10a. Associate Prducer Tracy Walker will take the stand.
Prozess geht weiter am Montag. Tracy Walker wird im Zeugenstand sein
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She testified that she believed the family was not successful getting MJ into a rehab facility despite trying.
Sie sagt sie glaubt, dass die Famile nicht erfolgreich war ihn in eine Reha zu bringen obwohl sie es versuchten
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Faye could not remember when she discussed her fear of MJ's drug use with his sister Rebbie. Rebbie approached her for information
Faye konnte sich nicht erinnern wenn sie ihre Angst wegen MJ`s Drogengebrauch mit seiner Schwester besprach. Rebbie erfrage nach Information.
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She also consulted with a doctor about Botox for MJ for sweating. He wore a hairpiece and she was concerned with sweat.
Sie hat zudem einen Arzt wegen Botox kontaktiert für das Schwitzen. Er trug ein Haarteil und sie war wegen des Schwitzens besorgt.
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Faye said she had two prescriptions in her name for MJ - Propecia (grow hair) and Latisse (grow eyelashes) for the [lexicon]This is it[/lexicon] tour.
Faye sagt sie hatte 2 Rezepte im Namen von MJ- Propecia (Haarwachstum) und Latiesse ( Wimpernwachstum) für die TII Tour
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Hier nochmal eine Zusammenfassung von KF

http://www.mjworld.net/news/2013/05/09/karen-faye-testimony/

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http://bhcourier.com/michael-jackson...ler/2013/05/10

Ein paar weitere Aussagen aus dem Kreuzverhör von Faye gehen aus diesem Artikel hervor. Kreuzverhör mit Faye wird wahrscheinl. am Dienstag fortgesetzt. Payne und Walker werden am Montag vorgezogen, da sie Termine in Tokio haben.


She said she also had more abbreviated discussions about the same topic with another two of the singer’s other siblings, LaToya Jackson and Randy Jackson.
Sie sagte auch sie hatte kurze Diskussionen über das Thema mit 2 anderen Geschwistern Latoya und Randy Jackson (Anm. vorab im Artikel steht sie erwähnt Gespräche darüber mit Rebbie, an die Zeit kann sie sich nicht erinnern)

Faye said that in later years Jackson’s family members unsuccessfully tried to get him to return to rehab.

“I never knew them to be successful, sir,” Faye told Putnam. “I’m sure they were trying to help him in any way the could"
"Ich weiß sie waren niemals erfolgreich Sir, sagte Faye zu Putman. "Ich bin sicher sie versuchten zu helfen in jeder Weise sie konnten"


Faye said she did not discuss Jackson’s drug problem with him personally.
Faye sagt sie hat niemals Jackson`s Medikamentenproblem mit ihm persönlich besprochen

“I just avoided that issue like the plague, sir, the molestation and the drug areas,” she told Putnam today.
"Ich habe das Thema wie die Pest vermieden, Sir, die Missbrauchsvorwürfe und den Medikamentenbereich," sagte sie Putman heute

Asked by Putnam if Jackson ever sought drugs from her, Faye replied affirmatively.
Gefragt von Putman ob Jackson jemals Medikamente von ihr gefragt hat, sagte Faye

“He asked me one time if I had pain killers,” Faye said. “I said no, I didn’t.”
"Er hat mich einmal gefragt ob ich ein Schmerzmittel habe", sagte Faye, "Ich sagte nein, habe ich nicht."

Faye said she also became concerned during Jackson’s 2005 trial and acquittal on molestation charges that he was using drugs again, saying she based her assumptions on his appearance and his demeanor. She said she got up early every morning to get Jackson ready for court.
Faye sagt auch sie wurde besorgt während des 2005 er Prozess bei dem er von den Missbrauchsvorwürfen freigesprochen wurde, dass er wieder Medikamente gebraucht, sie sagt sie nimmt ihre Annahme von seinem Benehmen. Sie sagt sie kam am frühen Morgen um Jackson für das Gericht fertig zu machen.

[Lena]

Update zu Anträgen der Parteien:

May 11 Update

Michael Bush Deposition

Michael Bush is one of the witnesses that is late added by Jacksons. AEG wants to depose Michael Bush before he testifies. IT's not clear if Jacksons actually plan to call him to stand.
Michael Bush ist einer der letzten aufgelisteten Zeugen der Jacksons. AEG möcht ihn vernehmen bevor er aussagt. Derzeit nicht klar ob Jacksons ihn planen aufzurufen.


Conrad-Murray-Polizei-IV:
AEG und die Jacksons haben Unstimmigkeiten zur Nutzung von Murrays Polizeinterview (aus dem Strafprozess) in diesen Prozess. AEG will das IV einbringen um Murrays Geisteszustand/Verfassung zu zeigen und das er sagte für Michael zu arbeiten. AEG sagt Murrays Glaube, dass er für Michael arbeitete widerlegt die Behautpung der Jacksons, dass er unter Druck von AEG stand. Die Jacksons bezeichnen das IV als ausschließbares Hörensagen und die Jury solle entscheiden ob Murray von AEG oder Michael eingestellt wurde.
AEG sagt die Jacksons nutzen Ausschnitte des Interviews (Aussagen von seiner Behandlung von Michael), so wäre es unfair, wenn sie es nicht nutzen dürfen. AEG sagt, sie wollen das IV nicht als Wahrheit oder Beweis einbringen, wer Murray anstellte. Es soll ein Beweismittel für Murray`s Geisteszustand/Verfassung sein.

Conrad Murray police interview

Jacksons and AEG is arguing over Murray's interview with the police on June 27 2009. (This is the interview that was shown during the criminal trial).

AEG wants to use the interview to show that Murray said Michael asked him to be on his team, and Murray believed that he was the employee of Michael Jackson. AEG says this will show Murray's state of mind. AEG says Murray's state of mind can show that AEG and Murray never entered into a contract and it rebuts that Murray had conflict of interest or divided loyalties.

AEG points out that Jackson experts use other parts of the interview (that Murray gave Michael propofol for 6 weeks, Murray talked with AEG people at the hospital and how Detective Martinez learned 3 bags of Propofol from Murray and so on) but oppose AEG using this part of the interview. AEG calls it unfair.


AEG states statements that show state of mind, emotion, physical sensation, intent, plan, motive is admissible when they are used to show the person's state of mind and and explore or prove act of conduct of that person.

Jacksons respond to this calling Murray's interview inadmissible hearsay. Jacksons also argue that Murray's belief that he was MJ's employee is irrelevant and whether Murray was employed or independent contractor of Michael or AEG needs to be determined on the basis of several objective factors. Jacksons also ask Murray's statement about employment to be excluded because it can mislead the jury. Overall Jacksons argue that it's the jury that should determine whether Murray was hired by AEG or Michael.

AEG responds pointing out Jacksons arguing Murray's state of mind being irrelevant is outrageous. AEG argues that Murray's statements aren't hearsay because they won't be offered as truth , they will be just offered as evidence.

AEG states that they don't plan to use the statements to argue or prove that Murray was Michael's employee. They say that the statement shows that Murray did not consider himself to be contractually bound to AEG Live. Similarly AEG argues Murray's subjective belief as who he was actually working for is relevant to determine whether in fact Murray could have felt the pressure claimed by Jacksons. AEG argues Murray could not have felt pressure from a conflict he did not know existed. AEG states Murray's statement shows Murray did not believe he was in the service of AEG Live at the time he treated Michael, is admissible to show his state of mind.

(Note: These last set of documents also again reference that "Murray was at most an independent contractor is the law of the case")
Anmerkung: Der letzte Satz der Dokumente ist wieder gekennzeichnet mit "Murray war im höchsten Fall unabhäniger Unternehmer ist das Gesetz des Falles"

Quelle: Ivy, MJJC

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Jacksons vs AEG - Day 9 - May 10 2013- Summary

Katherine Jackson is not at court.

Karen Faye Testimony



Jackson direct

Faye described how Jackson's health had changed over 27 years. She said that his legs, once muscular, were thin, and his face was skeletal. She said that Jackson was not strong enough for the rigorous concert schedule set by AEG. (KABC)

Michael Bush appeared upset after he finished up a June 2009 fitting inside Jackson’s bathroom at Staples Center, Karen Faye said.

“He said 'Oh my god, Turkle. I could see Michael’s heartbeat through the skin in his chest,'” Faye recounted.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos then asked Faye about Bush's tone of voice at the time.

“It was like, 'Oh my god,'” Faye said. “He was pretty much in shock.”

Around the same time, Faye said she tried to warn Jackson’s manager, Frank DiLeo, about Jackson’s health.

“[Frank] was saying pretty much, 'I got it under control, don’t worry about it,'” Faye said.

“I said, ‘But he’s losing weight rapidly.’ … I said, ‘Why don’t you ask Michael Bush to verify taking in his pants and how much weight he’s actually losing?’”

Faye said DiLeo went to speak to Bush and she overheard the manager say, “Get him a bucket of chicken.”

“It was such a cold response,” Faye said. “I mean, it broke my heart.” (LATimes)

It was Kenny Ortega who came to her, hugged her and told her MJ had died. She said she became weak in the knees (ABC7).
Faye said she prepared MJ's body for the family to see him after he died. (ABC7)

She was asked to work on the "This is It" film touching up MJ in the footage. She refused. She thought that would be a lie and couldn't(ABC7)

Faye felt the MJ “did not have enough muscle mass to do a concert” as he was prepping for his “This Is It” comeback tour.She said Jackson realized he didn't look good in a video that was filmed to be used on giant screens during the concert series. At his request, she said, she assisted technicians retouching the singer’s image on the footage.(LAtimes)

But Karen Faye said that although she was asked, she did not help retouch the posthumous “This Is It” documentary.“Everybody was lying after he died, sir, that Michael was well,” Faye said to the Jacksons’ attorney, Brian Panish. “And everybody knew he wasn’t. I felt retouching Michael was just a part of that lie.” (LATimes)


AEG cross

Karen Faye said under cross- examination by defense attorney Marvin Putnam that Jackson went into a rehab program in England that was recommended by Elizabeth Taylor.

“I said I was afraid Michael could die,” Faye said in recalling different stages of the “Dangerous” tour. “Personally, there were times when he was OK and times when I was worried.”(CNS)

Under Cross Examination Faye said she was released not fired from the HIStory Tour after the first leg.(ABC7)

She said Debbie Rowe who was then MJ's wife had a role in her being removed from the tour. Debbie was pregnant and very in love with MJ. Faye said Rowe was jealous of their closeness. (ABC7)

Faye said she parted ways with Jackson during the HIStory World Tour due to problems with the tour manager as well as with Debbie Rowe, Jackson’s wife at the time.

“[Debbie] told me that she was jealous of me being there as Michael’s makeup artist,” Faye said. “She thought that Michael liked me better than her.”

After a few years, Faye said she returned to working with Jackson and that Rowe apologized.(LATimes)

When Faye went back to work for MJ after the HIStory tour he made Debbie apologize to Faye for having a role in getting her fired. (ABC7)

Faye did the makeup when MJ made the announcement that he was going to rehab. She said she put false eyelashes on him for the video.(ABC7).

Faye said she had two prescriptions in her name for MJ - Propecia (grow hair) and Latisse (grow eyelashes) for the This is It tour. She also consulted with a doctor about Botox for MJ for sweating. He wore a hairpiece and she was concerned with sweat. (ABC7) Faye said she did request prescriptions in her name for Latisse, which is used to lengthen eyelashes, and the hair-growth drug Propecia so that she could give them to Jackson. She also inquired about Botox as a way to remedy Jackson’s onstage sweat that often caused problems with his hair extensions, but said she ultimately did not get that drug. (LAtimes)

Faye said she expressed her drug abuse concerns about Jackson’s health with his oldest sister, Rebbie Jackson, after the woman reached out to her requesting information about the singer. Faye said she could not recall the time period when the conversation occurred.

She said she also had more abbreviated discussions about the same topic with another two of the singer’s other siblings, LaToya Jackson and Randy Jackson.

Faye said that in later years Jackson’s family members unsuccessfully tried to get him to return to rehab.

“I never knew them to be successful, sir,” Faye told Putnam. “I’m sure they were trying to help him in any way they could.”(CNS)

Faye could not remember when she discussed her fear of MJ's drug use with his sister Rebbie. Rebbie approached her for information(ABC7) She testified that she believed the family was not successful getting MJ into a rehab facility despite trying.(ABC7)

Faye said she sometimes spoke about Jackson’s addiction with his siblings, Rebbie, Randy and LaToya. It was her understanding, she said, that the family had attempted additional interventions with Jackson that were unsuccessful. (LAtimes)

During cross-examination by an AEG attorney, Faye clarified and said she had been torn about working on the documentary. “My initial feeling was that I didn’t want to lie, and the second, my other thing that was tugging at my heart, was that if this movie was going out, I wanted him to look good.” (LATimes)



Faye recounted multiple incidents that she says alarmed her about Jackson's use of painkillers from the time he was burned during the filming of a Pepsi commercial, to the stress of his criminal trial on molestation charges, to the day at rehearsal before he died.Yet under cross-examination, Faye said she never had a single conversation with Jackson about his drug use, and that there was a period of time after Jackson went through rehab in 1993 that he seemed to be fine. (KABC)

Karen Faye said she never saw Jackson use drugs and that there was only one instance when the singer asked her if she had painkillers.(LAtimes)

Karen Faye testified she never broached the subject of his addiction with him. Karen Faye said that during Jackson’s 2005 trial she would spend a lot of time with the performer, arriving at 3 a.m. to help him get ready, and felt it was not appropriate to confront him about his misuse of prescription drugs. (LATimes)

Faye said she did not discuss Jackson’s drug problem with him personally.

“I just avoided that issue like the plague, sir, the molestation and the drug areas,” she told Putnam today.

Asked by Putnam if Jackson ever sought drugs from her, Faye replied affirmatively.

“He asked me one time if I had pain killers,” Faye said. “I said no, I didn’t.” (CNS)

“I was a place of safety for him, and peace,” Faye said. “And I didn’t want to bring up the allegations in my time with him. I wanted that to be a really safe place.” (LAtimes)

Faye said she also became concerned during Jackson’s 2005 trial and acquittal on molestation charges that he was using drugs again, saying she based her assumptions on his appearance and his demeanor. She said she got up early every morning to get Jackson ready for court. She said he was hospitalized for part of the molestation trial because of the back pain that likely dated from the Munich accident. She said she decided again to avoid confronting Jackson about possible drug abuse.(CNS)

“It was my job and my duty as a friend to make that time … calm and peaceful,” Faye said. “I didn’t want to confront him with anything. No matter what he was doing, I could never blame him for that because of the pain.” (CNS)

Faye said it was her duty as Jackson’s longtime friend to keep him calm before he had to go to court.

“And no matter what he was doing, I could never blame him for that because of the pain,” Faye said, referring to the singer’s psychological pain over the charges as well as his physical pain from suffering injuries from a fire and a fall during a performance.(LATimes)

Putnam brought up Faye’s Twitter account and blog and asked her if she had posted unfavorable things about AEG, she stood firm. “I’ve stated the truth as far as my experience,” she said. (LAtimes)

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On Monday, AEG attorneys are expected to call their first witnesses, choreographers Stacy Walker and Travis Payne. Because the two must leave for a show in Tokyo, Judge Yvette Palazuelos has allowed the defense to call them early. Faye will return afterward. (LATimes)

Zusammenfassung von Ivy, MJJC #11