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qbee · May 8, 2013

Dancer says she gave warnings over Michael Jackson
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dancer who worked with Michael Jackson says she expressed concerns about the singer's health as he prepared for a series of planned comeback concerts.

Dancer and choreographer Alif Sankey told a jury hearing a lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother that the pop star appeared thin and unprepared for the rigors of the shows.

She testified that a month before Jackson's June 2009 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.

Sankey worked with Jackson beginning on his music video for 1987's "Smooth Criminal" and was an associate producer on the singer's planned comeback tour "This Is It."

She is testifying in a negligent hiring trial filed by Jackson's mother against concert promoter AEG Live LLC.

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bouee · May 8, 2013

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

bouee · May 8, 2013

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I stepped out of court after attorneys went into their second sidebar of the afternoon. Dancer Alif Sankey remains on the stand.
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Judge Ito might have been a bad omen for Jackson case's afternoon session. Jury was in the room for only 10 mins, then we got a sidebar.
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"Her purse was full of candy and pictures of her daddy," dancer Alif Sankey on meeting Paris Jackson in 2009. http:// http://yhoo.it/18ZFXU3
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Updated story on this morning's testimony in the Jackson vs AEG Live trial: http:// http://yhoo.it/18ZFXU3
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Special guest at this morning’s Jackson vs AEG Live case _ Judge Lance Ito. He popped in for a bit of the morning session.

qbee · May 8, 2013

Dancer says she gave warnings about Jackson health

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dancer and choreographer who worked with Michael Jackson throughout his career testified on Wednesday that she told the director of Jackson's ill-fated concert tour that she was worried about the singer's health, but her plea went unanswered.

Witness Alif Sankey told a jury deciding a lawsuit that the pop star appeared thin and unprepared in 2009 for the rigors of his planned comeback concerts known as "This Is It."

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.

Sankey showed jurors an email she wrote to tour director Kenny Ortega in early June 2009, urging him to try to improve Jackson's health and spirits. She said she never got a reply.

"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,"
Sankey wrote to Ortega, who she had worked closely with for a number of years.

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.

Sankey met Jackson while working on his 1987 video for "Smooth Criminal" and was an associate producer and planned to dance onstage during "This Is It."

She was testifying at the trial of a negligent hiring lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against concert promoter AEG Live LLC. Katherine Jackson claims AEG failed to properly investigate the doctor who was caring for her son and later administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to the singer in June 2009.

The promoter has denied wrongdoing and its attorneys have said the singer hid his addiction to propofol. Jackson's former physician, Conrad Murray, was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter. He is appealing the case.

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.

The dancer also described meeting Jackson's daughter, Paris, 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.

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ivy · May 9, 2013

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MJ told Kenny Ortega that "god was speaking to him," Sankey testified. #MJ civil trial
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“I said he needs to be put in the hospital now ... I kept saying, ‘Michael’s dying, he’s dying.’” Sankey testimony #MJ trial
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Michael Jackson complained his body was sore to "This Is It" choreographer, Sankey testified.
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Sankey testified Michael Jackson missed rehearsals and at one point showed up with holes on the bottom of his dance shoes.
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"It was magical to work with him ... It was like living a dream.” -Alif Sankey on dancing in #MJ's "Smooth Criminal" video
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Michael Jackson's 1987 "Smooth Criminal" video shown in court this morning. Fun to be reminded of his slick moves.
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“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.” #MJ
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Alif Sankey who worked on the "This Is It" tour will be today's witness in the Michael Jackson-AEG civil trial.

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Jackson believed God was talking to him, producer testifies

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By Corina Knoll and Jeff Gottlieb
May 8, 2013, 3:57 p.m.
Michael Jackson’s behavior and gaunt figure were so troublesome to a producer that she told the director of the “This Is It” concert series that she believed the singer was dying and should be immediately taken to a hospital.

Alif Sankey also testified Wednesday that the director for the concerts told her Jackson believed God was talking with him.

Sankey recalled that on her way home from rehearsal one night, she pulled her car over and called Kenny Ortega, who was directing what was to be Jackson’s comeback tour. It was only days before Jackson's first concert was to take place.

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“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?’ ”

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.”

Afterward, Sankey said that Ortega was worried about Jackson, who mentioned God was speaking to him. Both became emotional after discussing their concern for Jackson.

“[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.”

A few Jackson fans in the courtroom sniffled throughout Sankey’s testimony.

The civil suit was filed by Jackson’s family who allege that concert promoter AEG was responsible for hiring and controlling Dr. Conrad Murray, who administered the fatal dose of propofol to Jackson in 2009.

Sankey said after being copied on an email from an AEG executive about Murray that she had believed the doctor was paid by AEG.

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ivy · May 9, 2013

Jackson's weight, absences were of concern, producer testifies

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May 8, 2013, 1:17 p.m.
As his anticipated comeback tour approached, Michael Jackson appeared to have lost weight and had failed to show up for rehearsals, an associate producer of the “This Is It” concert series testified Wednesday.

Alif Sankey, who was under contract with AEG while preparing for the London concerts, said she wrote an email to the show’s director, Kenny Ortega, asking to help return Michael “back into a magical life.”

“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.

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Ortega, she said, was frustrated with Jackson's absences.

Sankey testified that Jackson failed to show up to rehearsals during the first week of June 2009 and that the show’s choreographer told her the singer complained of soreness.

Sankey also said that she noticed Jackson at one point had holes on the bottom of his dance shoes.

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The producer 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.

“He was excited to show his kids, finally, to show who he was and what he was all about,” Sankey said. “He was very happy and excited about all of that.”

The Jackson family claims that "This Is It" concert promoter AEG negligently hired and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, who gave the singer a fatal dose of propofol.

Sankey first met Jackson when she danced in the video for his 1987 hit “Smooth Criminal,” in what she called the best job of her 30-year career.

“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.”

The Jacksons' attorney showed a clip from the singer's video "Smooth Criminal." Katherine Jackson, sitting in the front row, appeared to dab tears from her eyes with a tissue.

ivy · May 9, 2013

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Producer warned: Michael Jackson's 'dying, he's leaving us'
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 7:41 PM EDT, Wed May 8, 2013
Katherine Jackson: Michael's mother, 82, was deposed for nine hours over three days by AEG Live lawyers. As the guardian of her son's three children, she is a plaintiff in the wrongful death lawsuit against the company that promoted Michael Jackson's comeback concerts.
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NEW: "God keeps talking to me," Michael Jackson told director six days before dying
NEW: "I kept saying that 'Michael is dying," producer testifies
NEW:"Kenny (Oretega, director) collapsed in our arms," when told Jackson died
"Michael's imagination was endless," dancer testifies
Los Angeles (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, a witness said Wednesday.
"God keeps talking to me," Jackson told director Kenny Ortega, 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, rehearsal, Sankey told jurors in 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.
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 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.
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, filed by Michael Jackson's mother and three children, contends that Phillips and AEG never checked Dr. 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 Dr. 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 Dr. 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.

ivy · May 9, 2013

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Mrs. Jackson and Trent left the courtroom at 3:25p. Several Jackson supporters left the courtroom to say goodbye to her in the hall.
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She testified that she loved MJ but she really wasn't close to MJ.
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On Cross Examination Attorney for AEG questioned Sankey on how close she was to MJ.
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Sankey and Ortega went back to an office and cried. Then Ortega got the company into a circle and told them MJ had died.
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The director, Kenny Ortega, took the call from Randy Phillips of AEG what MJ had died. Sankey says Ortega collapsed.
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The Director kept the company rehearsing despite MJ hospitalized. Cell phones went off and no one answered...they kept working.
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On June 25th, the company was rehearsing at Staples. When Sankey arrived, she was told MJ was in the hospital.
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MJ showed up for Rehearsal on the 24th wrapped in a huge blanket. Rehearsal was at the Staples Center.
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ivy · May 9, 2013

Jury Told Michael Jackson's Frail Appearance Sparked Worry

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Law360, Los Angeles (May 08, 2013, 8:27 PM ET) -- An associate producer on Michael Jackson's “This Is It” concert tour testified Wednesday that she believed he was deathly ill while observing him during rehearsals, in a trial where Jackson's mother claims that AEG Live LLC pressed ahead with the show despite the health risks to her son.

Alif Sankey, a choreographer and producer who first met Jackson as a dancer on the production of his “Smooth Criminal” video in 1987, told a six-man, six-woman jury that Jackson's “extremely thin” appearance and the rehearsals he missed convinced her that he was dying.

Five days before the singer died, Sankey said she called Kenny Ortega, the director of “This Is It,” after 1 a.m., and screamed her concerns.

“I keep saying, 'Michael's dying. He's dying. He's leaving us. He needs to be put in the hospital. Please do something. Please,'” Sankey testified.

Ortega then sent an email to Randy Phillips, the chief executive officer of AEG Live, at 2:04 a.m., expressing concern about Jackson's health, as he had done before during the June 2009 concert rehearsals.

Brian J. Panish, a lawyer representing the late pop star's mother, Katherine Jackson, and his three minor children, 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.

Katherine Jackson sued AEG Live in September 2010, claiming that the concert promoter negligently hired and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician convicted of Jackson's involuntary manslaughter. Murray is serving a four-year prison sentence and is appealing his conviction.

Sankey testified that her emotional late-night telephone call to Ortega was sparked by witnessing Jackson talk to her and Ortega about how God was speaking to him. Hours later, the incident caused both Sankey and Ortega to weep, she told the court.

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

She also told jurors that her concerns were sparked by the fact that Jackson started missing rehearsals at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., and that she believed AEG Live hired Murray, especially after Murray forbade Jackson to attend one rehearsal.

That decision by Murray sparked an email by AEG Live executive Paul Gongaware, which stated, “We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ who is paying his salary.”

Plaintiffs' lawyers in the case have argued that AEG Live put profits ahead of Michael Jackson's health and safety and charged ahead with “This Is It,” regardless of the risks. Katherine Jackson is seeking at least $1.5 billion in damages.

AEG Live has argued that it never hired Murray and that Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, at his rented home in the tony Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills was the tragic result of his long-term drug addiction. A contract providing that Murray would be paid $150,000 per month for his work on the tour went unsigned.

bouee · May 9, 2013

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already posted by Ivy. Having a cup of coffee to wake me up so it doesn't happen again, sorry.

bouee · May 9, 2013

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It was her and Trent again today. RT @colelesley: @mccartneyAP was Katherine by herself again today
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Court is done for the day in Jackson vs AEG. Makeup artist Karen Faye is going to be tomorrow's witness. #JacksonTrial
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I stepped out of court after attorneys went into their second sidebar of the afternoon. Dancer Alif Sankey remains on the stand.
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Judge Ito might have been a bad omen for Jackson case's afternoon session. Jury was in the room for only 10 mins, then we got a sidebar.
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ivy · May 9, 2013

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ivy · May 9, 2013

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Karen Faye has told jury about pain Jackson felt after Pepsi accident and Munich concert accident, but not in great detail yet.
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Before the morning break, Faye was shown video of Jackson's Super Bowl performance.
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“Michael would do five songs to the dancers’ one. I never saw anything like it.” _ Faye says of Jackson’s performances.
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Faye tells jury she was responsible for keeping Jackson hydrated during shows. She says she’s never seen another performer like MJ.
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Faye: “You obviously have not seen a Michael Jackson concert in your life.”
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In the video, fans are screaming, some being carted out on stretchers. Panish asks Faye if this is common for a Jackson concert.
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Panish moves to videos of Jackson performances. He starts off with a performance of “Man in the Mirror” in Bucharest from “Dangerous” tour.
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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!”
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Panish asks if they’re Air Jordans. No, Faye responds. Judge names another brand. Nope, Faye says.
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Lots of photos are shown, including a smoky image of Jackson standing on tippy-toes. Debate ensues over what brand the shoes are.
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Panish in a continuation of his self-deprecating questioning of Faye, responds to her Leibovitz quip, “Hey, I don’t get out that much.”
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One of images is an Annie Leibovitz shot for Vanity Fair. “Who’s Annie Leibovitz?” Panish asks. “Really?” Faye responds. There’s laughter.
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Panish next shows Faye and jury photos of just Jackson where she did his hair and makeup.
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“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.
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The jury is shown a photo of Jackson doing Faye’s makeup, brush touching her face. Panish asks her how Jackson did.
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Panish asks Faye to describe Jackson: “He was a gentleman. He was elegant. He was brilliant.” _ she says as she starts to break down.
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Faye, a Pittsburgh native, tells jury she traveled the world with Michael Jackson. “I found myself working with this magical person.”
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Jackson’s scalp was badly burned, she tells jury. “I had to figure out, along with him, how to hide his injury,” Faye says.
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She’s asked about the 1984 Pepsi commercial shoot accident. She says she worked with Jackson after that to mask his injuries.
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Panish asks Faye to read a dedication on the inside of the record. “This album is lovingly dedicated to Katherine Jackson,” she reads.
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Plaintiff’s attorney Brian Panish next showed Faye a record (yes, vinyl) of Jackson’s “Thriller” album.
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Faye starts out by listing some of her famous clients, including Michael Jackson, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening and Smokey Robinson.
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Before court resumed, makeup artist/stylist Karen Faye and Katherine Jackson hugged in the courtroom. Mrs. Jackson seemed happy to see her.
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He wouldn't eat or drink during the trial for fear he had to go to the bathoom one of the guards would have to escort him. He was too shy.
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In Singapore she saw MJ stumbling and fell into a tree in his dressing room. She was afraid for him and told the Doctor.
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The package had vials and syringes. The Doctor told her she might not have gotten into the country with the package.
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Makeup artist describes Jackson's artistry, pain

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By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — A makeup artist who worked with Michael Jackson for nearly 30 years says the singer struggled with sleep and required a doctor's care to deal with pain while touring.

Karen Faye is testifying for Jackson's mother in a lawsuit against AEG Live LLC, the promoter of his planned series of comeback concerts.

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

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.

Jackson's mother is suing AEG claiming it didn't properly investigate the doctor convicted of causing Jackson's death. AEG denies wrongdoing.

ivy · May 9, 2013

Pepsi fire left Michael Jackson with no hair, migraines: witness

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Michael Jackson in a scene from the movie "This Is It." (Kevin Mazur )
By Jeff Gottlieb
May 9, 2013, 12:41 p.m.
A vintage video of Michael Jackson’s hair catching on fire during the third take of a 1983 Pepsi commercial was played for jurors Thursday as a makeup artist 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."

Faye, who worked with Jackson for 27 years as both a makeup and hair artist, took the stand in the second week of a wrongful death suit the singer’s mother and children filed against concert promoter AEG, which was bankrolling what was to be his comeback tour when the entertainer died in 2009 of a drug overdose.

FULL COVERAGE: AEG wrongful death trial

Her testimony sometimes growing emotional, 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.

PHOTOS: Jackson-AEG wrongful death case

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.

Brian Panish, an attorney for Jackson's mother and three children, played a video of Jackson's hair catching on fire and another of the singer falling several stories during a concert in Munich.

In the second instance, she 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.

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

The Jacksons are suing entertainment giant AEG, saying the firm negligently hired and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, who gave Jackson a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol.

AEG says Jackson hired Murray and any payments the company was supposed to give him were actually part of a multimillion-dollar advance to Jackson.

ivy · May 9, 2013

Makeup Artist Describes Jackson's Pain, Artistry
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 09, 2013 4:40 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist tearfully described to jurors on Thursday the singer's struggles with back pain and insomnia after suffering injuries during his career.

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.

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.

Faye testified in a negligent hiring lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother, Katherine, who claims AEG failed to investigate a doctor who cared for the pop star and was later convicted of causing his death in June 2009.

AEG denies hiring the doctor and says Jackson concealed his addiction to propofol, a powerful anesthetic that killed the singer.

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.

She recalled that he complained more about back pain after he fell several stories from on on-stage bridge during a Munich concert in 1999. Despite the fall, Jackson finished the show.

His high-energy performances, however, led to sleepless nights afterward, she said.

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."

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.

ivy · May 9, 2013

Friend says she tried to stop dazed Michael Jackson from taking stage

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Michael Jackson rides in a car in Budapest in 1994. (Associated Press)
By Jeff Gottlieb
May 9, 2013, 2:15 p.m.
A makeup artist testified Friday 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.

Karen Faye, who said she had worked with Jackson for more than two decades and considered him a close friend, said she knew the pop singer was using painkillers but she had refused requests to learn how to give him injections.

The testimony, by far the most dramatic so far in a wrongful death suit filed by the singer’s mother and children, focused on a period in Jackson’s life when he was recuperating from being seriously burned during a Pepsi ad and was under pressure because of child molestation allegations.

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.

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.

Faye testified she was at Jackson's side during the 2005 trial in which Jackson was acquitted of molestation, helping him prepare for court each morning.

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. "

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She overheard Paul Gongaware from AEG yell into the phone to MJ security to get MJ out of the bathroom.
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She had concerns about MJ and expressed those concerns to Kenny Ortega.
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ivy · May 9, 2013

Jurors stunned by video of Michael Jackson's hair catching fire
By RICHARD JOHNSON in LA and DAVID K LI in NY
Last Updated: 6:34 PM, May 9, 2013
Posted: 6:33 PM, May 9, 2013
Rapt jurors today watched shocking video of Michael Jackson’s going up in smoke, as his longtime makeup artist chronicled The King of Pop’s decades-long bout with painkillers.

Panelists, weighing evidence in his family’s civil lawsuit against concert promoters, couldn’t take their eyes off the screen as MJ’s hair caught fire during a 1984 shoot for Pepsi.

“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.”

That wild accident 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.

“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.”

Jackson’s family is suing AEG Live, claiming that promoters knew MJ was in poor health and didn’t do anything about it, as he prepared for the “This Is It” concerts set for 2009-10.

Faye’s testimony could build the foundation for the plaintiff’s contention that everyone around The Gloved One knew about his pill-popping.

Jackson, 50, died in 2009 after Dr. Conrad Murray gave him a lethal dose of painkillers and anesthetics. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter at a criminal trial and now Jackson’s family wants AEG to be held responsible for allegedly hiring the quack.

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.

.http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/jurors_stunned_by_video_of_michael_a7jqS5ELvs3I0qN0jwDvDK

ivy · May 10, 2013

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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.
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FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, Michael Jackson announces several concerts at the London O2 Arena in July, at a press conference at the London O2 Arena. Jackson's longtime makeup artist tearfully described to jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday, May 9, 2013, the singer's struggles with back pain and insomnia after suffering injuries during his career. 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. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)

FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. An expert told jurors Tuesday May 7, 2013 that Michael Jackson's doctor was not qualified to treat the singer for insomnia or drug addiction. Jackson's mother is suing AEG Live LLC claiming it failed to properly investigate Jackson's doctor before allowing him to work on the singer's planned 2009 comeback concerts. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist testified Thursday that she overhead an executive for concert promoter AEG Live insist that the singer rehearse despite signs of Jackson's declining health.

Karen Faye, who worked with Jackson for more than 27 years, told jurors she became increasingly concerned about Jackson's health and agreed with a fan's assessment that the singer might die if he was pushed too hard in preparations for his "This Is It" concerts.

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.

The makeup artist and hair stylist is testifying in a case brought by Jackson's mother, Katherine, against AEG Live LLC. The suit accuses the Los Angeles-based company of failing to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the singer's death. Her attorneys also contend the company didn't properly respond to concerns about the singer's health.

AEG denies it hired Murray or bears any liability for Jackson's death.

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?"

She said that after Jackson missed several rehearsals, Phillips told her to ignore the singer's instructions.

Jurors are expected to hear from Ortega, Phillips and Gongaware later in the trial.

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.

In earlier testimony, she described severe pain the singer experienced after performance accidents and his increasing reliance on doctors.

She said his 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.

During Jackson's "Dangerous" tour that began in 1992, Faye said she refused a request from promoters to give the Grammy winner injections of pain medications.

She said Gongaware, who handled logistics on that tour, brought in doctors who treated Jackson. The tour was halted early so Jackson could receive treatment for his prescription drug addiction.

His condition worsened during the singer's 2005 trial that ended with his acquittal of child molestation charges, Faye said.

"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."

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."

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Witness: Michael Jackson was paranoid, talking to himself in last days
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 8:27 PM EDT, Thu May 9, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist testifies about his good times, last days
Jackson "was acting like a person I didn't recognize" Karen Faye says
Jackson tried to avoid rehearsing for "This Is It," Faye testifies
"They had to make him rehearse," she says
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson appeared paranoid, repeating himself and shivering from chills in his final days, his longtime makeup artist testified Thursday.
"This was not the man I knew," Karen Faye testified. "He was acting like a person I didn't recognize."
Faye, who did Jackson's makeup and hair for 27 years, was the sixth witness called by lawyers for Michael Jackson's mother and children in their wrongful death lawsuit against concert promoter AEG Live. She testified Thursday and will return to the stand Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Michael Jackson's brightest and darkest moments brought laughter and tears as Faye testified.
His last days
Faye, who traveled with Jackson on his "Bad," "Dangerous" and "History" tours, 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.
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.
Eventually, "they had to make him rehearse," she said. "They're insisting to the point of going to his home."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
The dark days
Michael Jackson endured pain for years caused by head burns suffered while filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984 and a back injury from an onstage mishap during a concert in Munich, Germany, she said.
Faye, who witnessed both incidents, described them.
"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.
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.
Along with the pain, Jackson had trouble sleeping on tour.
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."
Faye testified that nurse Debbie Rowe, who would later become Jackson's second wife and the mother of his two oldest children, would travel with them on the "Dangerous" tour in 1992 with "a little bag" of medications.
"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."
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.
Finkelstein used "a balance of medications strong enough to overcome Michael's pain," Faye said.
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."
The show, however, was eventually canceled, she said.
"Michael was under a lot of stress at that time because that's when the first child allegations were made public," Faye said. "Michael had to go on stage every night knowing that the whole world thought he was a pedophile. He had to stand up in front of all these audiences with the physical pain that he had and knowing that everybody in that audience is thinking that he was the vilest pedophile on earth. To this day I don't know how he did that."
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.
Michael's brighter days
Before Faye's darker testimony began, the courtroom was unusually relaxed with smiles and laughs throughout the jury box.
It started when Jackson lawyer Panish asked her "What is a makeup and hair artist?"
"Makeup and hair!" Faye responded, triggering loud laughter from jurors.
"Can you help me?" Panish joked.
Panish had Faye read to the jury the dedication note from the "Thriller" album: "This album is lovingly dedicated to Katherine Jackson."
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."
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."
Jurors watched several videos that showed Jackson's talent and impact, a sharp contrast to all of the testimony about drug addiction and death.
They viewed several minutes of Jackson's "Thriller," which Faye pointed out was a short film, not just a music video.
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."
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."
Faye's testimony took all day Thursday and was set to resume Friday morning.

ivy · May 10, 2013

Michael Jackson wrongful death trial: Makeup artist recalls singer had 'hard time walking,' suffered debilitating pain during 1993 tour. Pro Karen Faye was so worried about Jackson’s health that she came to blows with his doctor over an appearance in Singapore.

BY NANCY DILLON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013, 7:45 PM

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Karen Faye detailed Michael Jackson's difficulties with drug use during the eighth day of his wrongful death trial. On one occasion during the 1993 Dangerous tour, 'he stumbled and fell over into a tree,' she said.

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Michael Jackson was so wasted on pain medication during his Dangerous tour in the early 90s, he was stumbling around a venue in Singapore and sparked a violent clash between his makeup artist and doctor, a jury heard Thursday.

Makeup pro Karen Faye took the witness stand on the eighth day of a negligence trial pitting Jackson's mom against the promoter of his doomed "This Is It" tour. She tearfully recalled how the pop icon was getting large amounts of painkillers during his 1993 Dangerous tour.

He was so bad in Singapore, "he stumbled and fell over into a tree," she said.

"He had a very hard time walking. He was kind of glazed over," she recalled. "I said, 'Michael can't go on.' He had to go into a toaster (a stage catapulting device). If his arm was out, it would be severed."

She said she put her arms around the "Thriller" singer and refused to let him leave his dressing room. That's when one of Jackson's personal doctors, Dr. David Forecast, forcefully intervened, she told jurors.

"He said, 'Yes I can,'" she recalled. "He backed me up against a wall, put his hands around my neck and said, 'You don't know what you're doing.'"

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

Faye first started working for Jackson in the 1980s and considered him family, she said.

Soon the rest of the tour would be cancelled so Jackson could enter rehab, she testified.

In critical testimony for Katherine Jackson, Faye said that Paul Gongaware - one of the executives at AEG Live who's a party to the current lawsuit - was a logistics manager on the Dangerous tour and likely knew about Jackson's shocking physical state.

Katherine Jackson is now suing for millions, saying Gongaware and other AEG officials were well aware of her son's tour-related addiction issues when they negligently hired the doctor who caused his fatal overdose on June 25, 2009.

She was asked to give Michael injections and carry pain medication into Bangkok in 1993, she testified, but she declined.

She said her refusal led Gongaware to hire a physician, Dr. Stuart Finkelstein, to transport the medication and find a "balance" of medication that treated Michael's physical ailments but keep him alert enough to perform.

Faye said the singer suffered debilitating pain and migraines stemming from burns sustained on the set of his 1984 Pepsi commercial, surgery that involved the insertion of skin-stretching balloon under his scalp and injuries related to a 1999 stage collapse in Munich.

Michael Jackson appeared at the Motown Cafe with Karen Faye to 'give the press something to talk about,' she said.

She said his physical pain on the Dangerous tour was further compounded by the first accusations of child molestation.

"Michael was under a lot of stress at that time because that's when the first child allegations were made public," she said. "Michael had to go on stage every night knowing that the whole world thought he was a pedophile."
Faye's highly emotional testimony offered jurors a behind-the-scenes view into the intimate details of Michael's personal life.

Katherine Jackson, 82, sat in the first row of the courtroom and had tears in her eyes as she left for the lunch break.

Faye said she first started working with Michael in the early 80s and considered him family.
She was the "mystery blond" photographed by his side inside Manhattan's Motown Café after Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce, she said.

"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."

Michael Jackson's make-up artist Karen Faye testified that she was so worried about Jackson's health that she got into an altercation over his concert appearance in Singapore.

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She and Michael decided to hit the Motown Café on January 25, 1996 to "give the press something to talk about," she said.

"I was the mystery blond," she told jurors.
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."

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By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist testified Thursday that she overhead an executive for concert promoter AEG Live insist that the singer rehearse despite signs of Jackson's declining health.

Karen Faye, who worked with Jackson for more than 27 years, told jurors she became increasingly concerned about Jackson's health and agreed with a fan's assessment that the singer might die if he was pushed too hard in preparations for his "This Is It" concerts.

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.

The makeup artist and hair stylist is testifying in a case brought by Jackson's mother, Katherine, against AEG Live LLC. The suit accuses the Los Angeles-based company of failing to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the singer's death. Her attorneys also contend the company didn't properly respond to concerns about the singer's health.

AEG denies it hired Murray or bears any liability for Jackson's death.

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?"

She said that after Jackson missed several rehearsals, Phillips told her to ignore the singer's instructions.

Jurors are expected to hear from Ortega, Phillips and Gongaware later in the trial.

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.

In earlier testimony, she described severe pain the singer experienced after performance accidents and his increasing reliance on doctors.

She said his 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.

During Jackson's "Dangerous" tour that began in 1992, Faye said she refused a request from promoters to give the Grammy winner injections of pain medications.

She said Gongaware, who handled logistics on that tour, brought in doctors who treated Jackson. The tour was halted early so Jackson could receive treatment for his prescription drug addiction.

His condition worsened during the singer's 2005 trial that ended with his acquittal of child molestation charges, Faye said.

"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."

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."

Annita · May 10, 2013

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Mon & Tues will be two AEG witnesses (cont) ... RT @Genni_D: @mccartneyAP Do you know who is testifying next week?
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@vanessafranko Thanks Vanessa! You've been quite busy yourself - enjoy your break!
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Folks, I'm taking tomorrow off and won't be in Jackson vs AEG trial. I'm sure @ABC7Courts will have you covered. Be back Monday! #FF
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No, just a couple answers. RT @lmt4mj: @mccartneyAP Anthony, did the court strike much of K Faye testimony as hearsay?
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“I’m sorry, I’m really tired,” Faye said after one later-afternoon hearsay objection. Judge dismissed jurors at 4 p.m. Faye looked exhausted
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Most of the time that Faye tried to describe conversations with AEG personnel or Jackson, an AEG lawyer objected.
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Faye said she thought Jackson was frustrated. At one point after a costume fitting, Jackson repeatedly asked her, “Why can’t I choose?”
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Karen Faye wasn't allowed to tell jurors what Jackson told her. She had to describe her impressions of his demeanor in his final days
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“We don’t want to have any more sidebars. We want to get through this.”_ Brian Panish tells Karen Faye after one of her answers was stricken
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This led plaintiff's attorney Brian Panish to tip-toe more in the afternoon session. Questioning was a lot more methodical late in the day.
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Katherine Jackson's attorneys had to tell Faye not to automatically say what other people told her, especially if AEG objected.
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There were a few minutes of testimony before another sidebar was needed. That one lasted until judge gave the jury a 15-min break.
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About 20 minutes into that sidebar, Faye was still in the witness box. She shook her head, kept looking at judge’s closed door.
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After about 10 minutes with judge, attorneys outside the room, Faye sat in witness box, resting her head on her right hand, eyes closed.
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The attorneys went into a lengthy sidebar on whether Faye can tell jury what Jackson’s concerns were. AEG argued it’s hearsay.
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Panish asked Faye whether Jackson ever expressed concerns about the “This Is It” production. She says yes, but AEG objects.
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Gongaware signed Karen Faye’s contract, which was finalized in May 2009. She was with Jackson a lot during "This Is It" preparations
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Plaintiff’s attorney Brian Panish asks who Faye negotiated with. She says AEG executive Paul Gongaware negotiated her rate to work on tour.
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After the lunch break, questioning of Karen Faye went straight into her work on Jackson’s planned “This Is It” tour.
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I've covered a lot of the important testimony in the story link. Re-posting it here: http://bit.ly/13kZO0i
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The following are some updates from the afternoon session, which was bogged down by objections and sidebars.

qbee · May 10, 2013

Jacksons vs AEG - Day 9 - May 10 2013 - News Only (no discussion)

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Annita · May 10, 2013

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She testified that she believed the family was not successful getting MJ into a rehab facility despite trying.
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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
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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.
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Faye said she had two prescriptions in her name for MJ - Propecia (grow hair) and Latisse (grow eyelashes) for the This is It tour.
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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.
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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.
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Faye said Rowe was jealous of their closeness.
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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
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Under Cross Examination Faye said she was released not fired from the HIStory Tour after the first leg.
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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 lii and couldn't
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Faye said she prepared MJ's body for the family to see him after he died.
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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
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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

serendipity · May 10, 2013

Jackson so thin 'I could see Michael's heartbeat,' costumer said - latimes.com

The costume designer who worked with Michael Jackson was alarmed by the music legend’s frail figure during his last days, a makeup artist testified Friday.

Michael Bush -- who created much of the singer’s wardrobe for 25 years and wrote a book about the experience -- 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.

Turkle was Jackson’s nickname for Faye, who worked as his makeup artist off and on for nearly three decades.

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Faye, in her second day on the stand, was emotional as she described the moment.

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.”

The 2-week-old civil trial pits AEG against Jackson’s mother and three children who accuse the concert promoter of negligently hiring and controlling Conrad Murray, the doctor who administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to Jackson. Murray is now serving jail time for involuntary manslaughter.

Faye, who began working with Jackson in the early 1980s and did his hair and makeup for the "Thriller" album cover, said she felt the singer “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.

But the makeup artist 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.”

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.”

Faye said she helped prepare Jackson’s body for his casket.

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