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That was the end of Randy's deposition. Court adjourned until Monday at 10 am PT. AEG has not announced who the next witness is.
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A: I don't remember saying that, but that doesn't mean I didn't say it. I kind of felt that way at the time.
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Q: Do you recall telling Randy Phillips that you see that Michael was fortunate to have AEG involved in his return to the stage?
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Randy: I practically slept there to put the show together.
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Q: Did you have a positive experience with AEG?
A: Horrible! (laughs) No, I'm just joking. They were nice. They were very nice.
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Randy said he pushed everything to the side and was getting together this memorial for him and did it with AEG, Kenny Ortega and those guys.
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"I haven't even buried my brother yet," Randy said.
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Randy: We were still trying to figure out how to grieve, and these people are in court, and will, and this nonsense.
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Randy: After MJ died, everyone was shocked. I was really displeased with all the stuff that was going on in court with Branca, Weitzman.
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"Sometimes he would isolate himself because he didn't want people to hear his voice" Randy said.
Q: Because he might be using drugs?
A: Yes
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Q: Did you speak with him regularly?
A: I don't talk to anyone in my family regularly.
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Q: Was he doing it in the 5 years before his death? Isolated?
A: Oh, parts, parts of it.
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That was probably the first one, the first intervention, Randy said.
Q: Was MJ isolating himself?
A: Yeah, he would do that.
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Q: Did he seem he was using drugs at that time?
A: Yes, his speech was slurred, but nothing terrible.
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Randy said in Taiwan they visited him, gave him family love, wanted to make him feel comforted so he wouldn't think about doing those things
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Randy: I dind't know anything but we had heard things. That's why we were there.
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Randy said what spurred him to go to Taiwan was the fact that he needed help, he was far away, we said we need to go.
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Q: Did you go to Taiwan?
A: Yes, with Rebbie and some family members
MJ was doing shows in Taiwan.
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Randy talked about interventions in NY, Neverland, Las Vegas. And there was another intervention in Taiwan.
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After being turned down, Randy would then go home.
Q: After Carolwood, did you or father take any other action?
A: No, after that time no.
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They told Randy "he's not here, he's not there." Randy questioned if he wasn't there why they had the gate closed. "Open it up, no big deal"
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Q: Who did you see there?
A: Security guard.
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Randy: My dad and I tried to get the house at Carolwood. They wouldn't let me through. My brother didn't want me to see him like that.
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Q: Do you know if he slept well while on tour?
A: He slept well
Randy said MJ had no issues sleeping that he knew of.
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Randy: He was doing good in Ireland from what I recall. 06-7, 07-08 around that time.
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Randy said the last time Grace called was a long time ago. "I made my presence known, there wasn't lot more. She didn't need to call."
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Those were the only two times Randy saw him under the influence. "I'd get calls from Grace all the time," he said.
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Randy: He didn't know who to trust, because people around him were lying to him, telling him things just to secure their positions.
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He said MJ had slurry speech. "He was really frightened to go to that courtroom."
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Randy: Then I later found out she had gotten him a patch. I was livid.
Randy doesn't know what kind of patch it was.
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Randy said that when Grace was around MJ, he was under the some kind of influence. "But we had him go to court and had the doctor with him"
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Q: Was he in the hospital because he had reaction to his drug use?
Randy: No. He was in the hospital because he didn't want to go to court.
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Randy: And I said "Okay, but you are going to court." He goes "No, I'm not."
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Randy: I went to hospital MJ said "I don't know what you're thinking. I'm not walking into that courtroom so don't even think about it Randy
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Randy: He didn't want to go to court. He didn't show up to court. And I was freaking out because it was on the news.
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Randy said MJ was really scared before the Santa Maria trial. And somehow Grace was able to get him something.
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Randy: He would get physical with me, I wouldn't be afraid to say no. But he was 90 pounds, it wouldn't do much.
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Randy: MJ didn't want to talk to me too much. Because maybe I wasn't afraid to say no to him.
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Randy: Did she ever believe he had a problem? Yeah, but I think she was in denial, she didn't want to believe it.
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Randy: My mom, you know, she would mever want to believe it. She's a mom, you know. I felt bad for my her.
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The letter was MJ's idea, Randy said.
Q: Did you mom sign it?
A: My mom, LaToya, all my brothers.
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He said he wasn't behind the article, but didn't sign the letter. Janet, Rebbie and his dad didn't sign it either.
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Randy said MJ got people in his family to sign a letter that was on People Mag saying he never used drugs. "I was really disturbed by that."
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"I fired them both that's probably whay they said it," Randy opined. "It had nothing to do with me."
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Randy: Grace and actually Raymone Bain because I fired them both.
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Randy: There was a People Magazine article coming out talking about his drug use. Grace told him that I was behind putting this article out.
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Randy: He was using it again because there was a... it was quite disturbing to me.
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Q: Were all of the interventions were before the Santa Maria trial?
A: There was one after, the Vegas was after.
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Randy: I fired her again, I noticed when she was around there was a pattern. Whenever she's around, he's wasted. So I fired her again.
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Randy said he started right before Santa Maria trial but he got MJ clean. He told Rebbie "don't leave his side" because I didn't trust Grace
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"He was in a great place," Randy said. "Then Grace came back around and he started using it again. I was very pissed off about it."
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Randy said MJ would really, relaly enjoyed being around his children. He would cook for them.
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Randy: When I was helping with the situation in Santa Maria I was able to make it stop. I fired Grace, stoped it from coming in.
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Q: Could you give a range if years that this was happening?
A: It happened over a period of time, when I was, he stopped doing it also.
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Randy: Michael wouldn't want to really be around his family too much, I think because he didn't want us to see him that way, specially me
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Shadow Wood home was 50-thousand square feet. Randy said he hated it, it was just too big.
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Randy tried to jump the gate a few times. "My dad and I tried a few times to get him help."
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After Vegas, there were no more interventions, Randy said. "I tried to get him help but I couldn't get as many people to stage intervention"
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Randy didn't speak with MJ that day. He said people would tip MJ off. "So it's bad news. Randy's coming to shake things up."
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Q: What happened when you arrived at Neverland?
A: I think that time he wasn't there.
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Randy said Rebbie and Janet were always supportive, always with him. "My dad also."
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Katherine was at one intervention only, Randy said. "That must've been the first one, around 2002-2003, at Neverland.
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A: First one at Neverland, not the one that KJ was present. Janet, myself, Rebbie. Maybe my mom was at that one. I think my mom was there.
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Rebbie and Janet went on all of them, except one or two.
Q: Describe the 3-4 additional interventions:
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The 4-5 interventions at Neverland were between 2004-2006. "One of them included my mom," Randy said.
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Randy: No, my mon no. As a mom, I guess maybe it was hard for her, you know, for a mother to see that.
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Q: Did you get responses?
A: I think everyone was in shock, maybe a little denial. I always got responses, my dad, Rebbie and Janet, always
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He wrote the letter down on paper and had assistant copy it. He said not everybody in his family looks at email.
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Q: Did you send it to your mother as well?
A: Everybody got a copy of it.
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Randy: So this is where the family needs to step in and do something about it because their desire becomes physical.
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Randy: He's an addict, and at this point, addicts aren't so responsible for what they do.
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Q: Who did you send the letter to?
A: Everybody, copied everybody. I made sure everybody knew it.
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Randy wrote letters to my family about MJ's problem and that they had to do something to help.
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Randy said he was spending a lot of time with him, so he kind of got close look at what was going on.
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Finally out of twitter jail... Here's the rest of Randy Jackson's deposition.
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"There were a few over there. I don't know, maybe 4 or 5," Randy responded. It was around 2004, 2005. Or 2005-06.