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Has never been stronger. the michael jackson civil trial will not be televised. the judge made that ruling before the yeweekend. jacksons mother is suing the concert promoters for billions. katherine jackson blames aeg live for hiring the pop stars doctor conrad murray. murray is now in prison for involuntary manslaughter. case finally comes down to whether murray worked for the promoter aeg live or for michael jackson. lets bring in my next guest, diane dimon. she wrote "be careful who you lo...

Strictly on dr. conrad murray and what did the promoter know about the drugs michael was receiving and the frailty of his physical condition? >> i think it will focus on the latter frankly. the conspiracy theories, if you read some of the michael jackson fan sites even before he died there was a conspiracy that sony was out to do him harm to get the beatles catalog back and there has always been the conspiracy theories swirling around michael jackson. look, the guy put propofol in his arm every ...

Squabbling going on. in california though, a verbal agreement is pretty solid and aeg had written up a contract for conrad murray but it just wasnt quite signed yet. >> so that there is no proof of payment then, might that mean that theres some real difficulty for the jack some estate to be able to say that aeg was in any way complicit? >> this was a case that was about this big when it first started. then the judge whittled down all the charges. now it is just negligent hiring. katherine jackso...

Dr. conrad murray worked for michael jackson or whether he worked for aeg. he could certainly end up helping both sides of the case. he would probably plead the fifth here. but do you think its -- what does it say -- whats the significance of that contract? does that contract show that aeg is responsible here for dr. conrad murrays actions? >> the contract is important. if the jury decides or the judge decides ultimately that there was no oral agreement to hire conrad murray by aeg, theyre out o...

And dr. murray doesnt have any assets. who, then, to go to? aeg, you have to go under the assumption that he was working for aeg. and i agree with paul. i dont think it makes a lot of difference if dr. murray testifies because dr. murray may say aeg was my boss but aeg, as you said in that special, didnt pay him a dime, didnt have an executed contract and didnt act in accordance with an employer at that time. it wouldnt have kicked in until the tour. bottom line, i do think its about the money. ...

>> it does. i heard one of catherine jacksons attorneys just last week say $40 billion. we dont know where that figure came from. i mean certainly she would take some billions of dollars. my understanding is she wanted $10 billion for the lost income had michael jackson lived and then more billions for herself that she could leave her children and for the children prince paris and blanket. >> geraldo: one thing that seems to have faded into the wood work i alluded to the early allegations of a c...

Osborn said the concert promoters pushed michael jackson to his death because they were going to make money one way or o the other. a question for valerie waas the attorney for conrad murray. >> i wonder those of us watching the jackson versus aeg case closely. do you think there will be a big dog and pony show with your client, will they bring him into the courtroom to say i take the fifth? >> i dont know. he hasnt been subpoenaed yet but i he believe if he is brought into the courtroom he woul...

So i dont think it will make that much of a difference. >> jim, lets talk about the money here. is this case all about the money? were talking about millions, possibly billions for the jacksons if aeg loses this case. is this really -- conrad murray seems to believe this is all about the money. aeg says its all about the money because theyre not suing dr. conrad murray. is that what its about? >> it feels like that, don. it really does. its funny, when you talk about the money and you talk about...

Personal physician, to be available on the tour. this is a condition precedent for me going on the tour. so they say, okay. hes your doctor, well agree to hire him. and then of course conrad murray goes on to kill him by administering propofol. to think a jury would blame aeg for doing exactly what michael jackson asked them to do is a bit farfetched. but whats important, if you assume that he fired conrad murray, that aeg fired him that day, the day he was killed, does anyone believe that micha...

To whom was he answering? was your client working for michael jackson for working for aeg? >> i really dont know the answer. i know that initially he was approached by michael jackson to become his personal physician for the tour. i know that paul from aeg entered into negotiations with dr. murray and two days -- i forget exactly when but dr. murray, it was two days after michael jackson died dr. murray told the police he believed he had been hired by michael jackson and later found out he was t...