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Pop icon feared for his life leading up to the concerts. >> it was very clear that prince felt that michael jackson felt really pushed to the brink by aeg executive. he didn't trust them. he didn't like them. and he heard his own father say, while sobbing, "they're trying to kill me." >> only a jury could decide if that were true. the verdict came months after the trial began. question one -- >> did aeg live hire dr. conrad murray? answer, yes. >> but when the court assistant read the second question -- >> was dr. conrad murray unfit or incompetent to perform the work for which he was hired? a...

Children went back to court in 2013, this time, filing a wrongful death suit against concert promoter, aeg live. >> this case involved a number of legal questions, was dr. murray hired by aeg live. did aeg live know he was a rockies michael jackson and should aeg live pay damages? >> kevin boyle was the attorney for katherine jackson. >> the aeg defendants were negligent in hiring, retaken or supervising dr. conrad murray and that that ultimately led to the death of michael jackson. >> aeg live attorney, marvin putn putnam, said murray was working for jackson and not quite the company. >> i ca...

>> i'll be performing the songs my fans want to hear. >> but was michael physically up to the challenge? both michael and aeg had a lot on the line. >> it was his comeback. it was his renaissance. his rebirth on stage. after so many years of being out of the spotlight, a lot of people were wondering if he could pull this off. >> this is it. and see you in july. >> but there were questions about whether jackson was ready. kenny ortega, the director for "this is it," called a private meeting at jackson's home. aeg ceo, randy phillips, attended the meeting. >> kenny was concerned that he wasn't c...

Obsessive-like behavior. i think the very best thing we can do is get a top psychiatrist to evaluate him asap. ortega could see, perhaps better than anyone else, exactly what effect the grueling preparation was having on jackson. >> the insight that he gave into what was behaving with michael in his last weeks was incredible, about his deterioration, about how he couldn't remember his lyrics to his songs, about how he wasn't getting the dances and about the conversations with the aeg live executives about what to do about michael. >> aeg attorneys argued michael jackson was a drug addict who s...

Michael jackson painkillers. >> they used the deposition of randy jackson's brother to show michael was not only addicted to drugs but would resist any attempt at intervention. >> aeg live said if the family can't help, if the family can't stop him, how could we, as concert promoters, ever be expected to have done that? >> michael jackson's two oldest children, prince and paris, were on the witness list to testify, until -- >> paris jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of pop icon michael jackson, was rushed to a hospital in los angeles. >> in the midst of the trial, near-tragedy. [ sirens ] mich...