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Lost DiLeo Emails Found
A cache of e-mails believed lost when Michael Jackson’s last manager’s laptop disappeared could become key evidence in the wrongful death trial against AEG Live.
Lawyers for Michael ‘s mother and three children don’t know what they’ll find in Frank DiLeo’s e-mails, but they are hoping it will support their contention that DiLeo was beholden to the concert promoter and not to Michael.
Michael changed managers twice in the last three months of his life. In late March 2009, he hired Leonard Rowe — one of his father’s friends — to replace Tohme Tohme, the manager who initially negotiated the deal with AEG for his ‘This Is It’ tour.
Jackson lawyers argue that AEG Live forced Michael to take DiLeo, who had worked for him off and on for decades, as his manager in May 2009 because they did not want to work with Rowe.
Their contention is part of their larger argument that AEG Live executives were liable for Michael’s death because they hired, retained or supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
Source: editions.cnn.com & MJWN
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