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Michael Jackson doctor in debt
Posted on: Thursday - Jul 30, 2009 |
| | Dr Conrad Murray, 56, who has been dogged by money trouble, was racking up the debt when he went to work for Jackson in May.
Murray's lawyer has claimed the physician was not paid for the two months he worked for Jackson and concert promoter AEG.
AEG Live, the promoter of the series of London comeback concerts for Jackson, has said the singer insisted the company hire Murray to accompany him to England. Company president and chief executive Randy Phillips has said AEG advanced Jackson money to pay the doctor and had been negotiating to provide Murray a 150,000-dollar monthly salary.
Murray's lawyer issued a statement acknowledging the cardiologist's home was in "pre-foreclosure" and blaming Murray's financial woes on his inability to make a living "as a result of this investigation".
"His hope is he can forestall foreclosure until he can once again begin working as a doctor," he added.
Documents filed on July 23 with the Clark County recorder show Murray accumulated a debt of more than 100,000 dollars plus penalties since January on a loan of nearly 1.7 million dollars on the mansion at the exclusive Red Rock Country Club.
Chernoff, through spokeswoman Miranda Sevcik, confirmed a Los Angeles Times report that authorities sought prescriptions "administered, prescribed, obtained, transferred, sold, distributed, and/or concealed" to Jackson or various pseudonyms.
Names in the warrant included Prince Jackson, the singer's 12-year-old son, as a possible alias.
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