The attorney for AEG Live told jurors Wednesday that the concert promoter never hired the doctor who was treating Michael Jackson as he prepared for a comeback tour and had no idea the physician was giving the singer the anesthetic that killed him.
"It wasn't AEG's fault," Marvin Putnam said during his closing argument in the four-month trial. "All they wanted to do was put on a concert."
Jackson, who was 50 when he died, was a grown man who was responsible for his own health, Putnam said, a statement he tried to drill into jurors throughout the day.
"Plaintiffs want you to hold a concert promoter liable for Michael Jackson's overdose, in his bedroom, at night, behind locked doors," he said.
Jackson, Putnam said, had used propofol since 1997 while he was on tour in Germany.
The singer, who suffered from terrible insomnia, tried to persuade other doctors through the years to use the anesthetic, Putnam said.
"Michael Jackson was told over and over and over again that propofol was dangerous, that it could kill him, but he wouldn't take no for an answer," the lawyer said.
AEG Live, Putnam said, would never have agreed to finance the tour "if it knew Mr. Jackson was playing Russian roulette in his bedroom every night."
Jackson died in 2009, a few weeks before his 50-concert London comeback was to begin. His mother and three children are suing AEG, saying that the company negligently hired and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, the Las Vegas physician who gave the pop star a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol.
AEG has maintained that Murray worked for Jackson and that any money the company was supposed to pay him was an advance to the singer. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the singer's overdose and is serving a jail sentence.
Putnam tried to explain away a potentially damaging email in which AEG executive Paul Gongaware wrote of Murray, "We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ who is paying his salary. We want him to understand what is expected of him."
Putnam said Gongaware testified that although he didn't recall the email, he never followed through with the conversation.
Putnam called the Jacksons' claim of $1.5 billion in damages "ridiculous." He cited AEG's expert, who put the economic damages at $21.5 million.
The case is expected to go to the jury Thursday.
jeff.gottlieb@latimes.com
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