Dr Tohme Tohme, AEG and Colony Captial(who co-own Neverland)

Dr Tohme Tohme has been described as Jackson's personal physician, close friend, manager and official spokesman. Today he stood silently by the side of Jermaine Jackson as he announced to the world that his brother had died.
According to Jermaine, Dr Tohme was with Jackson when he collapsed at his rented home in Los Angeles yesterday and then tried to resuscitate the pop star. Asked for his reaction at the press conference, Dr Tohme simply replied that Jermaine would be the only representative for the family.
According to close associates, Jackson and Dr Tohme had fallen out since coming to London in March to announce his comeback tour. Sources say they were no longer on speaking terms.
Jackson is said to have formally notified associates last month that Dr Tohme, who paved the way for the deal for the This Is It tour, was not representing him after he received a cease-and-desist letter for the O2 residency from AllGood Entertainment, the company that had represented the Jackson 5.
The row had led to Jackson re-connecting with Frank DiLeo, who managed the singer in his Eighties heyday.
It was Mr DiLeo, not Dr Tohme, who had been acting as Jackson's manager over the last two months, according to his business associates. A source said: "Michael had a revolving door of managers and it seemed that Dr Tohme was out the exit. It's surprising that Dr Tohme was around when Michael died - he seemed shut out over the past weeks."
Doctor-turned-businessman Dr Tohme says he is a qualified orthopaedic surgeon from Saudi Arabia. He met Jackson when the singer was defaulting on a £10million loan. They were introduced by Jermaine. Dr Tohme promised that he could refinance Jackson's spiralling £100million debt and quickly became his manager and confidant.
Dr Tohme brokered a deal between Jackson and Colony Capital, a private-equity firm run by billionaire Tom Barrack Jr. Philip Anschutz, owner of AEG Live, the US entertainment giant which went on to handle the final tour, then received a call from Mr Barrack, his friend. Randy Phillips, AEG chief executive, said: "I got a call from Dr Tohme, who said Michael was in bad financial straits." Last December, Mr Phillips presented Dr Tohme with his vision. "Phase one would be 10 shows at the O2," he said.
But as the pressure of what had grown to 50 shows mounted, it would appear that Dr Tohme - the very man who had "saved" him from financial ruin - was no longer welcome in Jackson's life.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ver-doctor-who-tried-to-save-dying-jackson.do

Jermaine introduced MJ to Tohme and the Prince of Bahrain. Both from Saudia Arabia. The Prince was suing MJ in the UK Supreme Court for breach of contract. I wonder if the Prince is also connected to MJ's passing?
 
Tohme’s website once listed his bio. It was quickly taken down after MJ's passing. It was as follows:
Dr. Tohme R. Tohme, Chairman & CEO
Ambassador at Large, The Country of Senegal
Chairman TT International

The website lists the following additional information:


Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States.
Winner of The Cannes Film Festival, The Venice Film Festival,
The London Film Festival. Creative Director/Writer: The National Ronald Reagan
Presidential Campaign, The George Bush Presidential Campaign,
TheSummer Olympic Games, The United Way.


Advertising Campaigns: “Joe Isuzu” “Where’s the Beef,” Meow Mix
“Singing Cats,” Alamo “Where All The Miles Are Free,” Disney” Bring
The Magic Home,” Transamerica “The People in the Pyramid,” Citizen Watch
“How the World Tells Time,” Foxwoods “The Wonder of the Connecticut Woods,”
Security Bank “Your Bank For Life,” “Have it Your Way,”
Maxwell House, CBS TV, 18 Walt Disney Co. Movies, Consultant to CBS TV News,
Toyota, Oscar Mayer, Sheraton Hotels, Colony Capital, The NME Hospital Group,
Antelope Valley School District, NEA, The Las Vegas Convention and
Visitors Bureau, The National Trial Lawyers Association.



His website is:
http://www.trw-adv.com/contact.html
 
^^I doubt he is a Dr, and Tohme as a first name AND last?

I wonder what info MJ found out about Tohme.
 
^^I doubt he is a Dr, and Tohme as a first name AND last?

I wonder what info MJ found out about Tohme.

Maybe we don't know what Michael knew about him, but that was Jermaine who introduced Thome to Michael. So the info must have come from Jermaine.
 
Tohme’s website once listed his bio. It was quickly taken down after MJ's passing. It was as follows:
Dr. Tohme R. Tohme, Chairman & CEO
Ambassador at Large, The Country of Senegal
Chairman TT International

The website lists the following additional information:


Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States.
Winner of The Cannes Film Festival, The Venice Film Festival,
The London Film Festival. Creative Director/Writer: The National Ronald Reagan
Presidential Campaign, The George Bush Presidential Campaign,
TheSummer Olympic Games, The United Way.


Advertising Campaigns: “Joe Isuzu” “Where’s the Beef,” Meow Mix
“Singing Cats,” Alamo “Where All The Miles Are Free,” Disney” Bring
The Magic Home,” Transamerica “The People in the Pyramid,” Citizen Watch
“How the World Tells Time,” Foxwoods “The Wonder of the Connecticut Woods,”
Security Bank “Your Bank For Life,” “Have it Your Way,”
Maxwell House, CBS TV, 18 Walt Disney Co. Movies, Consultant to CBS TV News,
Toyota, Oscar Mayer, Sheraton Hotels, Colony Capital, The NME Hospital Group,
Antelope Valley School District, NEA, The Las Vegas Convention and
Visitors Bureau, The National Trial Lawyers Association.



The other lower information relates to James R Weller, not Tohme I think.
 
The IMPORTANT information that I see in this is that Thome WAS with Michael when he passed according to Jermaine.....WHY would Jermaine lie???......Personally I dont think he would.!!!!....Thome is a very shady character......IMHO..this is why he has been so quiet since Micheal died.
 
The IMPORTANT information that I see in this is that Thome WAS with Michael when he passed according to Jermaine.....WHY would Jermaine lie???......Personally I dont think he would.!!!!....Thome is a very shady character......IMHO..this is why he has been so quiet since Micheal died.

I was thinking it could posssibly be a misinterpretation by the media?

The article:

"At a brief news conference in the auditorium of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center this evening, Jermaine Jackson sighed audibly several times before addressing reporters.

“This is hard,” he said softly. “My brother, the legendary King of Pop, passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:26 p.m.... It is believed he passed away of cardiac arrest.”

He said Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Tohme R. Tohme, was with him at the house and had tried to resuscitate him. He said paramedics also tried to revive his brother and “upon arriving at the hospital at 1:14 p.m., a team of doctors, including emergency physicians and a cardiologist, worked to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour but were unsuccessful.“

Jackson said a definitive cause of death would not be known until an autopsy is performed."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/michael-jackson-jermaine-jackson.html

Could it be that he said 'his personal physician', and the media misinterpreted that as being tohme, as he was known as Mike's physician for a long time?
Um, will do a youtube search.
 
Yeap, he did not state that.

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As to why Tohme is there, it's beyond my comprehension.
 
Dr Tohme brokered a deal between Jackson and Colony Capital, a private-equity firm run by billionaire Tom Barrack Jr. Philip Anschutz, owner of AEG Live, the US entertainment giant which went on to handle the final tour, then received a call from Mr Barrack, his friend. Randy Phillips, AEG chief executive, said: "I got a call from Dr Tohme, who said Michael was in bad financial straits." Last December, Mr Phillips presented Dr Tohme with his vision. "Phase one would be 10 shows at the O2," he said.
But as the pressure of what had grown to 50 shows mounted, it would appear that Dr Tohme - the very man who had "saved" him from financial ruin - was no longer welcome in Jackson's life.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ver-doctor-who-tried-to-save-dying-jackson.do

So the original vision of Randy Philips really was 10 shows then? Thanks for posting this.
 
I found this, I think it sums it up preety well:

"Conrad Murray

Jackson's personal physician, cardiologist Conrad Murray, was the man pumping frantically on the pop star's chest on a bed in the AEG-rented Holmby Hills mansion on June 25, as an aide called 911.

Since described as a "financially strapped Vegas physician" by America's media, Murray had closed down his medical firm, Global Cardiovascular Associates Inc, just ten days before Jackson died.

In a letter to patients, Murray said that "because of a once in a lifetime opportunity, I had to make the most difficult decision to cease practice of medicine indefinitely".

With his car since impounded by police and having undertaken two interviews with authorities, Murray has also faced unproven claims of culpability and pill procurement.


Tohme Tohme

Struggling to remain composed, Jermaine Jackson confirmed the shock death of his brother at a UCLA press conference.

He walked off stage and hugged Dr Tohme R Tohme.

Not a practicing doctor, Dr Tohme had been the dead singer's unofficial manager for several years, in what one insider called Jackson's "vagabond existence" flitting between countries and on the largesse of others.

Dr Tohme was dropped from his managerial role earlier this year - but he wasn't out of the scene for long.

He has since admitted to Fox News that he is unlicenced and would not say where or in what he specialised in.

Believed to be Lebanese, Dr Tohme describes himself as the "Ambassador at Large" for the country of Senegal - a claim apparently disputed by diplomats.

On his website, TRW Advertising, Dr Tohme says his co-owner is a winner of Venice and Cannes film festivals as well as being responsible for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign.

Early last year Jermaine Jackson asked Dr Tohme to help solve the financial crisis as his brother Michael defaulted on a mortgage payment for Neverland. Dr Tohme knew who to call.

“You are talking about a guy who could make $500m a year if he puts his mind to it.”


In addition to being responsible for airing a 240-second King of Pop promo for ticket sales on British TV, Dr Tohme did more mundane corporate videos.

One video was for property investment firm Colony Capital, so Dr Tohme called owner Thomas Barrack in March, 2008.


Thomas Barrack

Within a week of Dr Tohme's call Colony Capital boss Barrack visited Las Vegas where Jackson was holed up in a non-descript housing compound.

The frail singer was struggling with debt nearing $400m (£240m) and was being moved around in a wheelchair.

Barrack became the owner of Neverland's decaying 2,700-acres and rumours circulated of a plan to subdivide and sell Neverland in 100-acre parcels.

But Barrack was hit hard by the credit crunch and is working on a public float of a subsidiary.

His investment funds have stakes throughout the US, and in retailer Carrefour, football team Paris St Germain and even London's Savoy Hotel.

The lawyer and former political appointee knows Neverland well, having lived on a nearby 1,200-acre ranch since 1992.

While Neverland is only 10 miles away, another sprawling property 14 miles in the other direction is owned by Barrack's former boss, President Ronald Reagan.

Barrack also saw the value in getting Jackson performing again.

"You are talking about a guy who could make US$500m a year if he puts his mind to it," he said recently.

"There are very few individual artists who are multi-billion dollar businesses. And he is one."

The guy was willing to leave his practice for a very large sum of money so we hired him. , AEG Live's Randy Phillips on Dr Conrad Murray

It was Barrack who called in pal and business tycoon Philip Anschutz, who controls concert production firm AEG Live.

The president and chief executive of AEG Live, lawyer Randy Phillips, estimated Jackson would make up to US$100m from the 50 London concerts - perhaps rising to US$500m for a world tour.

Yet Phillips downplayed his firm's motives.

"We're not in this for the money - we're taking a huge risk on Michael," he said.

Indeed they were.


As the world awaits the toxicology results for the dead singer, Phillips' firm has come under intense scrutiny over the role of one of its contract workers - Conrad Murray.

"Michael insisted on hiring Dr Murray, because he told us he was his personal physician... that he had been Michael's personal physician for three years," Mr Phillips told Sky News exclusively.

"The guy was willing to leave his practice for a very large sum of money so we hired him."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sh...-Tohme-Thomas-Barrack/Article/200907115327857
 
It's a matter of dot-to-dot isnt it. Except after MJ died, they threw all these dots at us and now its hard to work out which dot to draw to next. Thanx for that article.
 
In a letter to patients, Murray said that "because of a once in a lifetime opportunity, I had to make the most difficult decision to cease practice of medicine indefinitely".


I'm sorry but I don't quite get it...
Murray told his patients he ceased practice of medicine INDEFINITELY?
Why?
How long would his contract with Michael last? 1 year? 2 years? wouldn't it end after the O2 concerts?
So what would a trained 56 yo doctor do after his contract expired?Wouldn't he carry on his profession?
So either he was planning to stick to MJ forever (!?!) OR...
he knew he would spend the rest of his life...away from his patients.
In jail? In the Carribean? Not with them and not under medical capacity whatsoever.
 
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Murray isnt even practising medicine now despite media claims.
 
No one has seen the contract, but I'm guessing he was employed for the amount of time that the concerts would last. Since AEG contract is so vague in that matter (30, 50 concerts, I think they even said that Mike would of toured the world after the London concerts), that might be the reason.
 
I really do believe that Tohme may be the one we should be watching. He's at the very center of this. He's the one that links all the others together (Michael, Jermaine and the family, Grace, NOI, Randy Phillips, Colony Capital...) He has ties with all of them. Those initial reports that we heard on the 26th and 27th that listed him as the doctor that was with Michael when he passed (and injected him beforehand) may be the real story. At the very least, we know he was at the hospital and then with Jermaine when he broke the news.

I'm starting to think that maybe some of Murray's dumb lies weren't lies after all...
Like maybe he really didn't know the address... because maybe he had only been there a few times...
Maybe the phone lines really weren't working...?

I still think he's guilty as hell and should be charged, but I don't think he's alone in this and I don't think he's the one at the root of it all.

Like I've said before, I think the truth is in a lot of the stuff that came out immediately after; before people got together to talk, before they were influenced by others' opinions, before they had time to come up with another story, before they were told to keep quiet. We need to go back to beginning and start there.
 
I really do believe that Tohme may be the one we should be watching.

The thing is that no one can watch him as he went underground within the first few weeks after MJ's death.

No one has seen the contract, but I'm guessing he was employed for the amount of time that the concerts would last. Since AEG contract is so vague in that matter (30, 50 concerts, I think they even said that Mike would of toured the world after the London concerts), that might be the reason.

I dont think the contract existed until after MJ died as a cover up story for AEG to say that it was MJ's idea to hire him. This puts the blame on MJ and not on them. Remember MJ never signed Murray's contract. There would have been plenty of time for MJ to scribble down his signature on the 11 days prior that Murray had been treating MJ. Im sure Murray who has a lot of financial issues would have wanted that contract signed ASAP.
 
I really do believe that Tohme may be the one we should be watching. He's at the very center of this. He's the one that links all the others together (Michael, Jermaine and the family, Grace, NOI, Randy Phillips, Colony Capital...) He has ties with all of them. Those initial reports that we heard on the 26th and 27th that listed him as the doctor that was with Michael when he passed (and injected him beforehand) may be the real story. At the very least, we know he was at the hospital and then with Jermaine when he broke the news.

I'm starting to think that maybe some of Murray's dumb lies weren't lies after all...
Like maybe he really didn't know the address... because maybe he had only been there a few times...
Maybe the phone lines really weren't working...?

I still think he's guilty as hell and should be charged, but I don't think he's alone in this and I don't think he's the one at the root of it all.

Like I've said before, I think the truth is in a lot of the stuff that came out immediately after; before people got together to talk, before they were influenced by others' opinions, before they had time to come up with another story, before they were told to keep quiet. We need to go back to beginning and start there.

Yes, I always thought there was something wrong with these incredibly dumb answers and explanations/lies that Murray had been issuing.

Like, what did he mean, "He was at the wrong place at the wrong time?"

And what about Thome following MJ's body from the helicopter to the coroner van???

Why was Thome @ the Press conference after he had been fired by Michael?

I don't like his aura one bit and the fact that he is connected to a major music label is unsettling.
 
Reportedly Tohme was stuck with MJ for O2 concert purposes only-I got across this somewhere.
IMO he was placed there to watch his every move.

Looks like a death triangle to me:
-Tohme/AEG/CC surrounding MJ with a plan to undo him
-Murray picked to play the role of the idiot dr
-TII-MJ's desperate messages to the fans
 
Frank said that Michael did not have enough money to buy a camera and record the rehearsals ,but we know that his kids on all the kids of cameras at home and play with them like toys......Frank want us to believe that AGE were kind enough to give Mj money from TII rehearsal ,,,,,but the fact is that MJ own all the mony that come from the film and DVD....Frank also is a lair.

do not forget that MJ own the rehearsal for Bad and dangerouse and even History but we could not see yet.

all i want to say is : do not forget to include frank , he knew alot of things .
 
The thing is that no one can watch him as he went underground within the first few weeks after MJ's death.



I dont think the contract existed until after MJ died as a cover up story for AEG to say that it was MJ's idea to hire him. This puts the blame on MJ and not on them. Remember MJ never signed Murray's contract. There would have been plenty of time for MJ to scribble down his signature on the 11 days prior that Murray had been treating MJ. Im sure Murray who has a lot of financial issues would have wanted that contract signed ASAP.

that's right.
 
Yes, I always thought there was something wrong with these incredibly dumb answers and explanations/lies that Murray had been issuing.

Like, what did he mean, "He was at the wrong place at the wrong time?"

And what about Thome following MJ's body from the helicopter to the coroner van???

Why was Thome @ the Press conference after he had been fired by Michael?

I don't like his aura one bit and the fact that he is connected to a major music label is unsettling.

I agree. "wrong place at the wrong time"?

And odd thing for someone to say after killing a man.

So what is this about the Tohme following the helicopter and the van?
 
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