Cherilyn Lee
Chernoff
has reviewed her charts duing the evening
She's not feeling well, Judge Pastor allows her to take a rest.
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She has phd in nutrition, attended classes about Iv nutrition, is a certified nutritionnist
Believes in holistic medicines, explains why : was medically challenged, at age 7 almost got both of her legs amputated for exema, one doctor stood out and said he wouldn't amputate her legs, she wants to give back to others what this doctor gave to her. Went into comas. Says «* you don't have to be ill*».
Chernof shows her her records; wants to clear the dates
April 12 : MJ said he wanted products for sleep , he didn't say what he wanted exactly
April 19 : went to Mjs house in the morning to pepare hil a smoothie, B12. MJ said he had trouble sleeping, brought up the idea of her watching him sleep. Said he had a pattern of 2 to 3 hours sleep.
Then CL came back in evening , went to his room, at around or after 11pm.
CL said MJ asked for diprivan for the 1st time in the morning, she didn't know what it was. MJ said tDirprivan was the only medication that gets him to sleep right away. They had talked about natural ways, and sleep hygiene (lights on, phone near head), that's why he asked her to watch him to sleep. She brought him a docuentary from sleep doctors.
She tried to understand why he couldn't sleep. MJ said he had difficulty to sleep right away, he had tried everything; She didn't know what diprivan was. She doesn't know if he had received it in the past, he had a familiarity with it.
Befeore coming back in the evening, she searched what diprivan was, called a doctor. The doctor explained what it was , said it was never used at home. She was still at the house when she called the doctor, she stepped out (she had to step out, she had a poor phone), and called the doctor. She told MJ all that the doctor told her. MJ said doctors had told him it was safe, he thought he would be safe he if he had someone home to monitor him.
She went to her office , got her PDR , and showed the PDR to MJ. He said he had had diprivan for surgery, had fallen asleep easily , needed to rest to work.
Chernoff asks her to check her records.
Yesterdy she said the he slept for 5 hours when she watched him, actually MJ slept for 3 hours based on her medical records.
MJ mentionned no other doctors to CL.
MJ said that when he was in rehearsal , he couldn't go to sleep.
After he woke up on the 19th, after 3 hours, he wasn't happy, he wanted to sleep longer. Mentionned dirpivan again, said it was the only thing that will help me go to sleep right away, asked CL to help him find someone who could do it.
MJ got up, complained that he hadn't slept, his performance would't be good.
She never saw him again, she would have gone back there for nutrition
June 21st : received a call from Faheem Mohammed in the morning. FM called to say MJ wanted to see her. She could hear mj in the background «*tell her what's wrong with me, one half of my body is hot, one half is cold*». She told Fm that someone needed to take him to the hospital. CL was in Florida when she got the call.
She saw a battery of symptoms from Diprivan in the PDR, she was worried; She mentionned the incident to the police, she thought it could be a central nervous system problem. It was one of the symptoms she had gone through with MJ.
In July 09, when she talked to the police, she didn't know what medication MJ was taking.
Walgren :
CL has been a nurse practionner since around the 80s, 82.
Got her PhD in holistic medicine in about 86
jan 29 : she saw the kids for a cold
feb 1st , came back to give nutritional supplements
she kept records
she did a thorough medical check up, MJ said he had vitilago, lupus
redbull cans were obiuous, she knew MJ was drinking Redbull
MJ went to sleep with lights on, music on , movies on, it was something that could be remedied
She documented everything
When MJ was performing, MJ said «*people wuld have to mop the floor for sweating*»
February 1st progress notes Walgren : «*may I appraoch the witness to reference a particular page*» : she took his vital signs (BP, pulse rate, respiratory rate, asked for his weight)
One of the plans was to do lab work : he wanted to start a nutritional program, so wanted to find out where he was with his health
drew blood, MJ had small veins
advised MJ to stop drinking redbull
went through the lab results with MJ, had a long comprehensive visit to go through them with him
february 2nd progress notes, february 3rd progress notes : documented complaints if any, findings, her impressions, her recommendations
februray 16th documented his BP, discussed the lab results; the con tinuing plan was : MJ needs to discontinue the redbull drinks.
Performed 2 lab works, second one was because she wanted to see the effect of the treatment ; MJ had greatly improved, his results were normal
march 9 : documented complaints if any, findings, her impressions, her recommendations . Lab results consultation : went through the lab results with MJ.
March 13 progress note : documented complaints if any, findings, her impressions, her recommendations
March 16 : no complaints, feels good, recommendation for vitamins, myers cocktail, further nutrition supplements;
march 20th, 24 th Stream went off for a few minutes
april 19th stream goes off again
April 19th morning conversation ; Mj requested observation : someone to observe him sleep , to watch his sleep pattern of 3 hours. He asks for diprivan, she had never heard of propfol, never used it. She had to search, made a phone call, and found out it's use in hospital , for surgery or in the icu.
Advised Mj that it was not safe to use it at hme, it's used in hospital for surgery , MJ assured her it would be safe, he only needed a doctor to monitor him.
Brought back the PDR from her office, showed to it to MJ, explained to him the side effects.
PDR states a great deal of side effects, some f them were dizziness, agitation , chills, tremblig, memory loss.
CL asked MJ «* what if you forget your lines*», he said he would never forget his lines, he said again that doctors told him he would be safe. «*What if you don't wake up*» , he said I'll be fine if I have a doctor to monitor me with the equipment.
CL starts crying. She wants to say something , the judge says no, you can only answer questions.s
night of April 19 : at 12 15 MJ fell asleep, he woke up a 3 15. He said he needed diprivan IV, again CL said it would be dangerous, MJ repeated he would be Ok if a doctor monitored him.
She never saw MJ again.
July 2009, CL was interviewed by police. She said she told MJ «*no one who cared or had your best interet at heart would give it to you*»
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She gave interviews to Larry King, and to several other media oulets, prior to talking the police . Cl explains one of her patient is a PR, who had a relationship with the media
June 21st : the call was in the morning , doesn't remember what time, she was exhausted, she was in the ER as a patient.
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Amir Dan Rubin
Chernoff
Hospital executive, Stanford hopsital.
June 25th, was chief operating executive at UCLA medical center.
UCLA is multi story hospital, ER is on the ground floor. In patient building is one building, there several other building. His office i
ER is 200 feet north, through some doors and hallways from his office.
To go from the West Lobby to the ER , you ccan walk through a lobby, or go outside to the west lobby.
He was working on June 25th, first learned that MJ was at UCLA through the ER. They said there was a person of interest, he didn't know it was MJ.
Er was fonctioning routinely, doesn't recall the time it was , MJ was in a trauma room. He didn't look inside the room; Stayed outside the room, securing the area for privacy and security. Called campus police, LAPD
Remembers people he presumed were security people, from Mjs staff. Later on, there were family members. In retrospect saw CM briefly. ADR stayed 45 mn in the ER.
Helped organise for conference rooms, 3 were used : one for the family, one for the police, another one in the west lobby for other people. The one in the west lobby was ued for a meeting about a press relase,. There were the head of UCLA PR , AEG people, Jermaine Jackson, maybe other persons. ADR was back and forth from the room.
Press release was given in the auditorium in the basement, it given by Jermaine Jackson, MJs brother.
Saw CM in the conference room, CM was reading the press release ,CM was commenting that the cause of death was not known at this time. He looked distresssed, as did everyone in the room. Didn't know he was a physician, ADR didn't differentiate him from othr people.
Walgren :
Katherine Jackson was notified by Richelle Cooper. ADR told the police he heard the anguish of a mom losing her son, it was not a good thing to hear.
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Randy Philips
President and CEO of AEG live, AEG is the parent group .
AEG :has sports teams, concert companies, Staples center , O2 in London. So they are in sports, concerts and venues.
O2 arena : similar to Staples center : 8000 to 17000 seats , for sports it can go up to 20 000; Opened in 2005
Has been CEO for 9.5 years : responsible for booking talents, making sure AEG Live meets its budget.
Headquartes of AEG live are in LA
it's providing the best talents in the best venues examples : Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake, Usher
AEG owns Staples center, AEG own veuesand operate venues, and sometime both owns and operate a venue.
shows in one venue only : it's mostly in Las Vegas. London is the greatest concert market (bigger than NYC and Toronto combined. Prince did 21 shows at the O2, Justin Timberlake did 6 (or 8), Beyonce 8(or 6) . The demand is geater in London
Prior to that, Randy Philips ran a record company, was partner in a entertainment company, worked with Bon Jovi, Prince, Simple Minds
Has been in entertainment for 30 years
first met MJ in the 90s , represented him in the LA Gear deal, was a consultant, reporting to John Branca. Brought the LA gear deal to Branca, with someone else.
Next time he saw MJ was in 2007, in a meeting. At the time he was the Ceo for AEG. Peter Lopez , representing Michael , contacted AEG .
Paul gongaware was an employee of AEG in 2007, PG worked on a tour with MJ in 1996.
Peter Lopez said he represented MJ, wanted to get in touch with AEG for a tour, Randy Philips knew Peter Lopez represented MJ, because MJ was in a meeting with Peter lopez and Mjs manager at the time, and Randy Philips.
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