The family of Michael Jackson will arrive in a courtroom today seeking a staggering $40bn (€30bn) in damages for the singer's death in what would be one of the largest wrongful death settlements in history.It is nearly four years since Jackson was found lifeless in a Beverly Hills mansion, after a lethal dose of the prescription anaesthetic propofol, but the bitter recriminations over who was responsible are about to get even nastier.
The incompetence of Conrad Murray, the performer's personal physician who has already been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, was the direct cause of his demise.
But Jackson's family, led by their 82-year-old matriarch Katherine Jackson, will spend the next three months attempting to prove the overall fault lay with AEG Live, a corporate entertainment behemoth that was bankrolling his planned series of comeback concerts at the O2 Arena in London.
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