Day 6 of Court: Conrad Murray’s Girlfriends
On the sixth day of the trial for Michael Jackson’s involuntary manslaughter, three of the accused man’s girlfriends took the stand. The judge did not allow the prosecutor to enter the personal sphere of Murray and his girlfriends. All of Conrad Murray’s girlfriends said they met him in Las Vegas nightclubs or Houston bars.
Randy and Rebi were the only members of the Jackson family in court yesterday.
Said Anding, a waitress at a Houston, Texas beverage shop, told the court that on the day Michael died, she was busy talking with Conrad Murray when she suddenly heard an indistinct commotion and Murray stopped responding. The prosecutor says this is the time when Murray realized Michael’s condition was getting worse.
Anding, who had met the defendant in February 2009 at the club where she worked, said that at 11:51 on June 25, Murray called her. Anding says:
“We were talking, and I was telling him about what happened that day, when I realized he wasn’t responding to me.”
At 11:57—according to the prosecution’s belief—was the time when Murray realized Michael wasn’t breathing. The call to emergency services wasn’t made until 12:20. In the days leading up to this, emergency doctors said Michael had a chance of surviving if he had arrived at the hospital sooner.
Anding said: “I heard muffled sounds… I heard coughing… but no one answered.”
Anding kept the phone on the line, and after 3 minutes the call was cut off.
On July 23, 2009, Anding’s father told her that the police had come to question her. Anding called Murray, and Murray told her he didn’t understand why the police wanted to talk to her. Murray then gave her the number of his lawyer and emphasized that she should only speak to the police in the presence of her lawyer.
Michelle Bella, another girlfriend who was a nude dancer at a Las Vegas nightclub, had met Murray at a club in February 2008. On the day Michael died, at 8:35, Murray sent a text message to Bella, but the judge did not allow the prosecutor to read it.
Judge Pastor also did not allow the prosecutor to read a voicemail Murray had left for Bella nine days before Michael died. But when the prosecutor asked the witness whether Murray had expressed hope in that voicemail that he would meet her at the club before leaving for London for the This Is It concerts, the answer was yes.
The judge said Bella’s response would not be recorded in the court documents, but the jury clearly heard it.
Nicole Alvarez, who had a child with Murray, said that in 2005 she met Murray at a café in Las Vegas.
Since Murray was a married man, in 2009—while he was working for Michael—he lived with Alvarez in an apartment in Santa Monica. Alvarez said that in March 2009, Murray took her and their newborn baby to Michael’s home to visit him.
Alvarez talked about one of several times she visited Michael:
“When I saw him, my tongue was tied. I couldn’t believe I was meeting Michael Jackson.”
Alvarez also said that when Michael was being taken to the hospital inside an ambulance, Murray—who was also in the ambulance—called her.
“He said he was on the way to the hospital with Mr. Jackson, and he told me not to worry if I heard anything in the news.”
As you read, Bridgette Morgan, another girlfriend of Conrad Murray, had also said in court yesterday that at 11:26—30 minutes before Murray realized Michael had stopped breathing—she had called Conrad Murray.
Stacy Ragels, an employee of Conrad Murray, said she called Murray at 10:43 on the day Michael died and spoke with him for 8.5 minutes, and then called him again at 11:07.
Ragels said that in April 2009, Murray told her he worked for Michael Jackson.
The prosecutor wants to show that Michael Jackson’s doctor spent his time on his phone instead of caring for him.
The last witness yesterday, Tim Lopez, who owned a pharmacy in Las Vegas, testified that he had sent more than 4 gallons of propofol to Nicole Alvarez’s apartment in Santa Monica.
Nicole Alvarez testified that medication packages were sent to her apartment, but she never looked inside those packages and was unaware of their contents.
Tim Lopez said that from April to June 2009, Dr. Murray ordered 255 vials of propofol. He said Murray never informed him how these drugs were to be used and that they were for Michael Jackson.
Murray first ordered 35 vials of propofol on April 6. That number rose to 65 on April 28 and May 12. On June 10, 90 vials were ordered.
This information contradicts the defense attorneys’ claim that Murray was trying to prevent Michael from using propofol and therefore gradually reduced the amount of medication he gave him.
Another drug Murray had ordered was a cream for vitiligo, a skin disease. Murray told Lopez that some of his Black patients suffered from this condition.
Source: eMJey.com / CNN