Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial and acquittal on child sex abuse charges may be revisited in a civil lawsuit next month that pits the pop singer’s mother against concert promoters AEG Live, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Thursday.
Katherine Jackson is suing AEG Live for the wrongful death of her son, alleging that the concert promoter was negligent in hiring Dr Conrad Murray to care for the singer ahead of a series of London comeback concerts set for July 2009.
Jackson, 50, died in June 2009 in Los Angeles after a rehearsal for the concerts. Murray was found guilty in 2011 of responsibility for Jackson’s death by giving him the surgical anaesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, and is serving a four-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter.