Michael Jackson's family demands MSNBC ax Conrad Murray documentary

Michael Jackson's family demands MSNBC ax Conrad Murray documentary

Executors for the estate of Michael Jackson demanded Wednesday that MSNBC drop its plan to air a "reprehensible" documentary that promises a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the singer's relationship with Dr. Conrad Murray, but which they charged smears the late pop icon.

In a letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin and the cable channel's corporate overseers, the Jackson representatives argued that Murray, convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, uses the documentary "to shift the blame post-conviction to Michael Jackson, even though a jury considered the evidence and rejected this very argument."

MSNBC purchased "Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship" from a British production company and plans to air it Friday and Monday night, along with an "exclusive" interview with Murray by NBC News correspondent Savannah Guthrie.

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury convicted Murray for administering propofol, a surgical anesthetic, to Jackson and then failing to monitor the pop star as he stopped breathing.

MSNBC representatives had said earlier that the cable channel did not pay for access to Murray or contribute to his legal defense.

The producer of the documentary, October Films, said it paid only $1 for two years of access to Murray and a behind-the-scenes look at his legal defense.

Representatives of MSNBC and October Films said they did not know what arrangements might have been made by the film's distributor, Zodiak Rights. Zodiak representatives could not be reached.

The Jackson family representatives questioned whether additional payments were made to Murray.

"Was it really only $1, or was it more?" said a letter from John Branca and John McClain, who are co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate.

MSNBC did not immediately respond to the demand to cancel the airing of the documentary.

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[JULIEterracottawarrior1028@hotmail.com]

MSNBC.... AIDING AND ABETTING, MORE LIES AND FAKE QUOTES. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE AGE OLD SAYING "DEAD MEN CAN'T TALK" WELL MAYBE MICHAEL CAN'T! BUT WE CAN!.....NO WONDER THE WORLD IS SO SHITTY.....BOYCOTT MSNBC, PURSUE MURRAY UNTIL HE'S TOTALLY RUINED AND TO HELL WITH ALL THE M.J BASHERS THAT CONTINUE TO SUPPORT MURRAY AND SPEW OUT THEIR WORTHLESS,MIS-INFORMED OPINIONS!...MAY YOU ALL SUFFER A LIFE OF MISERY! ...SHAME ON YOU, ALL.....MSNBC, YOU SUCK!!!

[HEIDI4MICHAEL]

As well as making every attemt possible to block this underhanded, sneaky, deplorable, backdoor, PREMEDITATED all-for-personal-profit "show", once AGAIN at the expense of Michael Jackson, WE NEED TO RESPECTFULLY PETITION JUDGE MICHAEL PASTOR AND ASK HIM TO ABSOLUTELY CONSIDER THIS PERSONAL PROFITEERING BY A CONVICTED CRIMINAL DURING THE SENTENCING PROCESS OF SAID CRIMINAL!!! What a stupid stupid man to have even attempted this at this time. Whereas he might have been sentenced to a year of house arrest due to prison overcrowding (and who cares......nobody asked you to break the law.....) NOW the book should ABSOLUTELY BE THROWN AT HIM IN THE SEVEREST POSSIBLE WAY !!!!!!!!!