LONDON: Michael Jackson’s family is demanding over £26BILLION in compensation from concert promoters over his death.
The star’s mother Katherine and his three children want £6.6billion to make up for his lost future earnings and a further £19.8billion in other damages the sun reported.
They go to court next month against AEG, which promoted what would have been a series of comeback concerts in London in 2009.
Jackson died aged 51 at his Los Angeles home weeks before the concerts were due to start, after being given a fatal overdose of the anaesthetic Propofol by his personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray.
The Jackson estate — including his daughter Paris, 14, and sons Prince, 16, and Blanket, 11 — allege AEG was negligent in hiring and supervising Murray, who was jailed last year for two years for Jackson’s involuntary manslaughter.
Murray had no experience of administering Propofol, use of which is restricted to hospital operating theatres, but agreed to inject the star regularly so he could sleep ahead of the gruelling schedule of 50 concerts at London’s O2 Arena.
Lawyers for AEG are expected to argue that the sum being sought is unrealistic as the career of the “King of Pop” was on a downward spiral when he agreed to the concerts.
The civil case begins on April 2 in LA.
Since his death Jackson’s estate has earned over £675million, a large chunk of which was used to pay off his £375million debts.
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