Randy Phillips

okay.

Randy Phillips.

Okay.

Yeah.

No, he lives above Zuma.

Did you know?

I met him briefly once with Randy Phillips.

But I didn't know he was living in Malibu.

And unfortunately, I couldn't go to it because my dad passed away.

So I had a friend of mine from Stanford, Randy Phillips.

He came in and ran the show for me because he was doing shows up at Stanford.

So unfortunately, I never got to meet, you know...

This was a lot of fun.

I enjoyed this.

One other thing that Mark, my friend Mark Purdy, hello Mark, wanted me to ask you about was the What's It Club in Santa Clara.

Yeah.

Many experts and biographers believe Michael was cornered by his own death.

The company's CEO, Randy Phillips, was effectively controlling his life during that period.

Even if Michael was against 50 dates, the financial obligations to the organizers, who already invested 20 to 30 million into the show, left him with no real choice.

In early June, Michael often didn't show up to rehearsals at all.

The pressure was directed at his personal physician, Conrad Murray.

He was being pressured under the threat of losing his $150,000 a month salary, paid not by Michael, but by the company itself.

In one email addressed to Kenny Ortega, co-CEO of AEG Live, Paul Gongaware wrote, "We want to remind Murray that it is AEG, not MJ, who is paying his salary.

We want to remind him what is expected of him." Interestingly, when Paul Gongaware was questioned about this email during deposition, he answered, "I don't recall," more than 30 times.