Michael Jacksons former concert promoter drops $17.5 million Insurance claim

Pop KingMichael Jackson's former concert promoter AEG Live has decided to withdraw a $17.5 million insurance claim from 2009 after an email giving an insight into the state of Jackson's wellbeing before his death got leaked. The email, written by the chief executive concert division AEG Live, Randy Phillips, and published in Los Angeles Times on September 2, informed about the sorry state of the star just before his shocking death. It read, “MJ is locked in his room drunk and despondent. I trying to sober him up". However, the AEG Live insisted that the leaked email has nothing to do with the reversal of the court case. "We are standing by AEG's lawyers comments that the withdrawal of the claim was not related to the leaked emails," Paul Schriffer, an attorney for the underwriters at Lloyd's of London, said. The insurance dispute was one of two major court cases that have arisen from Jackson's death, while the other is a ‘wrongful death’ lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson.