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Sharon Osbourne has been subpoenaed to testify in the Michael Jackson civil trial and will present evidence regarding promotions company AEG Live's actions ahead of the This Is It tour.
The former X Factor judge was served with papers in LA yesterday (April 30), demanding she attend court and serve as a witness.
She told The Talk: "I was like, what do you do [after being served]? You do your duty. Somebody asks you to come to court, you are subpoenaed and you do your duty."
The subpoenae comes after Sharon revealed that she might have evidence to support Katherine Jackson's claim that AEG Live knew Michael was ill and were negligent in hiring Conrad Murray as his supervising doctor.
The told her TV show The Host: "There were certain people that worked at that company [AEG Live] that knew Michael Jackson was not well and didn't care because it was business. And, at the end of the day, whether he performed or he didn't, they would still make money, and I've had conversations with certain people at that company who have said exactly that to me.
"If they would like me to go to court, the Jackson family, I will stand up and tell you who said that to me."
This morning it was reported that Jackson's doctor, Condrad Murray was deeply in debt when he was hired to care for the star, and that he was expecting to recieve £96,000 a month to work for Jackson.
Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011
LA County paramedic Richard Senneff, who was one of the medics who responded to the 911 call on the night of Jackson's death in 2009, said in evidence: "The patient was very pale and underweight. He looked like someone who was at the end stage of a long disease process."
Senneff also said that Jackson showed signs of having been dead for nearly an hour and that Murray was "frantic" and evasive when questioned about the incident, Reuters reports.
LAPD homicide dectective Orlando Martinez, one of the first witnesses called in the case, said that Murray claimed in an interview shortly after the singer's death that he had been hired by the singer and not the promotions company, but Martinez added that a clause in the doctor's contract showed an arrangement between the doctor and AEG Live.
The £25bn civil court battle continues.
