Fans knew Conrad Murray was in debt four years ago!

Michael Jackson in Lyon 1997

A second witness called in the wrongful death lawsuit, Los Angeles Police Detective Orlando Martinez, said cell phone records showed that Dr. Conrad Murray called his girlfriend, Nicole Alvarez, at 1:08 p.m. on June 25, 2009, a minute after the ambulance carrying him and Michael Jackson left the Carolwood home for the UCLA Medical Center.

“Do you have an opinion as to the substance of that call?” Brian Panish, a lawyer representing Michael's mother and children asked Martinez.

“Yes,” the lawman replied, explaining that he had interviewed Alvarez and served a search warrant at her Santa Monica address.

“What was determined?” Panish asked.

“I found one piece of paper with Dr. Murray’s name — that had fallen behind the door of a cabinet — in the entire apartment (where) he’d been staying at (for) at least two months,” Martinez replied.

Panish asked whether he found that suspicious.

“Yes,” Martinez replied. “He was living there, and none of his stuff was there.”

Murray's 2011 trial revealed that he had had pharmacy shipments sent to Alvarez’s address, including Propofol.


Martinez told jurors his investigation led him to conclude that Murray was deep in debt at the time of Michael's death, giving him a financial motive to provide the anaesthetic Propofol as a treatment for insomnia.

On Tuesday, Martinez told jurors that Murray was about to lose his home to foreclosure and was approximately $500,000 in debt when he negotiated a $150,000-per-month agreement to act as Michael's personal physician for “This Is It”. The contract was never signed by Michael, however it was revealed by AEG lawyer Putnam that Michael Jackson was paying Murray during the last two months of his life. 

"He was paying for him during his entire time in Los Angeles and during the time we're talking about, Dr. Conrad Murray was being paid by Michael Jackson," he said. "We know this. We know this because the plaintiffs have said so."

Martinez covered more financial ground in testimony Wednesday, saying Murray had a history of unpaid rent on his Las Vegas office and was delinquent in paying his taxes.

“(It’s) just some more evidence of him being in financial dire straits,” Martinez said.

He said police also ran credit reports on Murray.

“If anyone would have run the credit report, they would have got the same information?” Panish asked.

“Yes,” Martinez said.

Well, some of us fans investigated Murray in 2009, and we found out about his debt purely by looking on the internet. Yet there is an email from Randy Phillips, AEG Live President, to Kenny Ortega saying :

“This doctor is extremely successful (we check everyone out) and does not need this gig, so he is totally unbiased and ethical.”

Yeah. Right.