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Weil, Leah
Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:01 AM
Schlessel, Peter; Steinberg, David
Fw: Jackson statement

Ps - good thing we took our approach!

----- Original Message ----From: Weil, Leah
To: Schlessel, Peter; Steinberg, David
Sent: Thu Jul 30 07:59:49 2009
Subject: Re: Jackson statement
Certainly seems like there's some bad blood and they don't know how to deal with her appropriately. Looking like they're trying to hide the
ball never a good idea for fiduciaries...
----- Original Message ----From: Schlessel, Peter
To: Steinberg, David; Weil, Leah
Sent: Thu Jul 30 05:49:17 2009
Subject: Fw: Jackson statement

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From: Kennedy, Jim

To: Lynton, Michael; Pascal, Amy; Schlessel, Peter; Elzer, Steve
Sent: Thu Jul 30 05:25:18 2009
Subject: Jackson statement
Article from a "hollywood access" site...
"We hope that Michael Jackson Estate does not get messy. Here is an official statement released by Katherine Jackson concerning
reports about Michael Jackson Estate.
Mrs. Jackson continues to serve as her sons most trusted and loyal advocate even in death. In an effort to gain more facts concerning a
suspicious circle of relationships, unnotarized will and an undisclosed trust, both drafted in 2002, which grant the executors and trustees
thereunder very broad powers, Mrs Jackson has sought formal discovery of the temporary special administrators of her sons estate. The
Court has made clear that it will consider Mrs. Jacksons demand for expedited discovery, and all other serious issues relating to the
estate, on August 3rd. We are confident that at that time the court will allow Mrs Jackson full discovery.
To be clear, neither Mrs. Jackson nor her representatives seek to re-write her sons will. Her concerns are and remain the welfare of her
sons surviving children, the preservation of his legacy and the protection of his estate. Unfortunately, and contrary to their public
statements, lawyers for John Branca and John McClain have either denied Mrs. Jackson access to critical information or insisted on such
onerous and unreasonable restrictions on her access to and use of such information as to be tantamount to an outright refusal of certain
agreements, such as the AEG agreement . The contract in question is of great potential significance to the estate, and the matters
currently before the Probate Court, and yet the confidentiality terms presented to Mrs. Jackson by the temporary special administrators
and AEG would have required her to accept greater confidentiality obligations than the temporary special administrators and greater than
what her son agreed to. This was unacceptable. Such unreasonable demands, coupled with the special administrators apparent concern
for protecting AEG at the expense of Mrs. Jackson, raise serious concerns. Mrs. Jackson is looking for transparency in terms of the
administration of her sons estate. Because this transparency has not been forthcoming, she was forced to resort to making formal
discovery requests. Such measures will not be necessary if Mrs. Jackson is appointed a co-executor of the estate. She was the only
person who served as a trustee and/or co-manager of Michaels business interests at the time of his death and over the past four years.
The will expressly allows for an appointment of the vacated third member. No one should deny Mrs. Jackson the right to help preserve and
administer Michaels legacy especially those whom had almost no contact with Michael for numerous years prior to his death.
This is from Katherines Lawyer, we will keep you updated about the whole Michael Jackson Estate."

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