LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s 11-year-old daughter, Paris, curled up into a ball on the ground and cried when she saw her father’s lifeless body, a court has heard.
One of the first bodyguards to reach Jackson’s bedroom after the singer’s doctor called for help described how the singer’s children gathered at the doorway after his doctor had frantically tried to perform CPR.
Another bodyguard said the singer’s face was pointed towards Paris and she screamed: “Daddy!”
Dr Conrad Murray is accused of causing Jackson’s death by giving him propofol, which Jackson called his “milk”, to help him sleep. Murray denies a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
In the midst of the chaos, a bodyguard noticed that Jackson’s children, Prince and Paris, had gathered at the doorway. “Paris was on the ground, balled up, crying,” Faheem Muhammad said. He ushered the children out of the room and into a car so they could follow the ambulance.
Muhammad had been called by Michael Amir Williams, who was Jackson’s personal assistant. In turn, he dispatched bodyguard Alberto Alvarez to Jackson’s bedroom in the singer’s rented mansion in the ritzy Holmby Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
He described a heart-wrenching scene. By then, he said, Jackson was on the floor, where Murray, sweaty, was frantically performing CPR. Alvarez was pacing nervously, Muhammad told the jury.
When he saw Jackson up close, he understood why.
“Did he appear to be dead?” prosecutor David Walgren asked.
“Yes,” Muhammad replied. – Belfast Telegraph