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19Dec/110

Judge approves pay bump for Jackson estate execs (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2011 file photo, singer Katy Perry arrives at the 39th Annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles. Perry is MTV's first artist of the year. MTV said Thursday that Perry's achievement of tying Michael Jackson with five No. 1 singles from the same album made her omnipresent in pop culture.  (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - A judge approved a pay bump Monday for the executors of Michael Jackson's estate who turned the debt-ridden singer's portfolio into a business that has earned hundreds of millions of dollars since his death.

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18Dec/110

Michael Jackson house contents sell for nearly $1M (AP)

Paula Pereira, from San Clemente, Calif., photographs a Michael Jackson-inscribed Victorian revival style armoire with the text 'Train, perfection March April Full out May' on the mirror during a private preview of contents of 100 North Carolwood Drive, the final home of Michael Jackson, that will be up for auction at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)AP - The contents of the home where Michael Jackson lived with his three children just before his death have sold for nearly $1 million at auction.

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14Dec/110

Jackson daughter tells ‘Ellen’ about acting dreams (AP)

In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo released by Warner Bros., talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, right, welcomes Paris Jackson, daughter of the late pop star Michael Jackson during a taping of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' in Burbank, Calif.  The episode will air on Thursday. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Michael Rozman)AP - Michael Jackson's daughter says she was inspired to be an actress after seeing her father in the film "Moonwalker."

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2Dec/110

Michael Jackson doctor files appeals notice in LA (AP)

Dr. Conrad Murray sits in court after he was sentenced to four years in county jail for his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of pop star Michael Jackson on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 in Superior Court in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool)AP - The doctor sentenced to four years behind bars for causing Michael Jackson's death has filed a notice that he intends to appeal the conviction.

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30Nov/110

Jackson case highlights celebrity medicine culture (AP)

Dr. Conrad Murray sits in court after he was sentenced to four years in county jail for his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of pop star Michael Jackson on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 in Superior Court in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool)AP - Michael Jackson's personal doctor received the maximum punishment in the pop singer's death but not before a scolding from the judge for violating his Hippocratic oath and engaging in "money-for-medicine madness."

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30Nov/110

Audio helped sway judge to give Jackson doc jail (AP)

In this frame grab made from pool video, Dr. Conrad Murray listens as Judge Michael Pastor sentences him to the maximum four years in county jail for his involuntary manslaughter conviction of pop star Michael Jackson, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 on Superior Court in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Pool, CNN)AP - The voice of Michael Jackson helped put the man who killed him behind bars.

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29Nov/110

Jackson doctor gets 4-year sentence, judge’s ire (AP)

Dr. Conrad Murray turns to the courtroom audience after he was sentenced to four years in county jail for his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of pop star Michael Jackson on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 in Superior Court in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool)AP - It was clear that Michael Jackson's doctor was going to get the maximum four-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter before the judge even finished speaking.

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29Nov/110

Jackson doctor called suicidal after verdict (AP)

Dr. Conrad Murray turns to the courtroom audience after he was sentenced to four years in county jail for his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of pop star Michael Jackson on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 in Superior Court in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool)AP - The doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars Tuesday by a judge who denounced him as a reckless physician whose actions were a "disgrace to the medical profession."

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28Nov/110

Doctor to be sentenced for Michael Jackson’s death (AP)

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 Dr. Conrad Murray waits to leave the courtroom during the final stage of his defense in his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of singer Michael Jackson. Murray, who faces four years behind bars, returns to court Tuesday, Nov. 29, for the first time since his involuntary manslaughter conviction to learn his punishment and face the singer's family and ardent fans one more time. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool, File)AP - Michael Jackson's doctor will face the singer's distraught family and ardent fans one more time when he returns to court for sentencing in the death of the superstar from an overdose of an operating-room anesthetic he was receiving to battle insomnia.

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23Nov/110

Prosecutors seek 4-year sentence for Jackson doc (AP)

AP - Prosecutors who depicted Michael Jackson's doctor as remorseless for the superstar's death urged a judge Wednesday to sentence him to four years in prison, while a defense lawyer said Dr. Conrad Murray is in a prison of self-punishment and should receive probation.

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