Rev. Floyd Williams, a close friend of Dr. Conrad Murray, says that Dr. Murray had just picked up another high-profile client just before Jackson’s death. That new client is said to be Jackson’s friend, Elisabeth Taylor.
Rev. Williams says that he was in Murray’s office in Housten back in May when the doctor received a call from Ms. Taylor’s secretary and then Taylor herself got on the phone.
I was sitting right there with him when the telephone rang, and I’ll tell you we were in the middle of talking about him going on tour (with Jackson).
Miss Elizabeth Taylor said to Murray, ‘I understand that you’re going to be Michael’s personal physician in London?’
“Yes, I am.”
“Would you be my personal physician in London?”
And, according to Williams, Murray said yes. However, Dick Gutman, Ms. Taylor’s publicist had this to say,
This is [Taylor's] personal statement to you: ‘It’s a blank blank blank lie.’”
Taylor, who has had a long history of serious illnesses and has recently been seen using a wheelchair, was planning on joining her friend Michael Jackson during his 50 show gig at the O2 in London. She was packing for her trip when she learned of Jackson’s death.
Williams said that Dr. Murray reacted calmly to Ms. Taylor’s call saying,
Oh please, Dr. Murray treats millionaires all the time, flying to Washington and New York, he is a big deal you know.”
According to Williams, this phone conversation between Murray and Taylor came about two weeks after Murray accepted the job as Jackson’s personal physician.
He claims that Murray was hesitant at first about abandoning his cardiology practice and his patients, but that he had come to see the Jackson tour as a chance to free himself from debt, much of which was related to his Houston clinic, which serves a poor community. Williams says Murray’s clinic had become a money pit, but Murray kept it open by taking out a series of loans.
Williams says,
This was supposed to be his way out of all that. He could make his money and come back to his patients.”
Murray’s attorneys have said concert promoter AEG Live was paying Murray $150,000 a month, starting in May, to be Jackson’s personal physician.
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