Jackson's Assistant Recounts Murray's Frantic Phone Call

Los Angeles - Michael Jackson's personal physician asked to be taken back to the singer's rented Holmby Hills estate to get some "cream" after the entertainer was pronounced dead at a Los Angeles hospital, Jackson's personal assistant testified today.

Testifying in Dr. Conrad Murray's trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from Jackson's June 25, 2009, death, Michael Amir Williams told the seven-man, five-woman jury he thought it was odd that the doctor approached him with the request to return to Jackson's rented mansion.

"He said that there's some cream in Michael's room ... that he (Jackson) wouldn't want the world to know about," Williams testified.

Williams said he declined to take Murray back to the house and lied to him that police had taken his keys. He testified that he then instructed Jackson's head of security, Faheem Muhammad, to "make sure security doesn't let anyone in or anyone out" of the home.

Murray later approached him with a request for a ride to get some food, Williams said, noting that he shrugged off the request.

Murray, 58, faces up to four years in state prison if convicted of the felony charge stemming from Jackson's death at age 50.

The cardiologist found the singer unresponsive at his rented mansion, where he was staying while rehearsing for a series of 50 sold-out concerts in London dubbed "This Is It." The singer was pronounced dead later that day at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He died of acute propofol intoxication.

Prosecutors claim Murray gave Jackson the powerful sedative propofol and then failed to monitor him, leaving the singer's bedroom for 45 minutes to make phone calls and send emails. Defense attorneys insist Murray was weaning Jackson off the medication, but the singer "self-administered" a larger dose of the drug that killed him after the doctor left the room.

Prosecutors also allege that prior to calling 911 or asking anyone else to do so, Murray collected vials of propofol and other equipment from Jackson's bedroom.

Williams testified that he first learned there was a problem after he listened to a voice mail at 12:13 p.m. the day of the singer's death. In the message, Murray asked him to call back right away.

Jackson's personal assistant testified that he returned the doctor's call two minutes later, and Murray told him that "Mr. Jackson had a bad reaction" and to "get somebody up here right away."

"Were you asked to call 911?" Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked.

"No, sir," Williams responded.

He said he didn't consider it to be an emergency situation at the time.

"When I hear someone had a bad reaction, I don't think anything fatal," Williams told jurors.

Jackson's personal assistant testified that he contacted one of the singer's security employees and gave him authorization to enter the house and go upstairs to Jackson's bedroom.

Williams said an ambulance was already at the house when he arrived about 30 to 40 minutes later and Jackson was brought down on a gurney to be taken to the hospital. He said he could tell from the doctor's physical condition that he was "frantic."

"We got them (Jackson's three children) in the car to get ready to follow the ambulance," he said. Under cross-examination by defense attorney Edward Chernoff, the prosecution's fourth witness acknowledged that he did not tell police until August 2009 about Murray's statements at the hospital after Jackson was pronounced dead.

Earlier today, an attorney who drafted an agreement with Murray to provide medical services for Jackson testified that the doctor told her repeatedly, including the week before the pop superstar died, that Jackson was in excellent health.

"Dr. Murray told me repeatedly that Michael Jackson was perfectly healthy, in excellent condition," attorney Kathy Jorrie testified.

Jorrie, who was hired by concert promoter AEG to draft the contract with Murray, testified that during her discussions with the doctor, she questioned his request to have a CPR machine at his disposal.

She said she raised the issue because "I wanted to make sure that Michael Jackson was healthy and didn't have a heart condition."

Murray insisted to her the singer was in good health, but he would be putting on an "extraordinary" performance in London, and given his age, he wanted the machine as a precaution, Jorrie said.

"We wouldn't want to take a chance," Jorrie said the doctor told her.

Jorrie said she had three conversations with Murray in the week before Jackson's death while she was preparing the contract, in which the doctor was set to be paid retroactively dating back to May 1, 2009, once the contract was finalized.

She said Murray indicated that he had seen Jackson rehearse and that "he looked extraordinary."

Jorrie also said that during one of their conversations, Murray informed her that he wanted to continue being paid his $150,000 monthly fee even when the "This Is It" concerts were on a roughly three-month hiatus. She said she asked Murray