Michael Jackson's Former Attorneys Reach Settlement With Private Jet Company

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Michael Jackson’s former attorneys and a private jet company reached a settlement Monday morning just before the case was to be heard in court.

Attorneys Mike Geragos and Pat Harris reached a $2.5 million settlement with the pop star’s former private jet company, Xtrajet, for illegally videotaping a conversation aboard a company jet.

Jackson’s two attorneys sued the private airline and its owner Jeffrey Borer for $20 million in 2008. The duo won their case, but the appeals court reduced the settlement to $750,000 after it learned that there was no audio from the recorded videotape.

Geragos alleged that airline owner Borer illegally recorded a conversation during the singer’s flight from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara in 2003. Jackson and the two attorneys were heading back to Los Angeles, where Jackson faced child-molestation charges.

Geragos also claimed that Borer attempted to sell video of the conversation to the media for a sum in the high six figures.