AEG in Jackson memorial costs row
Updated on 10 July 2009
A Los Angeles city councillor has called on Michael Jackson's concert promoter to pay some of the estimated £880,000 cost of policing the late pop star's memorial service at the city's Staples Centre.
Dennis Zine said the city's taxpayers were "getting ripped off" because AEG, which is also the owner-operator of the Staples Centre, profited by charging the media up to £31,200 to use risers outside the venue.
But AEG Live's president Tim Leiweke said Mr Zine was out of line for asking the organisation to pay for policing because it had helped solicit donors for the Los Angeles Lakers' NBA victory parade last month.
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