The Jackson family wants FORTY BILLION DOLLARS from promoters AEG Live for allegedly working their boy to death–or, more specifically, hiring the wrong doctor–the Propofol-administering Dr. Conrad Murray–to look after him.
They arrived at the $40,000,000,000 number (looks pretty impressive when you write it out all the way, doesn’t it?) this way:
-$10,000,000,000 for future lost earnings
-$30,000,000,000 in unspecified damages