According to Eurweb.com, Prosecutors investigating Michael Jackson’s death have ordered the girlfriend of the singer’s personal doctor to testify before a grand jury this week.
Nicole Alvarez, the girlfriend of Dr. Conrad Murray, who remains the focus of a manslaughter investigation into the pop star’s death, has been called as a witness “in an investigation pending before said grand jury,” according to a subpoena obtained by ABC News. Jackson’s June 25 death was ruled a homicide caused by drugs administered in Jackson’s mansion by Murray, his personal physician.
This summer, police searched the apartment where Alvarez lives with the couple’s infant son, but she was not forthcoming with detectives, sources told the Los Angeles Times.
However, her attorney Joseph Low told ABC News that his client is now cooperating with law enforcement.
A search warrant obtained by ABC states that on August 13, 2009 police looked in Alvarez’s home and a car registered to Murray’s sister and retrieved a business card with Conrad Murray’s name on it, a piece of paper, a receipt and a medical invoice.
Alvarez, who reportedly gave birth in March to Murray’s seventh child, a baby boy they named Che Giovanni, is a resident of Santa Monica, Calif. She has reportedly been Murray’s girlfriend since 2005 but is not clear from the documents how she plays into the manslaughter investigation into Murray.
Information from Eurweb.com contributed to this report.