XtraJet

XtraJet was a "full service" charter airline company based in Santa Monica, California. XtraJet was not well known outside of the industry until after it was sued for activities that happened while transporting Michael Jackson in 2003.

On November 25, 2003 it was revealed that, unbeknownst to Jackson, the private jet from XtraJet which was chartered to take him and his attorney from Vegas to California was secretly wired with video and audio recording devices. A third party took recordings on this trip and attempted to sell them to major television and radio networks for an extremely large amount of money; all declined to purchase. A restraining order against the jet company has been issued prohibiting the videotape from being shown to any third parties; a massive lawsuit topping the $500,000,000 mark has been filed by Jackson's party against the perpetrators. Jackson has not paid his travel agent for the flight and as of 2004, is being sued over that.

On November 26, 2003, it was revealed that XtraJet, the company that found the recordings and hidden cameras on Jackson's plane showed the video to several news organizations on November 24. Fox News reported that the tape shows Jackson calm and relaxed on the plane.

References

* [http://www.casefact.com/content/view/170/354/ FBI Probes Videotaping of Jackson on Jet] , LA Times (November 26, 2003)

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040605145426/http://xtrajet.com/ XtraJet website] archived by archive.org June 4, 2004