Airline owner ordered to pay millions after Jackson taping

The owner of an air charter service was today ordered to pay a lawyer and his associate more than $12m (€7.9m) for ordering secret videotaping of them as they flew with Michael Jackson to his surrender on molestation charges in 2003.

A lawyer for XtraJet owner Jeffrey Borer said he would appeal.

Borer and a co-defendant pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiracy for installing digital cameras aboard an XtraJet plane that flew Jackson from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara.

The damages awarded today resulted from an invasion-of-privacy case filed by lawyer Mark Geragos.

Jackson was acquitted in the molestation case.