From MSNBC: NEW YORK — Michael Jackson’s estate has generated at least $1 billion in revenues since the singer died a year ago, thanks in part to a lucrative new record deal with Sony Music and the most successful concert film of all time, according to Billboard estimates.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly a year after he went from anonymity to notoriety, Michael Jackson‘s doctor returns to court for a pretrial hearing that will determine when he goes to trial and what he will be able to do in the meantime.