LaToya Trouble for Michael?

It could be LaToya Jackson's most exposure since Playboy.

The prosecution in the Michael Jackson child-molestation trial wants the all-clear to ask certain defense witnesses if they're aware the pop star's psychic-friendly sister once said Jackson paid hush money to one of his underage friends.

The request came in a May 6 motion made public Wednesday by the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County, California.

In other developments, an associate for former Jackson attorney Mark Geragos was told Thursday to make sure the headline-grabbing litigator is in the Santa Maria courtroom on Friday--or else face an arrest warrant from Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville.

Geragos has been subpoenaed by the defense. Winona Ryder's onetime counsel represented Jackson during the frenzied aftermath of the 2003 Martin Bashir documentary, Living with Michael Jackson. He headed up Jackson's legal team through the singer's November 2003 arrest, eventually drawing a pink slip in April 2004.

Like Geragos, LaToya Jackson knows her way around a TV interview. In his motion, prosecutor Ronald J. Zonen argued the state should be allowed to ask witnesses who are primarily called to talk up Jackson if they're aware of one of his sister's more infamous sound bites.

In 1994, during the height of the original Jackson molestation probe, LaToya Jackson told reporters in Israel she'd seen a $1 million check that was written, she said, to buy the silence of the family of a boy--a boy whom the prosecution wanted to claim was abused by her brother. (LaToya Jackson, a former pinup and pitchwoman for the Psychic Friends Network, has since returned to the Jackson family way, telling ABC News this year that her brother is "misunderstood.")

Other tidbits the prosecution would like to pose to witnesses in the form of "have you heard...?" questions: that Jackson was addicted to the prescription painkiller Demerol when he took children into his bedroom; that Jackson shared his Demerol stash with his young friends; that Jackson dangled his own child from a balcony (in case any juror missed that 2002 incident); and what Jackson's 1993-94 accuser told Los Angeles police in exacting--and intimate--detail.

Melville has yet to rule on the prosecution's request.

Elsewhere, a corporate attorney who worked for Jackson during the Bashir imbroglio testified Thursday the man-child singer was taken advantage of by the British journalist.

David LeGrand said the contracts that Jackson signed with Bashir's U.K. TV network were "terrible," giving the entertainer no say in how the documentary was to be packaged or presented.

LeGrand said Jackson, who made no money off the special, was forced to sue Granada Television to get producers to obscure the faces of his children. A complaint also was filed on behalf of Jackson's current accuser, a boy, then 13, who was seen holding the singer's hand in the documentary.

The prosecution has made the Bashir documentary a key event in its timeline of crimes allegedly perpetrated by Jackson. It claims the special was so damaging to the star that he and his cronies sought to contain the accuser and his family. Along the way, it is alleged, Jackson molested the boy and got him drunk on wine and vodka. The 46-year-old entertainer has pleaded innocent to all charges.

According to LeGrand, Jackson was an innocent surrounded by opportunists.

"I became suspicious of everybody," LeGrand said. "It seems that everybody wanted to try to benefit from Mr. Jackson one way or another."

Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe, a witness for the prosecution, earlier expressed a similar sentiment.

Per LeGrand, "everybody" included members of the singer's own inner circle, several of which have been named by the prosecution as unindicted coconspirators. The defense has suggested these men acted on their own.

But LeGrand insisted the men were out for their own. He testified that Ronald Konitzer and Dieter Weizner, former Jackson associates and two of his unindicted coconspirators, "diverted" $965,000 from the pop singer's payday for the 2003 Fox special, The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See.

LeGrand is the former boyfriend of Ann Marie Kite, a crisis-management expert and prosecution witness. During her court appearance in March, Kite said LeGrand told her that Team Jackson was going to make the accuser's mother "look like a crack whore."

Prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss got some hits in on LeGrand himself, getting the attorney to concede that he considered the accuser's family "a potential liability" to Jackson, and acknowledge that the accuser's much-maligned and reputedly money-hungry mother turned down an offer of $25,000 to join Jackson in a lawsuit against the Bashir producers.

Also on the stand: Carlos Velasco, the son of a longtime Neverland employee and childhood friend of the maid's son who claimed he was groped by Jackson during a tickle fight.

Velasco said the maid's son never talked about being molested by Jackson. Prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss got the witness to concede that he had no idea if the man was molested or not. Defense attorney Robert M. Sanger spun the witness back in his favor, getting Velasco to confirm that he never saw anything to suggest that the man had been molested.

Prior to the latest witnesses taking the stand, the defense finished its presentation of the alternative interview footage shot during the Bashir production. For four more minutes, jurors heard Bashir gush and Jackson wax philosophical.

Per Court TV, Wednesday's lengthy video show moved courtroom participants, including Jackson and at least one juror, to tears.