A lawyer for Michael Jackson had initially asked for his client to testify via video link in the breach of contract lawsuit brought against him by a Bahraini sheikh but this has now changed.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the second son of the king of Bahrain, is suing pop star Michael Jackson oven an allegedly unfulfilled contract. Al Khalifa claims Jackson, 50, owes him $7 million for an album and an autobiography he never created. Jackson maintains the money was a gift.

Lawyers for the reclusive pop star had initially said the father of three was too ill to travel to the UK, where Al Khalifa filed the lawsuit at London’s Royal Courts of Justice. They would not specify the nature of Jackson’s ailment. Jackson was not in court Monday as the trial opened and his legal team said he would seek permission to testify via video link from the United States.

Lawyer Robert Englehart informed the court Thursday though that Jackson “has been cleared by his medical advisers to travel in two days’ time.” He is scheduled to give evidence at the High Court on Monday.

Lawyers for the sheikh have said the money was given as an advance. Al Khalifa is an amateur songwriter and would have collaborated with the 1980s music icon on the album. The sheikh had wished to help Jackson rebuild his career and the two first talked by telephone while Michael Jackson was still in the midst of his child molestation trial in California.

Jackson was arrested in 2003 on child molestation charges and was eventually acquitted. He lived in Bahrain for nearly a year as a guests of the king’s son, who governs the country’s Southern Province.

The sheikh claims he covered expenses for the Prince of Pop, his children and entourage, amounting to millions of dollars.