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Six weeks after his death, the Jackson family has finally decided to bury Michael Jackson at Los Angeles’ Forest Lawn Memorial Park. There’s no word whether the mortuary plans to make some security changes to accommodate the public figure. There has been countless speculation that the King of Pop would be laid to rest at Neverland Ranch but his mom Katherine protested as the late singer deserted the home shortly after his highly publicized child molestation trial. I hope that the burial will give the family and fans the closure that they need and that Michael can finally rest in peace.

The sister of tragic music legend Michael Jackson says she’s been filming new Tyler Perry film Why Did I Get Married Too, which is due out next year.
Janet, who has gathered more than 43,000 Twitter followers in her first week, also says she’s excited to work on her new album.

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Dr. Conrad Murray is the primary target in the death of Michael Jackson but law enforcement sources are saying that a massive investigation is building up into what could be fraudulent prescription practices for over a dozen doctors. LAPD detectives and members of the LA County Coroner’s office are gathering information on several doctors who treated the King of Pop over the years. The late singer has used over two dozen aliases to get drugs with the help of his doctors. The prescription practices have reportedly become so egregious that one pharmacy wouldn’t even write the patient’s name when a certain doctor called in for Michael. Law enforcement sources say that this could be the biggest case of its kind and that criminal charges are looming.

Joe Jackson recently admitted in an interview that Michael Jackson’s young protégé/rumored son, Omer Bhatti, is in fact a member of the Jackson family. Rumors went around that Omer was the secret lovechild of the late King of Pop, but sources firmly denied it. However, Joe admits that Omer “looks like a Jackson, acts like a Jackson” and of course, the boy can dance like a Jackson. I think that he’s just doing this to get more air time. But if it is true, I just have one thing to say – run Omer! Hurry before Joe gets his hands on you and recruits you into the new Jackson 5.

On the eve of an explosive court hearing into Michael Jackson’s estate, his mother is suffering in torment, says a close family friend.

Katherine Jackson is haunted by the belief she could have saved her troubled son. She had begged him just a week before his death not to go on the gruelling 50-date UK tour, it has emerged.

She is said to be unable to sleep and doing all she can to hold it together at the Jackson family compound in Encino for the sake of Michael’s three children. Kevin McLin, a family friend who knew Michael for 34 years, told the UK Sunday Mirror that Katherine is arranging for the older two children to meet their birth mother, Debbie Rowe, who obtained visitation rights in a deal struck with Katherine out of court. Rowe will be introduced as Miss Debbie rather than Mom.

McLin said: “Debbie hasn’t had contact with the kids for years so they will see a counsellor to talk them through it before they see her. Prince Michael has taken his father’s death the worst. He used to go everywhere with Michael – to business meetings and the studios. He is kind of quiet, but they are all seeing a therapist and Paris lets her emotions out, which is good.”

Katherine is focused on AEG, the London tour promoter, McLin said. “Katherine is asking questions but the answers don’t make sense. She wants to know how Michael passed the physical examination he was given by AEG. Something has to be wrong with this because he had all of these problems – how could he possibly pass a test like that?”

McLinn added: “When the toxicology result comes out and [if] it’s different from what the AEG doctors said about his health it will be time to consider legal action.”

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Debbie Rowe has spoken positively of the arrangement she has reached with Katherine Jackson over the custody of her two children with Michael Jackson.

Rowe gained visitation rights with the two children she had with Jackson, Prince Michael I and Paris Katherine. “I am encouraged by the way things are working out,” she said in a radio interview.

CKNBC reporter Chuck Henry said Rowe told him she had not received any money and that the deal was not and never was about the folding stuff. Rowe is also said to have sought a psychologist’s assistance for the children to help them adjust to her.

Rowe told Henry she will not attend a court hearing set to take place in Los Angeles on Monday.

Under the new arrangement, Katherine Jackson will maintain custody of the three children. She has had temporary guardianship of them since her son’s death on June 25.

The singer specified he wanted her to become their permanent guardian in his will, which made no provision for Rowe, who gave up her custody rights in 2001. She regained them in part three years later.

Henry said Rowe told him forming a relationship with the children “will take time”.

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The nurse and dietician Michael Jackson consulted before his death has commented on his medical condition in a new interview.

Cherilyn Lee said that it was sleep not highs, Jackson was seeking when he sought out drugs.

“Mr Jackson did not present himself as a drug addict and from January to April, I didn’t see that in him. Even when it came to the Diprivan, he was looking for something that was going to help him sleep.”

Lee said the beleaguered pop singer even asked her to sit in with him while he tried to sleep. “The night I stayed with him. He said, ‘I want you to see how I sleep, ’cause I want you to see that I don’t fall asleep. Or I fall asleep, it takes a while, but then I wake up after a couple hours.’ And that was before he started talking about the Diprivan.”

“He said, ‘Once it hits my veins, I’m knocked out. And I wake up the next morning I feel good, I’m full of energy. He was very excited about it – ‘Please find me someone’.”

Lee also speculated that the track marks that were alleged to be on his arms were the result of shoddy treatment, suggesting they were not those of a drug addict. “When I was drawing his blood, his veins were awfully, awfully small. And he said, ‘Oh my goodness, I have these little squiggly veins,’ and he just started laughing about it. He said, ‘Doctors always have a hard time finding my veins.’ And later it kind of dawned on me — why would doctors be looking for veins? Basically it’s nurses [that deal with veins]. I’m sure people kept missing when they were doing whatever and that’s why it looked like he had track marks.”

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It is being said that Janet Jackson will not be performing at the tribute concerts scheduled for August 29th and 30th at London’s O2 Arena to honor her brother, the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Friends close to Janet say that she is much too busy with her shooting schedule for the new Tyler Perry movie ‘Why Did I Get Married Too?’ while other sources claim that the singer just wants to “separate her life from her brothers”. So far, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon Jackson have all signed on to participate in the concerts, one of which would have been on the day of Michael’s 51st birthday.

Michael Jackson’s longtime friend Debbie Allen has joined the dispute over where the superstar’s final resting place and has said Jacko should be buried at Neverland.

The King of Pop died suddenly in LA, on 25 June, and his family are still split over where his final resting place should be.

Fame choreographer Allen said: “I really wish he could be there [Neverland]. Michael just loved being there. It was his fantasy come true.”

Allen revealed that she had a “great” time with her children visiting the singer at his Neverland ranch.

“We had so many great days there,” she said.

“The movie theatre, the trains, the animals, the lions, the games room, the candy, the popcorn – all these things I can never forget.”

She added: “One time, he [Jackson] took my son on all the rides. They had such a good time on the bumper cars.”

“I really wish he could be [at Neverland], but I have no idea what’s going to happen.”

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Tito Jackson told the Daily Mirror that his late brother Michael is indeed the biological father of his three children. The former Jackson 5 member said “They are all his children. Blanket is Michael’s, I can tell. Those eyes don’t lie. Them eyes are Michael over again. I see a lot of Michael in him. Prince looks just like my grandfather. There’s no question they are Michael’s. They are 100% his. The kids are like three peas in a pod. They remind me of me and my brothers when we were growing up.” Why don’t they all just subject them to a DNA test?

The tributes of Michael Jackson fans will be buried in the heart of Motown in a unique memorial to the pop star.

Flowers, letters, cards, photos, stuffed animals and other items placed outside Motown Museum will be given an official burial ceremony at a Detroit cemetery.

Spokeswoman for the museum, Sharon Banks, said, “the memorial is being dismantled today and will be taken at 10 am Friday by two hearses donated by James H. Cole Home for Funerals to Woodlawn Cemetery.”

The service will include a brief remembrance and a prayer for the tribute items. Banks said can attend the service at Woodlawn which has donated two burial plots. There would be no processional from the museum to the site, she said.

The museum is the former Motown Records studio which signed Jackson when he was fronting the Jackson 5, his band with his brothers.

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LaToya Jackson recently gave a no holds barred interview to the UK’s Daily Mail last weekend on how she believes that the people surrounding her brother Michael Jackson before his death were solely out for the late singer’s money and not his well being. LaToya said “Less than a month ago, I said I thought Michael was going to die before the London shows because he was surrounded by people who didn’t have his best interests at heart. Michael was worth more than a billion dollars. When anyone is worth that much money, there are always greedy people around them. I said to my family a month ago, ‘He’s never going to make it to London.’ He was worth more dead than alive.” After LaToya’s questions were dodged by the King of Pop’s live-in doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, she was more than certain that her brother’s death wasn’t an accident. She said “I believe Michael was murdered, I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people.”

Could a tribute show and ABBA be able to replace Michael Jackson’s 50-date residency at London’s O2 Arena? What about a tribute show, ABBA and rock legends Led Zeppelin? The word is that AEG Live has offered both Led Zeppelin and ABBA a lot of money to play alternating nights at the arena in place of the late King of Pop. A source said “Only Michael Jackson could sell out 50 nights at such a big arena, but Led Zeppelin and Abba combined might just rival him. There is huge money on the table.” Money really talks the language of a lot of people.

The fear that Michael Jackson’s fans might break into his crypt have led his body to be moved into a basement.

Jackson’s coffin was put inside a tomb belonging to Motown founder Berry Gordy after the epic Staples Center memorial service in Los Angeles.

The Jackson family wanted to keep its location secret, but information as to its whereabouts at Hollywood’s Forest Lawn Cemetery was leaked. With a decision about the final resting place still being made, thousands of fans and tourists flocked to the site.

The decision is also said to be delayed by testing of Jackson’s brain that is needed to determine the answer to the riddle of his sudden death at the age of 50.

Disagreement is said to have torn Jermaine Jackson and Michael’s other brothers and Jackson’s mother, Katherine, over where he should be laid to rest. Jermaine favours Neverland Ranch, but Katherine believes it to be too tainted for a burial place.

Jackson lived at the Neverland property from 1988 to 2003 before he was charged with child molestation. He never returned, and his mother thinks that’s how things should stay in his death.
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Michael Jackson had a string of gay lovers who he seduced by saying: “The King of Pop is going to lick your lollipop,” according to a new book entitled Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson.

Biographer Ian Halperin, who insists everyone around the superstar knew that he was gay, claims to have spoken to two of the superstar’s male lovers – a Hollywood waiter and an aspiring actor.

One man claims that Jackson would arrange seedy liaisons with him in a cheap motel – arriving there dressed as a woman.

And one of the alleged lovers told the writer: “The very first time he had sex with me, he said, ‘The King of Pop’s going to lick your lollipop.’ I still laugh thinking about that.”

Halperin said: “Virtually everybody I’ve interviewed about Jackson has told me he’s gay. Even those who are his most ardent defenders, people who maintain that he is innocent of the molestation charges, insist that he is homosexually inclined.”

One of Jackson’s alleged lovers said: “He was very shy. But when he started to have sex, he was insatiable.”

Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard had previously told police that the King of Pop would visit numerous doctors – and be “out of it” when he left.

Chris Carter was interviewed by detectives from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department during Jackson’s 2004 child molestation investigation.

Carter said he would drive Jackson to doctors’ offices in New York, Florida and California.

According to Sheriff’s documents: “Carter described Jackson as being sharp and ‘in tune’ prior to the doctor visits and afterwards, he would be out of it and sedated.”

Carter said he was once in a hotel room when Jackson was so intoxicated, he fell on his face.

And he claimed to have confronted Jackson for an hour – but the star denied having a problem.

Carter also says he quit being the King of Pop’s bodyguard because, according to the notes, “Carter said he told Jackson he was not comfortable in getting prescriptions for him.”

The Sheriff’s documents say “[Carter] named Dr. [Arnold] Klein, Dr. [Allan] Metzger, Dr. Barney from Solvang, Dr. Saunders and Dr. Farshchian.”

The notes also say “Dr. Farshchian told him that Jackson was addicted to Demerol, but said he was giving Jackson a placebo to wean him off.”

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The Queen of Soul thinks we should reserve comments about the King of Pop’s drug use until after the full coroner’s report is released.

Aretha Franklin – who lived next door to the Jackson family in Encino, California, in the late 1970s and early 1980s – says: "Those are natural questions, but in fairness to him, we should wait for the coroner’s report and stop speculating."

The 67-year-old says she befriended Michael Jackson back in 1970 when she and her two sons met the Jackson 5 backstage at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Franklin says of the singer, who was about 12: "I thought: ‘This little boy can really sing.’

"He liked James Brown and Jackie Wilson, especially his rendition of Doggin’ Around.

"He kind of emulated that. But when you listened to his albums, you knew he was an original and had things of his own coming from his heart."

Franklin lived next door to the Jacksons from 1979 to 1982 before she returned to Detroit.

She found the talented family to be "very intelligent and well mannered". Jackson, who was in his early 20s at the time, was, "quiet but still very precocious".

Franklin treasures those days with the superstar family, including a picture of the singer and his baby sister Janet taken under a tree in her garden when they came over for a swim.

She says she and her sons had a "super time" visiting Disneyland with Jackson. "He was very playful that day," she says.

"My son told me he kept sneaking up behind me like he was going to run into me."

According to Spike Lee the late pop legend was loved and revered by the entire world. Spike Lee said the following about the love for Michael Jackson: “I’m not trying to disrespect anybody, Elvis or Frank Sinatra, but what Michael did globally – there wasn’t anybody in the world who did not love Michael Jackson.” Yeah, Spike Lee is right… not even to Columbian jungle rebels could deny they had love for Michael Jackson. Or what about the indigenous peoples of Australia or Africa… they surely feel a lasting loss now that Michael Jackson has passed away into the other worlds.

Mariah Carey was noticeably choked up when she performed the Jackson 5 hit ‘I’ll Be There’ at the Michael Jackson public memorial service which was held at the Staples Center in LA this past Tuesday. She posted an explanation on her Twitter about her performance saying “Just recovering from the day. Still filled w/sadness as we listen to KJLH in LA (Stevie Wonder’s radio station) paying tribute to MJ. Trying to sing today was basically impossible for me. I could barely keep myself from crying. I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to pull it together and really do it right, but I was literally choked up when I saw him there in front of me. One thing I know is, we will never really have to say goodbye to MJ. His legacy lives on through his music and the millions of people. He inspired with his timeless music. He will be forever in our hearts.”

Michael Jackson’s brain was reportedly missing when his body was laid in a golden casket for his memorial service.

Reports claim that Jackson’s brain has been kept by experts who are still carrying out toxicology tests to work out if the star’s heart attack was brought on by painkillers.

The assistant chief coroner, Ed Winter, said: “As soon as we are done with the brain, we’ll return it. The last I heard, they are not burying the body yet.”

It has also been claimed that the whereabouts of his body are currently unknown. However, British newspaper The Sun is claiming the body is still at the mortuary at Forest Lawn Cemetary, where the family held a private service.
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