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Jackson family spokesman Ken Sunshine
speaks on Michale Jackson's memorial during a press conference in Los
Angeles, Califonia, the United States, July 4, 2009. Fans must register at
staplescenter.com to get one of the 17,500 free tickets to late pop star
Michael Jackson's public memorial service, slated at downtown Los Angeles'
Staples Center on July 7, Organizers said on Friday. (Xinhua/Qi Heng)
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LOS
ANGELES, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Fans must register at staplescenter.com to get free
tickets to late pop star Michael Jackson's public memorial service at downtown
Los Angeles' Staples Center, Organizers said on Friday.
There will be a total of 11,000 tickets for the
20,000-seat Staples Center and another 6,500 tickets for an overflow crowd at
the nearby Nokia Theater, where the event will be simulcast on large video
screens, said AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke.
Fans have until 6 p.m. Saturday to register at the
website, and a computer program will randomly select 8,750 names to receive two
tickets for one venue or the other, Leiweke told a press conference.
AEG, which owns Staples Center, is organizing the
public memorial service for Jackson, who died last week at a Los Angeles
hospital.
Organizers also said there will be no funeral
procession as had been rumored, and provided no details on the family's plans
for a private service for the pop star.
The area around Staples Center and Nokia Theater will
be blocked off by police for the event, and there will be no outside broadcast
in or around Staples Center, they said.
The Staples Center event is being offered free to
television networks, so people who do not get tickets could watch the service
from television at their homes, said Los Angeles city councilwoman Jan Perry,
who is acting mayor while Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is on vacation in South
Africa.
Jackson was pronounced dead on June 25 at the UCLA
Medical Center, soon after he was found in full cardiac arrest at his rented
home, where he was preparing for 50 sold-out concerts in London promoted by AEG.
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Jackson family spokesman Ken Sunshine
speaks on Michale Jackson's memorial during a press conference in Los
Angeles, Califonia, the United States, July 4, 2009. Fans must register at
staplescenter.com to get one of the 17,500 free tickets to late pop star
Michael Jackson's public memorial service, slated at downtown Los Angeles'
Staples Center on July 7, Organizers said on Friday. (Xinhua/Qi Heng)
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AEG urged to donate proceeds from
Jackson memorial to children's
charities
LOS ANGELES, July 3
(Xinhua) -- Civil rights leaders and community activists on Friday called on
AEG, promoters of the Michael Jackson memorial at Staples Center in Los Angeles,
to donate proceeds from the event to children's charities.
"Donating the proceeds from the Jackson tribute to
children's charities and help organizations would be the best and most fitting
way to celebrate and pay homage to the humanitarian spirit of giving and help
that Jackson dedicated his life to," said Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable
President Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Full story
Michael Jackson's memorial set for
Tuesday
After a week of
uncertainty over the resting place of Michael Jackson, his family decided Friday
that the public memorial service for the late singer will be held on Tuesday at
the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
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Pop star Michael Jackson rehearses for
his planned shows in London at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,
California in this handout photo taken June 23, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters,
File Photo)
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The Jackson family said in a
statement that the event has been set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the downtown
Staples Center. Some 11,000 free tickets will be made available for the
service. Full story
Michael Jackson used potent drugs to
sleep
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhuanet) -- As
it is yet to establish what caused the death of Michael Jackson last Thursday,
sources close to the pop star revealed that he was routinely using potent drugs
to combat insomnia in the past.
The accounts of the sources raise the
possibility that drugs may have contributed to singer's death. Full story
Further complications posed by Michael
Jackson's will
BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhuanet) --
Less than one week after Michael Jackson died complications may arise over his
estate. There are also questions over the final resting place of the singer and
where a memorial might be erected.
Authorities have already said
approvals to bury Jackson at Neverland would require approvals which might take
weeks, and the details of the funeral have yet to be finalized. Full story
Jackson's will leaves out former wife
LOS ANGELES, July 1 (Xinhua) --
The 2002 will of Michael Jackson, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on
Wednesday, leaves his former wife, Deborah Rowe, out of any inheritance.
"I have intentionally omitted to
provide for my former wife, Deborah Jean Rowe Jackson," the will
states. Full story
Lawyer: Jackson's will
found
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhuanet)
-- A will for Michael Jackson has been found and is expected in court soon,
a lawyer for the family said as reported by media reports Wednesday.
The word came just a day after the
family said in court documents it believed the entertainer had died without a
valid will. That could complicate a petition by Jackson's mother Katherine to
become the administrator of his lucrative, but debt-encumbered estate. Full story
Mother of Jackson's children
contemplates legal battle for custody
LOS ANGELES, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The
mother of Michael Jackson's two older children was contemplating a legal battle
for custody, while funeral details were still not announced for the pop
superstar who unexpectedly died on Thursday at his Los Angeles home.
Full story
Jackson's mother named temporary
guardian of his children
LOS ANGELES, June 29 (Xinhua) -- A Los
Angeles judge on Monday named Michael Jackson's mother as temporary guardian of
his three children, four days after the pop star unexpectedly died at his rented
estate.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell
Beckloff approved the appointment of Katherine Jackson, 79, based on a petition
of guardianship by her for the children. A hearing in the case has been
scheduled for Aug. 3 in Los Angeles Superior Court. Full story
No painkiller before Jackson's death:
lawyer
LOS ANGELES, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Pop icon
Michael Jackson's doctor did not inject a powerful painkiller into the singing
star just before his death, the doctor's lawyer said in remarks published on
Sunday.
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Michael Jackson fans gather near the
Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 28, 2009. Jackson, the child star turned King
of Pop who set the world dancing but whose musical genius was overshadowed
by a bizarre lifestyle and sex scandals, died on Thursday. He was 50.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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"There was no Demerol. No
OxyContin," asserted lawyer Edward Chernoff in an interview posted on the Los
Angeles Times' Website. Full story
Funeral plans for Michael Jackson
pending after autopsy
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Fans mourn during a candlelight
gathering for Michael Jackson in Shanghai June 27, 2009.
(Xinhua/Reuters photo)
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LOS ANGELES, June 27 (Xinhua) --
Funeral plans for Michael Jackson were pending on Saturday, one day after an
autopsy on the body of the former "King of Pop," who died on Thursday
unexpectedly at a Los Angeles hospital.
The body of the 50-year-old singer was
released to his family by the coroner's office Friday night after the autopsy,
which took about three hours. But announcement of the cause of death has been
deferred pending toxicological tests, which take four to six weeks, officials
said. Full story
Autopsy under way to determine cause
of Jackson's death
LOS ANGELES, June 26 (Xinhua) --
Los Angeles coroners began an autopsy on Friday to determine the cause of U.S.
pop star Michael Jackson's death as rumors spread that he might die from a drug
overdose as well as heart attack.
Jackson, who was 50, was
pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at the Medical Center of the University of
California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He was in full cardiac arrest when paramedics
rushed him to the hospital. Full story
Michael Jackson dies at 50 in Los
Angeles
LOS ANGELES, June 25 (Xinhua) --
American pop icon Michael Jackson was announced dead here Thursday at a hospital
after suffering a heart attack at his rented home in a wealthy Los Angeles
suburb.
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U.S. pop star Michael Jackson performs
"We are the World" during the World Music Awards at Earl's Court in London
November 15, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters file photo)
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The 50-year-old former "King of Pop,"
whose musical achievements were overshadowed later in life by his
often-eccentric behavior and accusations of lewd behavior with young boys, died
when he was preparing for a series of London concerts, which might be his last
performances on stage. Tickets to those concerts are already sold
out. Full story
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