July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson, Smokey Robinson and John Mayer are among the superstar guests set to participate in Tuesday’s public Michael Jackson Memorial, the Jackson family announced in a statement to Access Hollywood.
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July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Despite initial reports that Michal Jackson’s ex-wife and mother of his two eldest children would be attending the singer’s memorial service in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a rep for Debbie Rowe told Access Hollywood she has decided to not attend.
“Although Debbie had originally planned to attend tomorrow’s Staples Center memorial service, we have concluded with Debbie that she will not be attending,” the rep said in a statement released to Access.
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July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Akon is one of the handfuls of artists who were lucky enough to collaborate with Michael Jackson before his untimely passing. The R&B singer – who first recorded alongside Jackson on the “Thriller 25th Anniversary” album – said working with the King of Pop was an “incredible” experience.
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July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Michael Jackson’s longtime attorney and a family friend should take over the pop singer’s estate, a judge said Monday.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff issued his ruling after a court hearing Monday morning. Attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain had been designated in Jackson’s 2002 will as the people he wanted to administer his estate
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July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
The ticket hand-off for Michael Jackson’s public memorial service in Los Angeles has been going smoothly at Dodger Stadium.
Winners of an Internet ticket lottery began exchanging vouchers for tickets in a drive-through process Monday in the stadium parking lot.
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July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Michael Jackson is set for a public memorial service open to thousands on Tuesday — but in the meantime, authorities continue to investigate the King of Pop’s death on June 25.
According to the Los Angeles Times, authorities are investigating at least five doctors who prescribed drugs to the singer. A source told the paper that “numerous bottles” of Diprivan, a powerful anesthetic agent typically administered in hospitals, were found in the star’s Holmby Hills home following his death. The drug’s side effects include possible heart and breathing problems — Jackson was found unconscious and went into cardiac arrest before being declared dead, suggesting that the drug may have played a role in his untimely passing.
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July 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
During an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Marc Schaffel, a former business associate of Michael Jackson’s, announced Debbie Rowe -- the singer’s ex-wife and mother of his two eldest children — would be attending the Jackson memorial service in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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July 05, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
The more than 1.6 million fans who registered for tickets to Michael Jackson’s memorial service will wait until Sunday to learn if they received one of the 11,000 tickets for Tuesday’s ceremony.
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July 04, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair has been shot and killed.
Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron confirmed that police were called to a residence and found McNair and a woman shot to death inside. Aaron said authorities don’t yet know the circumstances of the shooting.
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