November 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Michael Jackson’s private family funeral was fit for a king and had a price tag to match: roughly $1 million.
Court documents released Tuesday showed that his mother, his brother, Randy, and sister, Janet, were involved in the planning and mindful of the huge amount of media attention that would be lavished on the Sept. 3 funeral.
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September 04, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Attendees at a service for DJ AM say hundreds of friends gathered at the unique memorial fashioned after a 12-step meeting.
Several guests said attendees participated in the open 12-step process used by recovering addicts in programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. They requested anonymity because of the nature of the meeting.
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September 03, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Michael Jackson’s friends and family have gathered to bid farewell to the King of Pop at Forest Lawn Memorial Park & Mortuary in Glendale, California.
Dozens of stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin and his girlfriend, Mila Kunis, the Reverend Al Sharpton, Corey Feldman, Miko Brando, Michael’s ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley and Chris Tucker are seated among Michael’s family at a service being held in the outdoors.
The ceremony, which is just starting, was originally due to begin at 7 PM and was scheduled to last just one hour.
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September 03, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
The Jackson family will continue to celebrate the life of Michael Jackson following the star’s private funeral Thursday night.
Access Hollywood has confirmed that the family has booked an Italian restaurant, Villa Sorriso Ristorante, in Pasadena, Calif., for family and guests following the funeral at Forest Lawn Glendale.
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September 03, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
One month after a lavish public memorial for Michael Jackson, the pop singer’s family prepared to inter him privately Thursday in a mausoleum filled with legendary entertainers.
On Wednesday, a judge said Jackson’s estate will bear the funeral costs, which were characterized by an attorney as “extraordinary.” It was disclosed in court that 12 burial spaces were being purchased at Forest Lawn Glendale, about eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, but no details were offered on how they would be used.
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September 02, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Adam Goldstein, AKA DJ AM, has been laid to rest in Los Angeles.
Friends and loved ones including the celebrity spinner’s former fiancée, Nicole Richie, attended a service just after 3 PM on Wednesday at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in West Los Angeles, according to E News.
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September 02, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
DJ AM will reportedly be laid to rest today.
According to E! Online, the funeral for the celebrity DJ, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, will take place at 3 PM at the Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in West Los Angeles.
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August 29, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was celebrated Saturday for “the good he did, the dream he kept alive,” his funeral inside a soaring Catholic church a memorial to one man’s life and a remarkable political era now ended.
Row upon row of mourners sat facing the casket bearing Kennedy’s mortal remains, President Barack Obama as well as previous occupants of the White House, enough senators to make up a quorum and dozens of members of the most famous political family in the land.
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August 29, 2009
BOSTON, Mass.
Hundreds of mourners lined the sidewalks near Boston’s Mission Church where a funeral Mass was held Saturday for Sen. Edward Kennedy, with some holding signs urging lawmakers to approve health care legislation in his honor, and other saying they just wanted to witness a moment in history.
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