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Reports: Funeral for Jackson set for Tuesday. Do you plan to go?

It appears that final respects will be paid to Gloved One’s in Los Angeles Tuesday, July 7.

The Associated Press has reported that talks are going on to have Michael Jackson’s funeral at the Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Alicia Mayoral, of Santa Maria, Calif., looks down as she stands near the gates of the late Michael Jackson’s former residence, Neverland Ranch, in Los Olivos, Calif., Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

A source has told FOX News that the tribute to Jackson will start at 10 a.m.

The Dayton Daily News wants to hear from Miami Valley resident who plan to attend the event. Send an email to Localnews@DaytonDailynews.com or call Amelia Robinson at (937) 225-2384.

The King of Pop died Thursday, June 25, in Los Angeles.

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Does Magazine’s cover photo of Michael Jackson’s death go too far?

OK! Magazine paid top dollars for a photo of the King of Pop dead or dying, but should they have made it the cover shot of this week’s magazine?

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Does this cover take it too far?

The celebrity magazine is catching more than a little flak for doing just that.

Gawker.com and other sources say OK! paid $500,000 for the photo of Michael Jackson apparently taken as he laid dying or dead Thursday, June 25.

Maybe that’s why they they figured they could do what they wanted with it. But seriously, do we really need to see a dead man while standing in line to buy eggs and Slim Jims?

What the heck?

In other MJ news, Jermaine Jackson told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that he wishes he had died instead of his brother.

“I always felt I was his backbone,” an emotional Jermaine Jackson says, adding that he always tried to protect his brother.

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Jonas Brother getting married

So sorry pre-teen ladies.

It looks like one of the Jonas Brothers will be off of the market soon.

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Kevin Jonas co-hosting MTV’s “TRL.” (By Evan Agostini — Associated Press)

Kevin Jonas, 21, was engaged to his girlfriend Danielle Deleasa Wednesday, according to the Associated Press.

No date has been set, so perhaps you can swoop in and bring K2 to his senses.

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Reports: Neither Jackson or Debbie Rowe biological parents to children

This one won’t come as a surprise to anyone with eyes or a brain.

Michael Jackson may have not been the bio dad to his two oldest kids.

TMZ reports that the King of Pop ‘is not’ the biological father of Prince Michael Joseph Jackson or Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.

Really! You don’t say. How could this be? But there’s more.

The celebrity website reports that Jackson’s ex Debbie Rowe carried the kids, but is not the biological mother to either.

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Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and mother of two of his children, steps from the courtroom at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Thursday, April 28, 2005 (AP)

Like Michael Jackson’s youngest child, Prince Michael Jackson II (AKA Blanket) , the older two kids were conceived by vitro, TMZ says.

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Michael Jackson, at left wearing the traditional Arabic women’s veil and gown called an abaya, holds the hand of one of his children, also veiled, as they walk with a security man toward their car Jan. 25, 2006, behind a Manama, Bahrain, shopping mall. (AP)

The website, reportedly relying on sources close to the births, says donor eggs and sperm were used.

We are assuming none of those source are connected to the Maury Show.

True on false, this seems like a icky time to be exposing such revelations. The Gloved One died in Los Angeles Thursday, June 25.

His parents Joseph and Katherine have temporary custody of his three children.

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King of Pop to have a large, public funeral

Michael Jackson lived a great, big life so it should be no surprise he’ll have a great, big funeral.

The pop icon will be laid to rest after a large public funeral, Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson said Monday, June 27, during a press conference with Rev. Al Sharpton.

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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1996 file photo, Michael Jackson performs in Sydney. Jackson, 50, died in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, file)

The funeral details are still being worked out, according to FoxNews.com

“We don’t have the time frame yet because we want to see when the private autopsy comes out,” Jackson said according to the Fox report.

Jackson was referring to the second autopsy paid for by his family.

When he died Thursday, Michael Jackson was a shell of his former self, according to the London Sun.

The newspaper said it obtained a copy of an autopsy preformed by officials in California.

Jackson’s body was emaciated and covered in needle marks and bruises, the newspaper said.

Read early blog entry here.

(UPDATE: Seems like the Sun either received bad info or simple made a bunch of stuff up.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office says details released by the Sun are bogus and came neither from a private or the county autopsy, The LA Times reports.

Read more here. )

Custody of Jackson’s children has been temporarily granted to his parents.

Joe Jackson gave the media an update of the children during the press conference, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Joe Jackson said his son’s children are happy and around other children.

“We have kids back there that are small just like they are,” Joe Jackson said. “They was never around other kids, they’re happy.”

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Sun: Jackson emaciated, bald and full of pills at time of death

UPDATE: Seems like the Sun either received bad info or simple made a bunch of stuff up.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office says details released by the Sun are bogus and came neither from a private or the county autopsy, The LA Times reports.

Read more here.

If the London Sun has it right (let’s hope it doesn’t), the King of Pop was a mere shell of his former self when he died Thursday.

The newspaper, reporting on an apparently leaked autopsy report, says that Michael Jackson was bald and a ” virtual skeleton,” weighing just 112 pounds.

The ‘Thriller’ singer’s 5 foot 10 inch body was full of needle marks and bruises, the Sun story says.

Pills were the only thing found in his stomach as Jackson only ate one meal a day, the newspaper reports.

Read story here.

See video from the BET Awards Sunday, June 28, of Janet Jackson speaking about her beloved brother.

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Joy Behar breaks off engagement

Did you know Joy Behar was engaged? If so, know now that the wedding is off. Or postponed. Or put on the shelf while she pursues her own show.

“The View” co-host, who’s getting her own talk show on HLN, told the New York Daily News:

“Actually, I got cold feet again, so I don’t know what I’m going to do. It’s off the table. What’ll happen is, when I decide to do it, I’ll do it, and then everybody will know I did it. I can’t make up my mind.”

In March, Behar, 66, talked vaguely about being engaged to longtime companion Steve Janowitz.

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