Jackson Memorial Set for Staples Center, Funeral Plans Falling Into Place
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The pieces are finally falling into place as to how Michael Jackson will at last be laid to rest—and then memorialized accordingly.
Arrangements are still being made, but Jackson's body will ultimately be interred at Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills, and an open-to-the-masses tribute to the King of Pop will take place at Staples Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
"Details are still to be finalized when I meet with the Jackson family this afternoon," AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips told L.A.'s KNBC-TV. "Everything is in preliminary stages except the place and time."
The L.A. Police Department will be ready, having already started setting up security blockades outside Staples in Chick Hearn Court.
Arrivals will begin around 8 a.m., Phillips said. Hugh-screen TVs will be set up elsewhere in the LA Live complex, as well, to give any overflow crowd a glimpse of what's inside.
But while details of what the Jacksons have in mind for the memorial event remain murky, at least the death certificate can finally exchange hands.
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