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Cemetery
Invitation for Jackson's service
"If you enter this
world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same,
then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."
Media cover Jackson's burial - Media gaggle outside the Forest Lawn cemetery where Jackson will be buried.
Seventy
days after his sudden death, Michael Jackson will be interred in what
may or may not be his final resting place Thursday evening. A private
funeral for Michael Jackson will be held Thursday in Glendale,
California, his family says. Only his family and closest friends will
attend the private burial starting at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET) inside the
ornate Great Mausoleum on the grounds of Forest Lawn cemetery. They'll
then drive to an Italian restaurant eight miles away in Pasadena,
California for "a time of celebration," the nine-page engraved
invitation said. The first page inside the invitation holds a quote
from "Dancing the Dream," a book of essays and poems published by
Jackson in 1992. The news media -- which have closely covered every
aspect of Jackson's death -- will be kept at a distance, with their
cameras no closer than the cemetery's main gate. The family will
provide a limited video feed that will only show mourners arriving. Little is known about the planned ceremony, though Gladys Knight will perform. Her song has not been disclosed. The
massive mausoleum, which is normally open to tourists, was closed
Wednesday as preparations were completed for the funeral. A security
guard blocking its entrance said it would reopen to the public on
Friday. Fans of Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and dozens of other
celebrities buried on the grounds have flocked to Forest Lawn-Glendale
for decades, but Jackson may outdraw them all. It is unclear how close
tourists will be allowed to Jackson's resting place. Security guards --
aided by cameras -- keep a constant vigil over the graves and crypts,
which are surrounded by a world-class collection of art and
architecture. The Forest Lawn Web site boasts that the mausoleum, which
draws its architectural inspiration from the Campo Santo in Italy, "has
been called the "New World's Westminster Abbey" by Time Magazine. * In
Depth: Michael Jackson Visitors will see "exact replicas of
Michelangelo's greatest works such as David, Moses, and La Pieta" and
"Leonardo da Vinci's immortal Last Supper re-created in brilliant
stained glass; two of the world's largest paintings," the Web site
says. Jackson's burial has been delayed by division among Jackson
family members, though it was matriarch Katherine Jackson who would
make the final decision.
He preferred to see his youngest brother laid to rest at his former Neverland Ranch.
That
idea was complicated by neighbors who vowed to oppose allowing a grave
in the rural area -- and by Jackson family members who said the singer
would not want to return to the home where he faced child molestation
charges.
The mystery of where Michael Jackson would be buried
became a media obsession in the weeks after his death. After his body
was loaded onto a helicopter at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center hours
following his June 25 death, it stayed in the custody of the Los
Angeles County coroner for an autopsy. Jackson's corpse was kept in
a refrigerated room at the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn cemetery until
his casket was carried by motorcade for a public memorial. Again,
speculation about Jackson's whereabouts grew when the media lost track
of his casket . The body was taken back to Forest Lawn while awaiting
his advertisement.
The coroner announced last week that he had
ruled Jackson's death a homicide. A summary of the coroner report said
the anesthetic propofol and the sedative lorazepam were the primary
drugs responsible for the singer's death. Los Angeles police detectives
have not concluded their criminal investigation and no one has been
charged.
