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Posted in music on June 25, 2009
We've just learned Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles ... and we're told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance.This is a very sad day all around.He was picked up at his home around 20 minutes ago -- we're told his mother is on the way to visit him.
UPDATE: The 911 call came in at 12:21PM at his Holmby Hills home in L.A.
UPDATE: A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in "really bad shape" and the brothers are headed to UCLA.
UPDATE: We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael's dad, who says "he is not doing well." [TMZ]
UPDATE: TMZ reports that Michael Jackson has passed away...
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holy SHIT
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:20 PM
Can u say MAJOR bath Livenation is gonna take with 50 concerts soldout!
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:25 PM
you know that's bad bad-really, really bad (come-on)
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:28 PM
he is on a regimen of heart medication and has been forced to cut down to molesting 2 boys a day.
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:28 PM
goodnight sweet prince
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:29 PM
HOLY SHIT
Posted by Alexandra k | June 25, 2009 5:32 PM
Love or hate the man, but his best tunes can blow up any dancefloor to this very day. Take my fav PYT -- killa!
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:33 PM
heal the world y'all
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:37 PM
i hope he doesn't die. gah, what is going on? isn't michael only in his forties?
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:40 PM
he is 50
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:42 PM
there will always be mad love for the king of pop, no matter how weird he gets.
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:46 PM
TMZ IS JUST SAYING HE DIED!!!!!
WTF
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:47 PM
Thank you for sharing this .
Posted by العاب شمس | June 25, 2009 5:47 PM
darkness falls across the land
the midnight hour is close at hand
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:50 PM
damn!
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:51 PM
how is this sad news? dead talentless pedo, oh noez.
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:52 PM
I'm in a state of shock
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 5:59 PM
This is yet Another reason NOT to be a vegetarian, next to go will probably be Steve Jobs. Read up and learn the truth about the need for humans to consume quality animal products. westonaprice[.]org
Posted by WestonAPriceFollower | June 25, 2009 6:04 PM
"Livenation is gonna take with 50 concerts soldout!"
you mean AEG
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 6:10 PM
5:52
listens to obscure shit
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 6:13 PM
I hope you find peace Michael. Good bye.
Posted by Chris R | June 25, 2009 6:49 PM
Michael Jackson was a very good singer and I loved
all his music.
I wish I could have met him in person.
I would have loved to shake is hand.
I will mist him very much.
Rest in peace Michael.
Posted by dbc | June 25, 2009 7:42 PM
not a tad bit of overkill
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 8:00 PM
Even in death people still have bad things to say. Cant we accept and move on he lived his life not pleasing to most of us, but it was his life and his journey now it's over let him go and rest in peace.
Posted by chi flat irons | June 25, 2009 9:42 PM
it so sad T_T
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 9:49 PM
I think it very sad that some of you damn people don't have nothing good to say, so do your self a favor and don't say Sh*t at all. Don't forget he is a human being. Please be respectful to his family it could have been someone in your damn family Asshole!!!! RIP M.JACKSON
Posted by Anonymous | June 26, 2009 1:10 AM
It sucks. It just sucks. Thriller man.
Posted by This Music Sucks | June 26, 2009 2:18 AM
After the issue about Megan Fox snubbing a fan who is giving her flower, the sudden death of The King of Music Michael Jackson is a very shocking and sad news. Though Michael Jackson's career is in a downfall today, he will still remembered as the energetic concert king! A little silence for the prayer of his soul...
Posted by Megan Fox | June 26, 2009 4:29 AM