Janet Jackson “Grief-Stricken”
Janet Jackson is “grief-stricken” over the death of her brother, pop superstar Michael Jackson.
“Janet Jackson is grief-stricken and devastated at the sudden loss of her brother,” her manager Kenneth Crear said Thursday. “She is in pre-production on a film and is flying immediately to California to be with her family.”
“They are stunned,” Brian Oxman, the Jackson family attorney for 20 years, told Us Weekly magazine of the family’s state. “They are barely even able to speak about it.”
Oxman was with the family at the hospital (mother Katherine, brothers Randy and Jermaine, and sister Latoya, arrived separately at the hospital for vigil).
“They were silent, they were crying, they weren’t really able to say anything,” he says. “They just were stunned by this whole experience.”
Jackson, 50, died Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest at his rented home in Los Angeles.
The singer had three children — Michael Joseph Jackson Jr, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson II.
Jackson’s autopsy is underway, though results aren’t likely to be final until toxicology tests could be completed (which could take weeks).
It has also been reported that Jackson passed a recent physical, and his death is to be investigated by police.
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