Posted by Adam

Friday September 4, 2009

Michael Jackson has been buried in Los Angeles — more than two months after his death from a drug overdose.

Elizabeth Taylor, Lisa Marie Presley, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Macaulay Culkin, Corey Feldman, Mila Kunis and Barry Bonds were among the celebrity guests at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles, to bid farewell to the King Of Pop in a sunset ceremony.

The funeral — estimated to have cost more than $1m — had been due to start at 7pm but was delayed by more than an hour as guests waited for the family to arrive.

Michael’s father Joe Jackson arrived separately for the service but took a seat alongside his wife Katherine. Jackson’s children — Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket — were among the last to take their seats just after 8.15pm. They sat on the front row, between Katherine and Michael’s sister LaToya.

Jackson’s brothers, wearing black armbands and a sequined glove on one hand, carried his flower-covered casket out of the hearse and placed it before about 200 mourners on a stage decorated with white lilies and white roses

Jackson’s three children then placed a crown on their father’s coffin to mark his place as the King of Pop.

The 45-minute service was conducted by the Rev Al Sharpton.

After the ceremony, the brothers carried the casket to the Grand Mausoleum, where at 9:43 p.m. Jackson entered his final resting place.

Afterwards, his family issued statement to “once again thank all of Michael Jackson’s fans around the world for their generous outpouring of support during this terribly difficult time. Their expressions of love for Michael and his music have sustained the Jackson Family.”

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