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Michael Jackson, 50, Is Dead


By The New York Times




Joel Ryan/Associated Press More Photographs

This post is written by Brooks Barnes in Los Angeles and Ben Sisario and Brian Stelter in New York.
Quincy Jones Reacts | 7:06 p.m.
“I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news,” the
music producer Quincy Jones said in a statement read by MSNBC. Mr.
Jones said Mr. Jackson “had it all — talent, grace, professionalism and
dedication.” Mr. Jones said added, “I’ve lost my little brother today,
and part of my soul has gone with him.”
Update | 7 p.m. A Los Angeles city official confirmed that Michael Jackson is dead. The official said he died away at 1:07 p.m. Pacific time.
NBC, which had scheduled a one-hour tribute to Farrah Fawcett
tonight at 10 p.m., has now expanded that special to two hours,
beginning at 9 p.m., to cover the deaths of both Ms. Fawcett and Mr.
Jackson. CBS will broadcast a special report covering both deaths at 10
p.m.
BBC’s Special Report | 6:56 p.m. For an international perspective on Mr. Jackson’s life and death, the BBC is broadcasting a special report. It can be streamed online here.

Music Memorials | 6:38 p.m.
Expect a number of Jackson music marathons in the days to come.
According to our colleague Stuart Elliott: WCBS-FM, the oldies station
in New York, is broadcasting some of Mr. Jackson’s greatest hits. The
station said it would have special programming later in the day.
Mr. Jackson was one of the icons of MTV’s early days in the 1980’s.
Our colleague Steve Reddicliffe says that the music channel is now
playing the music videos for “Beat It” and “Thriller,” accompanied by a “breaking news” graphic on the screen about the singer’s death.
Update | 6:37 p.m. The Associated Press is reporting that Mr. Jackson is dead.
Reaction | 6:37 p.m.
Television news images showed large crowds gathering outside the UCLA
Medical Center. “People are already showing up in costume, believe it
or not,” said a Fox News correspondent, Trace Gallagher, comparing it
to the circus he witnessed during a trial involving Mr. Jackson.
More Reports | 6:29 p.m. “A lot will be said about Michael Jackson as we learn more about this story,” Brian Williams said on the “NBC Nightly News.”
“He was incredibly talented, a child star who was an adult with deep troubles and physical and mental health issues.”
The reports of Mr. Jackson’s death ricocheted around the world with
remarkable speed. The news led Friday morning newscasts in Japan.
CBS and ABC are also reporting the news, standing on their own reporting now.
L.A. Times Reports Jackson Is Dead | 6:24 p.m.
The newspaper cited “city and law enforcement sources.” The networks
and CNN are also broadcasting the news, citing the Times story.
Reports: Jackson in a Coma | 6:15 p.m. Several news organizations including the Los Angeles Times
reported that Mr. Jackson “is in a coma.” The newspaper attributed the
news to one law enforcement source. CNN is also citing “multiple
sources” as saying that Mr. Jackson is in a coma.
Updated | 6:11 p.m. LOS
ANGELES – An unconscious Michael Jackson was rushed to UCLA Medical
Center on Thursday afternoon by paramedics who performed C.P.R.,
according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Early reports
indicated cardiac arrest, but a hospital spokeswoman was not
immediately available for comment. Mr. Jackson, 50, has been renting a
mansion in the Bel Air neighborhood, a short distance from the
hospital, and rehearsing for a series of 50 sold-out shows in London.
Joe Jackson told to E! News,
an entertainment Web site and cable channel, that the singer’s family
was scrambling to determine his condition. “I am in Las Vegas, but yes,
people in Los Angeles called me and are with Michael and tell me he was
taken to the hospital,” Mr. Jackson told E! News. “His mother is on her
way to the hospital now to check in on him.”
Mr. Jackson is scheduled to perform in a series of concerts in at
the O2 arena London, beginning next month and continuing into 2010. The
shows have been widely seen in the music industry as an important
possible comeback for him, with the potential to earn him up to $50
million, according to some reports. But there has also been worry and
speculation that Mr. Jackson, who is 50, was not physically ready for
such an arduous run of concerts, and Mr. Jackson’s postponement of the
first of those shows from July 8 to July 12 fueled new rounds of gossip
about his health.
Even though Mr. Jackson has sold millions of albums around the world
— “Thriller,” from 1982, has been certified 28 times platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America — his eccentric lifestyle
took a severe financial toll. In 1987 Mr. Jackson paid about $17
million for a 2,600-acre ranch in Los Olivos, Calif., 125 miles
northwest of Los Angeles. Calling it Neverland, he outfitted the
property with amusement-park rides, a zoo and a 50-seat theater, at a
cost of $35 million, according to reports, and the ranch became his
sanctum.
But Neverland, and Mr. Jackson’s lifestyle, were expensive to
maintain. A forensic accountant who testified at Mr. Jackson’s
molestation trial in 2005 said that Mr. Jackson’s annual budget in 1999
included $7.5 million for personal expenses and $5 million to maintain
Neverland. By at least the late 1990s, he began to take out huge loans
to support himself and pay debts. In 1998 he took out a loan for $140
million from Bank of America, which two years later was upped to $200
million. Further loans of hundreds of millions followed.
The collateral for the loans was Mr. Jackson’s 50 percent share in
Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a portfolio of thousands of songs, including
more than 100 by the Beatles that are considered some of the most
valuable properties in music. In 1985 Mr. Jackson paid $47.5 million
for ATV, which included the Beatles songs — a move that estranged him
from Paul McCartney — and 10 years later Mr. Jackson sold 50 percent of
his interest to Sony for $90 million, creating a joint venture,
Sony/ATV. Estimates of the value of the catalog exceed $1 billion.
A member of the pop group the Jackson 5 as a child, Mr. Jackson was
a pint-size musical dynamo. Under the aegis of Joe Jackson, he spent
years in talent shows and performing in seedy Midwestern clubs his
dictatorial and ambitious father. Joe Jackson and Berry Gordy, the
founder of Motown Records, were the singer’s twin mentors during his
early career.
A clip from 1972:

Mr. Jackson eventually broke with his father and the Jackson 5, a
move toward creative and financial independence marked by his
collaborations with Quincy Jones on a trio of albums. The most
memorable of those is 1982’s “Thriller,” which eventually racked up
sales of 51 million copies globally, according to the Guinness World
Records, making it the best-selling album in history.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department told CNN that
rescuers were called to Mr. Jackson’s home at 12:21 p.m. Pacific. “When
paramedics went on the scene, they treated the patient, then they
immediately transported the patient to UCLA,” the spokesman told CNN.
Mr. Jackson’s home is located only a few minutes from the hospital
center.
Cable news channels almost immediately started showing paparazzi
shots from TMZ, X17Online.com and Hollywood.TV of Mr. Jackson’s
entourage arriving at the hospital. By mid-afternoon, television news
helicopters were hovering above the medical center.
Entertainment news Web sites including EOnline.com and
PerezHilton.com appeared to be loading more slowly than usual, or not
loading at all, an indication of the intense interest in Mr. Jackson’s
hospitalization.

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