Michael Jackson laid to rest 10 weeks after his death
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In the end, Michael Jackson was laid to rest with the kind of dignity and grace that eluded him for so much of his frenetic life. Ten weeks to the day after he collapsed from an overdose of anaesthetics, last night his coffin was placed in a mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park outside Los Angeles.
Among the mourners were his soul buddies, Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin, his former wife Lisa Marie Presley, the lawyer who defended him through his darkest moments facing child molestation charges, Thomas Mesereau, and key figures in his music career such as the producer Quincy Jones and the founder of Motown Records Berry Gordy.
The pallbearers were his brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Randy. His three children began the service by laying a crown on the coffin.
The body has been placed in the Holly Terrace, a large hall at the centre of Forest Lawn's monolithic grounds. Jackson will join the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable and Nat King Cole.
