Posted on 06/29/2009 3:01:58 PM PDT by TaraP
After plugging his record company, Michael Jackson's father Joe said in a press conference outside his home Monday that the family was planning a large public funeral for the deceased singer.
Joe Jackson says planning for a funeral will await a finding on what happened to his son, who died Thursday at age 50.
The family has sanctioned a second autopsy to be conducted on the King of Pop's body, which they said is already underway.
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"We aren't ready for [releasing information on the funeral]. We don't have the time frame yet because we want to see when the private autopsy comes out." private autopsy comes out."
But Joe Jackson says the funeral will not be closed to the public, as his son would likely have wanted a similar type of service.
Sharpton says the funeral plan has to be careful and deliberate and cannot be done spontaneously.
Joe Jackson defended his plug of his record label with Marshall Thompson at the BET Awards last night, when a reporter asked him about his son.
"Now I was asked that question and I answered just like it was asked because they wanted to know what else I was doing," Jackson said before going into discussions about his son
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“But wait, there’s more!” Billy Mays RIP.....
How about Gary, Indiana — yeah that’s it — Gary, Indiana.
Well, from what I’ve read, mom’s not so nice either. Read the reviews on Amazon of La Toya Jackson’s book about growing up in that family. She later recanted some of what she wrote in the book, but I’m wondering if she was forced to recant what she had written b/c later on one of the brothers said that her hints at the sexual abuse were true.
One of the other brothers stated that when
the Jackson Five were doing gigs, Joe Jackson and the older brothers would bring women to the hotel room and get it on with them in front of MJ when MJ was just a little kid.
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