Michael Jackson laid to rest beside showbiz greats

• Final preparations are being made for Michael Jackson's burial at the Forest Lawn cemetery north of Los Angeles.
• The singer will be laid to rest during a private ceremony attended by his close friends and family at 7pm local time (3am tomorrow UK time).
• The burial comes more than two months after Jackson died aged 50 at his rented LA apartment as a result of acute intoxication with the anaesthetic propofol.
• Few details of the ceremony have been released but it is believed Aretha Franklin will sing at the graveside.
• The cost of the funeral - described as "extraordinary" - is being shouldered by the Michael Jackson estate.
• Other celebrities buried in the lavish memorial grounds include Walt Disney, Clarke Gable and Humphrey Bogart.

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