Jackson meninggal di UCLA Medical Center setelah bencana di rumah sewa di Holmby Hills. Paramedis mencoba membangkitkan dia di rumahnya selama hampir tiga perempat dari satu jam, kemudian rushed dia ke rumah sakit, dimana dokter untuk terus bekerja pada dia.

“Hal ini diyakini ia menderita penyakit jantung penangkapan di rumahnya. Namun, penyebab kematiannya tidak diketahui sampai hasil autopsy dikenal,” kata Jermaine saudaranya. Polisi mengatakan mereka menyelidiki, standar prosedur dalam kasus profil tinggi.

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By LYNN ELBER, Associated Press Writer Lynn Elber, Associated Press Writer – 42 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop” who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him.

“It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known,” his brother Jermaine said. Police said they were investigating, standard procedure in high-profile cases.

Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

His 1982 album “Thriller” — which included the blockbuster hits “Beat It,” “Billie Jean” and “Thriller” — is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.

At the time of his death, Jackson was rehearsing hard for what was to be his greatest comeback: He was scheduled for an unprecedented 50 shows at a London arena, with the first set for July 13.

As word of his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from Jackson’s heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York’s Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.

“No joke. King of Pop is no more. Wow,” Michael Harris, 36, of New York City, read from a text message a friend had sent him. “It’s like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always remember being in Times Square when Michael Jackson died.”

The public first knew him as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Ind. Among their No. 1 hits were “I Want You Back,” “ABC” and “I’ll Be There.”

He was perhaps the most exciting performer of his generation, known for his backward-gliding moonwalk, his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves and his high-pitched singing, punctuated with squeals and titters. His single sequined glove, tight, military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses were trademarks, as was his ever-changing, surgically altered appearance.

“For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don’t have the words,” said Quincy Jones, who produced “Thriller.” “He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.”

Jackson ranked alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time. He united two of music’s biggest names when he was briefly married to Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie, and Jackson’s death immediately evoked comparisons to that of Presley himself, who died at age 42 in 1977.

As years went by, Jackson became an increasingly freakish figure — a middle-aged man-child weirdly out of touch with grown-up life. His skin became lighter, his nose narrower, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice. He often wore a germ mask while traveling, kept a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles as one of his closest companions, and surrounded himself with children at his Neverland ranch, a storybook playland filled with toys, rides and animals. The tabloids dubbed him “Wacko Jacko.”

“It seemed to me that his internal essence was at war with the norms of the world. It’s as if he was trying to defy gravity,” said Michael Levine, a Hollywood publicist who represented Jackson in the early 1990s. He called Jackson a “disciple of P.T. Barnum” and said the star appeared fragile at the time but was “much more cunning and shrewd about the industry than anyone knew.”

Jackson caused a furor in 2002 when he playfully dangled his infant son, Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin while a throng of fans watched from below.

In 2005, he was cleared of charges he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003. He had been accused of plying the boy with alcohol and groping him, and of engaging in strange and inappropriate behavior with other children.

The case followed years of rumors about Jackson and young boys. In a TV documentary, he acknowledged sharing his bed with children, a practice he described as sweet and not at all sexual.

Despite the acquittal, the lurid allegations that came out in court took a fearsome toll on his career and image, and he fell into serious financial trouble.

Michael Joseph Jackson was born Aug. 29, 1958, in Gary. He was 4 years old when he began singing with his brothers — Marlon, Jermaine, Jackie and Tito — in the Jackson 5. After his early success with bubblegum soul, he struck out on his own, generating innovative, explosive, unstoppable music.

The album “Thriller” alone mixed the dark, serpentine bass and drums and synthesizer approach of “Billie Jean,” the grinding Eddie Van Halen solo on “Beat It,” and the hiccups and falsettos on “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.”

The peak may have come in 1983, when Motown celebrated its 25th anniversary with an all-star televised concert and Jackson moonwalked off with the show, joining his brothers for a medley of old hits and then leaving them behind with a pointing, crouching, high-kicking, splay-footed, crotch-grabbing run through “Billie Jean.”

The audience stood and roared. Jackson raised his fist.

By then he had cemented his place in pop culture. He got the plum Scarecrow role in the 1978 movie musical “The Wiz,” a pop-R&B version of “The Wizard of Oz,” that starred Diana Ross as Dorothy.

During production of a 1984 Pepsi commercial, Jackson’s scalp sustains burns when an explosion sets his hair on fire.

He had strong follow-up albums with 1987’s “Bad” and 1991’s “Dangerous,” but his career began to collapse in 1993 after he was accused of molesting a boy who often stayed at his home. The singer denied any wrongdoing, reached a settlement with the boy’s family, reported to be $20 million, and criminal charges were never filed.

Jackson’s expressed anger over the allegations on the 1995 album “HIStory,” which sold more than 2.4 million copies, but by then, the popularity of Jackson’s music was clearly waning, even as public fascination with his increasingly erratic behavior was growing.

Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley in 1994, and they divorced in 1996. Later that year, Jackson married Deborah Rowe, a former nurse for his dermatologist. They had two children together: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as Prince Michael, and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson. Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.

Cardiac arrest is an abnormal heart rhythm that stops the heart from pumping blood to the body. It can occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems.

Billboard magazine editorial director Bill Werde said Jackson’s star power was unmatched. “The world just lost the biggest pop star in history, no matter how you cut it,” Werde said. “He’s literally the king of pop.”

Jackson’s 13 No. 1 one hits on the Billboard charts put him behind only Presley, the Beatles and Mariah Carey, Werde said.

“He was on the eve of potentially redeeming his career a little bit,” he said. “People might have started to think of him again in a different light.”

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Associated Press Writers Derrik J. Lang, Solvej Schou and Thomas Watkins in Los Angeles and Virginia Byrne, Hillel Italie, Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Jocelyn Noveck in New York contributed to this report.

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By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press Writer John Rogers, Associated Press Writer – 26 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Across the country, people reacted in stunned disbelief Thursday as word spread that Michael Jackson had collapsed and died.

Within minutes of Jackson’s arrival by ambulance at UCLA Medical Center people began arriving by the hundreds, the crowd quickly filling a grassy entrance outside the hospital. As word spread that Jackson had been pronounced dead, several people burst into tears. Others simply stood in disbelief. Still others whipped out cell phones and began calling or texting friends.

At Times Square in New York, where people had begun gathering as word spread that Jackson had fallen ill, a collective groan went up from the crowd as the words announcing his death flashed across a giant TV screen.

During Los Angeles’ notoriously slow-paced rush-hour commute, Jackson’s music could be heard blaring from several cars along busy Wilshire Boulevard.

“I’m in shock. He’s gone. The legend of music,” Becky Williams said in disbelief as she stood outside Jackson’s home in Los Angeles’ tony Holmby Hills neighborhood. Williams, 26, of Salt Lake City, had been visiting her sister, who lives down the street.

Another neighbor, Roxana Radnia, was driving past Jackson’s home when she saw an ambulance.

“I was just listening to his music, to ‘Thriller,’ yesterday on my iPod,” said Radnia, 21. “And now this. It’s surreal.”

Outside the hospital, as news spread that Jackson had died, Seth Casteel pulled out an iPod and began playing Jackson’s song “Heal the World” at full volume.

As the crowd at the hospital increased by the minute, police and security officers in plainclothes quickly blocked off entrances. When word spread that a news conference was scheduled for a hospital auditorium hundreds of people tried to rush in and police had to quickly shut it down.

Back in Holmby Hills, cars — many of them with stereo systems blaring songs from “Thriller” and other classic Jackson albums — began to clog the streets. As people began to abandon the vehicles to snap pictures of the home, a police officer used a loudspeaker to warn that their cars would be towed.

Among those who drove to the neighborhood was Sue Mossell, who was visiting from Georgia with her two sons, 7-year-old Ryan and 12-year-old Jimmy. Ryan placed a pink flower in front of Jackson’s gate.

Across the country, reaction poured in from all corners.

“Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died,” a woman boarding a bus in New York City’s borough of Manhattan called out to fellow riders, who immediately grabbed their cell phones to learn more.

“People are already texting about it, remembering his greatest moments,” said 17-year-old Delmar Dualeh.

At Miami International Airport, travelers swarmed television sets.

Kathleen Magnaye of New York was at Los Angeles’ Venice Beach when she received a frantic call from her boyfriend. She raced to Jackson’s house with her 14-year-old sister to take photos.

“We’re devastated,” said Magnaye, 23. “I’ve been listening to him since I was 5 years old. My mom would put him on in the house.”

On Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, fans gathered to pray around a sidewalk star bearing the name “Michael Jackson,” but it was the star for a local radio personality of the same name. Jackson’s own star, in front of the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, was unreachable because of a movie premiere taking place there. After the premiere the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce planned to put flowers on it.

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Associated Press writers Derrik J. Lang, Anthony McCartney and Solvej Schou contributed to this story

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Shayla Ivy cries as she holds a wax replica of Michael Jackson outside of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at The Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 25, 2009. The museum moved the figure outside in tribute to Michael Jackson who died Thursday. He was 50.
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Eleanor Lewis of New York City, left, shouts Michael Jackson’s name as she dances to a Michael Jackson song with Ralph Evans in front of the Apollo Theater,Thursday June 25, 2009, in the Harlem section of New York. Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the ‘King of Pop’ died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 50.

(AP Photo/Joel Jean-Pierre)

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Irwansyah lahir di Jakarta pada tanggal 6 Maret 1985, bertinggi tubuh 177 cm ini dalam dunia entertainment Indonesia dikenal sebagai artis sinetron pria bersama dengan Darius Sinathrya. Hobinya adalah mendengarkan musik. Sinetron yang pernah dibintanginya antara lain Senandung Masa Puber, Ku t’lah Jatuh Cinta, My Heart.

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