by bintangkecil on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | News

Michael Jackson’s burial will finally take place at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale on Thursday. The funeral begins at 7 p.m.

Jackson will be interred in the expansive cemetery’s Great Mausoleum. The pop singer’s remains will be placed in a crypt in the Holly Terrace section of the mausoleum, a massive building that is the final resting place for stars from film’s golden age, such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable.

The burial caps months of rumors about where he would be laid to rest. One report had his body stored in a crypt owned by Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., and there was widespread speculation that an elaborate grave — and ultimately, a Graceland-style museum — would be constructed at the entertainer’s Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County.

On Wednesday, it was decided that Jackson’s estate will pay the undisclosed expenses for the singer’s funeral today — a sum one attorney called “extraordinary.”
Probate Judge Mitchell Beckloff approved the payment at a hearing Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles after an attorney for the estate’s administrators assured him that the estate had the financial resources to pay for the funeral and that it would not affect its solvency.

“The expenses are extraordinary; however, Michael Jackson is extraordinary,” said attorney Jeryll S. Cohen, who told the judge that the administrators did not object to the expenses. “They may not be appropriate for an ordinary person, but Michael Jackson was not ordinary.”

Attorneys for the singer’s mother filed papers under seal late Tuesday asking that the estate foot the bill for the funeral she has planned. Burt Levitch, Katherine Jackson’s attorney, said outside of court that he did not find the expenses extraordinary.

The bulk of the cost was going to the fee for Jackson to be interred at the cemetery, Levitch said. There, Jackson will be laid to rest amid lavish decorations, including statues and stained glass windows.

See the bill from Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

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