The King of Pop is dead. Michael Jackson

Recording artist, entertainer and global superstar Michael Jackson has died from an apparent heart attack in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 50 years-old.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

It was reported earlier by various news sources that Michael Jackson suffered a ..heart attack this afternoon at his home and was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center this afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics.
Fire Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a call at Jackson’s home at 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived. The paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and took him to the hospital, Ruda told the Los Angeles Times.
According to the L.A. Now blog, Paramedics were called to a home on the 100 block of Carolwood Drive off Sunset Boulevard. Jackson rented the Bel Air home for $100,000 a month.
A Jackson family member, who was not identified, had told TMZ.com that Michael was in “really bad shape” as the brothers headed to the hospital.
“We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died,” TMZ later reported. “Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.”
A true celebrity icon, Jackson had been slated to start a series of comeback concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The pop star had been rehearsing in Los Angeles for the past two months.
A star in every sense of the word since childhood, first with his brothers in the band The Jackson 5 and later as solo artist, recording such iconic albums as Off the Wall and Thriller.
A circus-like trial in 2005 to fight charges of child molestation resulted in an acquittal, but left the already reclusive star even more detached from any sense of normalcy, both in his personal life and with his fledgling career.
One of the most important pop culture figures of the 20th century, Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; his influence on pop music, hip-hop and contemporary R&B is remarkable.
It will take many months of website and Blog posts, magazine articles, TV specials, newspaper columns and, perhaps most importantly, everyday conversation between Jackson fans everywhere to truly grasp the music and entertainment history created by Michael Jackson.
The legacy lives on – and forever.