Taylor's final resting place at Forest Lawn -- the same place of burial for her longtime friend Michael Jackson -- is in the memorial park's Great Mausoleum "sheltered beneath a soaring marble Michelangelo angel," Morrison said.
Why didn't Elizabeth Taylor go to Michael Jackson's funeral?
Dame Elizabeth Taylor announced via her Twitter page Monday that though she's mourning Jackson's passing, she had no desire to participate in or attend his memorial. "I just don't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others. How I feel is between us. Not a public event," she said.
What did Elizabeth Taylor say when Michael Jackson died?
I always will,” Taylor Tweeted shortly after Jackson's 2009 death. “My heart . . . my mind . . . are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.”
Why did Michael Jackson ask for milk before he died?
After several hours and several drug injections, Jackson was still unable to fall asleep, and, according to Murray, was repeatedly asking him for "milk", a term for the powerful sedative propofol, which Jackson had used in the past as a sleep aid.
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What were Michael Jackson's last words milk?
He reveals that Jackson's last words were: "Let me have some milk" before adding: "He was pleading, and begging me, to please, please, let him have some milk." Murray then stated: "That was the only thing that would work.
Michael Jackson was buried with one white glove, sunglasses and dressed with pearl beads and a large gold belt, his sister, La Toya, said in an interview late Friday.
Floyd was only the third person to be buried in this gold-lined casket, after famous musicians Michael Jackson and James Brown before him. The casket, which is plated with 14 karat gold, costs around $25,000 and upward.
Rowe, the mother of Jackson's two oldest children, had originally planned to attend Tuesday's memorial service at the Staples Centre. But Rowe lawyer Marta Almli said on Monday her attendance would be "an unnecessary distraction" and that Rowe will "celebrate Michael's memory privately".
March 24, 2011 — -- Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest in a small funeral ceremony today at The Great Mausoleum in Glendale, Calif.'s Forest Lawn Cemetery, the same cemetery where her close friend Michael Jackson is entombed.
It is similar to the one in which James Brown was buried. The closed casket at the Staples Center was decorated with red roses and Bells of Ireland flower arrangement. The casket was escorted by Jackson's brothers, each wearing a single sequined white glove on the hand in which they held the casket.
He was diagnosed with the skin disorder vitiligo, which results in white patches on the skin and sensitivity to sunlight. To treat the condition, he used fair-colored makeup and likely skin-bleaching prescription creams to cover up the uneven blotches of color caused by the illness.
The Los Angeles County coroner? s autopsy report on the June 25, 2009 death of pop star Michael Jackson. The coroner's office determined the cause of death to be “acute propofol intoxication” in combination with the use of sedatives.
The cost of Michael Jackson's private funeral topped $1 million, with more than half that amount going to buy a crypt in a celebrity-studded Glendale mausoleum and $35,000 spent on clothes for the singer, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
Murray told investigators previously that Jackson had developed an addiction to the 50mg of propofol he received through an IV every night, demanding the hospital-grade anesthetic he called his "milk."
"Michael was beginning to develop the vitiligo," Cicely continued. "And it started on his hand ... The glove was to camouflage it. That's how that glove came into being."
