Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead today after paramedics found him in a coma at his Bel-Air mansion, town and law enforcement sources told The Times.
Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Steve Ruda told The Times that paramedics responded to a 911 call from the home. When they arrived, Jackson wasn't breathing.
The paramedics performed CPR and took Jackson to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda claimed. Lots of reporters gathered at the hospital awaiting word on his status. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, related relations rushed to Jackson's bedside, where he was in a deep coma.
The circumstances of Jackson's death remain confusing. Law enforcement sources said that Los Angeles Police Office robbery-homicide investigators have opened an investigation into the death, though they stressed that there's no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
The investigators plan to interview kin, pals and Jackson's doctors to try and figure out what occurred. The L.A. County coroner's office will establish a reason for death. A LA Fire Office source informed The Times that Jackson was in full cardiac arrest when rescue units arrived.
A doctor was in the house performing CPR on Jackson, announced the source who asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to chat to the media. Paramedics were called to a home in the 100 block of Carolwood Drive off Sunset Boulevard.
Jackson leased the Bel-Air home -- called a French castle built in 2002 with seven bedrooms, thirteen lavatories, twelve fireplaces and a theater -- for $100,000 a month. The home is about a six-minute drive from UCLA Medical Center. Jackson has three children -- boys Prince Michael seven, and Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., 12, and child Paris Michael Katherine, 11.
Jackson, fifty, died as he was attempting a comeback after years of tabloid headlines, most particularly his trial and exculpation on kid molestation charges.
In May, The Times claimed that Jackson had rented the Bel-Air residence and was rehearsing for a series of fifty sold-out shows in London's O2 Arena. Jackson had won the backing of two billionaires to get the so-called "King of Pop" back on stage.
His backers envisioned the shows at AEG's O2 as an audition for a career rebirth that could have ultimately encompassed a three-year world tour, a new album, movies, a Graceland-like museum, musical revues in Las Vegas and Macau, and even a "Thriller" casino. Such a rebound could have wiped out Jackson's massive debt.
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