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By Frank James

Pop superstar Michael Jackson's funeral will be on Tuesday at 10 am at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, according to reports.

According to MSNBC:

Randy Philips, president and CEO of AEG, told KNBC's Robert Kovacik that the service, which will be open to the public, will begin at 10 a.m. Arrivals are set to begin at 8 a.m.


According to Philips, the overflow crowd will be accommodated at Nokia Plaza where widescreen TVs will broadcast the proceedings inside.

AEG is the company had hoped to stage Jackson's 50-concert comeback run in London.

There were rumors earlier in the week that a public funeral would be held at the late entertainer's Neverland Ranch about 120 miles away from Los Angeles. But many residents in the Santa Barbara area of his ranch weren't pleased at the thought of having thousands of Jackson fans descend on their community.

And at least one person who had been close to the entertainer and his family was quoted in media reports saying that the Jacksons didn't have much fondness for the community surrounding his ranch because of how the pop star was treated, with the county prosecutor there filing child sexual abuse charges against the singer who was acquitted in a 2005 trial.

4:27 - July 2, 2009

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