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 Michael Jackson: Family maintains silence on burial plans
Although over 31 million Americans have watched the public memorial of Michael Jackson on television the mystery shrouded regarding the whereabouts of his body on Wednesday and plans for his burial.
A day after Jackson's casket was taken to a Los Angeles basketball arena for an emotional memorial for fans, friends and his family, attention returned on how Michael Jackson got his hands on powerful prescription drugs that has been reportedly found in his rented mansion after his sudden death on 25th June.
It has been reported that the sales of Jackson's albums soared for a second week, with his solo albums jumping another 90 percent to 800,000 copies in the United States.
A popular survey revealed that 31.1 million Americans watched Tuesday's Los Angeles memorial live on television. The figure is lower than the TV audience of some other recent events.
Some 49.5 million Americans tuned in for President Barack Obama's first White House news conference in February, and 35 million watched former President Ronald Reagan's 2004 burial live on TV.
However the survey did not include public viewing on the Internet or other platforms, which has grown rapidly in the last few years.
The spokesperson for Michael Jackson family did not return calls for comment on burial plans for the "Thriller" singer, who died of cardiac arrest at age 50.
The California officials and those in Santa Barbara County said that the Jackson family has not asked for the required special permission to bury Jackson at his abandoned Neverland Valley Ranch in central California.
As per media reports the Los Angeles coroner's office was conducting neuropathology tests on part of Jackson's brain, which could be behind the delay in the family's burial plans.
One of Jackson's doctors, Beverly Hills dermatologist Arnold Klein, on Wednesday denied that he was one of the targets of a police investigation over drugs seized from Jackson's home after his death.
A spokesman for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also said that the elaborate memorial cost the cash-strapped city some $1.4 million, "far less" than an initial estimate of $3.8 million.
City officials had braced for as many as 250,000 fans to show up at the Staples Center. The actual number was closer to 1,000. Donors chipped in $17,000 after the city set up a website thereby asking for cash to cover the cost.
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