{"id":898,"date":"2009-06-25T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=898"},"modified":"2009-06-25T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:52:09","slug":"report-michael-jackson-50-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/06\/25\/report-michael-jackson-50-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Michael Jackson, 50, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary singer Michael Jackson died Thursday, according to multiple reports.  He was 50.<\/p>\n<p>Known worldwide as the &#8220;King of Pop,&#8221; Jackson reportedly collapsed after what many sources believe was a heart attack in his Los Angeles-area home earlier this afternoon.  Police responded to an emergency call just before 12:30PM; he was revived by on-site paramedics and transported to UCLA Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=\\michael jackson&#038;iid=4928304\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/9\/4\/5\/7\/Michael_Jackson_walks_74be.jpg?adImageId=1674273&#038;imageId=4928304\" width=\"234\" height=\"351\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Michael Jackson walks with kids Prince and Paris through a studio parking lot in Los Angeles\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He remained in a coma at the medical facility until just after 3PM, when he was pronounced dead by doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson had been rehearsing in Los Angeles for a major series of concerts&#8211;50 sold-out shows&#8211;in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Michael Jackson, 50, Dies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Legendary singer Michael Jackson died Thursday, according to multiple reports. 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