Jul 7th, 2009 - MTV
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Michael Jackson's family is scheduled to gather on Tuesday morning (July 7) for a private funeral service at the Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial Park just a few hours before the pop singer's fans will pay their respects at the Staples Center across town.
According to TMZ, several members of the Jackson clan visited the cemetery on Monday night. Brother Randy and sister LaToya were spotted entering Forest Lawn, and a hearse was spotted pulling up to the Hall of Liberty complex for what the gossip site speculated might have been a private viewing of the body.
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