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Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain

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Michael Jackson is to be buried without his brain, it has been reported.

Following an autopsy at the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office, the singer’s brain has been detained for neurological tests - including ones to see what drugs he had taken.

Rather than postpone the funeral, the Jackson family has instead decided to bury him without it.

The tests, which cannot be done until the brain has sufficiently hardened, are expected to show up any past drug or alcohol abuse, or overdoses the star may have suffered.

According to The Sunday Mirror, a source from the coroner’s office said that removing the brain was ‘the only way to carry out the tests’.

‘The tissue has to be examined. I can’t tell you how long that is going to take,’ he said.

The test results could also play a crucial role in criminal investigations into the star’s death, the Sunday Express has claimed.

Six of his doctors now face being quizzed by the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the State Attorney General Jerry Brown has ordered an investigation into which pills were
prescribed and dispensed to Jackson - and by whom.

‘If there has been abuses, charges will follow,’ a spokesman for Mr Brown said.

The star’s funeral is taking place on Tuesday morning in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, after planning permission for burial at Neverland was refused.

The family had initially planned a funeral procession from the morgue to Jackson’s 2800-acre ranch, where a viewing of the body would be open to the public.

Now, however, they are holding a closed-casket family ceremony followed by a public send-off at LA’s Staples Centre, during which Stevie Wonder will perform.

Fans have been allocated 11,000 tickets for the event, with an additional 6500 to watch it on giant screens at the nearby Nokia Theatre.

They were up for grabs over the weekend via an online lottery system. Demand was so great, the website crashed when half a million people tried to access it in the first 24 hours, and the televised concert is expected to attract a global audience of three million people.

Meanwhile, a custody battle for Jackson’s children looks set to break out.

The singer sensationally named Diana Ross as his children’s guardian if his mother Katherine could not fulfill the role - but according to the News of the World, his ex wife Debbie Rowe has said: ‘They are my flesh and blood. I’m going after my children.’

New ‘family’ pictures unearthed by the paper show Jackson and his ex-wife Debbie Rowe with babies Prince and Paris - casting doubt on claims the former nurse was nothing more than a surrogate who had no bond with the children.

Taken two weeks after Paris’ birth in 1998, the pictures show Rowe’s first meeting with her daughter, whom she kisses and cradles.

‘It was obvious Debbie loved her children and there was a strong connection between them. It looked like she was treasuring every second, laughing, kissing and playing with them for about two hours,’ the photographer said.

Following her 1999 divorce from Jackson, Rowe signed away her parental rights in exchange for a £5.2million payout.

But in the wake of child abuse claims in 2003, she then made a bid to regain temporary custody, it has emerged.

In a legal declaration, Rowe claimed her attempts to contact the children were continually thwarted by Jackson, and said she feared he was about to flee the country with them.

The paper also claims that legal documents prove Rowe was impregnated by artificial insemination using donated sperm.

A 13-year-old video has also emerged - during which Jackson is questioned about child-abuse allegations and insists he isn’t gay.

The video, from 1996, shows the star being grilled by a team of lawyers, as part of a lawsuit brought by Neverland staff for unfair dismissal.

During the footage, found by the News of the World, the star giggles nervously when asked about having sex with McCauley Culkin - and brands the allegations lies.

‘You get to a point where you get tired of people lying. I get tired of situations like this, where people completely lie on me, and I’m sick of it. I want to set the record straight,’ he said

The star also denied bleaching his skin white, and maintained he was heterosexual: ‘I’m a black American and I’m proud of it. And I’m honoured of it. The bleached skin rumour…is a rumour. I don’t bleach my skin,’ he said. ‘And I’m not gay.’

Thank to dailymail.co.uk

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