A Michael Jackson Apollo Theater Service is set for Tuesday night.

The Michael Jackson Apollo memorial will feature a public eulogy by Rev. Al Sharpton. The event will be held this evening following one previoulsy in Paris and another last Monday night in Rome’s Piazza Navona.

On Thursday, the procession of Jackson’s body to Neverland Ranch will start in Los Angeles and end at the place Jackson called home for most of his adult life. On Friday, a public viewing is set.

Initial estimates believed millions were partake in the Neverland Ranch memorial, becoming the largest celebrity burial of all time. Insiders believe that Jackson’s Friday Neverland event will far surpass the numbers who viewed the passing of Princess Di years ago.

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Jordan (aka Jordy) Chandler has not issued a statement on Michael Jackson, despite online claims. Jordan Chandler, Evan Chandler’s son, is being wrongly reported across blogs Tuesday as issuing a statement concerning his 1990s case.

However, new details are coming out on the Chandler (now 29) suit against Jackson that would be settled in 1994. Chandler was reportedly paid $15,332,250 at the time.

In the years that followed, Chandler reportedly returned to court following an ABC interview conducted with Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson. The case would eventually be decided in the California Court of Appeals in 2000.

As reported earlier on LALATE, a public memorial is set for Neverland Ranch Friday. On Monday, Katherine Jackson was given temporary guardianship of Jackson’s three children while denying temporary guardianship over the children’s estate. And new reports since Sunday say that Debbie Rowe and Jackson were not the biological parents of the first two children – Paris and Prince I. Rowe has yet to express if she intends to contest Katherine Jackson’s desire for child custody.

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Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch memorial arrangements are announced. Michael Jackson’s funeral will follow a memorial at Neverland Ranch announced to press within the hour.

Michael Jackson’s body will be transported from Los Angeles to Neverland Ranch on Thursday at 10 AM PST. A public memorial will then be held at Neverland Ranch on Friday.

Dates and details about funeral arrangements have yet to be announced. The funeral however is expected to be by invitation only.

In the event that transportation of Jackson’s body is in fact from Los Angeles to Neverland on Friday, stay with LALATE for expected live streaming video of the transportation.

Neverland Ranch is located at
5225 Figueroa Mountain Rd
Los Olivos, CA 93441

Yesterday local press in Los Olivos reported a secret meeting in the last few days with members of Jackson’s family and Neverland Ranch’s note holder at the site.

Over the weekend, LALATE broke to you initial proposals to turn Neverland Ranch into a Graceland like museum. As of Tuesday 10 am PST is it unclear if Michael Jackson will be buried at Neverland. But initial proposals last weekend suggested that as the hope, with a return of Neverland ranch contents previously slated for a Beverly Hills auction, and a restoration of the extensive acres and grounds at the Ranch.

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Below is a map of Neverland.

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PHOTOS! Here are pictures of Tye Strickland who is engaged to Melissa Rycroft! Tye Strickland and Melissa Rycroft, previously “engaged” to Jason Mesnick on The Bachelor and then contestant on Dancing with the Stars, have finally engaged after dating now and then for two years.

Tye Strickland Pictures
Tye Strickland Photo 1
Tye Strickland Photo 2

She’s 26, he’s 28. Strickland is reportedly an insurance agent.

Rycroft previously told press about Tye:

“He’s my best friend”.

So cute. The wedding date has yet to be set.

Congrats to the couple.

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Cecelia Cichan the sole survivor of Northwest Flight 255 was covered on tv today.

Cecelia Cichan was Northwest Flight 255’s only survivor during a tragic crash almost 22 years ago. On August 16, 1987 Flight 255 was heading to Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona and ultimately Santa Ana, California.

But during takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, the plane crashed. Only Cecelia Marie Cichan (now Cecelia Marie Cichan-Lumpkin) survived. The six year lost her parents and brother. The medical examiner on scene never understood how she survived, calling it complete destruction.

Cecelia would be raised by her aunt and uncle, Rita and Frank Lumpkin. Cichan had reportedly never spoken publicly about the event but would write messages to others who lost loved ones in the crash. Five years ago on the anniversary of the crash, she reportedly wrote the following:

“Hi everyone. I just wanted to give a quick update. I am doing great. I know the anniversary is coming up soon, and that is a sad time for us all. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you … families and friends of the passengers of flight 255 … even those of you who are concerned but have no direct connection to the crash. Thanks to everyone who keeps me in their prayers as well! God Bless!”

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