Pop Emperor Michael Jackson laid to rest, surrounded by stars

Michael Jackson was laid to rest on Thursday at a funeral attended by family and celebrities, more than two months after the pop star died at age 50 of a drug overdose that has been ruled a homicide.

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Tight security kept fans and even aircraft well away from the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, where Jackson will lie in the stellar company of such Hollywood icons as Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart.

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Jackson's family arrived at the cemetery more than an hour late, driven in a procession of nearly 30 limousines and cars that passed a small crowd of fans and onlookers.

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The singer -- who sold millions of albums worldwide with hits such as "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" -- died of a drug overdose on June 25 in what the Los Angeles County Coroner

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Officials said a cocktail of prescription medication, including the powerful anesthetic propofol and sedative lorazepam were the primary causes of his death.

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