Entertainer Michael Jackson has died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, according to multiple reports including the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. CNN has not confirmed his death.
A Los Angeles fire official told CNN that paramedics arrived at Michael Jackson's home after a 911 call.

A Los Angeles fire official told CNN that paramedics arrived at Michael Jackson's home after a 911 call.

Jackson, 50, had been in a coma at the hospital, sources told CNN.

Brian Oxman, a Jackson family attorney, said he was told by brother Randy Jackson that Michael Jackson collapsed at his home in west Los Angeles, California, Thursday morning.

Family members were told of the situation and were either at the hospital or en route, Oxman said.

Fire Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN a 911 call came in from a west Los Angeles residence at 12:21 p.m.

Ruda said Jackson was treated and transferred to the UCLA Medical Center.

Asked specifics of the patient's condition, he said he could not discuss them because of federal privacy laws.

The music icon from Gary, Indiana, is known as the "King of Pop." Jackson had many No. 1 hits and his "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time. Video Jackson "as big as it gets" »

Jackson is the seventh of nine children in a well-known musical family. He has three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

At the medical center, every entrance to the emergency room was blocked by security guards. Even hospital staffers were not permitted to enter. A few people stood inside the waiting area, some of them crying.

A large crowd was also gathering outside the hospital, according to video footage.

Outside Jackson's Bel Air home, police arrived on motorcycles. The road in front of the home was closed in an attempt to hold traffic back, but several people were gathered outside the home.

I. CANNOT. BELIEVE. IT.


this is HARDER to accept than heath ledger. THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THROW IN ALL THE O M F Gs in the world and its STILL NOT ENOUGH for this CRAZY PIECE OF NEWS.

OH MY BUDDHA JUMP OVER THE WALL.

my stomach is hurling SO bad.

while you may see him as the child molester, the freak who wants to be white and had way too many nosejobs before... he is michael jackson. the legendary king of pop; the best entertainer in the world; THE MJ.

an initial so powerful that when all these proved to be history, i couldn't help but to wail.

how many children grew up inspired by him, look up at him and wishing they could dance exactly like him? and how many children took up all days just to master the moonwalk? how many of us groove to billie jean when we were young? how many of us secretly know the dance steps for thriller?

i cannot even begin to tell you how flabbergasted i am. perhaps this is how the older generation feel when james dean or john lennon died.

MJ is our generation. to watch someone so significant in this current time passing away is surreal. legendary doesn't even come close, as a word for MJ

michael has not gone anywhere. he's chilling with elvis and tupac right now.

too fast to live; too young to die.



*mwahs @ 1:26 AM