The Funeral Costs Will Be Paid From Michael’s Assets

The cost of Michael’s funeral, which is said to be estimated at more than $1 million, will be paid from Michael’s assets because his family has announced that they do not have the ability to pay this amount.

On Wednesday, during a session in Los Angeles court, Judge Mitchell Beckloff allowed the trustees of the Michael Jackson Foundation to pay the staggering cost of the ceremony from the King of Pop’s finances. Of course, there was no dispute between Michael’s family and their lawyers about paying these costs. However, the judge wanted to make sure that Michael’s lawyers would be able to cover the expenses.

Gerald Cohen, the lawyer for Michael’s lawyers, said in court that there was enough cash available in the estate, and therefore they would pay the costs. He said:

“The funeral expenses are astonishing, but then Michael Jackson was also astonishing.”

In that session, one of the lawyers’ representatives gave one reason for the high cost of the ceremony: 12 graves were purchased at once.

Beckloff said it is customary for the costs of preparing the body and burial to be paid from the deceased’s assets after the ceremony ends. But since the Jackson family could not afford this heavy expense, they waited for the court to determine how the costs would be paid.

Joe Jackson told People magazine that the family had to endure both the grief of losing Michael and also come to terms with the police investigation into the cause of his death.

“He is my son. I love him. My family and I are going through the hardest days of our lives. We won’t rest until justice is carried out.”

Marion, Michael’s brother, told the same magazine that each of Michael’s three children—“Michael Junior (Prince Michael), 12; Paris Michael Katherine, 11; and Prince (Blanket), 7”—wrote letters to their father. These letters will be buried with their father along with a sequined glove made for him.

In these letters, it is written:

“Dad, we love you. We miss you.”

Michael will be buried on Thursday, September 3 at 7:00 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. Friday, September 13 Tehran time) in a tomb that is out of reach for the public, in Forest Lawn Park in Glendale, Los Angeles.

Source: eMJey / People / AP