Michael Jackson is dead at 50: His Four-Decade Career

Photograph courtesy of Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archive

I am a fan of his music and I just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive and one of the staff members at Jackson's home called 911.

La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead.

Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.

Ten years ago Michael Jackson was the most famous Star in the world. Now, when we look at the strange person, we ask ourselves, is it really Michael Jackson?

Jackson has spent most of those years under heavy scrutiny in one of the more intense public spotlights in music history. Click below for an in-depth gallery of Jackson images, including little or never seen early shots of Michael and his siblings care of the Getty-owned Michael Ochs archive.

• Michael Jackson at 50: A Look Back at the King of Pop’s Four-Decade Career

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