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Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest

Posted Jun 25th 2009 4:30PM by TMZ Staff

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We've just learned Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles ... and we're told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance ... and it's looking bad.



He was picked up at his home around 20 minutes ago -- we're told his mother is on the way to visit him.

UPDATE: The 911 call came in at 12:21PM at his Holmby Hills home in L.A.

UPDATE: A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in "really bad shape" and the brothers are headed to UCLA.

UPDATE: We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael's dad, who says "he is not doing well."



Tags: ambulance, cardiac arrest, CardiacArrest, heart attack, heart failure, heart health, HeartAttack, HeartFailure, HeartHealth, hospital, michael jackson, MichaelJackson

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16. When you look like you are anorexic cardiac arrest is a real possibility.

Posted at 4:49PM on Jun 25th 2009 by susan

17. To #12-Good grief, if the man has had a heart attack, do you expect him to be superman and do a concert anyway? His health is more important than a tour.Im sure you will get your money back if the concert is cancelled.

Posted at 4:51PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Jane

18. Wow!! Talk about a busy news day!

Posted at 4:49PM on Jun 25th 2009 by chicken stripper

19. This could be very serious. I cannot believe people would be that cruel. Fan or not, have compassion for a fellow human being.

Posted at 4:50PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Swelter

20. he probably had heart failure from pain kilers

Posted at 4:53PM on Jun 25th 2009 by 2drk2fck

21. first

Posted at 4:54PM on Jun 25th 2009 by kenetoken

22. There he goes... gettin' arrested again...

Posted at 4:53PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Jermaine

23. Don't be surprised if this "tour" of his is cancelled. It's supposed to start in just a couple of weeks, right? I've been saying all along that it was all a big stunt. The dude's been blowing it out his little white azz for years and I'm sorry I just can't bring myself to believe anything about this sick little freak any more.

Posted at 4:54PM on Jun 25th 2009 by donbear

24. fox40 doesn't have additional details, it just says the same thing.

Posted at 4:54PM on Jun 25th 2009 by tuna marie

25. OH MY GOD! It doesn't really matter what you think of him. He is a human being. He has had a heart attack. HAVE A LITTLE COMPASSION!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:00PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Donald Sleeper

26. Wouldn't ya know it... had to steal farrah's thunder! Couldn't let it go another day. Sheesh... some days TMZ is all about ear wax and then boom... evrybody's dyin'!
I'm really F'n stupitt, aren't I.

Posted at 4:55PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Jermaine

27. Years of annorexia and drug abuse will do that to you.

Posted at 4:56PM on Jun 25th 2009 by spindoc

28. Will do that to you tropical thunder TMZ is pf Hohass

Posted at 4:57PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Bad contract?

29. Im gonna agree with flower #20, as scrawny looking as he appear if he truly was in full arrest my 20+ in emergency medicine would vote that he probably did not or will not survive. If that the case cant blame much of it on anyone but his own devices.

Posted at 4:56PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Rj

30. Harvey,
If Michael dies who gets the kids?

Posted at 4:57PM on Jun 25th 2009 by What the Hell?

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