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Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest

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

UPDATE -- Michael Jackson passed away today at the age of 50. Click here for the latest.

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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61. Let him rot.

Posted at 5:04PM on Jun 25th 2009 by victorpark

62. WIRELESSLY 1221=AD &DA =DOA should have run overseas U BUG US=HUNG FU and there goes JO=hhny oversea

Posted at 5:05PM on Jun 25th 2009 by DOA MJ SHOCK the MJ MONKEY

63. Thank God all the little white boys around the world are once again safe!

Posted at 5:35PM on Jun 25th 2009 by beantownbaby

64. Love Him or Hate Him,... he is very talented and set the standard for many many others!
I really hope he's OK.

Posted at 5:05PM on Jun 25th 2009 by softsalt

65. HOPE YOU DIE FU@@ER

Posted at 5:06PM on Jun 25th 2009 by gigg's

66. Oooooooooooh, yeah. No wonder the flake is feckered. He's signed on for more concerts than he's capable of doing, and now wants off the hook.

Posted at 5:08PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Mr. Whippie

67. The very first post is the best.

Posted at 5:06PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Barb

68. ALL SORTS OF MEDIA OUT IN FRONT OF KATHERINE JACKSON'S HOUSE NOW IN THE VALLEY

TMZ JUST PULLED AND PEREZ HILTON IS HERE.

LIVE SHOTS ARE BEING SET UP, TOWERS ON VANS ARE GOING UP TO BROADCAST.

Posted at 5:08PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Jolinda

69. 33. Harvey,
If Michael dies who gets the kids?

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

I'm a professional comedy writer and I'm good... real good... but I have to hand it to ya... funniest line I've seenin a while.

Posted at 5:06PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Johnny Deep

70. His heart just needs to Beat It.....

Posted at 5:07PM on Jun 25th 2009 by EG

71. LOL!!!! You people need to learn to laugh at a human joke, constructed like a modern day Frankenstein. We need him around to make jokes about, but dying is good for laughs too.

Posted at 5:48PM on Jun 25th 2009 by TinyElvis

72. Karma can be a bit*h.

Posted at 5:08PM on Jun 25th 2009 by AJ

73. This site is claiming MJ has died from cardiac arrest after consuming more than 2 dozen sleeping pills.

http://michael.jackson.swellserver.com/news/top_stories/musician-overdose.php

Posted at 5:07PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Ama

74. This is funny? I love fun and messed up storys that TMZ does just as much as the next d-bag, but I'm disgusted by the comments that you people have written in Understand, TMZ would NEVER poke fun at someone in danger and (I can't believe I'm saying this) but you TMZ watchers and readers could learn a lesson from TMZ here. I don't even like MJ but a man's health and very life are up in the air.
-David K.

Posted at 9:52PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Dave Klein

75. Wow TMZ...you've had a busy day, what with Farah dying, the SC Gov mistress hunt you've been on, and now MJ..... haven't had that since Brittney was crazy, have you?

Posted at 5:09PM on Jun 25th 2009 by bella

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