RSS Feed
Email Newsletter
Star YouTube Channel
Michael Jackson - File
Michael Jackson's private family funeral was fit for a king and had a price tag to match: roughly $1 million.
According to an Associated Press (AP) report, court documents released Tuesday, showed that his mother, his brother, Randy, and sister, Janet, were involved in the planning and mindful of the huge amount of media attention that would be lavished on the September 3 funeral.
Lawyers for Jackson's mother, applied to the estate's administrators and were granted $1 million to pay for costs that included burial, flowers, cars, security and a post-funeral dinner.
The private ceremony for the King of Pop was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, weeks after a public tribute to the singer at the Staples Center.
An article published in The Sun on Thursday, November 12, gave a further breakdown of Jackson's funeral expenses.
The article stated that the total bill, equivalent to about £600,000, included £21,000 for the King of Pop's never-to-be-seen burial outfit.
Another £356,000 went on his final resting place - plus 11 crypts for Jackson family members.
Apart from Jackson's £21,146 outfit, £7,079 went on invitations and programmes and £9,668 on flowers for the family's grand goodbye.
Estate attorney Howard Weitzman said: "I'd have probably done it less expensively, but it was Michael Jackson.
Adding, "He was bigger than life when he was alive and there's no reason why his funeral shouldn't be bigger than life."
This Is It star Jacko, died on June 25, aged 50.
