
"Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times," the newspaper reported on its website. Jackson had been taken ill at his home and found not breathing by paramedics who rushed him to a hospital, it said.
TMZ entertainment website, said that the singer suffered a cardiac arrest. The news of his death was not immediately confirmed by Jackson's family, or spokespeople for them.
Family spokesman Brian Oxman told CNN that members of the singer's family, including his sister La Toya and brother Jermaine, were at the hospital. "They are in a room by themselves. They are quiet and they are sobbing," Oxman said.
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