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."

Source: Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest | TMZ.com
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CNN Also Reporting: Pop singer Michael Jackson has suffered cardiac arrest, CNN affiliate KTLA reports.

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poor guy

yeah just saw that on CNN.

LOS ANGELES -- Pop star Michael Jackson has been taken to UCLA Medical Center by ambulance suffering from cardiac arrest, fire officials confirm.


Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a 911 call at Jackson's home around 12:26 p.m.

He was not breathing when they arrived. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda says.

Jackson is renting a home in the Holmby Hills in the 100 block of Carolwood Drive off Sunset Boulevard.

It is about two minutes from the UCLA Medical Center.

Family members have been called and are on their way to UCLA, sources say.

Jackson's father, Joe, told reporters his son is "not doing well."

UCLA officials are not releasing any details about the pop star's condition.

Source: Report: Michael Jackson Rushed to Hospital in Cardiac Arrest - KTLA

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medics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

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

Jackson had 13 number one hits during his solo career.


source:Michael Jackson Dies | TMZ.com

(CNN) -- Entertainer Michael Jackson was taken to a hospital on Thursday, according to a Los Angeles Fire Department official.


Fire Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN a 911 call came in from a west Los Angeles residence at 12:21 p.m. and the patient was treated and transferred to the UCLA Medical Center.

Asked specifics of the patient's condition, the spokesman said he could not discuss them because of federal privacy laws.

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, sad news.

We've 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.

A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to get him to breathe but they had no luck.

We're told one of the staff members at Jackson's home called 911.

LaToya 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.

Story developing...

Michael Jackson Dies | TMZ.com

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I think BBC's got the news from Entertainmen that he's died from heat attack?

Its still got to be confirmed? (I don't wanna believe this )

:OOOOOOO I can't believe this!

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yeah i think it might be true that he has died. CNN and other news channel are developing it into that. They're showing his residential place and shedding light over his career and controversies.