How Michael Jackson Died

Michael Jackson, it has now been disclosed, collapsed in the living room of his Los Angeles home, suddenly in the presence of his 12-year-old son, Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. after being given an injection shot of Demerol at 11.30am.

At first, the stunned boy thought his dad was just clowning, but when he realized it was real, Prince went into a 'trance', too stupefied to speak.

Disclosing the last moments of 50-year-old King of Pop, who earned over one billion dollars in his life time of spectacular music, a family friend, Stacy Brown, told the New York Post that Michael Jackson's eldest son thought his father was joking around when he collapsed on the living-room floor -- but soon stood "in a trance" as the King of Pop's personal doctor frantically tried to revive him.

"The horror of it all is that, Prince thought his dad was just being his dad and clowning, but it was real, and he watched as they worked on him.

"Prince was stunned -- in a trance -- just watching," Brown said. There was no movement, just looking around and not really processing what was really happening."

Also, there were the pop star's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, his longtime friend and one-time manager, Frank DiLeo, and a security guard named Tippy.

Jackson went into cardiac arrest, in the living room of the $100,000-per-month Los Angeles rented home.

That morning, he had been packing up his things in preparation to go to London for the much expected upcoming series of 50 concerts there.

"After he collapsed on the living room floor, the guard and the doctor picked him up and put him on the bed, and that's when they started CPR," he said.

"The doctor said he was 'very pale and cold to the touch,' " he added.

As Murray worked on Jackson, Tippy first reached out for the pop singer's father, Joseph, in Las Vegas, to tell him something was wrong.

"Joseph screamed at them to call for help," he said. A huge commotion ensued about why 911 wasn't being called and why he wasn't getting help."

Brown says Tippy then called 911. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the call was received at 12:21 p.m.

Jackson was rushed to UCLA Medical Center, where doctors shocked his heart and inserted a breathing tube to try to revive him, but were unsuccessful. He was declared dead at 2:26 p.m. West Coast time.

The young boy was later picked up from the house by a Jackson cousin and taken to the hospital where his grandmother, Katherine, met him.

Jackson's other children -- Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, 11, and Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson II, 7 -- were home at the time of his collapse, but did not see their father die. They were taken to the grandparents' compound in Encino, Calif.

Meanwhile, the Jackson family, who retained powerhouse lawyer L. Londell McMillian, gathered yesterday to make funeral arrangements. Brown said a private funeral was tentatively set for Wednesday. Moving vans were in front of the house where the King of Pop died, amid reports his dad Joe was placing his belongings in storage.

Although funeral details were not clear, Los Angeles police and fire officials were preparing for a massive turnout for Jackson's memorial service.

The singer's body was released early Friday to the family and taken from the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.

Fox News reported that Jackson's body had been kept in a special, private crypt at the morgue under lock and key so that no pictures would be leaked.

Autopsy results were not immediately conclusive, and officials were awaiting further tests before they could rule on a cause of death. It could take up to four to six more weeks, officials said.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who is close with the pop icon's family, told CNN that relatives had arranged for a second, private autopsy.

"This thing has gone from inquiry to investigation," he said."Right now, there is no peace. We don't know what happened and we need to know. Michael was not sick before [Wednesday] night. He was not frail."

The procedure was reportedly performed last night but the results weren't immediately known.

Grace Rwaramba, the former nanny for Jackson's three kids, told The Sunday Times of London that she "had to pump his stomach many times" from taking too many pills.

"There was one period that it was so bad that I didn't let the children see him," the 42-year-old Rwandan native, who once tried to stage an intervention with Jackson's family, told the paper.

"He always ate too little and mixed too much."

The Post reported that the 5-foot-10 Jackson weighed about 125 pounds when he died and was using a dangerous daily cocktail of powerful prescription drugs, including several highly addictive narcotics.