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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- The Michael Jackson memorial service
at the Staples Center on Tuesday will be a star-studded affair, with
singers Mariah Carey, Usher and Stevie Wonder among the participants,
according to an announcement released on behalf of the Jackson family.
A fan leaves a note on a Michael Jackson memorial outside the Staples
Center in Los Angeles.

A fan leaves a note on a Michael Jackson memorial outside the Staples
Center in Los Angeles.
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Also participating in the event will be basketball stars Kobe Bryant
and Magic Johnson, and singers Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Smokey
Robinson, the family said.

The Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III will be among others
taking part.

Ken Ehrlich, known for producing the Grammy Awards, is producing the
memorial show, his company said. Kenny Ortega, who was to have
co-directed Jackson's series of concerts in London, England, this
summer, will direct it.

Mayer posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon saying "I'm going not to
'perform' but to contribute."

"I'm honored to have been asked to play at MJ's memorial service. I
will be representing all of us who can't be there," Mayer tweeted.
"Going to say goodbye from all us kids."

One notable who won't be attending: longtime Jackson friend Elizabeth
Taylor, who put out a message on Twitter that she "cannot be part of
the public whoopla."

"I just don't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief
with millions of others," Taylor tweeted. "How I feel is between us.
Not a public event."

"I love him too much," she added, "and I cannot guarantee that I would
be coherent to say a word."

Debbie Rowe, Jackson's former wife and the mother of his two oldest
children, will not attend the memorial service, her lawyer Marta Almli
said Monday.

"Although Debbie had originally planned to attend tomorrow's Staples
Center memorial service, we have concluded with Debbie that she will
not be attending," a statement from Almli said. "The onslaught of
media attention has made it clear her attendance would be an
unnecessary distraction to an event that should focus exclusively on
Michael's legacy. Debbie will continue to celebrate Michael's memory
privately."

Fans without tickets to the memorial are being asked to stay away from
downtown Los Angeles and watch the service on television. Details: See
who will be there, map of area »

The family decided to provide a free live video feed to networks so it
would be televised everywhere. "Everything about the memorial has to
do with accommodating as many fans as possible," Ken Sunshine, the
Jackson family spokesman, said.

While Jackson's family remains tight-lipped about the singer's burial
arrangements, sources told CNN that relatives will hold a private
gathering at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles Tuesday morning
ahead of the public service. The California Highway Patrol will escort
their motorcade, the sources said.

The gathering is scheduled for 8 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) -- two hours before
the service at the Staples Center arena.

Cemetery officials have not commented on the matter.

While there are five Forest Lawn cemeteries in the Los Angeles area,
media trucks and crews have been parked at the gate of the Hollywood
Hills facility for several days in anticipation of Jackson's possible
interment there.

Fans claim tickets

On Monday, fans chosen by random lottery for Jackson's memorial began
arriving at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to pick up their tickets.
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Los Angeles Police Capt. Bill Murphy said the distribution process was
going smoothly.

One person tried to pass off a photocopied voucher; he was ejected, Murphy said.

The 8,750 fans have until 6 p.m. PT to claim their tickets.
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Each winner gets two tickets, bringing the number awarded in the
lottery to 17,500.

Just 11,000 of those are for seats inside the Staples Center. The
other 6,500 would be for viewing the memorial telecast at the adjacent
Nokia Theater. AEG Live, the promoter of Michael Jackson's London
shows, owns and operates both venues.

Deka Motanya, 27, who works in a doctor's office in San Francisco,
scrambled Sunday night to line up plane tickets so she and her
boyfriend could fly to Los Angeles on Monday.

"Oh, yeah, I'm going," she said. "I'm e-mailing my boss saying I've
got to leave early because I'm going to L.A."

Executors control Jackson's assets

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted control of Jackson's assets
to the executors of his will Monday.

The executors -- John Branca, Jackson's longtime personal attorney,
and John McClain, a music industry executive and longtime friend --
had sought immediate control of the entertainer's assets at a hearing
before Judge Mitchell Beckloff.
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The judge appointed the men as special administrators until another
hearing August 3. He said they will be responsible for protecting the
estate from immediate losses.

The men can enter into new ventures only with court approval, Beckloff said.

Jackson died June 25. Since the next day, his mother, Katherine, has
been administering the assets.

Lawyers for Jackson's mother objected to Beckloff's decision, saying
that "irreparable damage" could be done to the estate if Branca is
allowed to take control.

"To award unfettered control to the other side would not serve
justice," said attorney Burt Levitch.

Katherine Jackson's lawyers argued that Branca was removed from
several critical roles by Jackson after the signing of the will. They
argued that the removal from those business roles should also exclude
Branca as executor.

"Quite frankly, Mrs. Jackson has concerns about handing over the keys
to the kingdom," Levitch said.

But Branca's lawyer, Paul Hoffman, said Branca had represented Jackson
off and on since he was 21, that he was his lawyer at the time the
will was written and that he was rehired in mid-June.

Branca represented Jackson from 1980 until 2006 and was hired again
before the singer's death. He helped acquire Jackson's music catalog,
which is worth millions.

McClain is a longtime Jackson friend who has worked with him and his
sister Janet.

The judge ruled that Michael Jackson felt strongly enough about these
executors to name them in his will. He required the two men to acquire
a $1 million bond to insure their work as executors.

The judge said he hopes the two sides can come to an agreement -- a
"free flow of information" -- by August 3.

Hoffman said the two sides met for four hours over the weekend but
were unable to reach "an acceptable accommodation."

In their filing for control of the estate, the men said it would allow
them to tend to Jackson's numerous outstanding debts, legal cases and
business obligations.

At a hearing Wednesday, Beckloff had appointed Katherine Jackson the
temporary administrator.

Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/06/michael.jackson.wrap/index.html

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In Hollywood, one person's wardrobe malfunction is another's fashion statement - just ask Rihanna.

The 21-year-old arrived for Independence Day celebrations over the weekend flashing daring silver sequinned nipple petals from beneath her gaping tuxedo jacket.

Far from being an embarrassing moment of overexposure, it was a very deliberate move by the bold Umbrella singer who seemed completely at ease in her most provocative outfit yet.

Eccentric star Lady GaGa, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, model Daisy Lowe and singer Britney Spears have all publicly paraded nipple covers in recent times.

Rihanna was in Las Vegas to mark July 4 along with her mentor Jay-Z, who attended the party at Tao nightclub without his wife Beyonce.

The rapper is credited with giving the singer her big break by signing her to record label Def Jam and the pair are rumoured to be working on new material for her next album.

It has been a tumultuous year for Rihanna, whose former boyfriend Chris Brown was last month given a community service order and probation after pleading guilty to assaulting her.

Rihanna’s father Ronald Fenty recently hit out at the sentence

‘He should be in jail. Chris should have been sent to jail for what he did to my girl.

'He's got off lightly. Chris put her through hell,' he told People magazine.

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