Michael Jackson finally laid to rest

Los Angeles, Sept. 4: Michael Jackson has finally been laid to rest in a crown-adorned glittering gold coffin after family and friends saluted the tragic King of Pop in a poignant farewell.

More than two months after the singer died from a drug overdose, around 200 mourners — led by the Jackson family and also including Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor — gathered at a picturesque cemetery on a warm summer evening to celebrate the singer’s life.

Jackson’s children — Prince Michael 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II, otherwise known as Blanket — placed a crown on their father’s flower-laden coffin before the service got underway.

Unpredictable to the last, Jackson was late to his own funeral, his ornate casket set down before mourners more than 90 minutes after the service had been scheduled to start on Thursday evening. Jackson’s brothers — all dressed identically in black suits and red ties while each wearing a solitary white glove in tribute to the pop icon — served as pallbearers as the coffin was removed from the hearse.

His children reportedly left notes in their father’s coffin reading “Daddy we love you, we miss you.”

Mourners made tributes to Jackson in a service held beyond the prying eyes of media personnel gathered outside.