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More details have been released for the memorial service for Michael Jackson that is being held by The Jackson Family and AEG Live.

The Memorical service will be held on Tuesday July 7th at 10am at the Los Angeles Staples Center.

For those who want to get tickets to the service (which will now be free of charge), good luck, and I mean that.  There will only be 17,500 tickets available for the general public, and out of that 17,500 only 11,000 of those tickets will be for inside the Staples Center, the remaining 6,500 tickets will be for the Noika Theater across the street which will be airing the service on large screens.

How do you get tickets? Log into StaplesCenter.com and register your name by 6pm PST on Saturday July 4th, 2009.  On Sunday, 8,750 people will be randomly selected and will be given 2 tickets each.  Ticketmaster will distrubute the tickets and wristbands on Monday.

Weather or not you get tickets or don’t live in CA, the memorial service will be free to watch online and on broadcast networks.  I belive E!, as well as MTV and other networks are planning on broadcasting the live memorial service.

A public memorial service for Michael Jackson is going to be held at the musician’s former home, the famed Neverland Ranch.

The memorical service is going to be open to the public and will be held this Friday July 3, 2009.  More details such as times are still pending.

Michael purchased Neverland Ranch in 1987 for a reported $17 million dollars.  The 2,800 acre property at one time hosted a zoo and amusement park.

In 2008, the ranch was put into forecloser after Michael defaulted $24.5 million on the properties loan.

The property was later purchased by Colony Capital a private equity firm run by Michael’s billionaire friend Tom Barrack.

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