Pop star Michael Jackson has died after suffering a heart attack, it has been reported.

Media reports have said the star, 50, was taken to hospital in Los Angeles after he was found not breathing in his Holmby Hills home earlier.

Celebrity website TMZ said 911 operators received an emergency call about 12.12pm local time (5.12am AEST).

"We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back," the website reported.

Jackson is believed to have gone into cardiac arrest and paramedics performed CPR on him en route to UCLA hospital.

The website quoted family members as saying the Thriller singer was in "really bad shape."

"We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael's dad, who says 'he is not doing well.'' the website had earlier reported.

Jackson was reportedly planning a comeback and was living in Los Angeles while rehearsing a series of 50 sold-out shows in London, the LATimes has reported.

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics had rushed to the singer's $100,00-a-month rented home near Sunset Boulevard to find him not breathing, according to the newspaper.

**edit: Just saw there was another thread already that was moved to General Discussion

Who gets the kids???

Sad....that makes 2 in one day.

Children everywhere are now safe.

think i'm gonna beat it im so happy

c'est la vie

or not

well i dont think anyone knows if he is actually dead or alive. for one website said that he died the others dont say that and even on cnn they dont say that
and winx even posted saying she was watching the news and nothing was said he died

he's not really dead he's michal jackson he's just gone home

I think he died about ten years ago and all the bleach and plastic in his skin kept him from decaying

he and elvis are makin a comeback

who gets the monkey

He is faking his own death so he can have a normal life

CNN updated 4 minutes ago and were told that Michael Jackson condition could not be discussed

He is dead. ABC news says he died after a heart attack. The intertainment website "tmz" says it is so. His family is on their way to the hospital now. I saw it at .5 .

Kat

My news stations are saying heart attack still.

Yes Michael Jackson just died today of cardiac arrest they believe.

Its sad first Farrah Fawcet and now him. He was only 50.

From Jackson Five, to His solo career I grew up watching and listening to him.

He will be missed.

oh man what a sorry waste of human life

i wish i could say something good , other than he danced well

but he trashed himself and everyone around him

well if all that was accused of him was true ~


then I 'm Glad that it is not only the good that die so young

all the money in the world can't buy him out of hell "

and if God doesn't administer swift justice on his soul

There are many Spirits of Military Men & Women, for starters


who would love to take on the job !!!

CNN is saying he is in a coma.

I grew up with him too - posters and all.