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List of Participants Revealed for Jackson Memorial

Associated Press
Mon, July 06, 2009

The representatives for Jackson's family released a list of participants Monday.  Also on the list are Motown founder Berry Gordy, Lionel Richie, John Mayer, Usher, Jennifer Hudson and Martin Luther King III and his sister Bernice.  The memorial is set for Tuesday at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

The ticket hand-off for Jackson's public memorial service has been going smoothly at Dodger Stadium.  Winners of an Internet ticket lottery began exchanging vouchers for tickets in a drive-through process Monday in the stadium parking lot.  Each winner gets two tickets, and are free to give anyone their second one.  Organizers made tickets available free of charge for 11,000 seats in Staples and 6,500 in the adjacent Nokia Theatre.  Police say anyone caught scalping the tickets faces arrest.

Meanwhile, an attorney for Debbie Rowe says Michael Jackson's ex-wife is backing out of plans to attend the pop superstar's memorial service.  Rowe, the mother of Jackson's two oldest children, had originally planned to attend Tuesday's memorial service at the Staples Center.  But Rowe attorney Marta Almli said Monday her attendance would be "an unnecessary distraction" and that Rowe will "celebrate Michael's memory privately."

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