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11:05 PM ET, June 25, 2009

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TMZ.com:
Michael Jackson Dies  —  We've just learned Michael Jackson has died.  He was 50.  —  Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him.  We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
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Shelby Grad / L.A. Now:
Michael Jackson is dead [Updated]  —  [Updated at 2:46 p.m.: Pop star Michael Jackson is in a coma and his family is arriving at his bedside, a law enforcement source told The Times.  —  Jackson was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center this afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics.
msnbc.com:
Singer Michael Jackson dead at 50  —  Newspaper reports pop star wasn't breathing when ambulance arrived  —  msnbc.com staff and news service reports  —  Michael Jackson has died at age 50 after being rushed to UCLA Medical Center, NBC News has confirmed.
X17 Online:
FIRST PIX: MICHAEL JACKSON RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL!  —  Michael Jackson arrived at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at 1:10pm this afternoon after reportedly suffering from cardiac arrest approximately two hours ago.  Captain Steve Ruda of the Los Angeles Fire Department told the LA Times …
TMZ.com:
Michael Jackson Dies — Celebs Go to Twitter  —  Since news of Michael Jackson's death today, celebrity friends and fans have released the following reactions on their Twitter accounts:  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger: We lost a great entertainer and a pop icon.  My thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Jackson's family, friends and fans.
Discussion: omg! and Fan Fare
TMZ.com:
Michael Jackson — Cardiac Arrest  —  UPDATE — Michael Jackson passed away today at the age of 50.  Click here for the latest.  —  We've just learned Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles ... and we're told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR …
Los Angeles Times:
Pop star Michael Jackson dead at 50  —  Paramedics arrived at his Bel-Air home today and found the singer in full cardiac arrest.  A doctor was in the home performing CPR on him.  LAPD has opened an inquiry.  —  Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead today after paramedics found …
Todd Leopold / CNN:
Michael Jackson, pop music legend, dead at 50
Discussion: Egotastic!
People.com:
Farrah Fawcett Dies of Cancer at 62  —  Farrah Fawcett, who skyrocketed to fame as one of a trio of impossibly glamorous private eyes on TV's Charlie's Angels, has died after a long battle with cancer.  She was 62.  —  Fawcett died at 9:28 a.m. PST at St. John's Heath Center in Santa Monica …
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TMZ.com:
Farrah Fawcett Dies  —  We've learned Farrah Fawcett died at 9:28 AM today.  Ryan O'Neal and Alana Stewart were at her bedside.  She was 62.  —  She died at St. John's hospital in Santa Monica in the ICU.  Also present — Farrah's longtime friend and hairdresser, Mila Murphy, and Dr. Piero, who has been caring for her.
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Farrah Fawcett's Former Assistant: “She Fought Hard”
Valerie J. Nelson / Los Angeles Times:
Farrah Fawcett dies at 62; actress soared with, then went beyond, 'Charlie's Angels'
James Kaplan / PARADE Magazine:
Daniel Radcliffe Breaks Free  —  Daniel Radcliffe has an ambition that might surprise you.  —  “Ultimately, I really want to do a bungee jump,” he tells me over Diet Cokes in a Manhattan café.  He grins.  “But not for a while.”  —  No, not for a while.
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Perez Hilton:
I'm Sorry  —  “People make mistakes.  I have made many in my life, but this past week I have made more than I can count on one hand.  —  I am sorry.  And I mean it.  No one is forcing me to write this.  I am not feeling pressured to say this.  I am speaking out because I realize …
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omg!:
Kate Gosselin Sports New Bikini at Home  —  Unlike her previous bikini bod sightings (she showed off her free tummy tuck while on vacation with her eight kids in Bald Head Island, NC, in May), this time the Jon & Kate Plus 8 star wasn't by the beach.  —  Instead, she was hanging out on the driveway …
The Cajun Boy / Gawker:
Megan Fox's Shunned Flower Child Found!  —  Yesterday we told you Kodak was offering $5000 to anyone who could track down the boy with the rose who was shunned by Megan Fox recently.  Well it looks as though one of our readers found him—On Facebook!  —  Last night we received the following email …
New York Post:
JACKIE ONASSIS SEDUCED MARLON BRANDO  —  MARLON Brando enjoyed two nights of passionate sex with Jacqueline Kennedy and wanted to bare the intimate details to the world, a new book reveals.  —  In “Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story,” which details a purported post-JFK assassination affair between Jackie …
Discussion: Hollywood Dame
People.com:
Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick Leave Hospital with Twins  —  Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick checked out of East Ohio Regional Hospital with their newborn daughters on Thursday, hospital spokesperson Maggie Espina confirms to PEOPLE.  —  “Yes, they are gone,” says Espina.
DailyFill.com:
Jeff Goldblum Lives!  —  Rumors are spreading that the actor died today, but we have the real story.  —  Reports about the death of Jeff Goldblum dying are false.  The rumors began circulating the internet after a New Zealand newspaper misprinted the death, and several media outlets picked-up the news.
Discussion: omg!
NY Daily News:
Joy Behar announces that wedding to boyfriend Steve Janowitz is off  —  Despite Joy Behar's recent announcement that she'd finally marry her longtime boyfriend, Steve Janowitz, wedding bells won't ring anytime soon.  —  “I'm getting my own talk show on HLN, so I don't have to get married anymore …
Tamara Hardingham-Gill / Daily Mail:
Flat-capped and ‘flat-chested’, the Beckhams leave France after Victoria's latest breast surgery  —  For a woman who has spent the past week relaxing in the South of France sunshine, Victoria Beckham looked a little..well, flat today.  —  But then, that was the idea, really.
Discussion: Pink is the New Blog
Kristin Boehm / People.com:
Shia LaBeouf's Today Show Love Connection  —  There's nothing like having Matt Lauer put in a good word for you, which certainly worked for an ardent admirer named Samantha on Thursday as she vied for the attention of Transformers star Shia LaBeouf while she stood in the plaza - talking to Lauer - outside the Today show's Studio A.
Discussion: Socialite Life and Cele|bitchy
Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:
Whitney Port: It's Fun “to Date Around”  —  “Just be open to all different possibilities and all different types,” she told Usmagazine.com at the Gen Art benefit in NYC Wednesday.  “Try not to overanalyze things or put too much pressure on things because it's just fun to meet a lot of people …
 
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