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Janet Jackson's Advice to Whitney Houston's Daughter

Originally posted 02/14/2012 04:15PM



Janet Jackson knows what it's like to lose a loved one, and now she's offering some advice to Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina on how to deal with the grief over her mother's death.

"You have to come to terms at some point. You have to actually give it up to God," says Jackson, who still mourns the loss of her brother, Michael Jackson. "It sounds so mean, but you have to move on. You can't hold onto that because it can be very devastating."

Jackson, who spoke to Anderson Cooper for an interview airing Monday on his talk show, adds, "Sometimes therapy is the best thing."

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PHOTO: Michael Jackson's Kids Honor Him with Handprint Ceremony in L.A.

Michael Jackson's Children Memorialize Him in Handprint Ceremony

Originally posted 01/26/2012 05:30PM

His memory will last forever and now Michael Jackson's children have helped memorialize him with a hand and footprint ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Prince, 14, Paris, 13, and Blanket Jackson, 9, attended the ceremony outside of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater and paid tribute to their late father.

"This, right here, is his lifetime achievement award," said Prince, 14. "This is what he strived to get, and this is what we are giving him now."

The Jackson kids made an imprint in the cement using Michael's famous sequin glove and a pair of his dancing shoes, and each added their own handprint as well.

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Paris Jackson Tweets Her Good Virtues

Paris Jackson Tweets Her Good Virtues

Originally posted 01/10/2012 10:45AM

Finally: a 13-year-old in Hollywood who's acting her age!

Paris Jackson, the daughter of late singer Michael Jackson, is just a teen focused on frozen yogurt. Jackson capped off her school day Monday in Los Angeles with the sweet treat – then Tweeted some high-brow kudos to virtues.

"#ShoutOutToTheGirlsThat are clean," she Tweeted. "No smoking/drinking/stealing/etc."

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Brad Pitt Turns 48 with a Very Michael Jackson Night in Vegas | Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt Celebrates 48th Birthday in Vegas

Originally posted 12/18/2011 02:00PM

Brad Pitt's birthday weekend was quite a "thriller"!

The Moneyball star, who turns 48 on Sunday, was joined by longtime love Angelina Jolie and their six children in Las Vegas Saturday night to experience the Michael Jackson The Immortal, the Cirque Du Soleil touring show.

"They had great seats, sitting right beside the stage," a source said. "They really seemed to enjoy the show. The performers didn't know they were there and a few of them recognized them while they were on stage, so it was pretty exciting."

After giving a standing ovation, Pitt, donning round glasses, Jolie, wearing a light grey dress, and the children left just as the cast gave final bows. The family spent the night at the lavish Four Seasons.
– Mark Gray

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Paris Jackson Shares Her Father's Best Advice to Her | Ellen DeGeneres

UpdatePosted 12/14/2011 01:00PM

Paris Jackson Shares Her Father's Best Advice to Her

Originally posted 12/14/2011 10:00AM

Michael Jackson's advice to his daughter Paris was simple: Never forget.

"He said, 'If I die tomorrow, always remember what I told you.' I took his advice, and I remembered everything he told me," Paris, 13, says in a new interview when asked about the most memorable thing her father ever said to her.

The King of Pop shaped Paris's life in all sorts of fundamental ways, including her desire to go into acting, she reveals in the interview, airing Thursday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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The Jackson 3: Life After Michael

Michael Jackson's Children: How Are They Doing?

Originally posted 12/12/2011 09:30AM

As the two-and-a-half year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death approaches, the pop star's children are keeping busy carrying on his legacy.

Prince, Paris, and Blanket recently attended a taping of The X Factor, checked out the Las Vegas opening of Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil and the Michael Jackson Fan Fest memorabilia exhibit. And now Paris, 13, has landed her first acting role in the film Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys.

"They're doing well," their uncle Marlon tells PEOPLE.

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Michael Jackson's Daughter Paris Gets Her First Movie Role

UpdatePosted 12/09/2011 05:25PM

Michael Jackson's Daughter Paris Gets First Movie Role

Originally posted 12/09/2011 04:50PM

Paris Jackson is finally following her father into show business.

The 13-year-old daughter of Michael Jackson will star in the upcoming Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys, a mixed live-action and animation movie, as a girl who survives being brainwashed by a jellyfish queen in the ocean.

Filming begins in January. Three Keys is first in a series of five Lundon O'Malley movies to which she's committed, producer Stephen Sobisky tells PEOPLE.

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X Factor Singers Pay Tribute to Michael Jackson – in Front of His Kids | Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell

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X Factor Singers Pay Tribute to Michael Jackson – in Front of His Kids

Originally posted 12/01/2011 01:10PM

Contestants on The X Factor attempted the impossible Wednesday night – trying to capture the genius of the incomparable Michael Jackson ... in front of his children, no less.

Still, the show's top seven did a mostly admirable job on Michael Jackson night, as Jackson's mother Katherine and his three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, watched from the front row.

Melanie Amaro, in particular, wowed the crowd and the judges with her show-closing rendition of "Earth Song," with Simon Cowell telling the 19-year-old, "I couldn't think of a better way to pay tribute to one of the greatest artists in the world."

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Conrad Murray Gets Maximum Four-Year Sentence | Conrad Murray

Conrad Murray Sentenced to Four Years in Michael Jackson's Death

Originally posted 11/29/2011 01:00PM

Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum penalty of four years behind bars for administering a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic to Michael Jackson.

"He violated the trust of the medical community, of his colleagues and of his patient," said Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor, "and he has absolutely no sense of remorse, absolutely no sense of fault, and is and remains dangerous."

Murray, 58, was convicted of manslaughter in the 2009 death of the pop star at age 50 as he was preparing for a major concert series in the U.K.

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Conrad Murray Sentencing – Live Streaming

Originally posted 11/29/2011 11:45AM



Dr. Conrad Murray faces up to four years behind bars at his sentencing Tuesday on his manslaughter conviction for administering a deadly anesthetic to Michael Jackson.

In his sentencing memo, the prosecution contended that Murray, 58, performed a "dangerous, unprecedented pharmaceutical experiment," withheld from paramedics and emergency room doctors that he'd administered propofol, and hid some drugs and equipment after Jackson stopped breathing.

Murray's attorneys, who suggested at trial that the singer caused his own death by taking extra drugs when Murray was out of the room, asked that Murray receive probation.

"There is no question that the death of his patient, Mr. Jackson, was unintentional and an enormous tragedy for everyone affected," the lawyers wrote in their sentencing memo, adding that Jackson's death was "an atypical and isolated aberration to an otherwise exceptional medical career."