Tila Tequila Not Invited to Funeral

Guess that goes to show most of Casey’s family members didn’t think the engagement was liget. Tila has not and will not be invited to her fiancee’s funeral, according to the family.

“I don’t want to talk about the funeral. I wasn’t allowed to go, and I am so upset. I can’t sleep, and I am on suicide watch,” says Tila. Don’t tease us!

Casey Johnson not buried yet

The family of Casey Johnson yesterday denied a report that the ill-fated, baby-oil heiress has been buried on family property in New Jersey.

“She wasn’t buried today. She has not been buried,” a source with knowledge of the situation told The Post yesterday evening.

Asked when and where the 30-year-old Johnson might be finally laid to rest, the source only added, “It is a private family matter.

The person refused to say whether Johnson — a diabetic whose body was found in her rented LA home Monday — was or will be cremated.

The comments came after celebrity Web site RadarOnline reported that Johnson, the daughter of Jets owner Woody Johnson, reported that the troubled heiress had been buried yesterday in New Jersey, where the family has a plot in New Brunswick.

NY POST

Brittany Murphy Laid to Rest

Brittany Murphy’s body was laid to rest on Christmas Eve in the Hollywood Hills. The ceremony was given by a priest and a rabbi.

“A bright light that lit the world is forever dimmed, but will live on in the hearts of those that Brittany touched,” her family said in a statement. “Brittany was an incredibly loving and passionate person and an artist to her core.”

MJ Funeral Cost over a $1 Million

The Forest Lawn crypt cost $590,000, and $35,000 was spent on the pop star’s clothing. On Tuesday, his mother dropped her objection to two associates of her son being named executors of his estate.

The cost of Michael Jackson’s private funeral topped $1 million, with more than half that amount going to buy a crypt in a celebrity-studded Glendale mausoleum and $35,000 spent on clothes for the singer, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

Jackson, who died in June, was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in September in a nighttime ceremony arranged by his family and paid for by his estate. The probate judge who signed off on those expenses made public the funeral costs at a hearing in which he also appointed two longtime Jackson associates, entertainment attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain, as executors of his estate.

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Jackson Family Angry: Helicopters

Last Thursday, Michael Jackson was laid to rest at the Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The funeral was supposed to be a private, family affair. There was press at the funeral, but they were only allowed outside the gates to shoot the family and guests entering the cemetery.

What the family is most upset about the use of helicopters by the media to get funeral coverage from the sky. Now the family is demanding all footage be pulled from broadcasts.

Randy Jackson had this to say, “I was dismayed last night and again today at the coverage I saw on television of our ceremony for Michael. We had asked the media to respect the privacy and the sanctity of this event; to give us one moment of privacy to mourn as a family out of the public spotlight.’

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Michael Jackson Laid to Rest

Pop icon Michael Jackson, who died more than two months ago, was entombed Thursday night (9/4) in a private ceremony at a cemetery North of Los Angeles.

According to reports, the approximately 90-minute ceremony–for which nearby streets were closed and airspace restricted–attracted a long list of celebrities that included Elizabeth Taylor, Quincy Jones, Lisa Marie Presley and Macaulyay Culkin. In all, about 200 people attended the ceremony; they were greatly outnumbered by the more than 450 journalists that received credentials to the ceremony, the New York Times reported.
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DJ AM Laid To Rest In Los Angeles

DJ AM was laid to rest on Wednesday (September 2), during a private ceremony in Los Angeles, attended by family, friends, and celebrity circle, all paying their respects.

Just six days after his death, the private ceremony was held, with guests such as Travis Barker, Scott Caan, The Alchemist (who served as a pallbearer alongside his brother), DJ Jazzy Jeff, Joell and Benji Madden, Nicole Richie, and others, attending.

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Michael Jackson’s Final Resting Place?

The ornate Great Mausoleum on the grounds of Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California will be closed to the public today, while the Jackson Family hold a private funeral. Security has been in place since yesterday and verified the closure; the cemetery will reopen on Friday. The media is not allowed.

The cemetery has been a long time resting place for celebrities. Fans of Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and dozens of other celebrities buried on the grounds have flocked to Forest Lawn-Glendale for decades, but Jackson may outdraw them all.

CNN

Ted Kennedy Funeral Begins

Senator Ted Kennedy’s funeral is underway at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mission Hill. the Mass is being led by Rev. Donald Monan.

Among the attendees are President Barack Obama, and his wife Michele, Hilary Clinton and former President Clinton, former President George W. Bush, former President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill.

Ted Kennedy Jr. had this to say about his father, recalling how the senator loved “everything French - cheese, wine, and women,” and when the laugher quieted he told a story that made eyes fill with tears. As a 12-year-old, Ted Kennedy Jr. lost a leg to bone cancer and that winter his dad took him sledding after a snowstorm. Ted Kennedy Jr. slipped and fell on the ice and told his father he would never be able to climb up the hill outside their home in Washington, D.C.

“He lifted me up in his strong gentle arms and said something I will never forget,” Ted Kennedy Jr. said. “I know you can do it. There is nothing you can’t do. We are going to climb that hill together even if it takes us all day.”

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