UPDATE: Michael Jackson has died

By GottaLaff

UPDATE: Personal take: The Jackson family lived around the corner from me when I lived in Encino. We used to hang out across the street and wait for them to drive out, which they did often, to our delight. The Jacksons bought the house from the composer/arranger Earle Hagen, whose son Deane I was close with. I was lucky to live where I lived, lots of great memories.

UPDATE:

A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.

We're told one of the staff members at Jackson's home called 911.

La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead.

UPDATE:

We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.

Jackson had 13 number one hits during his solo career.

Story developing...

UPDATE: Conflicting reports. Apparently the post I deleted was a hoax. Thank you, hoaxers, so very much.

UPDATE: The 911 call came in at 12:21PM at his Holmby Hills home in L.A.

UPDATE: A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in "really bad shape" and the brothers are headed to UCLA.

UPDATE: We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael's dad, who says "he is not doing well."

More:

Michael Jackson has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack.

The 50-year-old King of Pop collapsed at his home around noon today. Staffers immediately rushed to his aid, but he was unresponsive.

"The call came in because a person was not breathing," says a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Fire Department, who declined to ID the singer by name.

"When the team arrived, they saw that CPR was already in progress by someone at the home. The person not breathing was transported to UCLA Medical Center and remains there."

"He had a heart attack," father Joe Jackson tells E! News. "He is not OK.

"His mother is on her way to the hospital now to check in on him."

(Originally published June 25, 2009, at 1:50 p.m. PT)