Michael Jackson funeral: Lisa Marie’s moment alone by his casket – 'I wanted to apologise'
Michael Jackson died 12 years ago at the age of just 50. Less than two weeks later a public memorial service took place at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles ahead of a private funeral that September. The latter was attended by around 200 of the star’s closest friends and family including Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin and MJ’s ex-wife Elvis’ daughter Lisa Marie Presley.
Fans will know that Jackson and Lisa Marie had been briefly married between 1994 and 1996.
The King of Pop’s funeral saw his family arrive in a motorcade of 31 vehicles, while his brothers Randy, Tito, Jermaine, Jackie and Marlon were his pallbearers.
His siblings carried the gold-plated casket into the service at Glendale’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
And after the service, Lisa Marie stayed behind to have a private moment by her former husband’s body.
