Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett... Michael Jackson?

TMZ reports:

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 in the ambulance.

This has all transpired in the last half hour or so. I'm about to go take care of some shit. Hopefully he's still alive when I get back.

I was joking just now on Twitter, but I really would be broken up if Jacko died. I don't care if he raped kids. My inner African just can't let go of Thriller.

UPDATE: And now he's dead.

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.

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