Media reports surfacing this month claimed the Jackson family secretly interred the superstar in a mausoleum owned by his close friend, Motown legend Berry Gordy.
Jackson's father Joe put an end to the speculation saying that the star will be laid to rest at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills on his birthday, New York Daily News reported.
Joe confirmed the family recently decided to bury the pop icon on August 29 -the day he would have turned 51 - nine weeks after he passed away after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest.
(Published 18 August 2009, 03:39 IST)
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