Neverland to hold Jackson funeral?
Updated on 01 July 2009
Speculation increases about the location of Michael Jackson's funeral as lorries and workers come and go at his former home, Neverland.
A procession of vehicles arriving at the run-down Neverland ranch in California has fuelled speculation Michael Jackson will be buried there.
Now those plans appear to be up in the air. The LA Times has reported that state officials said they could not clear the red tape required for a burial on private ground in time for the planned funeral this Friday.
The latest rumour is that the funeral may now be held somewhere in Los Angeles, but there have been a lot of very contradictory rumours surrounding these arrangements.
Reports indicate that despite help from the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Jackson family still could not get the official permission they needed to bury a body outside of an authorised graveyard in time to have the funeral at Neverland.
But plenty of fans are still turning up at Neverland, hoping that at some point Michael Jackson's body will be allowed to come home.
Jackson's will was filed in court today, apparently showing he left $500m in assets, but that does not take into account the substantial debts he ran up in recent years.
The will names his mother, Katherine, as the guardian of his three children, but it does also say that if she had died before him, he wanted the singer Diana Ross to look after them for him.
