A free public memorial for Michael Jackson will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, but the date has not been finalized.
Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, which will produce the memorial, said the family is considering holding the event Tuesday. Phillips said Jackson's mother Katherine will make the final decision. Jackson's brother Randy is coordinating all memorial plans.
AEG Live was in the process of producing and promoting Michael Jackson's This Is It tour at the time of his death. The company is considering producing a Michael Jackson tribute concert at London's O2 Arena, the venue in which Jackson was scheduled to perform.
Phillips also said AEG has 100 hours of HD Jackson video footage for a possible documentary film and two live albums.
"There are all kinds of things that we've been talking about, potentially a motion picture. A pay-per-view tribute," Phillips said. "This production was breathtaking. Remember, Michael didn?t do anything small. Our production budget was well in excess of $24 or $25 million dollars, which for an arena show is unheard of. It's breathtaking. It's technology people hadn't seen before."
Phillips said AEG doesn't want to be a "burden to the (Jackson) estate" and hopes to recoup the money lost from the tour cancellation via the tribute show, movie or album.
Also Thursday, a judge delayed a guardianship hearing for Jackson's children scheduled for Monday at the request of ex-wife Debbie Rowe's attorneys. The hearing has been rescheduled for July 13.
Rowe's attorney said Rowe is still deciding whether or not she will seek custody of the children she had with Jackson, the Associated Press reports. She is the mother of Michael Jr., 12, and Paris, 11. Jackson's youngest child, Prince Michael, 7, was born to an anonymous surrogate.
Earlier Thursday, Jackson's older brother Jermaine spoke out in an interview with the Today show, saying that he would be "hurt" if toxicology results indicatedthat his brother's death was drug-related.
"In this business, the pressures and things that you go through, you never know what one turns to," he said. "I don't know about these things, because I hate anything with drugs."
Jackson's 7-year-old will was filed in an L.A. court Wednesday, specifying that his estate would go the Michael Jackson Family Trust and that Katherine Jackson would be the beneficiary as well as the guardian of his three children.
Also Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department asked the Drug Enforcement Administration to aid in the investigation in to Jackson's death.
Debbie Rowe, pregnant with Michael Jackson's first child becomes his second wife. The child is named Prince Michael Junior. In the same year the star is inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Michael Jackson stuns the world by dangling his third child, Prince Michael II, out of a hotel window while in Germany to accept a lifetime achievement award.
The star stuns the world by marrying Elvis' daughter Lisa-Marie Presley, the couple divorce after 19 months. In the same year, the singer settles child abuse charges brought by Jordy Chandler out of court for an estimated $20m.
Michael Jackson under full camouflage.
Photo of Debbie marrying to Michael Jackson.Debbie Rowe was married to Jackson for three years
A smiling Prince Michael II
Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II (nicknamed Blanket) are the three children of pop king Michael Jackson. 10-year-old Prince Michael I, and Paris, 9, were born by mother Debbie Rowe, who was married to Michael in 1997 but divorced in 2000. Five-year-old Prince Michael II's mother was unknown. In the years, Michael Jackson kept the faces of his three children hidden under masks or veils prevent them from being recognised. On Tuesday January 29, when accompanying their father at the Luxor Hotel Casino in Las Vegas for a concert contract discussion, Prince, Paris and Blanket's faces were finally on full display. Have to say, the treesome are adorable!
Debbie ten years later after .Looking fat.
What Jackson's second ex-wife has been barred from doing, the documents say, is selling or giving interviews about "confidential information" regarding the singer and their two children, Paris and Prince. That includes paternity, Jackson's mental or physical condition, purported drug use, sexual behavior, the children's lifestyle, and their location, according to a declaration filed last month by Rowe's lawyer Iris Finsilver, who is asking the court to unseal the couple's original nondisclosure agreement on the basis that it does not contain confidential financial information, as Jackson's team claims.
While the October 1999 agreement doesn't include child-custody terms, it does say Rowe is not allowed to communicate with the children, Jackson or his representatives except to make travel arrangements or to send cards or letters to the children.
"What kind of man would fight so long, so hard, so expensive and so gut-wrenching [a] legal battle just so two minor children are prevented from even knowing their own mother?" Finsilver asks in the declaration, calling it ironic that Jackson has repeatedly claimed he's "never harmed any child."
Rowe did cede custody of the children in October 2001, but her lawyer says in the declaration that before Rowe agreed to terminate her parental rights, she "had many great difficulties in seeing her children for visitation periods with them." Finsilver also said the court has since tossed out Rowe's surrendering of her parental rights.
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