PARIS JACKSON’S TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL
MICHAEL JACKSON’s grief-stricken daughter PARIS reduced her family to tears at her father’s private memorial service - she requested the KING OF POP’s hit track GONE TOO SOON to be played as they bid him farewell.
The Thriller hitmaker was honoured with a public ceremony at Los Angeles’ Staples Center earlier this month (07Jul09), with stars including Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey turning out to pay tribute to him.
But the Jacksons said their goodbyes in private earlier that day - and the star’s 11-year-old daughter requested her daddy’s music was played during the family service.
Jermaine Jackson tells Britain’s The Sun, "Before the memorial service there was a private service for the family and my cousin, a Jehovah’s Witness, spoke.
"My mother went in to see Michael before to check he was dressed properly and stuff. Then we all went to the private service and had a bit of time as a family to ourselves. It was mainly the immediate family and a lot of my father’s side from Arizona.
"Paris made a request to play Gone Too Soon - it was what she wanted. It was very tough. My 12-year-old son started crying. Everyone was. The kids took it very hard." R&B star Usher went on to sing the same song at the star’s public memorial service.
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