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Michael Jackson's funeral is set to be the largest in the history of entertainment. Los Angeles police are reported to be preparing for a huge scale event as hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are expected to come to the town to pay their last respects to the deceased singer.
The number of mourners expected to go to Los Angeles looks likely to exceed the 80,00 people who attended the funeral of Elvis Presley in 1977 and the thousands of people who visited Modena in Italy for the funeral of Luciano Pavarotti in 2007.
Pavarotti's funeral was attended by fellow tenor stars Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras and featured a fly-past by the Italian air force.
In 1926 40,000 people also turned out for the funeral of silent film actor Rudolph Valentino in New York.
In the non-entertainment world it is possible that Michael Jackson's funeral could attract more than even the quarter of a million people who mourned the untimely death of Princess Diana in 1997.
A public memorial service to Michael Jackson could be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum or the Staples Centre which can accomodate 90,000 and 20,000 people respectively.
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