The Michael Jackson memorial started at 10 am in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. This is the live feed for the memorial.

Michael is there in his golden casket.

The casket Michael Jackson will be resting in during his memorial tomorrow at Staples Center is fit for a king.

The casket is made of solid bronze, is 14-Karat gold plated, and cost $25,000. Why not 24-Karat gold?

The casket came from Batesville Casket Company, and is called a Promethean, which will feature a flame blue velvet interior and a hand-polished, mirror finish.

There has been talk of trying to preserve Michael so he can be put on public display permanently, just like Vladimir Lenin in Russia. Maybe Los Angeles should consider this, because it is rumored the taxpayers will be paying for Michael’s memorial at Staples Center. Maybe LA could charge for people to see Michael to recoup the memorial expense.

Michael Jackson bought an solid gold Egyptian coffin fit for the Pharaoh. When the interviewer asked Jackson if he wanted to be buried in a coffin like that when he died, Jackson said he wanted to live forever.

A reporter in Las Vegas was trying to do a live report on Michael Jackson when a drunk guy wouldn’t stop trying to get into the shot, so the reporter gave him a slap. The news anchors were stunned, and the one on the right was speechless.

A fierce custody battle is brewing over two of Michael Jackson’s children, with Debbie Rowe saying Thursday that she plans to fight for them in court, and the Jackson family signaling they will fight right back.

Debbie Rowe, the mother of Prince (12) and Paris (11), spoke to her former attorney Iris Finsilver, who says, "She is going to be pursuing custody of the children."

"Frankly, she won’t have to fight for them," Finsilver says. "She is the children’s biological mother. She loves her children."

The kids, along with a third child, Prince Michael II (Blanket), 7, whose mother is unknown, are in the temporary court-ordered care of Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson, 79, whom the singer named as guardian in his 2002 will. Diana Ross was also named to care for the children, in the event that Katherine was no longer living.

A source close to the Jackson family says they intend to seek permanent custody. "They will fight," says the source.

Rowe earlier made her position clear July 2 in an interview with a Los Angeles television station, saying, "I want my children."

"I am stepping up," she told a reporter for Los Angeles station NBC 4 in a 90-minute phone conversation. "I have to."

Rowe also said she’d be willing to take custody of Blanket to keep the three children together, and she may seek a restraining order to keep her former father-in-law, Joe Jackson, away from her children.

This is going to get messy.