Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris was seen in the audience resting her head on grandmother Katherine’s shoulder.
Her brothers Prince Michael and Blanket were sitting alongside her.
Music great Stevie Wonder introduced his performance by telling the audience: “This is a moment that I wished I didn’t live to see coming.”
Motown legend Berry Gordy, who discovered the Jackson 5, described Jackson as “like a son to me” and “the greatest entertainer who ever lived”.
He said: “He was driven by a hunger to learn, to constantly top himself, to be the best… He raised the bar and then broke the bar…
“The Motown family mourns the death of our friend and brother Michael Jackson, who was like a son to me.”
Gordy hailed Jackson as “the undisputed King of Pop”, but then added: “The more I think and talk about Michael Jackson, I feel the King of Pop is not big enough for him.
“I think he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.”
Recalling the first time Jackson revealed his famous moonwalk during his 1983 performance of Billie Jean at the 25th anniversary of Motown, he continued: “When he did his iconic moonwalk, I was shocked. It was magical.
“Michael Jackson went into orbit and never came down,” he said.
“Though it ended too soon, Michael’s life was beautiful.
“Sure there were some sad, sad times and maybe some questionable decisions on his part.
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The doctor questioned by police over the death of Michael Jackson says the pop star was alive when he found him.
Dr Conrad Murray has revealed the King of Pop was in his bed with a faint pulse on Thursday morning.
Murray’s lawyer, Edward Chernoff, said the doctor went into Jackson’s bedroom and saw he wasn’t breathing.
Chernoff added: “He just happened to find him in his bed, and he wasn’t breathing. Mr Jackson was still warm and had a pulse.”
Chernoff said Murray immediately began administering CPR.
The lawyer also insisted his client did not prescribe or give Jackson the powerful painkillers Demerol or OxyContin. Chernoff says any drugs Murray did prescribe were given in response to a specific complaint from Jackson.
Murray was questioned by LAPD for three hours on Saturday but police have said he is not suspected of anything and helped to “clarify” some inconsistencies in the singer’s death.
Michael Jackson reportedly received daily visits from doctors at his home before his death.
The King of Pop recently passed away aged 50 after reportedly suffering a heart attack.
However, sources claim that the star “had doctors visiting him daily”.
Jackson was due to perform 50 London shows later this year but it is claimed he spent most of his time with his three children – Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, six.
A source said to Hollyscoop: “The children are always home. They are home schooled. Michael is the only one that leaves the house when he needs to go somewhere.”
Source: Splash News
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