The King Is Dead? UPDATE: Michael Jackson Dead At 50

Drudge has a siren and headline on this developing story, which at this point seems to be that Michael Jackson is in a coma and may be dead or dying. If so, that makes him number three, and a huge one at that.

Update: It now looks official:

Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and went on to set the world dancing to the thumping rhythms of his music for decades, died Thursday, TMZ website reported. He was 50.

"We've just learned Michael Jackson has died," TMZ said.

"Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back," the entertainment site said.

Regardless of what you might think of him now, here he is in better days. R.I.P.