Michael Jackson dies at age fifty

Multiple sources are reporting that after having suffered a heart attack earlier today at a home he was renting in Los Angeles, pop singer Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. Arguably once the most famous performer in the world, the superstar faced a wide-ranging array of legal and personal problems in recent years including bankruptcy and several trials on charges of child molestation of which he was acquitted.

He is survived by his three children.