Jackson family orders second autopsy amid suspicions about star’s doctor.

Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.

Late on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported the autopsy had been completed but there was no word on the findings.

Family patriarch Joe Jackson told People magazine, ’’We don’t like what’s going on.’’

The Jacksons later issued a statement to fans describing the death as ’’one of the darkest moments of our lives’’.

The Los Angeles Coroner’s office said on Friday that a preliminary autopsy on Jackson was inconclusive and a final cause of death would not be known until exhaustive toxicology tests were completed in ’’six to eight weeks’’.

Joe Jackson told Fox News that Michael Jackson’s three children were in ’’fantastic’’ spirits at the family’s compound.

Veteran US politician and activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, who is not related to the family, said he had spent Friday counselling the family.

And he revealed that family members were angered by lingering questions surrounding Jackson’s death and were focusing their attention on the role of Dr Murray, whom the singer had hired just last month.

We’re told one of the staff members at Jackson’s home called 911.

La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead.

Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

Jackson’s family members were huddled at their compound in Los Angeles where they have gathered since the most famous member of their clan died suddenly on Thursday (Friday morning Canberra time) at age 50 after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest. On Saturday, Los Angeles police conducted a second interview with doctor Conrad Murray, the only person with him when he collapsed. A spokeswoman for the cardiologist, Miranda Sevcik, said he ’’clarified some inconsistencies’’ over the death.

’’Investigators say the doctor is in no way a suspect and remains a witness to this tragedy,’’ Ms Sevcik said.

Frustrated by the lack of hard information, the family requested a second autopsy on Jackson’s body, which was being kept at an undisclosed location, officials and local media reports said.