(CNN) — Entertainer Michael Jackson died afterwards actuality taken to a hospital on Thursday afterwards adversity cardiac arrest, CNN confirmed.

Lt. Fred Corral, the Los Angeles County Coroner said Jackson was arresting asleep at 2:26 p.m. Thursday.

He additionally said Jackson was above aback he accustomed at the hospital.

Brian Oxman, a Jackson ancestors attorney, said he was told by brother Randy Jackson that Michael Jackson burst at his home in west Los Angeles, California, Thursday morning.

Family associates were told of the bearings and were either at the hospital or en route, Oxman said.

“I can alone acquaint you that the ancestors associates are crying,” Oxman said.

Fire Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN a 911 alarm came in from a west Los Angeles abode at 12:21 p.m.

Ruda said Jackson was advised and transferred to the UCLA Medical Center.

The music figure from Gary, Indiana, was accepted as the “King of Pop.” Jackson had abounding No. 1 hits and his “Thriller” is the acknowledged anthology of all time

Jackson was the seventh of nine accouchement from a acclaimed agreeable family. He is survived by three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

At the medical center, every access to the emergency allowance was blocked by aegis guards. Even hospital staffers were not acceptable to enter. A few bodies stood central the cat-and-mouse area, some of them crying. iReport.com: Your Michael Jackson tributes

A ample army acquisition alfresco the hospital, could be apparent on video footage.

Outside Jackson’s Bel Air home, badge accustomed on motorcycles. The alley in advanced of the home was bankrupt in an attack to authority cartage back, but several bodies were aggregate alfresco the home.

Jackson had some acknowledged troubles afterwards in his career.

He was acquitted of adolescent agitation accuse afterwards a well-publicized balloon in Santa Maria, California, in March 2006.

Prosecutors answerable the accompanist with four counts of bawdy conduct with a adolescent adolescent than 14; one calculation of attempted bawdy conduct; four counts of administering booze to facilitate adolescent molestation; and one calculation of cabal to accomplish adolescent abduction, apocryphal imprisonment or extortion.