THE KING OF POP HAS PASSED….

TMZ.com – We’ve just learned 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.

A source inside the hospital told us there was "absolute chaos" after
Jackson arrrived. People who were with the singer were screaming, "You’ve
got to save him! You’ve got to save him!"

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

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

Posted Jun 25th 2009 5:20PM at TMZ.com