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The details of Michael Jackson's 2002 will are to be examined in a Los Angeles courtroom as authorities ramp up preparations for the music superstar's memorial service. Monday's legal hearing comes as Los Angeles police prepare to mount a large-scale operation for Tuesday's memorial for Jackson, who died suddenly on June 25. Los Angeles Police Department assistant chief Jim McDonnell on Sunday urged ticket-less fans seeking to pay service to watch the event on television. Stay home -- stay somewhere with a television, with air conditioning, with a friend, McDonnell told reporters. The appeal came after 1.6 million people entered an online lottery hoping to be among 8,750 registrants to win tickets for the service at the Staples Center arena and a neighboring arena, where the event will be shown on giant screens. Fans from around the world have been arriving in Los Angeles since the service was announced and there have been fears of logistical chaos if hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets. No details of what Tuesday's service will involve have been revealed, but organizers say the 90-minute event will be a celebration of Jackson's life. The Jackson family has also not formally confirmed where Jackson will be buried but reports say he will be laid to rest in a private ceremony at a Hollywood cemetery. As preparations for Tuesday's memorial continued, investigators probing the circumstances of Jackson's mysterious death are reportedly looking at the role of five doctors who prescribed drugs to the star.
