Michael Jackson will be buried close to two of his idols - Walt Disney and Three Stooges actor Larry Fine. Family sources said the King of Pop will be laid to rest near the pair at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Michael Jackson Burial - Freedom Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Glendale (Image: Splash News)

Jackson is set to be entombed in the Freedom Mausoleum at the cemetery tomorrow night. Disney is buried in a garden just outside the two-storey structure, while Fine - best known as wise-cracking Larry of comedy act The Three Stooges - lies inside the mausoleum's first floor. Jackson was going to be entombed at the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn, but loved ones switched gears to get him near Disney and a Stooge.


"The family believed this is what Michael would have wanted," a close family friend revealed. The ceremony will start with eulogies at the Great Mausoleum in front of the building's stained-glass version of the Last Supper, followed by a half-mile procession to the Freedom Mausoleum.

Jackson died at the age of 50 on June 25 at his rented home in Los Angeles after suffering from cardiac arrest.