Taylor publicly said she did not want to go as she intended mourning privately for the late King of Pop.

But columnist Cindy Adams claims that the actress did not go after the family refused to invite her to any of the private events.

“Elizabeth Taylor was snubbed. Not accidentally. Deliberately. Willfully. Given short shrift. Put on the B-Minus list,” Cindy Adams wrote in the New York Post.

“Understand, as I’d reported before his death, she’s confined to a wheelchair. “Still, despite her physicality, with staffers and nurses and assistants and whoevers, she was flying to London for his concert opening.

“Hopping a ride on the private plane of my friends, publisher Dwight Opperman and his author wife Julie Chrystyn. So, when it comes to Michael, she sure wasn’t looking to hide.

“The family purposefully dissed her. Didn’t want her. Offered her a seat someplace in the Staples Center, but not with them.

“Not near them. Nor was the world’s most famous name given an invite or access to any of their private events. Not one.

“Why? Because she was always Michael’s friend. Not the family’s. Michael’s. They resented her.

“Elizabeth Taylor was crushed. She’s still crying.”

The funnyman achieved massive fame after covering Jacko’s Beat It tune and changing it to Eat it.

“He basically changed me from an unknown into a guy that got recognised at Burger King,” Jankovic told Rolling Stone magazine.

“I considered parodying Black or White around that time, but Michael wasn’t quite so into it, because he thought it was more of a message song.”

At the Los Angeles Superior Court today, Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled that lawyer John Branca and music executive John McClain should be the conservators of Jackson’s estate.

The superstar’s mother, who did not appear at the hearing, had filed an application to be the conservator of the pop legend’s estate before a will emerged, which was drafted in 2002, stating that Branca and McClain would be in control of the estate in the event of Jackson’s death.

Lawyers for Katherine Jackson wanted Judge Beckloff to delay the decision, as they said the family were concerned about Branca’s relationship with the singer before he died.

One of Katherine Jackson’s lawyers, John Schreiber, argued that he was suspicious that Branca had rejoined Jackson just weeks before the singer’s death, and claimed that Branca is unfit to look after the estate – which is estimated to be worth around $500m – because he suffers from a disability.

But Judge Beckloff refused Schrieber’s claims and ruled in favour of Jackson’s will.

A bond has been set at $1m to protect the estate in the event the administrators waste or misspend assets.

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Phillips, who is chief executive of AEG Live, the company behind the 50-concert series, was with Jackson when he was in a state of cardiac arrest.

He told Britain’s Sky News that he advised the singer against bringing Conrad Murray, a trained cardiologist, due to the cost. “Michael told me, ‘You don’t understand. My body is the machine that fuels this business and I need personal care and I want a doctor 24/7 like President Obama would have, and this is my doctor’.”

Phillips said Jackson told him Murray had been his doctor for three years. He said Jackson insisted on having him on staff throughout the rehearsals and the run of upcoming UK shows.

Phillips said he was outside the hospital room while Jackson was being worked on for an hour-and-a-half – and that it seemed an eternity.

“I was sitting in a chair right outside the … operating room, and there was tons of activity, and they were trying to resuscitate him and save him and working really hard, the doctors, nurses, everybody … I sat there … it seemed, honestly, it seemed like an eternity. But it took about an hour, an hour-and a-half before the nurse came out and told [manager] Frank [DiLeo] and I that there was no hope.”

He said it was Murray who broke the devastating news of Jackson’s death to the megastar’s three children.

“I stood at the doorway when they went in and they told them and just the look of fear in their faces … it was hard,” Phillips said. “I’ll think about that the rest of my life. But they seem to be doing really well now.”

The King of Pop recently passed away aged 50 after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

However, sources claim that the star “had doctors visiting him daily”.

Jackson was due to perform 50 London shows later this year but it is claimed he spent most of his time with his three children – Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, six.

A source said to Hollyscoop: “The children are always home. They are home schooled. Michael is the only one that leaves the house when he needs to go somewhere.”

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