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Updated August 19, 2009

Michael Jackson to be Buried Among Hollywood Elite

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NYPost.com

Now we'll finally see how Jacko stacks up against Hollywood's greatest entertainers.

Now we'll finally see how Jacko stacks up against Hollywood's greatest entertainers.

More than two months after Michael Jackson's shocking death, he'll take his third and final curtain call at a super-secure funeral in a mausoleum, where he'll spend eternity surrounded by Tinseltown's brightest stars.

PHOTOS: Click here for photos of Jackson's famous tomb neighbors.

Jackson's final resting place is a crypt in the wall at the Holly Terrace section of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., just outside LA, sources said. The mausoleum is decorated with replicas of Michelangelo's greatest works.

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Other famous occupants of the burial chamber include screen legends Clark Gable, W.C. Fields, Red Skelton and Jean Harlow. Among Jacko's other notable neighbors are Lon Chaney Sr.; Gable's third wife, actress Carole Lombard; writer Louis L'Amour; and Seabiscuit jockey George Woolf.

The pop icon's famous musical kin have scheduled a private ceremony at the mausoleum on Aug. 29, which would have been Jackson's 51st birthday.

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