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Macaulay Culkin and his longtime girlfriend Mila Kunis attended the funeral of Michael Jackson. (AP Images)

Michael Jackson's brother, Randy Jackson, is speaking out against the media, saying that despite requests from his family, they intruded upon the private burial of his brother Michael. About 200 mourners gathered at Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum in Glendale, California, to pay their respects to Jackson including Lisa Marie Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, actor Macaulay Culkin.

However, despite pleads from the family to give them space during the service, media helicopters hovered over the service taking footage of the so-called "private" ceremony. Subsequently, Randy has asked the media not to air any of the footage captured during the private portion of the service.

In response, Randy issued the following statement: "As a family, we are all aware of how Michael’s life, and his death, touched so many around the world. It is why we held a public memorial in my brother’s honor. And it is the reason we chose to release a small amount of footage leading up to yesterday’s ceremony at Forest Lawn.

I was dismayed last night and again today at the coverage I saw on television of our ceremony for Michael. We had asked the media to respect the privacy and the sanctity of this event; to give us one moment of privacy to mourn as a family out of the public spotlight. Unfortunately, despite a no-fly zone around Forest Lawn, many media organizations decided to ignore our wishes. They employed helicopters that not only surreptitiously recorded our private family ceremony, but also severely disrupted it.

I therefore ask today that media organizations airing helicopter footage of the ceremony we held for my brother immediately pull that footage from their air and refrain from airing it in the future."

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