MICHAEL JACKSON's longtime costumers, DENNIS TOMPKINS and MICHAEL BUSH, will design the suit the King of Pop will be buried in.

The Los Angeles-based designers, who have worked with Jackson for the last 20 years, had been creating costumes for the late pop star's This Is It comeback concerts in London.

A private family funeral will be held on Tuesday morning (07Jul09) in Los Angeles before a public memorial at the Staples Center.

Reports suggest Jackson will be laid to rest in a replica of James Brown's bronze casket at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, where his grandmother was buried in 1990.

Other stars whose final resting place is at Forest Lawn include Lucille Ball, Bette Davis and Liberace.