The Memorial Service for...

[Avarice-ness]

That being said, they charged people to see the funeral? REally? I can't help but wonder if they charged family too?

It could possibly go toward MJ's $400mil debt.

Yeah I heard that was the purpose of why it was done the way it was done, his mom wanted something more private..

But if you think about it, selling seats, networks buying rights to air it, merchandise, it would prolly really help the debt.

I thought that the seats were free? Wasn't there a online lottery where only so many fans could win the tickets. the only profits made from tickets were the ones people were selling on ebay, and it would have been impossible for them to attend it as they needed the wristbands.

From what I heard you had to pay for seats, that's why they had seat fillers for people who couldn't make it. Seat Fillers sit in the seats for people who couldn't come, so someone couldn't just come up and sit in them because it's not the seat they paid for. Closer seats = more money.
If it was a free event there wouldn't be need for seat fillers because everyone would have an equal chance for a seat.
Last night on ET, they talked about the seat fillers and how it was like the emmy's and what not, so it's definitely confirmed there were seat fillers there.

As for the e-bay, I heard people bought tickets and THEN -SCALPED- them on ebay.