On CBS’ The Late Show Thursday, hip-hop mogul Diddy revealed that the King of Pop showed up — unannounced — to his annual White Party six years begging for a dance with Beyonce.

Well, that’s interesting….

A concert film of Michael Jackson’s final rehearsals will open in theaters this fall, according to reports.

Sony Pictures paid concert promoters AEG Live $60 million for the rights to footage shot during the late King of Pop’s rehearsals for the This Is It Concert Series, The Hollywood Reporter’s Showbiz 411 Column learned late Tuesday.

The tour would have opened at London’s O2 Arena last week — only two weeks after Michael’s death of a suspected heart attack. The film will hit theaters Friday, October 30.

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Hip-hop producer has paid to the late King of Pop painting a portrait of the late superstar.

Turns out A. Keys’ still-married Buss It Baby is an avid art collector, and he created this mixed-media piece, featuring Jackson during his heyday as child star of The Jackson 5, as a tribute to the music icon.

Swizz calls the piece “Remember The Time.”

“R.I.P. MJ the great. I took some time out to do a dedication piece tonight instead of rocking in the studio,” said in a Tweet Tuesday.

Back in 1984, Michael Jackson and his brothers filmed a commercial for Pepsi-Cola that went horribly wrong and is now believed to have sparked the later pop legend’s lethal addiction to prescription painkillers.

On Wednesday, the previously unseen footage was released by UsMagazine.com.

The $1.5 million commercial — filmed at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles — used extreme pyrotechnics that famously caught MJ’s on fire. Michael, then 25, suffered second and third degree burns on his scalp and body.

The death of Michael Jackson has been classified as a homicide, Los Angeles Police sources spilled to gossip site TMZ.com overnight.

The LAPD now believe the 50-year-old singer’s death from a suspected cardiac arrest last month may have been due to an overdose of the anaesthesia Propofol — and Michael’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray could have been involved.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi killed a congressional resolution that would have honored late pop star Michael Jackson on Thursday. The proposal, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, cited Jackson’s charitable acts and would have declared him an American legend, musical icon, and world humanitarian.

“I don’t think it’s necessary for us to have a resolution…”

A touching tribute to Michael Jackson that originally set to air at last month’s 2009 BET Awards has surfaced on the web.

“This is a moment that I wished that I didn’t live to see come. But as much that I can say that I mean it. I do know that God is good and I do know that as much as we may feel – and we do – that we need him here with us, God must have needed him far more.”

R&B star Usher put his marital problems aside to pay homage to his mentor, the late Michael Jackson, during Tuesday’s public memorial at L.A.’s Staples Center. The Grammy Award winner broke down in tears as he belted out MJ’s “Gone Too Soon.”

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