100 North Carolwood Drive — Michael Jackson's final residence

Michael Jackson rented the mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills from December 2008 until his death there on June 25, 2009. He had leased the property — a substantial seven-bedroom estate in one of Los Angeles's most exclusive neighbourhoods, on a street between Bel Air and Beverly Hills — while preparing for his fifty-date This Is It concert residency at the O2 Arena in London. Rehearsals for the tour were underway at the Forum in Inglewood when he died, and the footage of those rehearsals, released as the documentary This Is It in October 2009, showed a performer who appeared to be in remarkable physical and creative form in the weeks before his death.

Jackson died at approximately 2:26 pm Pacific time after his personal physician Conrad Murray administered propofol — an anaesthetic agent — as a sleep aid, a practice Murray had been providing for months. When Murray returned to check on his patient he found Jackson in cardiac arrest. Murray's subsequent 911 call, his actions in the period between discovering Jackson and calling for help, and his administration of an anaesthetic in a domestic setting became the central issues in his 2011 criminal trial, at which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to four years. He was released after two years.

The house at 100 North Carolwood Drive is a private residence in a gated street and is not accessible to the public. It sold in 2012 for $18.1 million. The location is documented in the extensive record of Jackson's final months — the tour rehearsals, the medical appointments, the meetings with his children — that emerged through the subsequent legal proceedings. For Jackson's fans the house represents the abrupt end of a career that had seemed, in the spring of 2009, to be on the verge of one of its periodic renewals.