NTKG, Reporting

Tickets distributed via Internet lottery: 11,000 (Staples Center), 6,500 (Nokia Theater)
Requests for tickets: 1.6 million
Odds of winning ticket: roughly 1 in 183 

Price of tickets for memorial: free
Highest price for ticket quoted on eBay: $20,000 
Price of domain name officialmichaeljacksonmemorial.com: $9 million

Michael Jackson Facebook fan pages: 548 
Reported number of Facebook friends: 6.4 million (vs. 80,000 before his death)
Number of times his friend Elizabeth Taylor Tweeted about Jackson memorial: 8

Estimated length of ceremony: 90 min
Number of Grammy awards by performers at ceremony: 40
Number of Grammys won by Michael Jackson in his lifetime: 13

Number of police officers to be staffed around Staples Center: estimated at 3,200 
Cost to the city of Los Angeles: estimated at $3.5 million