Court documents show that funeral expenses amounted to nearly $1 million from start to finish, security to sarcophagus.

Jackson's estate petitioned the court in September to approve the immediate release of the funds from the King of Pop's fortune to pay for the proceedings.

Jackson, who died in June, was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in September in a nighttime ceremony arranged by his family and paid for by his estate. The probate judge who signed off on those expenses made public the funeral costs at a hearing in which he also appointed two longtime Jackson associates, entertainment attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain, as executors of his estate.

As described in the filing, the estate paid, among other expenses, $590,000 for Jackson's crypt in Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum, a vast granite- and marble-filled palazzo that is the final resting place of Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and other stars. Guest invitations, which went out to Jackson friends Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin, Quincy Jones and others, cost $11,716. The bill for security, including the fleet of luxury cars that delivered Jackson's children, parents and siblings to the ceremony, came to $30,000. The florist's bill was $16,000, and the funeral planner charged $15,000. An Italian restaurant in Pasadena billed $21,455 for a "funeral repast" after the service.

A lawyer for the estate executors noted that Jackson's family decided on the details of the ceremony, but said a lavish funeral fit the life the singer lived.

Meanwhile, his eternal digs will continue to cost $5,000 a month for the use of the space, proving that some things truly do last forever