Former lawyer to Michael Jackson dies in apparent suicide in LA

Los Angeles: A former lawyer for Michael Jackson has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

Coroner's office operations chief Craig Harvey said Peter Lopez, aged 60, died of a gunshot wound at his home in California.

Lopez worked with singers, record producers and songwriters and was a co-producer of the Jennifer Lopez film "Selena," a biopic about the beloved Tejano singer who was killed by the president of her fan club.

Lopez was Michael Jackson's music attorney for several years, according to Alfred Newman, a spokesman for the firm Lopez helped found, Kleinberg Lopez Lange Cuddy & Klein.