Falling star: Michael Jackson in rehearsals for his London concerts. " title="jackson-unmasked-4-3" width="294" height="411" class="size-full wp-image-33783" /> Falling star: Michael Jackson in rehearsals for his London concerts. BY IAN HALPERIN Commentary For his fans, Michael Jackson’s death was a shocking full stop in an extraordinary life. It touched me, too. After six years investigating the reclusive oddball for a film and a new biography, I assumed my contacts in the Jackson camp would stop talking to me. However, during the past week the steady drip of new information has been as insistent as ever - some of it plausible, some of it specious, all of it fascinating. As the first person to reveal last December that Jackson was dying, I knew he had been depressed for a long time. He faced huge pressures from creditors,... [read full story]
