Author Ian Halperin claims Jackson was beset by serious health problems, stress over 50-date London residency.
By Gil Kaufman
Michael Jackson
Photo: Al Messerschmidt Archive / Getty Images
Celebrity biographer Ian Halperin set out to take down Michael Jackson in his just-released unauthorized look at the late singer's life, "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson." Instead, Halperin said he ended up writing a sympathetic look at a sad world inhabited by the King of Pop, in which he said Jackson was plagued by anorexia, crippling financial problems, a deadly lung disease, a torrid addiction to prescription medication, fears of mortality and, in his final months, a crippling anxiety that he could not pull off the proposed 50-date residency at the O2 arena in London, which would have kicked off Monday.
In light of Jackson's death, Halperin had to scramble over the past few weeks to update the book, which was...
By Gil Kaufman
Michael Jackson
Photo: Al Messerschmidt Archive / Getty Images
Celebrity biographer Ian Halperin set out to take down Michael Jackson in his just-released unauthorized look at the late singer's life, "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson." Instead, Halperin said he ended up writing a sympathetic look at a sad world inhabited by the King of Pop, in which he said Jackson was plagued by anorexia, crippling financial problems, a deadly lung disease, a torrid addiction to prescription medication, fears of mortality and, in his final months, a crippling anxiety that he could not pull off the proposed 50-date residency at the O2 arena in London, which would have kicked off Monday.
In light of Jackson's death, Halperin had to scramble over the past few weeks to update the book, which was...
- 7/14/2009
- MTV Music News
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