Ten things you really don't know about
Michael Jackson, although Michael Jackson passed away over
a decade ago now, he never seems to remain out the headlines for long as we
constantly learn new information about this legendary public figure ever.
Just 10 fascinating details about the extraordinary life of the king of Pop.
No one
Jackson loved to read.
Apparently, he wasn't that great about returning his books on time.
It is said that he owed a library a million dollars in fines for overdue
books in the library, agreed to drop the fines if he returned the books.
Autographed number two,
famous for his endorsement deals
with Pepsi in L.A., Michael and his touring keyboardist,
Brad Boxer, once asked to compose music for the sake
of Genesis, a mega drive game, Sonic the Hedgehog free,
with Brad confirming the rumor after the King of Pop's death in 2009.
Although Mike eventually dropped out of the project, an early cut of stranger
most guy still features in the game's credits.
Stranger Muskie ended up becoming one
of Michael's most personal tracks and a number four hit in 1996.
I mean, just listen to the comparison.
Number three, well, this would have Major Bill's way
more interesting, an island in the Caribbean once created
Michael Jackson's stamp's the Caribbean nation of St.
Vincent and the Grenadines was the first
nation in the world to feature the King of Pop in a series of postage stamps,
a set which has long been an interest to collectors.
It's quite rare and was first printed in nineteen eighty five.
Number four,
as a lover of filmmaking as well as sci fi, Michael Jackson,
who previously starred as the character of Captain EOH in a 1986
Disney George Lucas production, unexpectedly had a secret love
Stanley's Mutant Society ever the optimist, Michael Jackson refused
to let his dream of becoming a Marvel superhero fall to the wayside.
When the X-Men movie franchise was announced in the late 1990s,
he made several attempts to nab the role of Charles Xabier, a.k.a. Professor X.
and a new revelation by X-Men franchise writer David Hayter.
It was told that the King of Pop actually came in for an audition for the role.
It was even some incredible footage
of Michael Jackson and Stan Lee meeting as part of these talks for the first time.
Now we can really do something for people
of a few years ago, we were going to form a company and
we're all fans.
And if that's the way it should be,
in my opinion, Stanley is one of the greatest
creators because unlike some of the others, he's the most prolific and
he's created more of
the psyche of me.
And I grew up watching this kind of thing, which is
tonight. Are you
planning to do something like a dream come true?
And I think the character is created,
but
given the limitations of their life.
Thank you.
It's wonderful
to think so.
Camera shy you feel.
Unfortunately for Michael, though,
the role eventually went to Sir Patrick Stewart,
who played the brains behind the mutant rights for the next 15 years.
And another shocking twist.
His sister, Janet Jackson, was also called for an audition
for the role of Storm, the weather and atmosphere controlling
mutant, which famously went to that actress, Halle Berry,
number five
before his ill fated This Is It concert series.
Michael Jackson also planned a huge Vegas
comeback in 2005, much like his other shows.
This one wasn't going to be done in half measures.
Michael had a grand vision,
which included solar powered costumes that would change color with the stage lights.
The show would be promoted by a massive 50
foot tall robot version of the King of Pop, which would roam around the Nevada
desert with, in the view of the airport nearby.
The plan was later revised to feature a Michael Jackson themed hotel and casino
in the City of Sin, which would feature a laser blasting android at the entrance.
However, despite meeting high powered
casino moguls like Steve, when the ideas were later scrapped,
when the star was unable to gather the funds required for the project
No.6, try and spot this if you ever get the chance to be in L.A..
Michael Jackson remains as one of the few
entertainers who has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
one for himself and also one of him as a member of the Jackson five.
In 1980, the Jacksons were first honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
And then on October 20th, 1984, Michael Jackson was awarded with a star
of his own during a glitzy ceremony surrounded by thousands of eager fans.
A Hollywood star was recently damaged.
Although it is unclear whether it was
vandalized being visited by millions every year, stars do get damaged by tourists.
Although Michael Jackson's star was
quickly prepared for visitors and fans to enjoy
No.7 on June 25th, 2009,
on the day that news broke that Michael Jackson had passed away,
Wikipedia, Twitter and AOL all at the same time crashed.
The first reports that Jackson had suffered a cardiac arrest and then that he
had later died came from TMZ Dotcom when they published the story.
Michael Jackson passed away today at the age of 50.
The Los Angeles Times Web site confirmed
the report at 251 p.m. The news spread quickly online,
causing websites to slow down and crash from user overload.
Google Trends rates at the Jackson story as.
Volcanic initially believing that input from millions of people searching
for Michael Jackson meant that the search engine was under attack.
Twitter reported a crash, as did Wikipedia, just 20 minutes later.
The Wikimedia Foundation reported nearly
a million visitors to Michael Jackson's biography within one hour,
the most visited and a one hour period to any article in Wikipedia's history.
CNN reported a five fold rise in traffic
and visitors receiving 20 million page views.
In the hour, the story broke.
AOL Instant Messenger went down for 40 minutes.
AOL called it a seminal moment in Internet
history, adding, We've never seen anything like it in terms of scope or that.
Number eight,
Michael Jackson and his wife, Debbie Rowe, divorced in 1999.
Since then, Rowe has yet to remarry,
although she announced her engagement to Jackson's friend, a porn producer,
Mark Schaffel, having worked as a director of pornography
for many years under various pseudonyms when he met Jackson,
scuffle with the Neverland, the doctor for a time in the early 2000s.
But Jackson at one point said he had to cut ties, but then rehired him again
to do the rebuttal video to Martin Bashir documentary Living with Michael Jackson.
In any case, after Michael Jackson's
trials scuffle Sue Jackson for not paying him over a million dollars of work
in return, Jackson countersued, saying that Scoffer owed him a million.
There have been similar stories with other
Jackson employees, but in any case, the trial ended with jury awards.
But Scuffle ended up claiming 700000 dollars.
However, there is a romantic ending to this story.
When Scuffle got engaged to Jackson's
ex-wife and mother of his two children, Debbie Rowe,
number nine,
should Michael Jackson have been convicted and sent to prison?
The danger of the other inmates, along with his fame,
would have required him to be separated from the general population in virtual
solitary confinement for the duration of his sentence.
However, Jackson's family had no intention
of allowing him to suffer the indignities of prison.
When the 2005 trial was finishing up,
Jermaine Jackson arranged to have a private jet on standby to take
Michael Jackson to Bahrain, a tiny Middle Eastern island nation
that has no extradition treaty with the U.S., according to Jermaine.
Michael was not aware of the plan.
Number 10
as well reported that Michael Jackson had vitiligo.
So did his grandfather,
and so does his first born son, Prince Michael, for his youth.
Michael Jackson had a medium brown
complexion in the 1980s, a skin stuff to life and considerably questioned.
Jackson claimed that he had a condition called vitiligo.
Years later, his autopsy report confirmed
that often speculated claim it's Aliko does not operate in a uniform fashion.
It manifests in splotches that tend to continuously grow and change shape.
Vitiligo is genetic in Michael Jackson's
family, with his grandfather suffering from it as well
as we can see in this photograph of a young Michael Jackson being held
by his grandfather, who clearly has discoloration on the side of his face.
Michael Jackson's son, Prince Michael, is suspected to have inherited his
father's skin condition, as well as after the king of pop's death.
Prince was photographed on the shores of Hawaii with his siblings,
Paris and Prince Michael, the second, a.k.a. Lion King, and the photographs.
Michael Jackson's son emerged
from the beach having white patches underneath his arms.
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