Fans overlook dark side of ‘martyr to fame’ Jackson (The Malaysian Insider)

LOS ANGELES, July 5 — Just as people choose to forget that Elvis Presley was a bloated drug addict when he died, so Michael Jackson is now the subject of posthumous veneration that overlooks the dark side of his life. Jackson’s career was all but comatose four years ago when he stood trial for child molestation in California. Despite lurid testimony from a 13-year-old boy who said that Jackson ...

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