Jackson, who was married to and divorced from Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe, died June 25 of cardiac arrest after a suspected prescription drug overdose. He was 50.
Although there has been much speculation about Jackson's sexuality throughout his life, the singer always maintained he was heterosexual.
The New York Post quoted investigative journalist Ian Halperin as saying in his book "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson" that "virtually everybody I've interviewed about Jackson has told me: He's gay."
"Even those who are his most ardent defenders, people who maintain that he is innocent of the molestation charges, insist that he is homosexually inclined," Halperin wrote in the book due out this week. "In the course of my investigations, I spoke to two of his gay lovers, one a Hollywood waiter, the other an aspiring actor. 'Lawrence' said Jackson was introduced to him by the sister of one of his aides. Their affair was short but 'passionate' and took place almost every night for three weeks at the actor's home in the Hollywood Hills."
Halperin also said Jackson left his upscale residence in Las Vegas in 2007 to meet another boyfriend at a run-down motel.
"He met a construction worker and fell madly in love with him," a source said to have been close to Jackson told Halperin. "Michael would leave the house in disguise, often dressed as a woman, and would go meet his boyfriend at a motel that was one of Vegas' grungiest dives. Michael was broke. He struggled to put food on the table for his children. That was all he could afford then."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
This fella also wrote two
This fella also wrote two books about how Courtney Love may have been involved in Kurt Cobain's murder, reason enough for me to be sceptical of him.
"Michael Jackson U.K. Bio Riddled With Mistakes
A coming biography of Michael Jackson, due soon and excerpted in the New York Post over the weekend, is riddled with errors.
Ian Halperin’s book will make salacious reading but is full of fiction, sources tell me. I could have told you that myself.
For one thing, Halperin’s new assertion that Jackson didn’t know what his contract with AEG Live read is nonsense.
This notion came from Jackson flippantly telling a fan a few weeks ago that he didn’t know how he’d do 50 shows, that he thought it was just 10.
As one of my best sources on the AEG matter reiterates: “The contract always called for 31 shows and MJ had agreed to add 19 more when it was obvious how great the demand was. He did not die from doing 50 shows over 9 months since he hadn’t done one yet at the time of his death. He never collapsed in rehearsal and worked long days both filming the mini-movies and rehearsing at home with Travis Payne. He wasn’t supposed to come to stage rehearsals until the entire company was ready. This is the way he has always worked.”
So there.
As well: Halperin repeats nanny Grace Rwaramba’s assertion that somehow Michael was made to rent a house for $100,000 that was only worth $25,000 — and that the Nation of Islam was somehow involved.
In fact, the house was found by Jackson’s shortlived manager Tohme Tohme, who has nothing to do with the Nation of Islam. The house is said to be owned by a Tunisian Jew.
The irony here is that it was Rwaramba herself who brought the Nation of Islam into Jackson’s life in 2003.
There’s more, including Halperin’s insane claim that Michael had at least two gay lovers in the last years, that he dressed as a woman and slipped out of the house to meet one of them. Unfortunately, Halperin’s timelines are all wrong. Plus, everyone knows that Michael Jackson was a germ freak. The behavior described by Halperin defies all Jacko-like logic.
Beware these sudden “tell alls” and “expert biographies” of Michael Jackson. You can write anything about the dead. This party is only getting started.
Source: MJFC / Showbiz411.com
"Beware these sudden “tell
"Beware these sudden “tell alls” and “expert biographies” of Michael Jackson. You can write anything about the dead."
-- yes, but this bio was in the process of being written long before jackson died. in fact, his death delayed the book's release because the writer had to scramble to add it to the conclusion.
as for halperin's "insane" claim that michael was gay - what's so insane about it? to be honest, michael never ping'd my gaydar, but that means nothing. michael's sexuality has always been a total mystery simply because there was never anything obvious about it. so... why not gay? why would "straight" be any less "insane"?
RIP, Michael.
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