@mattchew03: As highly as I think of Michael Jackson's music, I'm not convinced it was unfair of Perez Hilton to question the authenticity of death reports of a guy known to sleep in a sarcophagus.
@Dagrolord: But there's a difference between questioning reports and flat out saying that Jackson "faked" a heart attack in order to get out of doing the concerts in London. At the very least, the comment was a bit premature.
@mattchew03: I've actually only seen reports of what Perez Hilton said about Jackson 'faking a heart attack', not Hilton's original comments. The reports indicated Hilton found the events dubious. You may well have read closer to the source than I, and I think we're all aware that Perez Hilton's stock-in-trade is the snark attack. A very long time ago, a friend in high school posited that Michael Jackson's 'Hair-fire' incident was just a publicity stunt. I doubted it, but even then Jackson was already so eerie that I didn't altogether discount it as a stunt. Much later, Michael Jackson held a baby over a balcony as though mere tomfoolery. I can only be so apologetic for having kept a very, very open mind as to what Jackson may have been capable of. I agree it's fair to hold Perez Hilton's actions as often contemptible, but I hold the greater lament that such malicious speculation holds its own glamour and fortune.
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@son of spam: Or perhaps here:
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It could have been worse for Gatti, though. At least Perez didn't question whether or not Gatti was faking it all, like he did with Michael Jackson.
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