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    Steverino Begins: It's a heartbreaking article, and a Shakespearean tragedy if true. MJ needs to get out of debt and his handlers want quick cash, so it leads to 50 con... more »
    Baroness: I've written it elsewhere, but I wonder- did Jackson have a death wish? His pattern of massive loans, massive defaults, fleeing, wooing the next sucke... more »
    tonilost: I hate to admit that the National enquirer was right but in January they said he had 6 months to live. This event also is bringing to light how friggi... more »
    raincoaster: That Beatles catalog rumour has been around for years. I think it was even in Dominick Dunne's reporting for VF. If MJ had switched to legal sex partn... more »
    japanomie: Yeah, Gawker is handling this sooooo much more tastefully than Perez. more »
    momof3wildkids: I saw Michael Jackson's father being interviewed over the weekend. It was awful. The man kept talking about how the world lost a fabulous musician, ... more »
    johnnypotatoes: Just a quick read-through of your posts might eliminate at least *some* of the many, many egregious typos, misspellings, and other errors that reliabl... more »
    onehotmess: Dr. Tohme Tohme? Well, theres your problem right there. I love me a good conspiracy theory, so Im going to go ahead & run with the suicide idea. H... more »
    Airvault: It's all just very sad. One gets the feeling that he simply had no clue or understanding of who he really was. Such is the tragic figure. more »
    jasonelias: Ian Halpern...Now I remember where I heard that name. He wrote a book on James Taylor, not flattering in the least especially compared to Timothy Whit... more »
    Mutley: Geez. I guess being a celebrity enabler/doctor/dealer/manger/producer/booker is the only real growth industry left. more »
    PandoraSpocks: The bankers didn't force him to spend 30 million a year, get hooked on painkillers, live in a literal fantasy land, have god knows how many plastic su... more »
    stew: Well... you know, duh. What's baffling to me is why everyone else in the world (save Gawker and a few friends of mine) is acting like an extremely hea... more »
    katekate is squared: I really do think anyone who was paying attention could have told you Michael Jackson would die in the next 2 years or so. I remember a friend tellin... more »
    irishbreakfast: Well, one never knows. It is true that "Dr. Tohme Tohme's" name breaks all the rules of whom to trust: guys with last names first, cartoon-character n... more »
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    The One Michael Jackson Article You Have To Read: His Death, Predicted

    New pieces about the final days of Michael Jackson are flooding the news, along with tributes, memorials, debates on the nature of the conversation about him, etc. If there's one article you have to read on it, however, it's this: More »