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Val's Vibe: Wife Debbie gave birth this past April to a daughter, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson. Reportedly, it was while Michael and Debbie were together in Paris that they found out a second child was on the way, hence her being named after the famed French city. This reasoning begs the question of what if Michael and Debbie had been living in, say, Arkedelphia :>?!
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"What 'Black or White' emphasizes, more than anything, isn't Mr. Jackson's good intentions or his toughness but his distance from anything like everyday experience. His street is obviously a sound stage. He wants to be a nice guy, an apostle of racial brotherhood and a roughneck who knows how to wield a crowbar, but what comes across is the narcissism of a spoiled child throwing his toys. The final sequence, soon to become more legendary for its absence, makes it clear that Mr. Jackson knows his freakishness is part of the sales pitch."---Jon Pareles in The New York Times review of "Black or White" video, November 16, 1991.
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Even at this early stage, wild rumors about Jackson\'s private life were swirling. His shyness and reluctance to grant interviews (ironically, due in part to his concerns about being misrepresented) only encouraged more speculation. Some pointed to his soft-spoken, still girlish voice as evidence that he\'d undergone hormone treatments to preserve the high, flexible range of his youth; stories were told about Jackson sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber to slow the aging process, and purchasing the skeleton of John Merrick, the Elephant Man (Jackson did view the bones in the London Hospital, but did not buy them). Jackson bought a large ranch in California which he dubbed Neverland, and filled it with amusement park rides and animals (including the notorious pet chimpanzee Bubbles), which only fueled the public\'s perception of him as a somewhat bizarre eccentric obsessed with recapturing his childhood. He ... underwent cosmetic surgery several times, which led to accusations from the black community that his gradually lightening skin tone was the result of an intentional effort to become whiter; a few years later, Jackson revealed that he had a disorder called vitiligo, in which pigment disappears from the skin, leaving large white blotches and making direct sunlight dangerous. One of the rumors that was definitely true was that Jackson owned the rights to the Beatles\' catalog; in 1985, he acquired ATV Publishing, the firm that controlled all the Lennon-McCartney copyrights (among others), which wound up costing him his friendship with McCartney.
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As NBC's "Dateline" has already revealed, the Jordie Chandler case was not the first nor the last such case in which Jackson has paid millions ? in this case a reported $25 million ? to stave off criminal charges of child molestation.
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