Michael Jackson: Paul McCartney Will Get The Rights To His Songs Over My Dead Body
And if celeb blogger Ian Halperin is right, that shouldn't be much longer. According to him, Michael is seriously in need of a lung transplant and will soon be pushing up daisies if he doesn't get it:
The superstar, 50 — seen in a wheelchair earlier this year — is said to be so frail he can barely speak.Jacko’s secret was revealed by his biographer Ian Halperin, who declared: “He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Halperin, an award-winning investigative journalist, said Jacko was stricken with an inherited condition called A1AD — alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency. Sufferers lack a protein which protects the lungs.
Halperin, a Canadian who has written for respected Rolling Stone magazine, said: “He can barely speak. The vision in his left eye is 95 per cent gone.
“For years Michael has been working with his doctors to make sure it doesn’t progress.
“He has been on many medications that have stabilised him.”
Jacko’s brother JERMAINE confirmed: “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”
The rumors have been widely disputed by the Jackson camp, however, who insist that MJ is doing just fine, thankyouverymuch:
"[The] wild allegations concerning Mr Jackson's health are a total fabrication," said Dr Tohme, Jackson's mysterious "official and sole spokesperson". "Mr Jackson is in fine health and finalising negotiations with a major entertainment company and television network for both a world tour and a series of specials and appearances."The statement came in response to claims by Ian Halperin, an unauthorised biographer, that Jackson is suffering from a rare genetic condition called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The author told In Touch magazine that Jackson requires a lung transplant and that his "chronic gastrointestinal bleeding" might prove fatal. Oh yes, and in case that wasn't provocative enough he also alleged that Jackson could "barely speak" and had lost most of the vision in his left eye.
There were several reasons to doubt Halperin's statements – his tasteless publishing history, his allegedly fudged CV – but Jackson's own lawyers suggested in November that the moonwalker was not well enough to travel. Though Tohme did not comment on that incident, he emphasised Halperin's unfounded, "obvious" self-promotion and the singer's present good health.
It's also rumored that he has just rented yet another house, a $38M home in Holmbly Hills, a very chi-chi area of Los Angeles, for $100,000 a month...this, despite supposedly being so broke he can't even afford to pay attention. I'd love to be that kind of broke...I can't even get enough money to buy furniture and I have a job. Yes, that's right, I'm sitting here typing this with my laptop perched on a milk crate. But this creepy guy, who hasn't done anything substantial in years other than rereleasing past hits from twenty-some years ago, manages to get banks to give him money hand over fist. Continued on the next page
