Michael Jackson's Changing Faces through the years.Reuters
Michael Jackson's Changing Faces through the years.ReutersFile photo of pop star Michael Jackson performing during a show at the Mill Run PlayhouseReutersPop superstar Michael Jackson performs in the second day of his "Dangerous World Tour" in Bangkok on August 27 after two days of postponement because of dehydrationReutersUS. pop star Michael Jackson performs for 70,000 fans at Bucharest's National stadium on September 14 on the third leg of his "HIStory World Tour", the biggest effort in the past three years to rebuild his career after allegations of child molestationReutersPop superstar Michael Jackson addresses television viewersReutersSuperstar Michael Jackson sings "Earth Song" during the World Music Awards ceremony at the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, May 8. Jackson received five World Music Awards at the ceremonyReutersU.S. superstar Michael Jackson strikes a pose as he arrives for the midnight screening of director Stan-Winston's "Ghosts", Thursday May 8. The movie short, which stars Jackson, is screened out of competition at the 50th Cannes Film Festival.ReutersThe two people accused of hacking and stealing a large number of Michael Jackson's unreleased song from Sony Music's computers has been arrested and are reportedly out on bail.ReutersPop star Michael Jackson poses for photographers at the annual Angel Ball honours in New York, November 30, 2000. Jackson was honoured at the ball which raised more than $4 million for the G&P Foundation for Cancer Research.ReutersU.S. popstar Michael Jackson arrives at the Oxford University Union to give a lecture, and launch his global initiative for children 'Heal the Kids' March 6, 2001. Jackson will speak about child welfare, balancing love and family and his charity, 'Heal the Kids' and will be joined by its co-founder Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and psychic Uri Gellar.ReutersU.S. pop singer Michael Jackson answers questions from the media on arrival at the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in central London.ReutersEntertainer Michael Jackson testifies in Santa Maria Superior Court, November 13, 2002, in a trial in which he is accused of canceling concert appearances, costing the promoter several million dollars. Jackson is accused by German-based promoter Marcel Avram of breach of contract and fraud for allegedly backing out of two New Year's Eve 1999 showReutersU.S. pop star Michael Jackson addresses the audience during a charity gala in Berlin November 20, 2002. Michael Jackson, who is in Berlin to receive the Bambi 2002 media award for his lifetime achievement on Thursday, donated a jacket which he wore at the awarding ceremony of the 29th American Music Awards to the auction for the "off-road" children's charity organisation to raise 16.000 euros ($16.000) for the charity.ReutersPop star Michael Jackson is pictured in this Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department booking mug in Santa Barbara, California, November 20, 2003. Jackson surrendered to authorities on Thursday and was booked on suspicion of child molestation as national television broke into regular programming to show the eccentric "King of Pop" in handcuffs. The 45-year-old singer was freed on $3 million bond after he was booked, fingerprinted and photographed at the headquarters of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department in central California, where he was taken after flying into town on a private jet from Las Vegas.ReutersPop star Michael Jackson visits at an orphanage in Tokyo May 28, 2006. Jackson appeared at the orphanage on Sunday a day after appearance in public for the first time since his acquittal on sex-abuse charges last year, accepting a music award and thanking "all the people who believed in me."ReutersWardrobe items of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and ephemera from the collection of designers Dennis Tomkins and Michael Bush will go under the hammer at Julien’s Auctions.Reuters
The trial of Micheal Jackson's physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is becoming murkier by the day, with the focus now shifting to Micheal's changing appearance over the years. More specifically, there is still a raging debate over the question of whether or not Michael suffered from vitiligo universalis or he bleached his skin.
Apparently, Dr. Murray, while at the hospital, asked Micheal's personal assistant to dispose off a certain cream from the house. According to Michael Amir Williams, Jackson's personal assistant, Dr. Murray told him: "There is some cream in Michael's room that he wouldn't want the world to know about."
Eventually, when police searched Jackson's house after his death, they found two types of skin whitening cream. In addition, there were 19 tubes of hydroquinone and 18 tubes of Benoquin. These were apparently used by Jackson to treat his skin condition. These drugs, in effect, can be used to give the skin a more even appearance.
The bottomline seems to be this - if you have vitiligo, you don't lighten the rest of your body to match it. Instead, you darken the vitiligo patches to match the rest of your body. For the record though, Jackson has constantly stated that vitiligo was the reason behind his changing appearance; a lot of people believe otherwise.
Start the slideshow to check photos of Micheal Jackson as a childstar and his multiple changing faces till his death.
