The plastic surgeon who built Michael's noses may be the most dubious character in the entire Jackson saga. Diane Dimond on the doctor whose bizarre behavior—like providing goodie bags of syringes filled with Demerol for celebrity patients; climbing a tree with a pellet gun; claiming to work undercover for the DEA and the Secret Service; and filing as a candidate for president—has attracted police attention, including a mental evaluation by the … [Read more...]

Janet is worth $4 million, while La Toya merits just $500,000, according to a concert proposal obtained by Diane Dimond. How a new "Jackson 8" tour has exposed a contentious sibling rivalry. You can never predict how a family will grieve the death of a loved one. But three people familiar with the inner workings of the Jackson family reveal that the Encino, California, compound for the parents and siblings of the late Michael Jackson, … [Read more...]

Michael Jackson’s final home, as of Thursday, is even stranger than his Thriller video, sitting atop 13 stories of secret catacombs housing Satanists and gypsies. Diane Dimond tours the tomb. There are fewer places more beautiful than Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. It’s a park-like 300 acres of rolling hills, massive trees, majestic marble statuary and soothing water features. Hubert Eaton, a devout Christian, took over an … [Read more...]

In the Jackson clan, it’s now every sibling for him or herself in a quest to cash in on Michael’s legacy, with the King of Pop’s three kids in the middle. Diane Dimond has the details, including: The drumbeat of dysfunction has never been louder inside America’s most-talked-about family. The Jackson clan is at war with itself, according to five sources with longstanding personal or business ties with the family. And caught in the middle are … [Read more...]

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are wanted fugitives after skipping another court hearing last week—and can’t bail themselves out this time. Their latest drama comes after a pattern of skipped bills for hotel charges, paranoia, and premonitions of his violent death. James Davis, a deputy in the sheriff’s department in Presidio County, Texas, set off in his cruiser onto the local stretch of Interstate 90, armed with his gun, as always, and … [Read more...]

This Is It, the new Michael Jackson documentary, is a sensation. But what fans don't realize is that the film was only one part of a grander comeback scheme orchestrated by Jackson himself.On March 6, Michael Jackson appeared before cameras in London wearing a fanciful black-and-white brocade costume, his makeup perfectly applied to his surgically sculpted face, his glossy black wig styled so it covered most of the sides of his face and fell … [Read more...]