Jun 26th, 2009 - London Evening Standard
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The death of Michael Jackson at the age of just 50 should perhaps come as no surprise.
In the quarter of a century since his crowning achievement Thriller, which remains to this day the best-selling album of all time, the self-styled King of Pop's life had spiralled out of control.
He had so altered his appearance through plastic surgery he at times looked grotesque; he had been forced to pay millions to fend off lawsuits of families who accused him of paedophilia; the rest of his vast fortune had been frittered away on Neverland Ranch where he lived in an amusement park with a menagerie of exotic pets.
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