The Michael Jackson Fan Club

“Rolling Stone did some digging today and determined that many of Halperin’s other assertions don't hold up. The first line of Halperin’s biography reads “Ian Halperin is also a former winner of the Rolling Stone magazine Award for Investigative Journalism.” This came as news to us, so we looked in our own archives and discovered this claim has been greatly exaggerated: He did win an RS honor, but it was the College Journalism Award in 1985 and it was split among the staff at Concordia University’s student newspaper in Montreal.”  

Halperin's unauthorized Michael Jackson biography was release in July 2009, just a few weeks after Michael's death. He used the following strange quote to release it: "I timed it because I knew around this time he was a candidate to die. I'm being totally up-front about that."

Journalist Roger Friedman dedicated an entire article on all the mistakes included in the biography on July 13, 2009:

"Michael Jackson U.K. Bio Riddled With Mistakes

A coming biography of Michael Jackson, due soon and excerpted in the New York Post over the weekend, is riddled with errors. Ian Halperin’s book will make salacious reading but is full of fiction, sources tell me. I could have told you that myself.

For one thing, Halperin’s new assertion that Jackson didn't know what his contract with AEG Live read is nonsense. [...] As one of my best sources on the AEG matter reiterates: “The contract always called for 31 shows and MJ had agreed to add 19 more when it was obvious how great the demand was.  He did not die from doing 50 shows over 9 months since he hadn't done one yet at the time of his death.  He never collapsed in rehearsal and worked long days both filming the mini-movies and rehearsing at home with Travis Payne.  He wasn't supposed to come to stage rehearsals until the entire company was ready.  This is the way he has always worked.” [MJFC note: This was also confirmed by Michael's manager Frank DiLeo in a recent interview.] So there.

As well: Halperin repeats nanny Grace Rwaramba’s assertion that somehow Michael was made to rent a house for $100,000 that was only worth $25,000 — and that the Nation of Islam was somehow involved. In fact, the house was found by Jackson’s short-lived manager Tohme Tohme, who has nothing to do with the Nation of Islam. The house is said to be owned by a Tunisian Jew. The irony here is that it was Rwaramba  herself who brought the Nation of Islam into Jackson’s life in 2003.

There’s more, including Halperin’s insane claim that Michael had at least two gay lovers in the last years, that he dressed as a woman and slipped out of the house to meet one of them. Unfortunately, Halperin’s timelines are all wrong. Plus, everyone knows that Michael Jackson was a germ freak. The behavior described by Halperin defies all Jack[son]-like logic.

Beware these sudden “tell alls” and “expert biographies” of Michael Jackson. You can write anything about the dead. This party is only getting started."

So if you have some money to spend, rather donate it to one of the many charities that Michael supported rather than filling the pockets of this "author" which will not bring you any further insight on Michael Jackson.  It will only support the livelihood of this vulture.

Source: MJFC / Wikipedia / Showbiz411.com / Concordia.ca / Rolling Stone Magazine.com