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** Owned a pet chimp named Bubbles, for whom he would have custom suits tailored, since he frequently took the animal to public appearances. This was just one of many exotic pets he owned over the years, to the point that a [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] and toy line based on them were being developed in [[The Eighties]]. |
** Owned a pet chimp named Bubbles, for whom he would have custom suits tailored, since he frequently took the animal to public appearances. This was just one of many exotic pets he owned over the years, to the point that a [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] and toy line based on them were being developed in [[The Eighties]]. |
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** Created the Neverland Ranch mansion/zoo/amusement park complex to live in. |
** Created the Neverland Ranch mansion/zoo/amusement park complex to live in. |
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** Got '''set on fire''' due to a freak accident on the set of a Pepsi commercial, leading him to become dependent on painkillers for the rest of his life. |
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** Had giant statues of himself built and trucked around the world (including down the River Thames) to promote 1995's ''HIStory''. |
** Had giant statues of himself built and trucked around the world (including down the River Thames) to promote 1995's ''HIStory''. |
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** Had ''tons'' of plastic surgery, although [[Implausible Deniability|he denied most of it]] (it's generally agreed though that the narrowing of his face was due to weight loss |
** Had ''tons'' of plastic surgery, although [[Implausible Deniability|he denied most of it]] (it's generally agreed though that the narrowing of his face was due to weight loss caused by anorexia and lupus; the changes to his lips and chin and his multiple rhinoplasties are real). A related issue was how he chose to handle his vitiligo, which started destroying the pigmentation of his skin in [[The Eighties]]: after the disease progressed to a point where he couldn't easily cover it up with brown makeup, he bleached the visible areas of his skin to an alarming whiteness. |
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** Dangled his then-infant son over a hotel balcony in Berlin so fans below could see him—although "Blanket" was largely covered by a real blanket when he did so, so what was the point? |
** Dangled his then-infant son over a hotel balcony in Berlin so fans below could see him—although "Blanket" was largely covered by a real blanket when he did so, so what was the point? |
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** Never let his kids go out in public with him without masks or veils. His concern that the kids could be targets for kidnapping or worse ''was'' valid—but those masks and veils attracted a lot of attention anyway. (The masks disappeared after his death.) |
** Never let his kids go out in public with him without masks or veils. His concern that the kids could be targets for kidnapping or worse ''was'' valid—but those masks and veils attracted a lot of attention anyway. (The masks disappeared after his death.) |
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