The "king of pop" was bald and had scars all over his body, the product of cosmetic surgeries and painkiller injections. His eyebrows, lips and scalp were tattooed
At the time of his death in June 2009, Michael Jackson's body was ravaged by cosmetic surgeries, prescription drugs and an apparent battle with anorexia. The music star's autopsy report yielded chilling details of the physical state of the "Thriller" voice when he died at age 50 from cardiac arrest caused by an overdose of propofol, a powerful painkiller.
According to The Sun, the singer had partially dissolved pills in his stomach and was surviving on just one small meal a day. His hips, thighs and shoulders were covered in puncture marks from the painkiller injections he received daily from his personal physician, Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for improperly administering the drug that led to the artist's death. .
In addition, according to the aforementioned media, the lips of the "king of pop" had been tattooed pink while his eyebrows were black tattoos and the front part of his scalp had also been tattooed black to match the dark color of his hair.
Meanwhile, his knees were mysteriously bruised and he had cuts on his back. His body was also stained, confirming that he did suffer from vitiligo, a pigmentation disease. But the most disturbing thing that was discovered was that his wavy, shoulder-length hair was a wig glued to his head, since he was bald.
"He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and he had been eating nothing but pills when he died," a source told The Sun. "Injection marks all over her body and disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery demonstrated the decline of her later years."
Jackson is believed to have started wearing a wig after suffering second- and third-degree burns while filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984. Filming at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium required him to walk a short flight of stairs while fires were being set off. artificial around. But a technical issue during one take caused sparks to strike Jackson's face, sustaining multiple injuries.
The documentary Killing Michael Jackson, directed and produced by ZigZag, focuses on the singer's death and presents the testimonies of Orlando MartÃnez, Dan Myers and Scott Smith, the three detectives who participated in the initial investigation of the musician's death. There it was confirmed that Jackson had gotten a tattoo on the top of his head to darken the area and hide the lack of hair.
“When I saw his scalp I noticed how the top of his head was bald. Also, he had almost no hair on his sides either,” Smith detailed on the show.
Another of the details that the documentary reveals is that Jackson's body was full of scars and marks that would be the product of the different surgeries to which he underwent.
In addition to his baldness, the autopsy would have revealed scars behind his ears, on his nose, at the base of his neck, on his wrists and on his arms, among other areas.
British television also offered some images of the bedroom in which the legendary singer and dancer spent his nights, which had already leaked in the media years ago. Medicines, needles, poems pasted on the walls and a sinister-looking doll were some of the objects found by the officers.
Detectives who broke into the late star's privacy described the room as "chaotic" and overcrowded with medication.
