Word: vitiligo
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...seemed as though he didn't want to be Michael Jackson. His disastrous compact with California plastic surgeons altered his face nearly beyond recognition. His cocoa skin was gradually blanched into a geisha's pancake white - the result, doctors said, of the pigment-depleting disease vitiligo. Except when camouflaged by makeup in videos - he even wore it to bed, said ex-wife Lisa Marie - or cavorting as a speck onstage in giant arenas, he retreated to his palatial Neverland estate near Santa Barbara, Calif., and became the world's most reclusive exhibitionist...
...health questions began early in his solo career, mostly surrounding his apparent plastic surgery, and continued as photographs documented his oddly lightening skin color. Jackson addressed that issue, acknowledging that he suffered from vitiligo, a skin disorder in which the pigment cells in the skin are destroyed, leaving white patches. (Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson, the Musician...
...refusal to comply with this warrant would be admissible at trial and would be an indication of his consciousness of guilt." The Santa Barbara D.A. also wanted several police to be present when Jackson was photographed, and for a ruler to be used to measure any splotches of vitiligo, a pigment disorder, that might be found on his penis. But Jackson's team managed to deflect those medieval demands...
...ethnic roots: "I am proud to be a black American." He said (and his dermatologist has confirmed) he suffers from a "disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin . . . It's in my family. . . . Using makeup evens it out, 'cause it makes blotches on the skin." The disease, vitiligo, is "more visible with those with black or brown skin," says Dr. Madhu Pathak, a professor of dermatology at Harvard. "There is treatment. Michael Jackson may die of other diseases but not from this one. He will have a normal life...
What Griffin did was really quite simple. He persuaded a dermatologist in New Orleans to treat him with a medicine used to cure vitiligo: a skin disease which causes white blotches to appear on a Negro's face and body. Where the medicine worked imperfectly, Griffin applied black stain; then he shaved his hair, and within a few days was transformed into a Negro...