Word: vitiligo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...