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How Michael Jackson’s Love Story With Lisa Marie Started

Alyssa Lapid

In May 1994, the world found out that Michael Jackson had married Lisa Marie Presley — the King of Pop ...

Michael Jackson accepting a donation check at an event in 1988.

The Secret Behind Michael Jackson’s Spending Habits

Alyssa Lapid

When Michael Jackson died in 2009, the headlines were brutal about his finances. He was reportedly hundreds of millions of ...

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Katherine Jackson Talks About Michael’s Biggest Regret

Alyssa Lapid

Katherine Jackson raised nine children in a two-bedroom house in Gary, Indiana. Now 95, she has spent decades carrying one ...

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Michael Jackson Creates History AGAIN!

Alyssa Lapid

Michael Jackson died on 25 June 2009. Seventeen years later, he is not a legacy act quietly ticking over. He ...

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The Jackson Legacy Started With a Broken Guitar String and a Boy Who Was Not Supposed to Touch It

Alyssa Lapid

Everybody assumes the Jackson story begins with Michael. It does not. It begins in a small house in Gary, Indiana, ...

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How Lisa Remembered Elvis Presley In Her Final Days

Alyssa Lapid

Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only child. She was nine years old when he died in 1977, inherited Graceland at ...

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When Elvis Performed In The City That Hated Him

Alyssa Lapid

In April 1956, a 21-year-old Elvis Presley was booked into the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. He was billed ...

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The Concert Where Elvis Presley Sang Through Pain

Alyssa Lapid

By 1975, Elvis Presley was 40, and his body was giving out. Years of relentless touring, a punishing diet, and ...

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Elvis’s Iconic 1971 Speech

Alyssa Lapid

In January 1971, Elvis Presley was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation by the US ...

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Michael Jackson’s Last Public Performance

Alyssa Lapid

On 24 April 2002, Michael Jackson stepped onto the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem — America’s most storied ...