80s Music Central News

Michael Jackson has settled his libel suit against England's Mirror newspaper, following the paper's portrayal of the singer as "horribly disfigured" by extensive plastic surgery. The paper ran a front page story in June of 1992 containing a large color photo of the singer's face with the caption, "This is the real Michael Jackson." The photo, taken at a London press conference for a charity event, was accompanied by a story that inferred that the hot spotlights caused Jackson's true looks to be revealed to the camera. The text described him as a "scarred phantom" and pointed out a hole in his nose, his sagging chin and that one cheek appeared to be higher than the other. The lawyer for the Mirror had said that the photographs had "been taken honestly" and had not been altered, but that the paper now accepted that they were not representative of the singer's true looks.