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Michael Jackson -- Alpha Male?

Posted Dec 21st 2008 3:26PM by TMZ Staff

Michael may be in desperate need of a lung transplant, according to Ian Halperin, author of a new M.J. bio.

Halperin claims Jacko suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, which has led to emphysema and gastrointestinal bleeding.

Halperin told In Touch Michael can barely speak and is nearly blind in his left eye.

We called MJ's reps -- nothing.

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16. Is Halperin a doctor or a book writer? If it's the former, did he examine Jacko??

Posted at 5:18PM on Dec 21st 2008 by Illinois person

17. Thrilling. Dude didn't know how good he had it in that hyberbaric chamber 20 odd years ago.
Back to the egg, jackass.

Posted at 5:19PM on Dec 21st 2008 by Crumbs

18. 15. You people are sick!!! Did you also cheer when Paul Newman died? Are you happy Ted Kennedy and Patrick Swayze have cancer??
Bt the way, number 2 - it's KARMA, not carma

Posted at 4:59PM on Dec 21st 2008 by mitzi

Paul Newman had more class then Michelle Jackson can ever muster up or pay for. No to Paul Newman but a big ole HELL YEAH to Ted Kennedy and his whole family of theivin Rum runnin Murders who bought every office they held. And no to Patrick Swayze

Posted at 5:20PM on Dec 21st 2008 by DONNY OSMOND

19. Ya think him and my son Lil Wayne ever got together???

Posted at 5:34PM on Dec 21st 2008 by BIRDMAN

20. he has a liver disease not a lung disease.

Posted at 6:09PM on Dec 21st 2008 by jeff

21. Jackson doesn't need a lung transplant, he needs a complete body and brain transplant, with a new face, no memory of the past and a new name and career. What he has has been so deliberately messed up that it's totally disfunctional, no matter how cute Elizabeth Taylor thinks he is. PUKE! Michael Jackson is a crime against nature and his sentence will be carried out.

Posted at 6:37PM on Dec 21st 2008 by PolarBear

22. It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

Posted at 6:51PM on Dec 21st 2008 by anya

23. If he is sick, what will happen to his kids? I wonder if all the body altering might have caused something to go wrong. He didn't start out being white!

Posted at 7:12PM on Dec 21st 2008 by Kay

24. Michael Jackson i will be praying for you and your family I love you so much from the bottom of my heart.

Posted at 7:19PM on Dec 21st 2008 by zarifa7

25. ha-ha-ha-ha hee-hee-hee ho-ho-ho......... methinks too thats what he gets for messin with mother nature

Posted at 7:29PM on Dec 21st 2008 by steffi

26. People wishing someone's dead aren't sick...they are simply immature.
Oh and btw TMZ, if the reps you're trying to contact is Raymone Bain, well you're trying to contact the wrong person.

Posted at 7:32PM on Dec 21st 2008 by bla

27. I am not shure this is true. Will.i.a.m, the producer, said that his voice never been has powerfull. At a time, there a woman pretending having a kid with him. It was false and it resulted in the world biggest hit : Billie Jean.

Posted at 7:58PM on Dec 21st 2008 by gi

28. He changed from Jehovah's Witness to Muslim. He can get blood transfusions now. Maybe that's why he did it.

Posted at 8:43PM on Dec 21st 2008 by Kay

29. Regardless what he has done in the past. Hes still a human being. We all have made mistakes..

Posted at 8:45PM on Dec 21st 2008 by jimmy

30. I don't think Michael is a pedophile, the evidence doesn't add up. (the first kid said nothing happened, the second one admit he lied, the other 300 they interviewed about staying at his house said that nothing happened. Hmm.)

And as reading these comments, I have yet to find out what the HELL him being a pedo has anything to do with him having lung cancer.

Sucks for mike, get well soon.

Posted at 8:58PM on Dec 21st 2008 by yeahhh.

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