However, Jackson's life was also full of personal turmoil. In later years, he alleged that his father had been abusive, whipping him and his siblings with a strap when they were younger. Jackson also suffered from a skin condition called vitiligo, a skin pigmentation disease that causes pale blotches, which some people believe he tried to manage with skin lightening treatments. He also had a series of plastic surgeries, beginning with a rhinoplasty at the age of 21, after he broke his nose during a dance rehearsal in 1979, according to Life and Style Magazine.

In 2002, Jackson told ABC the rhinoplasty "helped me breathe better so I can hit higher notes," and claimed to have only had "just two" plastic surgery operations in his nose and "no plastic surgery on my face." However, his mother, Katherine Jackson, later claimed her son was "addicted" to plastic surgery, as well as struggled with prescription drugs, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. His health issues worsened as he got older, and at just 50 years old, he died as a result of acute propofol intoxication, according to History. On June 25, 2009, Jackson was pronounced dead at the UCLA Medical Center after suffering a cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home, per CNN.

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