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OK Magazine Michael Jackson Cover Picture’s controversy

July 02, 2009

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The OK Magazine Michael Jackson Cover Picture is creating a controversy. It upsets a lot of fans of the ‘King of Pop’ and everyone who sees it. Allegedly, it is the final photo of Jackson en route to the hospital, dying or perhaps even dead.

The OK Magazine Michael Jackson cover picture can be seen below and also in the video.

The magazine paid $500,000 for what seems to the picture, according to MediaWeek.com. The OK Magazine parent company in Great Britain, Northern & Shell paid this amount for exclusive magazine rights to the photo in both the U.S. and U.K. Thus, the cover is being used on both the U.S. and U.K. versions of OK Magazine.

Sean Combs (aka Diddy), American record producer, rapper and actor, and Shawn Corey Carter (aka Jay-Z), an American hip hop artist and businessman, are outraged over the controversial OK magazine cover and launched a petition to stop the publication of further copies some reports say.

OK editorial director Sarah Ivens said in defense of the magazine’s decision to run the image: “It’s a photo that captures the surprise and the upset and the moment of this breaking news story. I hope the cover will provoke readers. It celebrated the man, but it also does expose that he was an eccentric character who lived a very controversial life.”