Pop icon Michael Jackson dead at age 50
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Michael Jackson, the pop icon who was plotting a major comeback after several years of personal and legal woes, died today at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The reclusive star was 50. The L.A. Times has extensive coverage. Jackson, who arrived in the public conscious in the late 1960s as a kid singer with the Jackson 5, cemented his status as a pop legend in the ’80s with the release of hit albums “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad.” In recent years, his life – from his artistic struggles to strange behavior to financial crises to his trial for child sex abuse – was fodder for tabloids.
first MJ and now Billy Mays, both passed on at 50 strangely enough