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Jackson's 1999 Mystery Hospital Stay Revealed
Michael Jackson checked himself into New York's Lenox Hill Hospital for two days back in 1999. The exact dates were April 17 and 18, and the alias he used was "James Walker."
The reason for Jackson's sudden hospitalization was not given, according to one report I received last week, but it said he had been in the psychiatric ward.
It turns out he was in a private suite in the Wollman unit at Lenox Hill, and ostensibly for exhaustion and dehydration.
"He was over-tired from making his 'Invincible' album and needed fluids," a source told me.
"Invincible" was not released, however, until more than two years later.
At the time, he was still married to, though not living with, his second wife, Debbie Rowe, and he already had custody of their two children, Prince and Paris.
Rowe, according to sources, did not know of the hospitalization. Neither did most of Jackson's close associates.
One Jackson insider who did know said she guessed his treatment was somehow drug-related. Jackson had a well-publicized dependence on prescription drugs in the past.
Yesterday, I spoke to the doctor who treated Jackson. Dr. Len Horovitz, who counts many
celebrities among his patients, reluctantly answered some of my questions about Jackson and his stay at Lenox Hill.
The most important thing he told me: Jackson really does suffer from vitiligo, the medical condition that has caused his skin to turn white over the years.
Horovitz said, and I think we have to believe him, that Jackson does not do anything to overtly lighten his skin.
"He has not had chemical peels or used any drugs to do it," he said. "He is blotchy in places that you can't see, and he does wear makeup in public. But the vitiligo is real."
Horovitz conceded that he treated Jackson a few times in New York before the hospitalization. At the Four Seasons Hotel, where Horovitz met him, Jackson traveled with his then-very-young children, as well as collections of mementos.
"He had a lot of mementos of Judy Garland and 'The Sound of Music,'" Horovitz said. "He was really into 'The Sound of Music.'"
The children, Paris and Prince, did not resemble Jackson, Horovitz recalled.
Paris, who was then a toddler, resembled Shirley Temple, with curly reddish-brown hair. Recently, I confirmed that Jackson has been dying Prince's dark-brown hair blond for years. He will turn eight on Sunday.
When he finally checked into Lenox Hill, Jackson was alone most of the time, without any entourage, assistants or pets. Horovitz treated him with IV fluids.
"My job was to hydrate him quickly," the doctor recalled. "I put the IV in myself, and there was no one else around."
He ran blood tests, but not for drugs. He said he did not see pill bottles with Jackson, and there was no indication that he was medicating himself at the time. Jackson's only diversion in his overnight stay was a boom box.
"He wanted to talk about music," Horovitz, who is a pianist himself, said.
The two even struck a little friendship, with Jackson inviting the doctor, a married father of two, over to the Four Seasons occasionally simply to chat.
"He liked Debussy very much," Horovitz recalled. "He passed some CDs on to me that people had given him as gifts."
But the doctor observed, "He's very isolated."
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Jackson's 1999 Mystery Hospital Stay Revealed
Michael Jackson checked himself into New York's Lenox Hill Hospital for two days back in 1999. The exact dates were April 17 and 18, and the alias he used was "James Walker."
The reason for Jackson's sudden hospitalization was not given, according to one report I received last week, but it said he had been in the psychiatric ward.
It turns out he was in a private suite in the Wollman unit at Lenox Hill, and ostensibly for exhaustion and dehydration.
"He was over-tired from making his 'Invincible' album and needed fluids," a source told me.
"Invincible" was not released, however, until more than two years later.
At the time, he was still married to, though not living with, his second wife, Debbie Rowe, and he already had custody of their two children, Prince and Paris.
Rowe, according to sources, did not know of the hospitalization. Neither did most of Jackson's close associates.
One Jackson insider who did know said she guessed his treatment was somehow drug-related. Jackson had a well-publicized dependence on prescription drugs in the past.
Yesterday, I spoke to the doctor who treated Jackson. Dr. Len Horovitz, who counts many
celebrities among his patients, reluctantly answered some of my questions about Jackson and his stay at Lenox Hill.
The most important thing he told me: Jackson really does suffer from vitiligo, the medical condition that has caused his skin to turn white over the years.
Horovitz said, and I think we have to believe him, that Jackson does not do anything to overtly lighten his skin.
"He has not had chemical peels or used any drugs to do it," he said. "He is blotchy in places that you can't see, and he does wear makeup in public. But the vitiligo is real."
Horovitz conceded that he treated Jackson a few times in New York before the hospitalization. At the Four Seasons Hotel, where Horovitz met him, Jackson traveled with his then-very-young children, as well as collections of mementos.
"He had a lot of mementos of Judy Garland and 'The Sound of Music,'" Horovitz said. "He was really into 'The Sound of Music.'"
The children, Paris and Prince, did not resemble Jackson, Horovitz recalled.
Paris, who was then a toddler, resembled Shirley Temple, with curly reddish-brown hair. Recently, I confirmed that Jackson has been dying Prince's dark-brown hair blond for years. He will turn eight on Sunday.
When he finally checked into Lenox Hill, Jackson was alone most of the time, without any entourage, assistants or pets. Horovitz treated him with IV fluids.
"My job was to hydrate him quickly," the doctor recalled. "I put the IV in myself, and there was no one else around."
He ran blood tests, but not for drugs. He said he did not see pill bottles with Jackson, and there was no indication that he was medicating himself at the time. Jackson's only diversion in his overnight stay was a boom box.
"He wanted to talk about music," Horovitz, who is a pianist himself, said.
The two even struck a little friendship, with Jackson inviting the doctor, a married father of two, over to the Four Seasons occasionally simply to chat.
"He liked Debussy very much," Horovitz recalled. "He passed some CDs on to me that people had given him as gifts."
But the doctor observed, "He's very isolated."
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