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Author Ian Halperin claims Jackson was beset by serious health problems, stress over 50-date London residency. By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson Photo: Al Messerschmidt Archive / Getty Images Celebrity biographer Ian Halperin set out to take down Michael Jackson in his just-released unauthorized look at the late singer’s life, “Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson.” Instead, Halperin said he ended up writing a sympathetic look at a sad world inhabited by the King of Pop, in which he said Jackson was plagued by anorexia, crippling financial problems, a deadly lung disease, a torrid addiction to prescription medication, fears of mortality and, in his final months, a crippling anxiety that he could not pull off the proposed 50-date residency at the O2 arena in London, which would have kicked off Monday.

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Unauthorized Michael Jackson Bio Paints Grim Picture Of Final Months