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MJ's FBI File
The weeks and months following the death of the King of Pop have brought a lot of new information to the fore, some of it nice, much of it not.
Probably the most puzzling thing to come out in recent days, however, has been the news that the FBI had almost 600 pages of files on Michael Jackson. San Francisco blogger Michael Petrelis broke the story after a Freedom of Information Act request yielded 591 pages, available to anyone curious enough for the bargain-basement price of $49.10.
While it may be some time before the files are released, there is a great deal of curiousity as to what they contain. While LA Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald notes that it's not uncommon for musicians to rack up lengthy dossiers (Elvis' was 650 pages, John Lennon's a mere 300), one wonders what Jackson's contained.
Some commenters on the blog suggest much of it is related to the singer's infamous child molestation trials, while others quip that there's probably more than one Michael Jackson in the FBI's system. Either way, it looks like this story isn't going away anytime soon.