Michael Jackson's nose missing in morgue - Kansas City StarMichael Jackson's nose missing in morgue
Michael Jackson in 2001. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)And now, for one of the more bizarre reports to come out of the Michael Jackson aftermath ...
The Aug. 6 issue of Rolling Stone magazine reports that the artificial nose the King of Pop wore was missing when he was taken to the Los Angeles county morgue after his death on June 25. Jackson was 50 when he died at his rented mansion in Los Angeles.
"The prosthesis that he normally attached to his damaged nose was missing, revealing bits of cartilage surrounding a small dark hole," the magazine said in an unconfirmed report.
Adrian McManus, a former housekeeper of Jackson's, says that the singer kept a jar of fake noses in his closet that he adhered to his face with stage glue when he wanted to disguise himself.
Jackson's obsession with plastic surgery is no secret. Some say he was desperate to change his appearance so that he didn't look like his father, Joe Jackson.
One friend, Marcus Phillips, has said: "Michael was elated about the fact that with the second nose job he looked less like his father. If he couldn’t erase Joe from his life at least he could erase him from the reflection in the mirror."
No word on the whereabouts of his nose now.
