LL> When asked by journalists if he had ever had plastic surgery,
 LL> Jackson said only his nose was altered.  Nothing more.  As for
 LL> his skin coloration, Jackson suffers from a medical condition
 LL> known as vertilago.  To some folks, his appearance is a bit
 LL> strange, due to his skin condition.

interesting tidbit... googling for vertilago turns up only one hit on the
entire internet... and guess what... its nothing to do with jacko... in
fact, it is listed as a "side ailment" of someone registered a
T.H.E.S.T.A.N.D.

seems that vertilago would be better documented than that in over 3 million
pages indexed...

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