Michael Jackson's reported comeback may
have to wait. The former king of pop could be in serious medical trouble after
pictures of him emerged being pushed around in a wheelchair on a Las Vegas shopping trip.
"He looks really frail," Mike Lopez, the photographer who took the
shocking pictures, told the New York Daily News Friday. "His skin was
peeling and he looks so thin and gaunt."
Jackson, 49, was accompanied on the two-hour spree by his three children
Prince I, Paris and Prince II. He was wearing pyjamas, a surgical mask over his
face, black scarf and a baseball cap.
The photos came following reports that Jackson has been working on a new
recording and is in negotiations for a comeback show in Las Vegas. He recently
avoided foreclosure on his extravagant Neverland Ranch in California, but has
not lived there since being acquitted of child molestation charges three years
ago, dpa reported.