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Diary of a sadman.

Michael Jackson- Timeline 1993

Jan. 16 Michael Jackson appears at NAACP Image Awards.

Jan. 19 Michael Jackson performs at a preInaugural gala alongside the Clintons.

Jan. 25 Michael Jackson Appears on American Music Awards.

Jan. 31 Michael Jackson dazzles 91 million viewers during a half-tim performance at Super Bowl XXVII.

Feb. 10 Long regarded as weird and private, he gives his first TV interview in years on ABC's Michael Jackson Talks to ...Oprah. Ninety million viewers tune in as he says that he has vitiligo, a disease that discolors the skin; that he has never tried to buy the Elephant Man's bones; and that he's dating Brooke Shields.

Feb. 18 Shields insists that she and the Gloved One are just good friends. Feb. 24 Suddenly the most visible man in pop, Michael Jackson, escorted by Shields, appears with sister Janet on Grammy broadcast, proving they're not the same person.

Mar.8 He announces formation of Michael Jackson Productions, Inc., an independent film company that will give a share of profits to his Heal the World foundation.

Mar. 9 Michael Jackson wins awards for best album (Dangerous) and best R&B single ("Remember the Time") at the Soul Train Music Awards, and performs in a golden wheelchair after spraining an ankle.

Mar. 19 Michael Jackson gets approval from Santa Barbara County officials to build a breeding ground for gorillas, white tigers, and bears at his Neverland Valley Ranch.

Mar. 25 Junk bond king, Michael Miliken, announces plans to team up with Michael Jackson to start an entertainment and educational cable network.

Jun. 13 Michael Jackson launches his new MJJ/Epic record label with the Free Willy soundtrack.

Jul. 29 The rock band Xome releases its first U.S. single GeorgeMichaelJackson with sweeping sucess all over the nation.

Aug. 17 A Beverly Hills psychiatrist contacts the Los Angeles Police Department's sexually exploited child unit after a 13 year old patient claims that Michael Jackson fondled him. LAPD begins investigation into charges, brought by the boy's father, that Michael Jackson sexually abused the child at the singer's house earlier in the year. Father of alleged victim obtains a court ruling to deny Michael Jackson any contact with his son.

Aug. 21 Police raid Michael Jackson's ranch, seizing video tapes and other possible evidence.

Aug. 22 Michael Jackson leaves U.S. for Bangkok to launch Dangerous tour.

Aug. 23 LAPD formally announces its investigation of Michael Jackson.

Aug. 24 From Thailand, Michael Jackson denies the allegations. Michael Jackson's security consultant, Anthony Pellicano, says that the boy's father attempted to extort $20 million from Michael Jackson to set up a production company, and that Michael Jackson receives 25 to 30 such extortion attempts a year. PepsiCo says that it will continue to sponsor the Dangerous tour and to air a commercial starring Michael Jackson.

Aug. 25 Members of Michael Jackson's opening band Xome amaze the Thai crowd forcing Michael Jackson to fling his body off a 7 story building. Michael Jackson was found to be excellent condition despite his fall.

Aug. 26 The Jackson camp denies Michael Jackson has attempted suicide despite the fact there was a suicide note pinned to his chest. Brett Barnes, 11, a former playmate of Michael Jackson's, says they shared a bed together but did not have sexual contact. Michael Jackson cancels concert in Bangkok because of "acute dehydration."

Aug. 27 Police sources say videotapes seized at the Neverland ranch contained no incriminating evidence.

Aug. 29 Michael Jackson turns 35, and performs in Singapore. Liz Taylor flies to his side to lend support.

Aug. 30 Michael Jackson cancels a second Singapore show because of migraines.

Sep. 2 LaToya Jackson confirms that Michael Jackson used to spend the night with young boys in his room, but says, "We really don't know [if the allegations are true]." Michael Jackson pulls out of a deal to write and perform the title track to Addams Family Values.

Sep. 3 Michael Jackson's parents, plus four siblings, fly to Taiwan. They're seated at the front of the stage during his Taipei concert.

Sep. 5 Michael Jackson spends $4,500 in a shopping spree at a Taipei Toys "R" Us store.

Sep. 14 Two former Michael Jackson employees (who claim he owes them $500,000 in wages) say they saw Michael Jackson "doing what honeymooners do" with several young boys.

Sep. 15 The alleged victim files civil suit against Michael Jackson for seduction and sexual abuse.

Sep. 18 In Jerusalem, Michael Jackson is barred by Orthodox Jewish protesters from visiting Wailing Wall. Protestors in Tel-Aviv burn piles of Michael Jackson and Xome albums, compact discs and tapes in the street.

Oct. 7 Michael Jackson attorney Bert Fields files $10 million suit against the tabloid Globe for an article claiming the star offered to pay the families of allegedly abused children hush money.

Oct. 9 Michael Jackson greets photographers stationed outside his Buenos Aries hotel balcony by holding a copy of Child magazine featuring an article titled "23 x 2 Fun Baby Games."

Oct. 29 Michael Jackson asks California courts to delay sexual-abuse suit for six years, when statute of limitations will have run out.

Oct. 31 Michael Michael Jackson's grandfather Samuel Jackson dies in a Phoenix nursing home at the age of 100.

Nov. 8 Police confiscate boxes of photographs and files from Michael Jackson's parents' home in Encino, California.

Nov. 9 Xome's lawyer, Rick Dobbs, accuses Michael Jackson of encroachment and secretly collects $23 million from Michael Jackson to avoid any more publicity.

Nov. 12 In Mexico, Michael Jackson cancels the remainder of his Dangerous tour, adding that the pressures from the molestation charges have left his addicted to painkillers.

Nov. 13 Michael Jackson is reported to be in London's Charter Nightingale Clinic.

Nov. 14 With the cancellation of the Dangerous tour, PepsiCo announces it has ended its 10 year relation ship with Michael Jackson.

Nov. 15 Michael Jackson's lawyer says the tour was cancelled because he was "barely able to function on an intellectual level."

Nov. 16 LAPD prepares a warrant to strip-search Michael Jackson to confirm the alleged victim's description of his genitalia.

Nov. 22 Five ex-guards at Neverland sue Michael Jackson for firing them, allegedly because they knew too much about dalliances with young boys. A London doctor confirms the singer has entered group therapy following a detox program.

Nov. 23 Sony releases the video compilation Dangerous:The Short Films, and announces Dangerous sales are more that $20 million worldwide. A Superior Court judge in Santa Monica, California, orders Michael Jackson to submit to a deposition for the civil suit before January 31 and sets the trial date for March 21.

Nov. 24 Michael Jackson signs a guaranteed $70 million, five year deal with EMI Music to administer his ATV Music publishing catalog (which includes the Beatles hits). Janet Jackson asks her Cincinnati audience to join her "in a silent prayer for her brother Michael Jackson."

Nov. 29 Two of Michael Jackson's former security guards claim that Michael Jackson asked them to destroy a photo of a nude boy in his bathroom.

Dec. 3 Michael Jackson's lawyer says his client will return to the U.S. by mid-January to be deposed in civil suit