OK Magazine Feeling the Wrath After Purchasing ‘Last’ Picture of Michael Jackson for $500,000

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Michael Jackson, News, SMH

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Most agencies are reporting on the Michael Jackson incident with respect in their journalism, but some are not.

If you have not noticed, we have not shown ‘The Last’ picture of Jackson on Bossip; however, a magazine will be making it their front cover and payed $500,000 to do so:

All of the weekly magazines that choose to commemorate Michael Jackson on their covers will be on stands one week after the “King of Pop’s” sudden death. Look at them collectively, and you’ll find yourself in a gruesome game of “one of these things is not like the other.” Time Magazine rushed to press to put an elegant tribute out; Newsweek eloquently navigated the decision to send a Jackson cover to newsstands, and its planned book cover to subscribers; and People magazine did its usual pitch-perfect memorial. And then there is OK! magazine and the reprehensible decision to pay a reported $500,000 for the “last” picture of Jackson, which shows him lying on a stretcher, possibly already dead. OK!’s spokesperson Brian Strong says, “The cover represents an event in the history of an extremely entertaining and controversial figure and is sure to provoke some emotion and questions from readers and fans about the circumstances. The news often does.”

Provoke emotion and questions, indeed. I am angry that a) this photo exists and b) this magazine had the audacity to run it. As for questions, here’s one: How can this shameless bid for publicity (which is obviously working) be in any way justifiable?

Well, we still aren’t showing it. We feel its shameful.

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  • Hannibal

  • YEZER!

    shows the media doesn’t give a damn about anyone. What is wrong with people.

  • Hannibal

    Show the last picture dammit!!!

  • 2dimplzs

    They are so full of CRAP! It’s all about exploitation and magazine sales PERIOD. OK and other rag magazines like it are so disgusting and gutter!!!!!

  • Honey

    This man is dead and gone and still doesn’t have any privacy!!! Leave this man alone and let him rest in peace…I hope no one buys that damn magazine..

  • Hannibal

    I’m gettin the magazine, I wanna see the picture!

  • Kenyana Freeman (Kansas City)

    I’m so angry at this. How can people have such irregard for the loss of life? Why don’t they think about his children…his family? I’m so mad and I will never buy an OK magazine again! This picture should not be published!

  • lolasocute

    Didn’t know people still read OK magazine. Nonetheless, putting MJ’s death pic on the magazine is tasteless.

  • Whoa B

    The actually have the pic on TMZ I believe.

  • Angee

    @Hannibal

    Leave it alone please.

  • Hannibal

    @Angee

    No! I demand they show the picture or else!

  • smh

    everybodys already seen the pic. thats wat i thought anyway. they showed it on tv

  • LuV Me

    sad..

  • 303

    intouch has the best cover \ you know why because ppl keep fogetting that on that day of michael’s death we also lost another icon *farah* -and intouch magazine was smart enough to share there cover .

  • Lady J

    This is sad…When Princess Di was killed their were last photos, but the public, as well as, their government and other groups didn’t allow any such pics….Hello people!!!….this is American (white land) and the media hated HIM….I’m not surprised this has happened. It’s up to his fan to bring something positive out of this….(Remember the Good)…Nothing the media says or does will change my view and utmost love & respect for Michael Jackson….RIP LOVE….

  • mydixiewrecked

    the word is “paid” not payed, dumbasses. I swear I get dumber the more I come here. Please, please ban me so I won’t have to read this bull!!!!

  • Hannibal

    @mydixiewrecked

    Why do you have a picture of Wendy Williams?!

  • SHELLY

    They show the picture on The Enquirer (tv)

  • wifey06

    white folsk don’t really cared baout ya’ll asses they just want black folks to keep making them some money!!!!

  • Erica

    ridiculous have respect for his family at least if you can’t for him

  • oooo

    @Lady J

    You speak the truth
    everyone needs to listen to the words mike spoke
    he was innocent of all the sh*t the media said he did, READ the book MICHEAL JACKSON CONSPIRACY
    They set him up and everyone who ever made fun of mike should feel ashamed. I am sorry for not realizing what a great man he was while he was living.
    MAN IN THE MIRROR
    DIRTY DIANA
    THEY DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT US

  • oooo

    I’m gonna make a change for once in my life
    It’s gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference
    Gonna make it right…
    As I turn up the collar on my favorite winter coat
    This wind is blowin my mind
    I see the kids in the street with not enough to eat
    Who am I to be blind?
    Pretending not to see their needs
    a summer’s disregard
    a broken bottle top
    and one mans soul
    They follow each other on the wind ya know
    Cause they got no where to go
    Thats why I want you to know
    i’m starting with the man in the mirror
    I’m asking him to CHANGE his ways
    and No message in the world could’ve been clearer
    IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
    TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF AND MAKE THAT CHANGE

    MIKE YOU ARE THE ONE TO CHANGE THIS WORLD AND THIS WAS STARTED IN THE 80′s
    YOUR IDEAS WILL BE FOLLOWED
    I PROMISE I WILL DO MY PART
    WILL YOU?

  • cece

    i seen it on cnn the day he died.the media are some greedy mofos they’ll do anything for some damn pictures

  • dre from VA

    I applaud and ABSOLUTELY support ur decision NOT to print/show the picture. I saw it on Headline News last week and was DEEPLY disturbed by the media’s lack of sensitivity and respect for MJ. For one second, did they think about his children and his family seing this image on tv and in print, and how they might feel? As “just a fan,” it really upset me knowing that, as you stated, he had likely already passed when the picture was taken.

    I think attorneys for his estate should take legal action and prohibit it from being displayed anywhere. I also find it interesting that other sites, those that I would “expect” to show the picture, also respected MJ and have neither shown nor referenced the photo.

  • sexzlady

    sick

  • sherockz1

    Hell, I don’t see the problem with showing the picture especially when you now have people at funerals posing beside the DEAD BODY!

    Tacky is Tacky is Tacky…….

  • http://Bossip.com Endya

    Nobody asked Jean Bean to comment. We all wanna see Mike dead or not. Stretcher or Body bag. MJ was and will always be the S**t. Hell, if I could be burried with him, I’m down…

  • http://www.k.com noelle

    So see, that was like one of the first nose jobs. He should have stopped there

  • sweetdreams

    Just Leave me Alone — From MJ

  • (simme on da runnytine) Ms. Pootytang

    i still have this album. sigh… i love michael at every level but the way he looked during off the wall is my favorite. so natural and pure. sigh… i will miss him everyday.

  • Traydayz

    Who uses Loreal anyway?? Fashion Fair all day!

  • lj for mj

    e.t. online displayed this pick hours after his death,(before the confirmation) saw it w/ my own eyes when i was searching for confirmation. So aren’t they the real culprits for putting it out in the first place? they should’ve never released the pic until his death was confirmed, let alone sold it to ok mag. horrible, simply horrible on the parts of both. boycott tabloids.

  • shawteered
  • please

    thank you for not showing the picture when the news showed it i turned the channel i really dont get why people want to see pictures of death smh

  • sepia830

    I just purchased the Time Magazine commemorative issue and would recommend it to all MJ fans. It was very tastefully done–a real tribute. I will not buy another publication unless it is put out by the family. It is ridiculous how all the magazines that constantly ridiculed MJ are now honoring him to make a profit.

  • Demeter

    The “last” pic has been shown on Entertainment Tonight a dozen times. To put it on a magazine cover is kinda morbid though. They didn’t think a simple cover of Mike would generate sales, so they went for sensationalism.

  • Spellchecka

    “payed?” Wow.

  • lilkunta

    The last pic was already shown on ET so OK! wasted $500k.

    AAlso how come no 1 is mad that a paramedic
    –who is supposed 2 be working on SAVING KING MJ’s life–
    took the pic?

  • sheri

    OK! will pay for this. I hope the backlash is
    beyond huge. Its one of THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL things i have ever seen. I understand MJ was
    controversial, but this… this is unexcusable,
    unacceptable, and down rite morbid and shows
    true the meaning of GREED.

  • kewlbeans

    It’s probably the same picture Entertainment Tonight showed. After that, I was done with ET. The media can’t stand in spite of Michael’s troubles, people still loved him. MJ will always be the greatest entertainer who ever lived.

  • Noni

    It’s paid not payed… Where did you learn to spell?

  • Jason

    I don’t get it. How is OK! facing wrath? Did I miss something?

  • ?

    I love this picture that shows off his beatuiful smile

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