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Ebony Magazine Predicted in 1985 What Michael Jackson Would Look Like in the Year 2000

Home - by - January 12, 2013 - 23:30 America/New_York - 22 Comments

Good try -

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  1. Bad Brad

    January 12th, 2013

    Good try is right. The nose is all wrong.

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  2. scribble

    January 12th, 2013

    He didn’t even look like that in 1985.

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  3. Anonymous

    January 12th, 2013

    Yea its wrong because there IS a nose.

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  4. Anonymous

    January 12th, 2013

    Powder blue suit and pornstache? Were they expecting him to work for Sabado Gigante?

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  5. Navy Squid

    January 12th, 2013

    So, he was supposed to morph into Billy Dee Williams by 2000???

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  6. Metprof

    January 12th, 2013

    Looks like a cross between Billy D. Williams and Al Sharpton.

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  7. Chalupa

    January 12th, 2013

    They got the child predator look right.

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  8. grayscape

    January 12th, 2013

    Why is he black?

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  9. 88 Savant

    January 12th, 2013

    Little richard + that guy who sang Ghostbusters

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  10. Bad Brad

    January 12th, 2013

    grayscape for the win!

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  11. KF

    January 12th, 2013

    Who knows, maybe MJ saw this pic and that’s what sent him into the plastic surgery binge.

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  12. Jerry Manderin

    January 13th, 2013

    What kind of people find stuff like this?

    Oh yeah. The kind I like!

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  13. Could not handle fame??

    January 13th, 2013

    What the hell happened to him. He turned into a circus freak.

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  14. Birdie Num Num

    January 13th, 2013

    (In falsetto voice)
    “That just ignorant!”

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  15. Anonymous

    January 13th, 2013

    One of the funniest headlines on Variety was after one of his trials acquitted him was “Wacko Jacko Backo”

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  16. Three Rivers

    January 13th, 2013

    Guess they didn’t know he was really white

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  17. Nutjob

    January 13th, 2013

    Looks like a cross between Billy D, Ron Glass, and Eric Holder.
    The nose is too big nor is he white enough to be Michael Jackson.

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  18. Unruly Refugee

    January 13th, 2013

    He spent millions of dollars trying to look like Dianna Ross of the Supremes. They should have factored that in.

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  19. Sinacle

    January 13th, 2013

    Not sure that’s the same outfit as in the open coffin shot, but the plastic face would still be intact.

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  20. Lost highway

    January 13th, 2013

    The 1985 version of Photoshop must have really sucked

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  21. hi_desertgirl

    January 13th, 2013

    “At age 40, he will have aged gracefully…” The other male who has also aged gracefully according to Ebony magazine is Peter Pan.

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  22. Browns44

    January 13th, 2013

    And this was before Photoshop? What other predictions has Ebony Magazine been spot on about?

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