The downfall of Michael Jackson
On the eve of Michael Jackson's new trial, his former rabbi laments the downward spiral his life is now taking.
by Rabbi Shmuley BoteachFebruary 22, 2005
KING OF PERP: Michael Jackson leaves the Santa Barbara County courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson)
The early death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was a uniquely British tragedy, involving as it did a young and beautiful woman thrown into a crusty, stolid, and obsolete environment that could only crush her character and suffocate her spirit. From the day that Diana -- a headstrong, impetuous, but essentially compassionate woman -- married the British heir to the throne, her fate was sealed. Even if her body had not been mangled in a horrible crash, her soul would surely have atrophied. Either way, she was doomed to be a lifeless corpse.
In a very different way, Michael Jackson is the archetypal American tragedy, destined not to die an early death like his friend Diana or his idol Elvis Presley, but to live on in squalid infamy, reputation in tatters, appearing as more beast than being. It is a quintessentially modern story of corruption and hubris."
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