娛樂資訊:千真萬確:傑克遜頭髮變鑽石
【英文原文】
Jackson's hair made into diamonds -- for real
摘要：自從邁克爾•傑克遜在6月25日突然辭世，有關他私生活的各種光怪陸離的傳聞便不絕於耳。上週五，一家公司說準備把他的頭髮製成鑽石。這個傳聞是真的。
Since Michael Jackson's sudden death on June 25, the rumor mill over details of his bizarre personal life has ground away nearly non-stop, and on Friday, one company said it was turning his hair into diamonds. That one is true.
The claims this week included a report in Rolling Stone magazine that a prosthetic nose he wore apparently went missing when he was taken to the morgue, and a British tabloid trumpeted a headline that he fathered a secret love-child.
In one by-product of the "Thriller" singer's death, a Chicago company said on Friday it had obtained some of the hair Jackson burned while filming a 1984 Pepsi commercial and planned to create a limited edition of diamonds from it.
"Absolutely this is for real," said Dean VandenBiesen, founder of LifeGem, which has a patent on a process that extracts carbon from hair, turns it into crystals and then into high-quality laboratory diamonds.
VandenBiesen told Reuters he thought the company could make about 10 diamonds. No sale price has been set but VandenBiesen said LifeGem created three diamonds from locks of Beethoven's hair in 2007, and sold one of them for around $200,000.
Separately, the August 6 issue of Rolling Stone magazine reported that not only was the left arm of Jackson's dead body "scored with needle marks" -- claims that have arisen before -- but he wore an artificial nose that was missing when he was taken to the Los Angeles county morgue.
"The prosthesis that he normally attached to his damaged nose was missing, revealing bits of cartilage surrounding a small dark hole," the magazine said in an unsourced report.
While that report could not be confirmed, Los Angeles coroner's officials did say earlier this week they were probing security breaches in their offices.
The coroner's office is expected to release an official cause of death next week which could shed light on some of the reports, including Jackson's possible use of powerful drugs.
And even as custody of Jackson's three children is set to be decided in court on August 3, The Sun newspaper speculated the singer may have had a love-child raised in Norway.
Omer Bhatti, 25, sparked interest when he was spotted sitting with the singer's immediate family at Jackson's public memorial earlier this month. Bhatti reportedly spent time with Jackson at his Neverland Valley Ranch in the 1990s and was known as "Little Michael".
But another of Jackson's former proteges, singer Ricky Harlow, told celebrity website on Friday that although they were close he doubted Bhatti was Jackson's son.
"They had a father-and-son type of connection," Harlow, 26, told People, "but I never thought he (Jackson) was his biological father."
In Jackson's 2002 will, the singer listed only three children now living: Prince Michael Jackson, Jr, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Joseph Jackson II.
【中文譯文】
自從邁克爾•傑克遜在6月25日突然辭世，有關他私生活的各種光怪陸離的傳聞便不絕於耳。上週五，一家公司說準備把他的頭髮製成鑽石。這個傳聞是真的。
本週的傳聞包括滾石雜誌上的一篇報道，上面說邁克爾•傑克遜的屍體在送到太平間的時候他的假鼻子很明顯不知去向。一份英國小報對邁克爾•傑克遜有一個祕密的私生子大作文章。
這位“驚悚”歌手去世之後還有這樣一則消息：芝加哥的一家公司上週五說它已得到傑克遜1984年拍攝百事可樂廣告時燒掉的部分頭髮，並打算把這些頭髮製成限量版鑽石。
“這絕對是真的，” “生命珍寶”公司的創始人迪恩•凡登比森說。“生命珍寶”公司能夠從頭髮中抽取碳元子，把它製成水晶和高質量的實驗室專用鑽石，並在這項技術上擁有專利。
凡登比森告訴路透社說他認爲公司能製造大約10顆鑽石。目前還沒確定售價，不過凡登比森說“生命珍寶”公司在2007年曾用貝多芬的幾綹頭髮製造出三顆鑽石，其中一顆售價約爲20萬美金。
另外，滾石雜誌8月6日刊報道說，不僅像此前傳聞中所說的在傑克遜屍體的左臂上“有針孔痕跡”，而且他在被送往洛杉磯郡停屍間的時候還丟了一個假鼻子。
該雜誌稱：“他平時在受損的鼻子上所移植的假鼻子丟失了，在一個小黑洞周圍露出一些軟骨組織。”報道中沒有說明消息來源。
儘管那篇報道不能被覈實，洛杉磯的驗屍官員在本週初時說，他們正在調查驗屍官辦公室裏違犯安全的事件。
驗屍官辦公室打算於下週公佈官方調查的傑克遜死因，這份報告將對一些報道予以澄清，包括傑克遜可能服用強力毒品的報道。
儘管8月3日法庭將判決傑克遜三個孩子的監護權，太陽報猜測傑克遜可能在挪威還有一個私生子。
本月早些時候在傑克遜的公衆追悼會上，當25歲的歐默•巴提被看到和傑克遜的直系親屬坐在一起時，他立刻引起了人們的興趣。 據報道，巴提在20世紀90年代曾在傑克遜的夢幻農莊和他共度了一段時光，還被人稱爲“小邁克爾”。
但是傑克遜過去的另一個追隨者，歌手裏奇•哈婁，卻在週五告訴名人網站說，雖然巴提和傑克遜很親密，但是他對巴提是傑克遜的兒子這一說法持懷疑態度。
“他們之間有父子般的感情，”26歲的哈婁告訴名人網站，“但是我從來不認爲他是巴提的生父。”
在傑克遜2002年的遺囑中，他只提到了三名在世的子女：普林斯•邁克爾•傑克遜、帕里斯•邁克爾•凱瑟琳•傑克遜和普林斯•邁克爾•傑克遜II。
