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Week of Feb. 22, 1993
In his first television interview in 14 years, Michael Jackson invites Oprah Winfrey to his fantastical Neverland Ranch. The King of Pop acknowledges that, as a child, his father beat him. He attributes his lightened skin to a pigmentation disorder called vitiligo.