Michael Jackson Never Denied His African-American Heritage, According to Dermatologist

Michael Jackson had no intention to deny his African-American heritage, said his dermatologist on Thursday.

Arnold Klein, Jackson’s dermatologist, denied that Jackson underwent skin treatment to deny his race. “That's absolutely false,” Klein said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" in reference to Jackson's skin care.

Klein said Jackson suffered from lupus. "And then I had to deal with vitiligo, the loss of pigment, and that was also a very traumatic thing to do, because they are both autoimmune diseases ... and so, I had to go through this whole process with him by keeping him looking relatively normal," continued Klein.

The pigment condition made Jackson look "like a leopard with speckles all over," Klein said. "He had to even out (his) skin tone.”

"And I think that his black heritage is something that he lived with very strongly,” said Klein. “He was very close to everyone who was black in entertainment. And so I don't think in any way he didn't want to be black. What he wanted to be was the world's greatest entertainer."

Klein said he gave Jackson sedatives during painful medical procedures, but never gave him Diprivan. He also expressed disgust for the doctors in charge of Jackson's repeated plastic surgery over the years. "He was in the hands of plastic surgeons, who didn't know when to stop their work," he said.

Jackson’s view of race has been talked about for years due to the lightening of his skin and the race of his children, who are Caucasian. Last week, Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe said that Jackson was not the biological father of their two children together.

On Thursday, Klein admitted that he donated sperm, but to his knowledge, he was not the biological father of Jackson’s two oldest children Prince and Paris. However, he said that his donation was not intended for Jackson.

Jackson died June 25 after being found unresponsive in his Holmby Hills home in Los Angeles. The cause of death has yet to be determined as the autopsy will take weeks. His private funeral and public memorial were held Wednesday. He was 50.

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