Michael Jackson Dying?

s the King of Pop, Michael Jackson dying from a rare lung disease called Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency? According to the author of Michael Jackson's biography, the answer is in the affirmative. Ian Halperin tells Touch Magazine that Jackson has had the disease for four years and desperately needs a lung transplant.

Ian Halperin tells In Touch Magazine of the disease: "He's had it for years, but it's gotten worse."

"He needs a lung transplant but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has

emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping. It's the bleeding that is the most problematic part."

"It could kill him."

Halperin also revealed that 50-year-old Jackson "can barely speak" and his vision is suffering: "The vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone."

Michael was involved in several molestation accusations over the years but was never convicted on any charges.