Billie Jean Claimant Threatened Jackson

Michael Jackson once showed Rolling Stone reporter Gerri Hirshey a photograph of a woman who claimed he had fathered her child. He said she sent him a weapon and instructions to kill himself and that he kept her picture to memorize her face in case she even appeared near him. Jackson called her the real "Billie Jean" at the time, although he later wrote that the song's character was a composite of people who had troubled his family.

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