According to the founder of an online community of Michael Jackson fans, 12 devotees of the King of Pop have apparently attempted or committed suicide since his death. Gary Taylor, who runs MJJcommunity.com, is tracking the reports coming in from around the world, and claims that the group includes a Russian fan who has impersonated Jackson since the age of 9. Pável Talaláyev was found bleeding in his Moscow home just hours after news of the singer’s death leaked. Said a paramedic on the scene, “He was in a terrible state and kept on saying: ‘It’s all the same to me. I’m going to kill myself. It’s the worst tragedy of my life and I don’t want to live any more. I don’t know why you saved my life, I want to be with him’.”
Taylor says of the suicide attempts: “It is a serious situation that these people are going through but Michael Jackson would never want this. He would want them to live.” In the video above, he and Jesse Jackson reach out to grieving fans who may be considering taking their lives in the wake of Michael’s death.
