At midnight Oct 11, Michael Jackson released his very last song. “This is It” premiered on his official Web site to mixed reviews with the L.A. Times saying, “If the song sways, it never quite hits a groove.”

While alive, Michael Jackson was a controversial figure in the plastic surgery world, with some close to him saying he was an example of what happens when no one will tell you “no.”

Jackson only ever admitted to two nose jobs, and said he had a skin condition called vitiligo that caused his pale visage.  But, the surgeon who worked alongside the King of Pop’s doctor said he was a frequent customer.

“He had multiple surgeries,” Dr. Wallace Goodstein told People Magazine. “He came in approximately every two months. It was about 10 to 12 surgeries in two years, while I was there[Jackson] had multiple nose jobs, cheek implants and he had a cleft put in his chin. He had eyelid surgery … You name it he had it. He had so many things that were inappropriate.”

The concert film “This is It” hits theaters for a limited two-week run in the U.S. beginning October 28.  A two-disc CD soundtrack accompanying the film will be released October 27.

Michael Jackson died June 25, but a fake video showing Jackson still alive tested exactly how much fans are willing to believe.

The video, which shows Jackson leaving a coroner’s van, was produced by German broadcaster RTL in Cologne, Germany, for its magazine Explosiv. Jackson’s face isn’t clearly seen, and the footage was intended to look fake, RTL spokeswoman Heike Schultz said. RTL posted the video to YouTube for a single day, and received 880,000 hits while generating a fair deal of rumors and speculation.

“We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos,” she told the Associated Press. “Therefore, we created this video of Michael Jackson being alive, even though everybody knows by now that he is dead – and the response was breathtaking.”

During his life, ardent fans and the public at large followed closely Jackson’s changing appearance. His cosmetic surgery adventures began in the mid-1980s, though Jackson denied most of them. Dr. Wallace Goodstein, a Los Angeles surgeon who belonged to the same practice as the doctor he claims was Jackson’s plastic surgeon, said that at one point, Jackson had a dozen cosmetic surgeries over two years.

Goodstein said he witnessed Jackson’s rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, cheek implants and chin alteration. Jackson’s long surgical history took a toll on the pop star in the mid-’90s with almost irreparable cartilage loss to his nose. However, not long before he died, Jackson enlisted dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein to rebuild his nose by injecting it with hyaluronic fillers.

Jackson also suffered from a rare condition called vitiligo that caused uneven skin tones. He finally found a solution through Klein, who used creams to even out the color. Unfortunately, the new color appeared very pale, making Jackson look even more bizarre.

Sadly, cosmetic surgery played such a significant role in Jackson’s life and image that his appearance in many ways overshadows the memory of his musical genius. Rather than enhance his features, the excessive operations distorted his face and only fed what many say was an obsession with his physiognomy. Still, as the RTL hoax video shows, fans are still on the look-out for the King of Pop, and hold him close to their heart, despite his mystifying visage.

The recent death of singing and choreography sensation Michael Jackson has led to a media feeding frenzy on every facet of the King of Pop, including his private life, his public performances and his controversial final years.

One of those facets, of course, is Jackson’s long and well-documented history of facial cosmetic surgery. And now, doctors are declaring that the pop star was an extreme and ultimately inappropriate example of what plastic surgery can do.

Despite his radical change of appearance that began in the mid-1980s, Jackson admitted to very little cosmetic surgery, claiming he’d only had two nose jobs. But Los Angeles surgeon Dr. Wallace Goodstein, who worked alongside Jackson’s main surgeon, said during a recent interview that Jackson underwent 10 to 12 surgeries in the span of two years.

During that time, Goodstein was witness to many nose jobs, plus eyelid surgery, cheek implants and chin alteration. The general consensus is that Jackson had so much surgery in the 1990s that rather than improve his appearance, it ultimately took a major toll on his face – especially his nose, which suffered severe loss of cartilage.

Near the end of his life, Jackson reportedly sought help from dermatologist Arnold Klein, who told Larry King in a recent interview that he basically rebuilt the singer’s nose by injecting it with hyaluronic fillers.

Jackson also was rumored to have bleached his skin to make it look lighter. But he was actually affected by a natural skin condition called vitiligo, which destroys the skin’s pigment and creates white patches.

Here, Klein had also been enlisted for help. He said that when certain drug and light treatments failed to work, he was able to administer creams that evened out the skin tone but made Jackson appear very pale. This, plus his many facial surgeries, left him with an appearance deemed bizarre by most of the public.

In the final analysis, the famous entertainer–and infamous personality–certainly didn’t try to “become white” by lightening his skin, although many doctors do say that he suffered from body dysmorphic disorder and was never satisfied with his appearance.