The man who took the last picture of Michael Jackson is speaking out. (CLICK HERE to check it out if you must. FYB opted not to run it.)
Christopher Weiss was first on the scene at MJ’s house the morning he died. They had followed him for years and found him to be fascinating and extremely kind to fans.
Though they were “happy because we got the picture,” Weiss tells Vanity Fair that it was a sad moment. “Because we had, as much as a photographer could for the last six months of his life, a relationship with Michael. There were days, like when he went to the doctor’s office sometimes, when we would just put our cameras down and visit with him. It’s weird to say this, as paparazzi, because the world can’t stand us, even though they can’t put our magazines down, but there was a closeness that our photographers had with Michael. If there was any fate to getting the shots, maybe that was it. We didn’t go out celebrating. We just watched the news all night.”
As for how he feels knowing that Michael may very well have been dead when the picture was taken? Weiss says, “I am glad, if somebody had to take that photo, that it was me. But I would rather it not have happened. I’d rather have a photo of him carrying his kids piggyback in the park, which is something that’s never been shot and I used to hope for. I understand the magnitude of the photo and that it has a kind of place in history. But it sucks. It just sucks.”
Well, it clearly doesn’t suck tha tbad. Weiss plans to retire from the paparazzi world if he gets into medical school this fall. By the end of the weekend, his photograph of Michael Jackson in the back of the ambulance had grossed sales in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, with many foreign sales still pending.
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The guy will get enough money to go to medical school for taking a photo of a dead Michael Jackson? What is this world coming to????
You make me sick!!!!
I am so disgusted that someone took a photo of Michael Jackson dying. He should be ashamed. It is no better than the a**holes that were trying to take photos of Princess Di while she was dying. Something is wrong w/ someone like that and I noticed that the ambulance for MJ had problems backing out of the driveway which could have made the situation even worse. I am wondering how he got this photo. If someone from the ambulance squad let him take that photo. It’s too good of photography work to have been just taken by chance. It’s crap.
Looks fake to me
I think that it’s disgusting that this photo was taken, and even worse is that this guy is profiting from it! I understand that it’s his job, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere. If he liked MJ as much as he says he would have destroyed the picture and not talked about it. I think these comments he is making is just to make him feel less guilty for profiting from the death of someone in such a disgusting way. It’s the same as pictures of Britney in the ambulance and Lindsay in rehab. Really distasteful and too far!
What ev. Don’t hate. Someone had to take it. Don’t look!!