Journalist Ian Halperin predicted in December 2008 that Michael Jackson would be dead within six months. Exactly six months and one day later, Jackson died suddenly in Los Angeles. Fittingly, the book Halperin was in the process of revising, retitled ‘Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson,’ is out today.

In it, the Canadian author and filmmaker documents the singer’s struggles with charges of child molestation, the author’s assertion that the Church of Scientology was behind Jackson’s brief marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, and Halperin’s own encounter with his subject while working undercover as a hairdresser.

Read the interview @ Spinner