Michael Jackson impersonator Fabio Jackson told reporters outside a Los Angeles courthouse on Thursday that he is "taking legal action" over the feud with rival MJ impersonator Looze Cannon, per Complex. The clip of the interview was posted by TMZ on X.
The most honest lawsuit in pop music history: a man who is not Michael Jackson is suing, probably, another man who is not Michael Jackson, over who gets to be Michael Jackson. "Taking legal action" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Complex checked Los Angeles Superior Court records and found no filing under the name Fabio James. So this is a lawsuit the way "I'll probably go to the gym" is a plan.
The mechanism is simple. A dead man's face is a franchise, two franchisees are fighting over the territory, and the franchisor is buried in Gary, Indiana. Fabio, who met the actor playing his "uncle" in the Michael biopic and showed up in a Kanye video, accused the Motown docent of faking it with AI. "Not a real face. Not a real voice," he said on a podcast. So the allegation is one fake Michael Jackson accusing another fake Michael Jackson of being too fake.
Meanwhile the accused is doing the number. The Motown docent passed one million TikTok followers in about three weeks, dropped a debut single called "Big Michael Micheal," and had Tiffany Haddish, Snoop Dogg, and Timbaland drop into his livestreams. He beat Kai Cenat in a TikTok Live battle. Fabio's response to all of it was leaving TikTok to post tech and unboxing videos on YouTube. The King's face, demoted to a thumbnail.
Looze denied the AI claim with the only defense that exists. "I don't got no AI. This is all me." Which is true, and also the saddest sentence in the entire story.
YOUR TURN: Should the real estate finally show up and collect royalties, or are two fakes just better business?
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