In life, Michael Jackson sold millions of records.
In death, he's spawned about as many rumors.
The gossip is as outlandish as Jackson's wardrobe, and as ever-changing as his face. And who knows - some of it may even be true.
Was he murdered? Was he gay? Did he really father those kids? Nothing's off-limits - not even his corpse.
The obsession over Jackson's body heated up before it was cold. One report said he was frozen for later testing; another that the gold coffin at his memorial was empty.
Motown founder Berry Gordy had to deny a story he was hiding the star's body in his family crypt at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
The National Enquirer claimed the Jackson family was afraid "organized criminals" would steal the remains.
Then there's the ultimate intrigue: that Jackson is actually still alive. The wacko concept has spawned sites such as MichaelJacksonHoax-Death.com.
Officially, Jackson, 50, died June 25 at his rented Los Angeles home.
His body was released by the coroner after the autopsy - followed by his brain a couple of weeks later - and is at an undisclosed location while the family decides where to bury him.
Autopsy results have not been released, but the smart money is on a drug overdose as the cause of death.
Investigators are tight-lipped about the probe, but a warrant served on Dr. Conrad Murray, who found Jackson unconscious, cited manslaughter.
That's tamer than what sister LaToya Jackson thinks.
"I believe Michael was murdered," she said from her perch on the rumor mill. "I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved. Rather, it was a conspiracy of people."
Much of the speculation that erupted after Jackson's death centers on his three children. Or is it four?
The latest gnarl in the family tree involves a 25-year-old Norwegian rapper and dancer named Omer Bhatti, who has emerged as a possible love child.
The speculation - which first surfaced in 2002 - was fueled by Bhatti's presence in the front row of the memorial service and his striking resemblance to Jackson's 7-year-old son, Blanket.
One account, in Star magazine, claims Bahtti's mother, Pia, is also the mother of Blanket.
The mother of the older two kids, Prince Michael and Paris, is Debbie Rowe. Or so they say.
Conventional wisdom has long held that the children were conceived with Jackson's sperm, but the big daddy of all the rumors is that he's not the biological father.
The ex-boyfriend of Jackson dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein told Radaronline.com the King of Pop was sterile because he had been savagely kicked in the testicles by his father, Joe.
Klein supposedly donated the sperm used to impregnate Rowe, and London's Daily Mirror said he's been bragging to pals, "I'm their real dad."
Just to make things extra confusing, one report at TMZ.com suggested Rowe wasn't the biological mother but a surrogate and that donor eggs were used.
Rowe's lawyer slammed the report as "entirely false," and Jackson's family also said the children are "100% his."
You can almost hear Jackson spinning in his ... well, wherever he is.
