Michael Jackson's image was sevearly misunderstood as well, one of the reasons people misunderstood him and did not get him.

One of the things people need to understand that in show biz, it's all smoke and mirrors, nothings real,, everyone wants to have thier own unique image, Michael was no different, cultivating a king tut look that turned more toward a joker look as the surgical complication set in from mutiple surgical procedures.

He was known as the king of pop and cultivated an image to live up to that even though it got a little bazzar as time went by,  he incorporated his plastic surgeries to reflect that image, but I think he went a little to far with it and had some surgical procedure complications that complicated the king tut image he was aiming for as the king of pop GET IT?, anyone who does not understand why Michael looked the way he did, did not have a clue to what his cultivated look was about or what kind of look he was really aiming for, so he decided to just look bazzar after that due to the surgical complications. not unlike Ozzy Ozborn., whome also wears lips stick, stange clothes, makeup and eyeliner and no one accuses him of being gay.