In his 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk, Jackson says, “There never was a real Billie Jean. The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years.

In 1983, Michael Jackson released “Billie Jean,” the second single from Thriller. Jackson said that he always had a sense that the song would be a hit and he was correct.

Shortly after Jackson's death in 2009, Jay-Z told NME that the "Billie Jean" singer had recorded vocals for the track.

In 1982, Michael Jackson released the album Thriller, and life was never the same. The album remains the best-selling record of all time, thanks in part to the song “Billie Jean,” produced by ...

"Be careful of what you do," sings Michael Jackson in "Billie Jean." Jackson is pictured here three years before his 2009 fatal overdose on a general anesthetic that he took just to sleep at night ...