Diamond Company LifeGem Turning Lock of Michael Jackson's Hair into Jewels

New York Daily News.

A Chicago diamond company plans to turn locks of Michael Jackson's hair into bling. LifeGem founder Dean VandenBiesen said his company will extract carbon from the King of Pop's hair and turn it into crystals, which can be refined into diamonds. And LifeGem claims to have done it before with locks from another musical icon Beethoven. VandenBiesen said the company obtained a chunk of the pop star's hair from the producer of an infamous 1984 Pepsi commercial shoot during which Jackson's hair caught on fire. The company should be able to extract about 10 diamonds from the hair, he said. LifeGem has not set a price for the gems, but Beethoven's went for $240,000 each. The announcement from LifeGem comes in a string of bizarre Jackson body part bombshells. London's Daily Mail reported Sunday that a witness said Jackson was missing his nose when he died. Instead, there was just "a small hole where the singer's nose should have been." "The prosthesis he normally attached to his damaged nose was missing, revealing bits of cartilage surrounding a small dark hole," the witness told the Mail. London's Mirror reported last month that the King of Pop was to be buried without his brain, claiming it was removed by the coroner to complete an autopsy. Jackson died from a cardiac arrest at his Beverly Hills mansion on June 25. The cause and circumstances around his sudden death are still unknown.