Where Are They Now? (An Occasional Series)

November 19, 2009 at 2:31 am

Every now and then on All Seeing Eye we feature those who have been in the news but faded from sight. Today’s unfortunate focus falls upon once-famous Beverly Hills dentist Evan Chandler, 65.

Best known as the father of the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation, it was announced yesterday that he committed suicide on Nov 5th in Jersey City, N.J., in a luxury waterfront apartment. A Jersey City official said Chandler was found in bed with a single gunshot wound to his head. He was still holding the gun when the body was found and there was no suicide note.

The former dentist and failed screenwriter had several cosmetic procedures, rendering him virtually unrecognizable from the way he looked during the Jackson scandal. In the early 1990s, as you remember, Chandler reported Jackson to the authorities in both Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, claiming the King of Pop molested his son, Jordan, who was just 13 at the time.

TheEye is reminded at this sad time for the Chandler family of the tastelessness of this screenshot of Spanish television Cuatro‘s website on 12th September of this year….spot the Home Alone advertisement in the corner.