# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-halperin
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:33:28.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-halperin"
name: "Ian Halperin"
slug: "ian-halperin"
description: "Ian Halperin is a Canadian investigative journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker. His 2009 book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson was a #1 best-seller on the New York Times list on July 24, 2009. He is the author or coauthor of nine books including Celine Dion: Behind the Fairytale, Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Story and Hollywood Undercover. He coauthored Who Killed Kurt Cobain? and Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Max Wallace. Halperin has contributed to 60 Minutes II and was a regular correspondent for Court TV."
tagline: "Canadian investigative journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pLyfonte6fqKQjLBHJpqBoeQaD7.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.249248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2224161/"
    handle:    "nm2224161"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ianundercover.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Ian Halperin"
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    title: "يان هالبرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ian Halperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Halperin"
    title: "Ian Halperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Halperin"
    title: "Ian Halperin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump