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      *A series of photos in GQ magazine featuring a Michael Jackson impersonator has caused the real singer to call for an apology and the issue to be removed from circulation.

      The article, titled “Where’s Michael,” was written by Devin Friedman and chronicles his quest to find the pop star in Bahrain, where the singer has been living since his acquittal of child molestation charges last year. Photos that accompany the article show a fake Michael in a darkened movie theater sitting among a row of children. Another picture shows him in the desert wearing a black cloak and headscarf with his trademark glittery glove.     

       "Mr. Jackson is furious that his image has been used in such a misleading way, and is demanding an apology from the editors of GQ, and its publisher, Conde Nast,” said a statement released Friday by Jackson’s rep Raymone K. Bain. “Mr. Jackson is also demanding that the magazines be pulled from newsstands."

       Jim Nelson, GQ editor-in-chief, responded with a statement Friday. "It is very clear that the pictures in the story ... are satirical, whether it's a picture of a Michael Jackson imitator sitting in a Bahraini cinema or an image of The Gloved One standing flamboyantly in the desert,” he said. “Mr. Jackson may feel that the person in the photographs is an `impostor,' but he is merely an imitator."