Shana Mangatal

About

Author, actress, model, music video director, and former veteran talent manager. She is most widely recognized for writing the hit memoir Michael and Me: The Untold Story of Michael Jackson's Secret Romance, which details her nearly two-decade-long private friendship and romance with the King of Pop. Within the entertainment industry, she is also celebrated as a 1990s music video star and a behind-the-scenes public relations expert.

Before fame

She officially packed up and moved to Los Angeles to pursue her entertainment dreams in 1989. She began her professional acting and modeling career in the early 1990s, booking her first television and film extra roles.

Trivia

She was featured as a high-profile "Beauty of the Week" in the historic Jet magazine issue published on May 26, 1997. A first-time author, she fiercely chose to write her entire 240-page memoir entirely on her own without using a ghostwriter. To make her music video directorial debut, she remarkably shot her projects completely on an iPhone rather than using traditional studio cameras. She also maintains a custom jacket adorned with original Keith Haring art buttons that she personally took off a hotel coffee table during her very first meeting with a global music star in 1988.

Family life

She is based in the United States.

Associated with

She had a close relationship with Michael Jackson.