Reclusive American pop star Michael Jackson has spent five days in the Neapolitan Riviera resort of Sorrento without anyone noticing he was there, it emerged on Thursday.
Jackson, who is touring Italy, was recently mobbed by admirers in Florence and Venice.
In Sorrento, by contrast, he was secreted away in a lavish villa owned by two local society ladies, local dailies reported on Thursday.
Jackson was accompanied by a male friend and his three children: seven-year-old Prince Michael I, eight-year-old Paris and three-year-old Prince Michael II. He reportedly spent most of his time chilling in the villa but did manage one sortie - a nocturnal shopping expedition to one of the resort's famed woodcut and inlayed furniture workshops.
During his Italian sojourn the pop star laughed off reports he had struck a deal with the Vatican to set the prayers of John Paul II to music.
