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The Synopsis

This five-minute music video for Michael Jackson's song "Dirty Diana" was directed by Joe Pytka and produced by Angela Jones. The music video was filmed in March 1988 in Long Beach, California. It won the "Number-One Video in the World" at the first World Music Awards held on April 14, 1989. It is featured on the DVD albums Number Ones, Michael Jackson's Vision, and the Target version DVD of Bad 25. The woman who appears in the video is model Lisa Dean (1959-2009), chosen over hundreds of girls who auditioned for the role. "Dirty Diana" is the fifth single from his album Bad, and fifth and final U.S. Hot 100 number 1 hit from Bad. Five number 1 hits from one album was a record at the time and he is still the only male music artist to achieve this. Katy Perry matched it 23 years later with Teenage Dream.

The Cast

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