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"Sprinkles Ice Cream” Visit

Date confirmed in “The Palm Beach Post” (“Feb. 24, 2003”)

 

“The Palm Beach Post” (May 27, 2025) (archived)

On a cool Monday afternoon, the King of Pop stopped into a Palm Beach ice cream shop.

It was Feb. 24, 2003, and Michael Jackson was the talk of the island.

…Jackson ordered a soft-serve, fat-free vanilla yogurt.

He could have ordered an award-winning scoop: The restaurant's triple chocolate supreme flavor was chosen in 2003 by People magazine as "the very best" America's hometown ice cream.

…Those who encountered Jackson during his trips to Palm Beach in 2003 said he was gracious, and always more than willing to pose for photos and sign autographs.

On the day he went to Sprinkles, Palm Beacher Joanne Wagner was getting her hair done at Justin And Co., the salon next door. When Jackson walked by on his way to the ice cream shop, Wagner and others told The Palm Beach Post at the time that they ran to greet him.

"I told him I had come from the beauty parlor, and he said my hair looked nice, even though they hadn't done anything to it yet," Wagner said in 2003. "I shook his hand and told him I thought he was a good father."

Jackson also reportedly waited as one excited woman ran from Sprinkles to nearby Publix to buy a disposable camera so she could have her photo taken with the superstar.

Where else did Michael Jackson go in Palm Beach County?

On the day Jackson visited Sprinkles, he also went to Worth Avenue, where he shopped at Bulgari and Napoleon.