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Axl Rose has become a “virtual recluse” in his Malibu mansion for the past 15 years, according to a new tell-all on the former Guns N’ Roses rocker. “These days he is regarded by some as almost a Howard Hughes figure, the bearded, sun-baked, wild-eyed survivor,” Mick Wall reveals in “W.A.R. – The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose.” His long-awaited comeback album, “Chinese Democracy,” which has been postponed several times over the past 15 years, is in limbo and may never be released. Wall writes that Rose’s bandmate, Slash, is indifferent about his one-time pal – “Everybody keeps going on about reunion, but the truth is, [Axl] doesn’t want to see me any more than I want to see him,” Slash tells the author.