This autobiography offers an account of private misery behind the showbusiness success of the Jackson family. Michael Jackson's sister presents a chronicle of child abuse, physical violence and psychological cruelty, hidden behind a facade of domestic happiness. She discusses her brother's relationships with the family and with women, the profit-hungry and sometimes highly unscrupulous world of the recording industry, and how she escaped the family straightjacket to build her own life and singing career.
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Need to Balance the Drivel posted by Ms. Seavey......,
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This review is from: LaToya Jackson: The Shocking and Controversial Expose of Life in the Jackson Family (Paperback)
If I really want to read up on Jackson Family business, I want access to the bad as well as the good.(The buyer demand for this book speaks for itself, Ms. Seavey. You don't control what the public wants to pay, and you didn't even read the book, just commented on it's price and rated it one star. Who the hell are you? You need to pull your "review".) LaToya's book was the first of many expose's written by women in the early 90's exposing male abuse toward women in music and show businesses, a jolt not seen since Bette Midler voiced her rape by Geraldo Rivera, the famous TV gossip host. Joe Jackson did not want Rebbie, Janet, and LaToya to take away from the boys, and producers wanted sexual favors. The part about Phil Spector's house filled with peepholes is especially creepy. And Michael Jackson's very real fear of death threats from underworld persons is explained here, and nowhere else. That's why this book is so darned hard to find. I remember this book as a part of music history that created the diverse journey of each Jackson away from the family unit. It is not until the late 90s that LaToya reconciles, after getting rid of the violent Jack Gordon, that each family member starts their own search for healing and working their way back to the family unit.
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Toy Toy from back in the day,
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This review is from: LaToya Jackson: The Shocking and Controversial Expose of Life in the Jackson Family (Paperback)
Hey, has anyone noticed how La Toya copies off of Michael's Moonwalk cover (the half-face shot) with her paperback edition? Hilarious.
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Too Costly for average interested reader about Jacksons,
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This review is from: LaToya Jackson: The Shocking and Controversial Expose of Life in the Jackson Family (Paperback)
I buy all my books via amazon.com, both new and used, and have quite a good library. But even the finest books on high subject matter are not priced at such a ridiculously high price. What makes this book any different than, say, "Michael Jackson: the Man Behind the Mash>"Elaine Seavey
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