Joe Jackson Hospitalized In Medical Crisis

Joe Jackson — the controversial and controlling father behind the Jackson Family empire — is in a Los Angeles hospital! Sources said that Joe had been visiting his doctor for a routine visit on Friday, March 13. He became ill during the examination and was rushed to the hospital. It's the latest brush with death for Michael Jackson's dad, who was last hospitalized in Brazil while traveling with French bombshell Angelina Stilitti.

That bizarre incident had daughter Janet Jackson postponing preparations for her upcoming Unbreakable World Tour and running to Brazil — while family matriarch Katherine Jackson, 86, was at home and awaiting news about her husband! The pair remains legally married, and Joe officially bills himself as Angelina's "business manager."

As reported by The National ENQUIRER, Joe was traveling in Brazil with 26-year-old Angelina when he woke up blind on July 26 — which was also his 87th birthday. Joe, who has diabetes, had already suffered three heart attacks and six strokes over the past two years. Joe's medical crisis ruined his plans to celebrate his birthday with a $200,000 party in the city of Sao Paulo.

Instead, Joe's birthday ignited a family feud about where to bury the domineering dad. The patriarch wants to be buried near Michael Jackson’s grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. — but Michael hated his father, and accused him of emotionally and physically abusing him as a child. “Michael,” a family insider told The ENQUIRER, "wouldn’t want Joe’s resting place anywhere near his own!”