Joe Jackson succumbed to cancer at age 89, and a voice from within the music dynasty rang out: “Let him burn!” That was family matriarch Katherine Jackson’s heated reaction when she learned her estranged husband, Joe, had died, insiders exclusively told The National ENQUIRER. Tyrannical Joe ruled his performing progeny with an iron fist for decades — from his sons’ group The Jackson 5 in the ’60s to the solo careers of Janet and her late brother Michael. Read on for details of the Jackson papa’s post mortem, and click here for more news deaths in the music industry….
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Years of brutal beatings and
charges he’d abused and sexually molested his children left Joe exiled from his family and living alone in a Las Vegas condo. He died at a Sin City hospice.
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Sources said oldest daughter
Rebbie (left, with Janet) — who once told a family insider, “He’d come into our bedroom at night and touch me!” —
laughed when told her father had died! Daughter
La Toya also publicly accused Joe of sexually abusing her as a child.
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“When your father gets out of bed with your mother and gets into bed with his daughter, and you hear the mother saying, ‘No, Joe, not tonight. Let her rest. Leave her alone, she’s tired,’ that makes you crazy,” La Toya (right) wrote in her memoir.
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Joe’s death also ignited a new war between Michael’s daughter,
Paris (left), and Janet over who would pay for his funeral. “Paris wants to pay for it, but Janet thinks that would look bad for the family,” the source spilled.
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“Paris believes her grandfather is a legend and his funeral should reflect that, but Janet and her brothers know the truth.” Joe’s reign of terror was well-documented.
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In his book, “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask,” Michael’s publicist Bob Jones wrote he’d been told Joe had molested the King of Pop when he was a little boy, and even pimped out his son — and Michael never disputed it.
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Yet on his deathbed, Joe blamed Katherine for making Michael a “sissy.” Joe was also a serial cheater who fathered a love child, daughter Joh’Vonnie, who was cruelly ordered to stay away from his funeral.
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Although reps denied Katherine made the “Let him burn!” comment, the insider said: “
Joe may be gone, but in this family, he won’t be missed!”
Years of brutal beatings and
charges he’d abused and sexually molested his children left Joe exiled from his family and living alone in a Las Vegas condo. He died at a Sin City hospice.
Sources said oldest daughter
Rebbie (left, with Janet) — who once told a family insider, “He’d come into our bedroom at night and touch me!” —
laughed when told her father had died! Daughter
La Toya also publicly accused Joe of sexually abusing her as a child.
“When your father gets out of bed with your mother and gets into bed with his daughter, and you hear the mother saying, ‘No, Joe, not tonight. Let her rest. Leave her alone, she’s tired,’ that makes you crazy,” La Toya (right) wrote in her memoir.
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Joe’s death also ignited a new war between Michael’s daughter,
Paris (left), and Janet over who would pay for his funeral. “Paris wants to pay for it, but Janet thinks that would look bad for the family,” the source spilled.
“Paris believes her grandfather is a legend and his funeral should reflect that, but Janet and her brothers know the truth.” Joe’s reign of terror was well-documented.
In his book, “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask,” Michael’s publicist Bob Jones wrote he’d been told Joe had molested the King of Pop when he was a little boy, and even pimped out his son — and Michael never disputed it.
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Yet on his deathbed, Joe blamed Katherine for making Michael a “sissy.” Joe was also a serial cheater who fathered a love child, daughter Joh’Vonnie, who was cruelly ordered to stay away from his funeral.
Although reps denied Katherine made the “Let him burn!” comment, the insider said: “
Joe may be gone, but in this family, he won’t be missed!”
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