Youngest brother Randy Jacksonnow 47, later joined the Jackson Five but refused to listen to Michael because “he has to be macho. I’ll never forget the day we met with our producer who said you have to stand on your own two feet Randy stood up and said, ‘I’m a man’ – we all started laughing.”
Sister La Toya, now 68, was “Mrs. Nice and Nasty. I come into her room and she says, ‘You can’t sit on the couch or the bed or walk on the carpet.’ She wants to keep everything fresh. If you sneeze, forget it, she’s in another room.”
His beloved ‘tomboy’ sister Janet, now 58, betrayed him by marrying record producer James DeBarge, whom she divorced in 1985 after a year of marriage. He said: “It hurts me” that she has moved out of the family home, adding: “We did everything together and were exactly the same. We wrote a whole schedule for the day and followed it. It’s a terrible loss.”