La Toya Jackson

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La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and television personality.

The fifth and middle child of the Jackson family, Jackson first gained recognition on the family's variety television series, The Jacksons, on CBS between 1976 and 1977.

Thereafter, she saw success as a solo recording artist under multiple record labels in the 1980s and 1990s, including Polydor, Sony Music and RCA, where she released nine studio albums over the course of fifteen years.

Her most successful releases in the United States were her self-titled debut album (1980) and the 1984 single "Heart Don't Lie".

Jackson's other songs include "If You Feel the Funk", "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato", "You're Gonna Get Rocked!" and "Sexbox".

Another one of Jackson's songs, "Just Say No" from her fifth album was composed for US first lady Nancy Reagan and Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign. Jackson posed for Playboy magazine in 1989 and again in 1991 to promote her New York Times Best Seller La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family.

In 1992, Jackson signed a contract with the Moulin Rouge to star in the successful Paris revue, Formidable.

Despite subsequent musical success, Jackson's recording career began its decline in the 1990s as a result of her controversial marriage to entertainment manager Jack Gordon, whom she divorced in 1997.

After a period of public seclusion, she returned to the music industry in 2004 with the singles "Just Wanna Dance", "Home" and "Free the World", which saw success on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States.

In 2011, she was a contestant on the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice and released an extended play, Starting Over, which is her most recent release to date.

From 2013 to 2014, Jackson appeared in her own reality television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network, Life with La Toya, which aired for two seasons.

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Life and career

La Toya Jackson, the fifth of ten children born to Joe and Katherine Jackson and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet, was born on her sister Rebbie's 6th birthday at St Mary's Mercy Hospital in Gary, Indiana. La Toya used to be shy as they grew up. La Toya, her mother, and the majority of her siblings followed her after her mother became a member of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1965, along with the remainder of her siblings. She will spend some of her time with her mother, who will go door to door. "Every morning, Michael and I were knocking on doors around Los Angeles, spreading the word Jehovah." As her father ordered for them to appear in Las Vegas, among other cities, La Toya and her brothers were in the spotlight with a tap dancing program when they were 16 years old. In 1974, La Toya graduated from Encino, California, and earned the Cal-Prep program. Jackson aspired to be an accountant with a specialization in business law. She attended college for a short time before her father insisted that she pursue a career in show management like the rest of the family.

La Toya and her sisters Rebbie and Janet appeared in all twelve episodes of The Jacksons, a CBS-TV variety show with their brothers Jackie, Tito, Marlon, Michael, and Randy. La Toya and her siblings performed, danced, and performed skits with their brothers (minus Jermaine, who stayed at Motown and left the family band when his brothers moved to Epic Records). La Toya and her brother Michael (who was cast as the Scarecrow) travelled to New York in 1978 during the filming of The Wiz. It was the first time either of them had lived in a shared apartment. Michael and La Toya, two of a close family's Encino, California home, did not move out until they were 27 and 31 respectively. Diana Ross' brother Chico and a young David Gest were among her dates during this time. Jackson dated Bobby DeBarge, who was also responsible for Switch's 1979 hit "I Call Your Name."

Rebbie, La Toya and Janet formed a short-lived musical group under Joe Jackson's tutelage. However, they never appeared live and then broke apart as a result of creative inconsistencies regarding the act's future direction. As a result, no such content was ever released by the trio. La Toya's first solo album will debut in the coming year.

Jackson's self-titled debut album was released in 1980. La Toya wanted her first name on the album in order to distinguish herself from her famous brothers, The Jacksons. "I begged just to have it 'La Toya'. But my father said, 'It's your last name.' You have to use it.' However, I wanted to see what I could do as an individual." The first single, "If You Feel the Funk," became a minor hit and climbed to the top 40 of the US R&B charts, placing it in the Top 40. Michael, Michael's younger brother, produced the song with La Toya and co-wrote it. In turn, she sang out the opening screams of her brothers' 1980 hit, "This Place Hotel," as well as supporting vocals on brother Michael's 1983 solo hit "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) "I'm a kid at heart"

The La Toya Jackson album debuted at #116 on the US Billboard 200, #26 on the Billboard R&B album chart, and #78 on the UK Top 200, making it her highest placing album.

Jackson's 1981 debut "My Special Love" was released as a sequel to "Stay the Night" and "I Don't Want You to Go."

The debut of Jackson's critically acclaimed album Heart Don't Lie (1984). Jackson was the most popular Billboard Hot 100 hit with the title track, which peaked at number 56. "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'," "Hot Potato," and a version of Prince's "Private Joy" were among the songs from this album. Heart Don't Lie co-wrote "Reggae Nights" by Jackson and Amir Bayyan, but the book didn't make the cut. Jimmy Cliff's album of the song was a hit and was nominated for a Grammy. Jackson was hired by Cliff to write two more songs, "Brown Eyes" and "American Sweet."

Jackson capitalized on her increasing fame by granting her name to a fashion line in 1984; "David Laurenz for La Toya" explains her. According to her three-year tenure with the suede and leather-maker Jackson, she was obligated to only wear David Laurenz pieces in public appearances. Jackson's signature leather headbands were included in the range, as shown. Jackson appeared on television and print advertisements for Nikon cameras, and the following year, she became the spokesmodel for cosmetics company Mahogany Image and launched La Toya, her own eponymous fragrance.

Jackson appeared on "We Are the World," an appeal for famine relief in Ethiopia in 1985. Jackson appeared in the anti-drug music video "Stop the Madness" last year.

At the sixteenth annual World Popular Song Festival in Japan, her 1985 album "Baby Sister" was a huge success, winning one of five Outstanding Song Awards. On the 1986 album Imagination, "Baby Sister" was included, but it was only after Jackson's band name, Private-I, went bankrupt, resulting in poor sales. "Oops, Oh No," Jackson says after a record two duets. With Cerrone and "Yes, I'm Ready," artist Jed talks about their debut. In 1987, Jackson appeared as a special guest at Minako Honda's DISPA (Disco Party) concert, playing "Funkytown" as a special guest.

Jack Gordon was hired by Joseph Gordon to co-manage La Toya in 1987. He took over her entire operation later. Jackson's public image became more sexualized under Gordon's leadership. Katherine Jackson recalled her horror at La Toya dance in 1988 for the first time in her autobiography "My Family, The Jacksons": "She'd been so conservative that she'd accidentally dropped a friend who had started wearing low-cut tops and skirts with slits in them." Katherine believes Gordon was chastising La Toya from her family so he could "become the dominant presence in her life." The Jehovah Witnesses had disfellowshipped Jackson about this time. Jackson, a woman who denied her father, made a tumultuous exit from the Encino family's Encino residence to take up residence in New York City. Jackson's album La Toya, which featured the singles "You're Gonna Get Rocked," was released in late 1988. (Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do" The album also featured a song titled "Just Say No," which was written for the Reagan administration's anti-drug movement. Full Force produced four tracks on the album, and Stock Aitken Waterman made three others. After changing her manager, Jackson released the album as the first one to be released.

Jackson posed topless for Playboy magazine in March 1989. Jackson saw the pictorial as a sign of her liberation from her conservative upbringing and "to tell my parents that they don't order me any more—that I own my life." In November 1991, she appeared in Playboy to promote her autobiography and then appeared in a 1994 video for the magazine, becoming one of the first celebrities to have a Playboy video released. She later claimed that she had refused to appear for the second spread and for the video, but Gordon beat her into submission.

Jackson's sixth album Bad Girl was released in 1989. A Sizzling Spectacular! from Bally's Theatre in Reno this year. Jackson's set list included songs from La Toya and Bad Girl. Edgar Winter, a special guest star on the program, appeared on the show.

Gordon and Jackson were married on September 5, 1989, after her Sizzling Spectacular concert in Nevada. Jackson later confessed to being forcibly married, with Gordon claiming it was for her own safety against kidnapping by her relatives. This was both planned and against her wishes, according to La Toya Jackson. "I told him, 'No way, Jack!'" Jackson said. I can't marry you. You know what marriage means to me. I've never been in love; I don't even date... It's not right. I don't love you. "I have no feelings for you." The union was "purely in name," Jackson told Ebony magazine, "strictly in name only." "It has never been produced." When Jackson married in Rome, Italy, he begged Gordon for an annulment. Gordon screamed repeatedly against the corner of the hotel room table, insisting that he would never allow her to leave. Paparazzi later photographed Jackson with black eyes, which Gordon said were caused by an attacker. Jackson lost all contact with her family and wrote an autobiography, La Toya, which accused her father of physical assault from the beginning.

Gordon was in possession of threatenings, lies, and regular domestic abuse for over a decade. "I was stunned to hear my ear ringing, not screaming so hard," Jackson said of me. Gordon confiscated Jackson's passport, changed her bank accounts into his name, hired bodyguards to watch La Toya constantly and banned her from speaking to or seeing her family, or even monitoring her every phone call. Joseph Joseph, La Toya's father, wrote in his book The Jacksons that he believes Gordon brainwashed La Toya and made her afraid of her own family. Katherine's reaction to La Toya's brainwashing was also believed by her, while Gordon suggested that Katherine had attempted to murder her daughter. "I think this guy who is with her has brainwashed her and made her look like this," Sister Janet said at the time. He keeps her away from the family, and now she's brainwashed her so much she avoids us."

Jackson performed at the San Diego Music Festival in 1990, presenting "You and Me" the English-language translation of Marcella and Gianni Bella's "Verso l'ignoto" by siblings Marcella and Gianni Bella's "Verso l'ignoto" in English. Although "You and Me" did not win Best Song, it entered Italy's hit parade, peaking at number twenty-eight. Jackson stayed on with German-based BCM Records in 2009, releasing the single "Why Don't You Want My Love?" Jackson produced other BCM stuff, but the company went bankrupt and album plans were scrapped, but BCM went bankrupt, and album designs were scrapped. Jackson soon signed with Dino Records. No Relations, an album with a strong house and funk influence, was released in 1991. "Sexbox" by Jackson featured his top twenty-five Netherlands hits on the album.

Jackson opted for Formidable, a Paris-based French television show. A night, six nights a week, Jackson was scheduled to appear two shows. Jackson was the highest-paid performer in the cabaret's history, earning $5 million. Though Formidable was profitable on most nights, Jackson departed half-way into her year-long gig, owing to the nightclub's $550,000 in damages.

While recording her fifth studio album with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in October 1992, Janet Jackson, who was also in town recording her fifth studio album with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, reached out in assisting in escaping Gordon. Janet was chastised in La Toya for accusing her elder sister of recording their conversation.

Gordon defeated Jackson repeatedly with a heavy brass dining room chair in 1993, leaving Jackson with black eyes, swollen lip, and chin "the size of a clenched fist" in her New York home, necessitated 12 mouth stitches and contusions on her face, arms, legs, and back. During the beating, Jackson lost consciousness, prompting Gordon to believe she was dead. "She called his friends and said, 'She's dead,' she said. "I killed her because I was lying in a puddle of blood and I was dead," she said. Gordon was arrested but later released, claiming he beat Jackson in self-defense. Gordon had arranged a press conference in Tel Aviv, where he had Jackson read a statement accusing the sex abuse allegation against her younger brother Michael may be correct. Michael's previous defense of her accusation against the allegations was a reversal of the former defense of the investigation. Gordon said that La Toya had evidence that she was able to pay for a $500 charge. A bidding war between the United States and UK tabloids started, but they soon found that her rumors weren't what she had expected them to be. Gordon threatened to have siblings Michael and Janet killed if she didn't follow his instructions, according to La Toya. In 1993, Jackson said that her father Joe Jackson sexually assaulted her as a child.

Jackson's career fell under Gordon's leadership, particularly as a spokesperson for the Psychic Friends Network. La Toya had become a hate figure of sorts thanks to Gordon's regular stream of publicity stunts and her media portrayal as the Jackson family's "black sheep." Jackson's finances were in disarray by the mid-1990s, and she was forced to file for bankruptcy in order to avoid damage to the Moulin Rouge for ending her deal early. In 1993, Jackson appeared at Sopot International Song Festival in Poland and released Step-Up Workout, a step aerobics exercise video. Jackson appeared on Playboy Entertainment in 1994, becoming one of the first celebrities to have a Celebrity Centerfold video. Centerfold of Playboy: La Toya Jackson was first introduced in the first quarter of 1994 and has sold more than 50,000 copies. In the mid-1990s, Jackson released two albums, one of country music, from Nashville to You, and another of Motown's hits, Stop in the Name of Love.

Jackson decided she had enough when she learned that Gordon was planning to include her in a pornographic film. While Gordon was out, Jackson called brother Randy, who rushed to New York to help her escape. La Toya filed for divorce in Las Vegas and sued Gordon in civil court for years of violence against women under the Violence Against Women Act, only days later. She changed her name from La Toya Jackson-Gordon to La Toya Jackson, thereby ending the use of her former middle name Yvonne. La Toya Jackson ended her alienation with the entire Jackson family and returned home to Hayvenhurst. "I've come to learn that as we get older, we grow and learn a lot more." Jackson begged her parents for her stifled upbringing nonsense. And I think my father and my mother raised my children the right way they could." Michael knew she was coerced to assault him in the press against his will, but she did not blame her. "Don't Break My Heart," Jackson's last single of the 1990s was "Don't Break My Heart."

Jackson cloistered herself in her house and lived alone for the first time after separation from Gordon; the first six months she said she never left her house due to her being afraid of Gordon seeing her. Weary after years of public scorn, she didn't know what to do with her life and was reluctant to perform again. Jackson struggled to regain her confidence, but she was plagued with self-doubt, saying, "I got to the point, [...] where they say, 'Oh, she can't sing." She has no talent. She can't dance because she can't dance.' I started believing that, and I was saying, 'Oh my God,'. "Oh gee, how could this happen to me?" i started to wonder.

How could I start believing this?"

Since this time, Gordon continued to perform in Europe and South America occasionally to start earning enough money to pay off the huge debts she had accrued in her name when she first married. Following the September 11 attacks, Jackson was inspired to write "Free the World." To a cheering audience, she performed the song for friends. Jackson encouraged him to write more songs, resulting in the release of Startin' Over.

On March 9, 2003, Jackson resurfaced in a public appearance on Larry King Live. CNN's phone lines remained jam for hours after her appearance, and the King's highest-rated show in three years was on display for hours. Startin' Over is Jackson's first musical project in six years. "Just Wanna Dance" by 2004, La Toya Jackson's lead single, and she appeared on her own under the nymous name "Toy" to prevent DJs from judging La Toya Jackson's name. The strategy worked, with "Just Wanna Dance" debuting at number three on the US Billboard Hot Dance chart, making it the most popular dance number. Later that year, "Free the World" was released with a similar success. Ja-Tail Records, Jackson's record, has signed a deal with Universal Music Group to release the album, which has been postponed several times due to extenuating circumstances. Startin' Over, a 2003 promotional copy of Startin' Over leaked online in 2006; however, Jackson's company announced that the entire album was being re-recorded with an all-new track list and updated sound. Jackson was the spokeswoman for Australian malt beverage Star Ice's US debut in 1993.

Jackson was able to talk more freely about the clout he had wielded over her body following Jack Gordon's death in 2005. Gordon had not faked his death for the second time, according to the woman who brought a security consultant to see that he had not faked his death. In 2005, she appeared on ABC News to debunk her previous allegations and assist brother Michael against new charges of child violence. VH1 portrayed Jackson as a role model who has lived through many successes and setbacks.

Armed & Famous, a reality television show starring Jackson and other celebrities, premiered on CBS on January 10, 2007. The scheme chronicled Jackson's basic training and service with the Muncie Police Department. Jackson maintains her badge by serving as a deputy. Due to the show's inability to contend with American Idol, it was eventually dropped from the CBS lineup. The remaining episodes of VH1. Jackson displayed her catphobia on the show, starting hysterically screaming and locking herself in a squad car. This phobia, she said, was triggered by a childhood memory in which a relative was attacked by a cat. To try to get rid of this phobia, she underwent on-screen therapy. A single called "Armed and Famous" was planned, but the name was changed to "I Don't Play That" shortly before it was sent to radio stations, where it failed to take off on January 29, 2007, due to CBS' cancellation of the program.

Jackson was paid £103,000 to appear as a contestant on the sixth season of British television show Celebrity Big Brother in January 2009. She was the second member of the Jackson family to attend the show, the first being her brother Jermaine, who died in 2007. She was the fourth person to be barred from the house.

The final version of Startin' Over was released in late 2008, shortly before Jackson joined the cast of Celebrity Big Brother. Due to the death of Michael Toya's younger brother Michael, a new lead single, "Love, Honor, and Obey," was scheduled for a summer 2009 debut. Rather, "Home" was launched in Michael's memory on July 28, 2009, with all proceeds going to AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of his favorite charities. On June 25, 2009, La Toya Jackson was one of the first siblings to attend Reagan-UCLA Medical Center after brother Michael Jackson was pronounced dead after suffering cardiac arrest. Conrad Murray refused to sign the death certificate, so she was named as the informant on and signed her brother's death certificate. After noting suspicious medical remains in Michael's rented house, evasive conduct by his doctors, and finding that $2 million in cash and jewels had gone missing, Jackson ordered a second autopsy. Jackson's death was declared a murder weeks later by the Los Angeles County Coroner.

In 2010, Jackson introduced Dream Cream, a hand cream for German cosmetics company Alessandro International, and named Teddy Riley as the head of Ja-Tail Records' music division. Jackson appeared on NBC's Celebrity Apprenticeship from March to May 2011, raising $65,000 for her chosen charity, AIDS Project Los Angeles. In episode 8, which aired on April 24, 2011, La Toya was "fired" from Celebrity Apprenticery, which aired on NBC on April 24, 2011. Jackson was recalled in the following episode as she felt she couldn't defend her case in an Apprentice first. On May 8, 2011, La Toya was fired for the second time, becoming the first individual to be barred from The Apprentice twice within the same season. She was also the first guest judge to appear in two episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race on season three. She appeared on the 17th season of America's Next Top Model, as a guest judge. Beginning Over was Jackson's second memoir, which was released in the United States on June 21, 2011 through Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster's imprint. Starting Over was also released on digital stores the same day.

Life With La Toya, Jackson's own reality series, debuted on Oprah Winfrey's OWN in 2013. In 2013, Jackson was part of the All-Star Celebrity Apprentice cast. Jackson did not live on an episode titled "I'm Being Punked By A Jackson," until the third episode of the season. Jackson agreed to be the project manager on a project that culminated in the cast's development of a Soap Opera themed commercial for Crystal Light. Jackson's crew lost the assignment and Donald Trump fired her later. Unlike her first appearance on the program, Trump said that after being barred, he would not allow Jackson to return to the show. Jackson made her stage debut in a week-long appearance in Newsical, an off-Broadway musical.

Jackson's business partner Jeffre Phillips died in Los Angeles on December 6, 2013, according to the paper. La Toya and Jeffre announced that they did not marry, but that was confirmed on Oprah: Where Are They Now? In an episode of her reality show that recently aired, Jeffre had publicly asked her to marry him. Both Brenda Harvey Richie (ex-wife of Lionel Richie) who said they had been best friends for 15 years as he became La Toya's business partner after Jack Gordon) inspired his decision to propose to La Toya. Joe Jackson, the lama's father, did so with the permission of La Toya's father. La Toya and Jeffre' Phillips have canceled their engagement recently, but they are still close.

She and Jeffre are now the executive producers of a documentary "Dancing in Jaffa" that follows 150 young Jewish and Palestinian Israelis as they dance together in unity, despite their cultural differences.

In 2016, she collaborated with Iranian-Armenian pop star Andy on "Tehran," where she performs in Persian.

She travelled to El hormiguero on May 24, 2018 to sponsor the musical Forever. The best show about The King of Pop is on display at The King of Pop. Jackson appeared in a celebrity version of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America last year. Tyler Florence, a coach, advanced to the final and beat Ian Ziering to win the season; Race to Erase MS was awarded in Jackson's name.

On the FOX reality show The Masked Singer, Jackson was revealed to be "Alien" in February 2019. Jackson took part in Mask Singer Adivina Quién Canta (the Spanish version of The Masked Singer), making it her second appearance on a version of the singing competition in May 2021.

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Awards and other achievements

• Jackson received a US Congressional Tribute for her participation in a "Beat It" rally and Stay In School Campaign
• Jackson's footprints were immortalized on Rotterdam's Star Boulevard Walk of Fame on December 19, 1991, originally located in Scheveningen.
• She has a namesake dessert at Millions of Milkshakes in West Hollywood. The "La Toya Jackson Shake" consists of strawberries, raspberries, caramel, topped with whipped cream and a Cadbury flake.