From Jermaine Jackson carrying forward his brother’s legacy years after his death to Katherine Jackson being the only surviving member of the family, this video will find out where each family member of Michael Jackson is today. Starting with the matriarch of the family, Katherine Jackson. Born on May 4th, 1930, Katherine is now 95 years old and the last surviving parent of all nine Jackson children.
She still lives in Calabasas, California and in many ways, she remains the emotional center of this entire family. When her son, Michael Jackson, the most famous member of the family, died in June 2009, Katherine stepped in to raise his three children named Paris, Prince, and Bigi, who was just 7 years old at the time.
Katherine took on full legal guardianship of all three of them, raising them in the years following Michael’s death. However, she had decided to step back from being Bigi’s co-guardian in 2017, claiming that she had gotten too old for the role. She handed over the guardianship to TJ Jackson, who’s the son of Tito Jackson, Michael’s brother.
Although she chose to step back from guardianship, it didn’t mean she chose to step back from the family’s affairs entirely. Katherine spent years fighting a legal battle over Michael’s estate, specifically over the co-executors’ decision to sell half of his music catalog to Sony Music Publishing LLC for $600 million, a deal she argued went against what Michael wanted and violated the terms of his will.
Eventually, a Los Angeles Appeals Court ruled against her in August 2024, making her lose the right to Michael’s $600 million sale in music to Sony. On May 4th, 2025, her children and loved ones gathered to celebrate her 95th birthday. Her daughter, La Toya, posted a video of the two of them out to dinner together, along with Jackie Jackson, who also wished her a happy birthday on Instagram.
A rare and warm public moment for a woman whose life had been troublesome the past few years. But behind every family, there’s always two sides to the story. And Katherine’s story only makes sense when you understand the man she built it with, and that man is Joe Jackson. He was born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas and raised in Gary Indiana where he worked as a steelworker to support his wife Katherine and their nine children.
Outside of work, Joe played guitar in a local band called The Falcons and it was through it that he started paying close attention to the musical ability his children were showing at home. In the early 1960s, Joe had already started polishing his sons music skills from an early age.
He managed every part of their development himself, controlling their sound, their image, and their schedule. By the late 1960s, the singing group had started becoming famous with people recognizing them as The Jackson 5. >> [singing] >> However, among his five sons, Michael was the one who would go on to become the best-selling music artist of all time, surpassing 355.
8 million album sales. But in all that fame, the way Joe ran those rehearsals and managed his children became one of the most talked about parts of the family’s history. Michael spoke openly in interviews about being physically beaten by his father as a child. LaToya also made similar accusations, including the other children who also described growing up in a home where fear was the main motivator.
And the fact that Joe’s expectations came with real punishment when they were not met. Michael later said that he could never bring himself to call Joe “Dad” and referred to him only as Joseph because of the way he was raised. Joe never publicly accepted those accounts or apologized for the way he raised his children.
He and Katherine remained legally married their entire lives, though by the later years the two were living separately as Joe went to Las Vegas after reports of infidelity. And on June 27th, 2018, Joe Jackson died at the age of 89 after battling pancreatic cancer for a short period of time.
This happened just two days after Michael Jackson’s ninth death anniversary and he was later buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. People’s reaction to Joe’s death was a mix of respect and sadness, knowing he raised the idols people love today. Many left comments like, “He was tough” and “So much respect for this man.
Thank you Joe for giving us a famous Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5. Rest in peace, Joe. With the parents chapter now closed on one end and still unfinished on the other, the story moves to the children they raised starting with the brothers. Joe may have been the architect of it all, but it was his children who had to live inside what he built and none of them felt that weight more than the ones who carried it on stage every night starting with the eldest Jackie Jackson.
Born in 1951 in Gary, Indiana, he was the first of the siblings to show a serious interest in music and it was largely his push that got the family group off the ground. When the Jackson 5 formed, Jackie was the anchor and the oldest face of a group that would go on to become one of the most successful acts in Motown history.
He sang, he performed and for years he was the one holding the line up together on stage every night alongside his brothers. After the group’s peak years, Jackie stayed close to the music continuing to release solo work and touring with his brothers under Jackson name. The moment that seemed to mean the most to him was when he saw Jaafar Jackson perform for the biopic Michael which made him break down in tears.
He saw peace in him and we tears came down on it. We all started crying. We thought we were looking at our brother. We couldn’t believe it. That’s how good he was. As a man who stood next to Michael every night growing up, that reaction said everything. Today at 73, Jackie has been touring alongside his brother Marlon, another one of the Jackson siblings and they perform together as the Jacksons with a biopic and a documentary planned to be released. Coming out soon.
The documentary, yeah? Yes, it’s coming. Is it something for cinemas or for TV shows or >> Well, you going to you it’s going to be for everything. Okay, okay, okay. Everything cuz we like reaching everyone all around the world because The brothers have continued pushing forward regardless with dates scheduled across the US and Europe throughout the year.
But while Jackie was the oldest face of the group, Tito Jackson, the third eldest of the Jackson brothers who actually started the whole thing never nearly got enough credit for it. Born on October 15th, 1953 in Gary, Indiana, Tito was always the quietest among all his brothers because he simply wasn’t the kind to chase the spotlight.
It was actually Tito who started the whole music career when he was around 10 years old. After he was caught secretly playing his father’s guitar and accidentally broke a string. Instead of punishing him, Joe made him play in front of the family, and when he finished, Joe was impressed enough to buy him his own guitar, after which he pulled Jackie and Jermaine in to form a group with him.
That moment was effectively the beginning of what would become the Jackson 5. When the group signed to Motown Records in 1969, one of the most powerful music labels in America at the time and the home of artists like Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross, Tito played guitar during live performances, but he was not allowed to play on the actual recordings as Motown preferred to use their own in-house session musicians.
>> [cheering] >> It was only after the brothers left Motown and signed to Epic Records in 1976 that Tito’s guitar work started appearing on their records. But as the group’s peak touring years slowed down, Tito stepped back entirely from the public eye and poured his energy into raising his three sons, TJ, Taj, and Taryll, who later formed their own music group called 3T.
Meanwhile, he had been quietly building a parallel path as a blues musician, performing in smaller clubs and developing a solo sound that was entirely his own. He released his debut solo album Tito Time in 2016, making him the last of all nine Jackson siblings to put one out, following it with a second album called Under Your Spell in 2021.
Neither of which chased commercial attention and were a big failure. His personal life mostly stayed out of public view with him living a rather private life with his wife, Delores, who died in 1988. Years later, it emerged that Tito had quietly remarried in 2020 to a Japanese woman named Mizuki Matsui and that the couple had a daughter named Taryll Adonna Katherine born that same year.
Just years before his death, Tito was in Munich, Germany with his brothers Jackie and Marlon, where the three of them visited a memorial dedicated to Michael. As you know, um I’m lost for words. I was his voice and his backbone. I had his back, so did the family, but we thank you. That’s all I can say. We thank you very much.
He posted about it on Facebook, writing, “Before our show in Munich, my brothers Jackie and Marlon and I visited the beautiful memorial dedicated to our beloved brother Michael Jackson. We’re deeply grateful for this special place that honors not only his memory, but also our shared legacy. Thank you for keeping his spirit alive.
” Sadly, Tito suffered a fatal heart attack while driving from New Mexico to Oklahoma on September 15th, 2024, dying at the age of 70. His sons TJ, Taj, and Taryll announced the news together, writing, “It is with heavy hearts that we announce that our beloved father Tito Jackson is no longer with us.
Please remember to do what our father always preached, and that is love one another.” A memorial service was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, attended by family members. He was then buried in a private ceremony at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, not far from where his brother Michael and father Joe also rest.
But while Tito’s story was one of a man who never needed the spotlight, the next brother couldn’t have been more different. Born on December 11th, 1954 in Gary, Indiana, Jermaine has always been very outspoken, often the loudest person in the room. His role in the Jackson family is complex because he never chose to stay in the background, even when it would have been easier to do so.
Jermaine was a core part of the Jackson 5 from the very beginning, and for a period in the early years, he was actually positioned as the group’s lead voice alongside Michael. >> >> When the brothers decided to leave Motown Records in 1976, Jermaine made a decision that separated him from his family for years. He stayed behind at Motown, partly because he had married Hazel, the daughter of Berry Gordy, the founder and chairman of Motown Records, which made leaving complicated in ways that went beyond music.
While his brothers continued as the Jacksons on Epic Records, Jermaine pursued a solo career with limited commercial success, and the split created a distance that took time to heal. He eventually rejoined his brothers in 1984 for the Victory album, and has remained close to the family brand ever since. But, Jermaine has never been without controversy, with accusations regarding his multiple marriages, as well as accounts of assault and abuse on his wife, Rita Barrett.
Due to these lawsuits and controversies, he has gotten a bad reputation among the Jackson family. However, in December 2025, Jermaine’s focus shifted almost entirely towards preserving and celebrating what his brother Michael left behind, by announcing plans for a traveling exhibition that he calls Showseum in Monaco.
This whole exhibition was dedicated to show Michael’s artistic life. Meanwhile, his memoir titled Michael, You’re Not Alone, Michael Through a Brother’s Eyes, originally published in 2011, has been released on April 9th, 2026, with a brand new introduction written specifically to connect the biggest moment this family has experienced in years.
And that moment belongs to his son, Jaafar, who portrayed Michael in the biopic. And while Jermaine has been careful to let Jaafar carry that story himself, the pride behind his public statements, saying that the movie is a moment of legacy, is something he has made no attempt to conceal. I love my family. I just want to do my own thing.
I just have all these ideas in my head. Just got to get them out. Then do it, Michael. You’re not a little boy anymore. Born on March 12th, 1957 in Gary, Indiana, Marlon was the brother closest in age to Michael, and that closeness would go on to shape everything about how he moved through the world. What very few people knew was that Marlon entered this life as a twin.
His brother, Brandon, was born on the same day, but only lived one day. And Marlon has spoken in interviews about how that loss, even as something he never consciously experienced, left a kind of quiet weight he carried. Marlon was part of the Jackson 5 from the time it was formed, dancing and performing with his brother Michael Jackson.
In the later years, Marlon remained a constant presence in the group, reliable and deeply committed to keeping the family together even as the dynamics around them kept changing. After the group’s peak years, Marlon channeled that same energy and passion into life away from stages. He founded the Study Peace Foundation in 2015, a non-profit aimed at promoting peace and unity in communities around the world through programs for children, adults, and the elderly.
You know, uniting the world to me is is important because in order of peace cannot be conquered by force. In order of us to obtain peace, it must be done through understanding, understanding one another. And I want to do this through kids because they are more open to change. While Marlon became the quiet backbone of the family, the youngest brother took that quietness even further.
Randy was born on October 29th, 1961 in Gary, Indiana, and his entry into the Jacksons came in 1975 when Jermaine made the decision to stay behind at Motown. Jackson plays congas, percussion, keyboards, piano, bass, and guitar among other instruments. In addition to singing and playing on the Jacksons’ recordings, he worked with Michael on his album Off the Wall.
At the age of 16, he co-wrote the Jacksons’ most successful singles on Epic titled Shake Your Body Down to the Ground with Michael, a song that peaked at number seven in the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1979. In the 1980s, Randy dated Bernadette Swan, who he allegedly abused throughout the relationship.
Later in 1986, he met Alejandra Oaziaza, and after dating for several years, they had two children together, Genevieve Jackson in 1989 and Steven Randall Jackson Jr. in 1982. And the personal dynamics around him became controversial when it was found that Alejandra Oaziaza, the mother of several of his children, had previously been in a relationship with his brother Jermaine.
The situation served as an example of just how entangled the Jackson family’s personal history had become. Not only that, but he has also faced multiple legal issues over the years, including restraining orders and reported financial struggles. In January 1981, Jackson was charged with battery for beating his wife and their 7-month-old daughter, Stevanna.
He was placed in a mental hospital, having to spend 30 days there for this offense. As the years went on, Randy gradually pulled away from public life, making increasingly rare appearances and keeping a profile so low that years passed without him appearing in media screens. While his brothers have been vocal about the biopic, the showzeum, and the documentary, and the touring schedule, Randy has remained quiet through all of it.
And as 2025 unfolded, he focused on his health and personal life away from any spotlight. As the youngest Jackson brother, that silence has become the most consistent thing about him. While the brothers navigated legacy shows, biopics, and keeping their family name alive, the women of the Jackson family carved out their own distinct paths.
None more visible than the one who became the biggest active star in the entire dynasty. Born on May 16th, 1966, Janet was the youngest of the sisters. However, she turned out to have one of the most sustained careers in pop music history. Janet Jackson Las Vegas, her residency at Resorts World Theatre, opened on December 30th, 2024 to a sold-out crowd of 5,000 people and ran through September 20th, 2025, consisting of 22 shows in total.
The residency was extended twice due to demand, with Jackson kicking off the second extension in May 2025 before announcing additional summer dates beginning in September. Las Vegas Weekly even named her best headliner of 2025, and the set spanned her entire catalog across four decades of hits. The residency arrived at the end of a sustained run of activity that had repositioned her as one of the most in-demand live performers of her generation.
Her Together Again tour had run through 2023 and 2024, with the 2023 leg producing 36 sold-out shows, her highest-selling tour ever. This was followed by European dates and headlining set at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans in July 2024. In October 2025, Janet and Paris attended the Tom Ford women’s wear show during Paris Fashion Week together, a rare public appearance of the aunt and niece side by side.
And at the American Music Awards in May 2025, she received the Icon Award with LaToya publicly celebrating her sister’s recognition. I I love you, too. I love you so much. I am I am so so honored. I’m so grateful. >> Beyond the stage, Janet has been raising her son, Eissa Al Mana, largely out of the public eye.
Eissa was born in January 2017 from her marriage with Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, but the couple divorced that same year over control issues. In 2026, her song Rhythm Nation was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame, adding another formal recognition to a catalog that already included five Grammy wins and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
She has not released a studio album since 2015’s Unbreakable, but she hinted at new material in 2024 without a follow through, leaving her following in a familiar holding pattern of anticipation. Her net worth is estimated at over $180 million, built across five decades of one of the most remarkable careers the music industry has produced.
Born on May 29th, 1956, LaToya was the fifth of the Jackson children and has spent the last decade of her life quietly becoming one of the most consistently present and publicly warm members of the entire family. For years, LaToya’s story was defined by estrangement. Her 1981 book, Growing Up in the Jackson Family, and her subsequent public accusations against Michael on committing sexual abuse to kids created a rupture that lasted for most of the following decade.
She eventually attributed much of that period to the controlling influence of her former manager and ex-husband Jack Gordon, a relationship she described as abusive and isolating. And after divorcing him in 1997, she began the long process of fighting her way back to her family. By the time Michael died in 2009, the reconciliation was well underway.
And in the years since, she has been one of the most present siblings at family events and milestones, making sure to stay close to the family, like when she attended Tito’s funeral in November 2024 and posted warmly about it. She celebrated Katherine’s 95th birthday in May 2025 with a video that spread across family fan accounts. Yeah, I’m doing video right now.
And she serves as an ambassador for Prince and Jackson’s Heal Los Angeles Foundation, connecting the next generation’s work to the family’s longer history of philanthropy. However, heading into late 2025, La Toya became the subject of a different kind of public attention. Photos posted to her Instagram in December 2025 promoted widespread concern from fans about her noticeably thinner appearance.
While many fans made negative comments about her weight, others defended Jackson, noting she’s naturally petite. She’d previously posted photos from doctor’s offices in November 2025, describing constant checkups and waiting for results without elaborating further. Hi guys. I hope everyone’s doing well. I’m here at the doctor again.
So, I’m hoping that everything goes well with me. All results are good. And I hope you guys have a great day. She has not publicly disclosed any specific diagnosis about her appearance, and her representatives have not commented beyond her own social media responses. In June 2025, she performed at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, appeared as a mystery contestant on the French version of Masked Singer taped in Paris, and continued posting regularly across her platforms.
>> >> The health questions in 2026 remain open, and the family has remained publicly quiet about the details. While La Toya Jackson focused more on family and events, Rebbie Jackson made one of the most successful music careers among the Jacksons. Rebbie, the eldest among all the Jackson siblings, born on May 29th, 1950 in Gary, Indiana on the same day that her sister La Toya would eventually be born 6 years later.
While Janet built one of the biggest careers in pop music and La Toya maintained a visible public life across decades of television and tabloid coverage, Rebbie chose a different path almost entirely. She released her debut album Centipede in 1984, produced by her brother Michael and featuring a title track he had written for her, which reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
She continued recording into the 1990s with three additional albums. But after her husband Nathaniel Brown died in 2013 following a battle with cancer, Rebbie largely stepped away from public life and has remained largely out of it since. Today at 74, she makes occasional appearances at family gatherings and milestone events, preferring to keep her private life private in a way that has become increasingly unusual for the family she belongs to.
Her son Austin Brown has pursued an independent music career, deliberately keeping some distance from the Jackson name. >> >> And Rebbie has consistently supported that approach rather than encouraging him to trade onto the family brand. While the next generation learns to carve out space away from the Jackson name, the eldest of Michael’s children has taken a different approach by leaning into the legacy.
Prince Jackson has successfully built a life that honors his father’s philanthropic legacy while maintaining a level of business-minded stability that was rare in the previous generation. Prince started this by co-founding the Heal Los Angeles Foundation, which by 2024 had become a significant player in the city’s non-profit sector, even partnering with major brands like Mattel and the estate’s biopic production to auction off film roles for charity.
However, 2025 marked his most significant personal milestone to date is after 8 years of dating his college sweetheart Molly Schermang, Prince officially announced their engagement in August 2025 through an Instagram post stating, “I’m excited for this next chapter in our lives as we continue to grow and make great memories.
” In a moving tribute, he shared photos of the couple with his grandmother Katherine at the family’s Hayvenhurst compound set to the soundtrack of his father’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You. Now 28 and living in a $2.6 million Rancho Palos Verdes home, Prince has also stepped into a more assertive role regarding the family fortune.
In early 2026, he joined his siblings in a unified legal petition demanding that the state executors provide a transparent accounting of their $1 billion plus assets, proving that he’s just as protective of the family’s future as he is of the past. While Prince represents the family’s steady hand, his sister Paris Jackson has become its most complex and artistically successful sibling, navigating a high-fashion modeling career alongside a gritty indie rock musical journey.
By 2025, she’s no longer just Michael’s daughter, but a legitimate touring musician opening for acts like Incubus and landing roles in major TV productions like Dr. Odyssey. But behind the glamour, Paris has been remarkably transparent about her battles with treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and the grueling reality of recovery.
In January 2026, she marked the powerful six years of sobriety, admitting that it all got very hard as she learned to cope with life without substances. Her personal life also took a sharp turn in July 2025 when she ended her three-year relationship and engagement with music producer Justin Long. Rather than retreating, Paris shifted her focus to a massive legal battle with the estate’s executors John Branca and John McClain.
She has become the lead voice in challenging over $115,000 in unjustified legal fees and luxury gifts billed to the estate, characterizing the current management as a financial trap designed to keep the beneficiaries in the dark. With a net worth of $150 million and a growing list of credits, Paris is currently the family’s most vocal advocate for accountability.
Where Paris has met the spotlight head on, her younger brother has done the opposite by retreating entirely from public life to let his work speak for itself. The son formerly known as Blanket has spent his early 20s meticulously scrubbing the viral aspects of his childhood to emerge as a serious low-profile filmmaker. Now 24, BG Jackson has virtually no social media presence, choosing instead to communicate through his art.
His short film Rochelle’s garnered critical acclaim at the 2024 Santa Monica Film Festival, and by 2025, it completed his second directorial effort Joni. Despite his preference for privacy, BG was dragged into the family’s legal drama in late 2024 and 2025, where in a surprising move, he filed a court objection against his grandmother Katherine Jackson, specifically arguing against her using estate funds to appeal a massive catalog sale to Sony, which was a move that created temporary rift in the family. However, by February
2026, the siblings reconciled their differences to present a united front against the estate’s executors. Still living in Calabasas and occasionally spotted at local bakeries or film sets, BG remains the most enigmatic of the trio, quietly waiting until his 33rd birth date to take full control of his portion of the King of Pop’s empire.
But while BG has built his identity by staying out of the camera’s eyes, one of his cousins has done the unthinkable by willingly stepping into what may be scrutinized role in Hollywood history. Jaafar Jackson, the son of Jermaine Jackson, was thrust into the global spotlight after beating out 2,000 actors to play his uncle in the official biopic Michael.
The pressure reached a fever pitch on November 6, 2025, when the teaser trailer dropped, shattering records and racking up to 116.2 million views in 24 hours, even surpassing the trailer launches of both Taylor Swift and Bob Marley’s respective films. The production, directed by Antoine Fuqua, has been in a lot of controversy as throughout 2025, reports swirled of internal disputes regarding the film’s script regarding the 1993 abuse allegations on Michael.
While the estate reportedly pushed for a clean narrative, the creative team insisted on addressing the complexities of Michael’s life. Despite these tensions, the world’s reaction to Jaafar’s performance has been electric, and as the film has released on April 24th, 2026, Jaafar stands on the precipice of becoming the first Jackson in decades to achieve a level of global fame that rivals his uncle’s.
Yet behind every Jackson finding their footing in the spotlight, there has been a quieter figure who has never sought the attention. The son of Tito Jackson, TJ, remains the unsung hero and the stabilizing force for Michael’s children. Having served as a guardian for Prince, Paris, and Bigi since 2012, TJ’s role has become even more critical in 2024 and 2025 as the children began their legal push for estate transparency.
While his own musical career at 3T continues with the occasional European performances and tribute events, TJ’s true focus has been on mentorship. He’s widely credited with helping Bigi navigate the transition into adulthood and supporting Paris through her sobriety journey. In a family often defined by headline-grabbing drama, TJ has managed to remain the one person trusted by the estate executor, John Branca, and the children, acting as the quiet mediator who ensures the Jackson name remains synonymous with talent rather than just
litigation. With the next generation playing their part in contributing to the family, the empire they stand to inherit continues to grow into something staggering in scale. The Michael Jackson estate is currently valued at over $2 billion as the family enters a massive new era. Michael topped the 2025 highest-earning dead celebrities list by generating an incredible $105 million that year.
Sony Music Group recently purchased half of Michael’s music catalog for $600 million in a record-breaking industry deal. However, a legal cloud looms as Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who have allegedly stated that Michael had abused and assaulted them when they were kids, prepare for a consolidated abuse trial in November 2026.
That said, Janet Jackson remains a financial powerhouse with a net worth of over $150 million from her touring empire. Prince, Paris, and Bigi each hold estimated fortunes of $150 million through their inheritance and various careers. In contrast, Jermaine Jackson has reportedly faced significant financial difficulty involving mortgage disputes and mounting debts in the United Kingdom.
Randy Jackson has also struggled with various legal and financial hurdles while his younger siblings continue to see massive prosperity. The next generation is building distinct identities while navigating their father’s shadow through film, music, and high-impact charitable foundations.
They remain united in their fight for state transparency as the world prepares for the biggest Jackson family year yet.
