Joe Jackson passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89.DailyMail.com revealed last week that the King of Pop's father was on his deathbed and later hospitalized as he battled stage four pancreatic cancer. Joe was being treated in Las Vegas as recently as last week, but TMZ reports that he passed away in Los Angeles at around 3:30am with his wife Katherine by his side. The pair had been living apart for the past few years following a tumultuous 69-year relationship during which Jackson fathered a love child, had multiple affairs and was accused of abusing the couple's children.
Jackson had been ailing for months but took a turn for the worse in the past two weeks according to sources close to the family. His famous family all clambered to be by the bedside of the sickly father-of-eleven, but Jackson's handlers allegedly barred senior family members from visiting him, including his wife Katherine and oldest child Rebbie. For four days, his sons and daughters were locked in heated discussions, unsure what was going on and pleading to see their father.DailyMail.com later learned that following an emergency Jackson family meeting and desperate pleas to Jackson's manager, Charles Coupet, family members were finally granted access to the octogenarian last Tuesday night. It is understood that he suffered from a form of dementia and had suffered several strokes in recent years.
Katherine, daughters Rebbie and Joh'Vonnie and granddaughter Yashi Brown were among those who visited with Jackson in his final days. At the same time, the Jackson family struggled to gain medical information about the dying man. A source close to Joe's daughter Janet confirmed that she too had been denied access to see her father in recent days. And Joe's other daughter Joh'Vonnie Jackson - the product of an extra-marital affair - had also been barred from seeing her dad despite being very close to him and living nearby in Vegas claimed the source. Jackson's son Jermaine confirmed the odd situation when approached by DailyMail.com.' No one knew what was going on we shouldn't have to beg, plead, and argue to see our own father, especially at a time like this,' he said. 'We have been hurting. We were not being told where he was and couldn't get the full picture. Even from the doctor. My mother was worried sick.'
Jermaine, 63, added at the time: 'He's very very frail, he doesn't have long. The family needs to be by his bedside - that's our only intention in his final days.'It's what any family would want, but some people around him think they know better...and they don't.' Jackson guided his children to unprecedented success as The Jackson 5 after his own attempt at stardom did not pan out with his band The Falcons. Prior to that, Jackson had attempted to forge a career as a professional boxer after his 1949 wedding to Katherine. He was born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas just one year before The Great Depression to Samuel Jackson, a university professor who was the son of a slave. He was the oldest of five children, and at the age of 12 moved to California with his father when his parents split. His mother and other four siblings all moved to Chicago, with Jackson later joining them at the age of 18 when his father remarried. That is when he began to pursue boxing, having dropped out of high school and was briefly married to another woman before divorcing her and then pursuing a relationship with Katherine Scruse. The two married soon after and he got a job at Inland Steel as a crane operator. One year later, the couple had their first of 10 children, daughter Rebbie. n was in the early 1960s that he began to create what would become the Jackson 5, which initially consisted of his three eldest sons: Jackie, Tito and Jermaine. The boys were forced to spend most of heir free time practising and Jackson demanded perfection from the three, who were later joined by Marlon and Michael.