Michael Jackson (116 page)

Twelve-year-old Michael doing his slick Frank Sinatra impression on Diana Ross’s
Diana!
Special, April 1971. (J. Randy Taraborrelli Collection)

Thirteen-year-old Michael in his bedroom, posing with one of his many pet rats. The bedroom walls were always covered with
cartoon figures and publicity photos of entertainers (note the pictures of The Jackson 5 and The Supremes). (J. Randy Taraborrelli
Collection)

Tito was the first brother to marry. Dee Dee Martes was told to sign a prenuptial agreement before the wedding on 17 June
1972. (Retro Photo)

When Jermaine Jackson married Berry Gordy’s daughter, Hazel, the ceremony made the worldwide news. (J. Randy Taraborrelli
Collection)

Jackie married Enid Spann on 24 November 1974. Theirs was a sometimes difficult union and Enid held on as long as she could.
(J. Randy Taraborrelli Collection)

When Marlon married Carol Parker on 16 August 1975, the couple kept their union a secret… rather than risk the wrath of Marlon’s
father, Joe. (Retro Photo)

Michael in 1977, at the age of nineteen, before plastic surgery. (© 1977
Soul
magazine. All Rights Reserved.)

Michael Jackson and J. Randy Taraborrelli as youngsters in the late 1970s, before the madness set in…

Michael turned twenty-one in August 1979. Here, he poses for a photo wearing a rebel cap – perhaps signifying a newfound independence.
From this time on Michael would have a hand in all of his business matters. (© 1979
Soul
magazine. All Rights Reserved.)

An extremely rare photograph of Michael Jackson’s half-sister, the lovely Joh’ Vonnie Jackson, sixteen when this picture was
taken in February 1991. Ms Jackson hopes to follow in the footsteps of her famous half-brothers and –sisters, and become an
entertainer. (J. Randy Taraborrelli Collection)

In 1977, the Jackson daughters hoped to start their own singing group. However, since LaToya and Rebbie couldn’t see eye-to-eye
on the group’s direction, and Janet wanted to be an actress, the act never got off the ground. Left to right: LaToya, twenty-one;
Janet, eleven; and Rebbie, twenty-seven. (© 1977
Soul
magazine. All Rights Reserved.)

Michael in October 1978 as the scarecrow in
The Wiz,
a huge box-office disaster. (J. Randy Taraborrelli Collection)

Jermaine Jackson with author J. Randy Taraborrelli, 1980. Jackson was ambivalent about his decision to stay with Motown when
his borthers signed with CBS Records. He told Taraborrelli, ‘I don’t feel I left them. I feel they left me… here at Motown.’
(Mike Jones)