Author: Maria Puente / Source: USA TODAY
Joe Jackson, the iron-willed father/manager of the late Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, is hospitalized in Las Vegas with terminal cancer, according to media reports.
Variety and TMZ, citing unnamed sources, reported Jackson, 89, is dying and that some members of his family — he’s the father of 10 surviving children — have visited him at the hospital, including wife Katherine, 88, two daughters and one grandchild.
USA TODAY reached out to Jackson’s personal assistant, Charles Coupet, and to various lawyers and publicists who have represented members of the Jackson family over the years.
Only publicist Ken Sunshine, who represents superstar daughter Janet Jackson, 52, responded, saying she declined to comment.
Meanwhile, Britain’s The Daily Mail reported that Jackson has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The paper said Jackson’s son Jermaine Jackson, 63, confirmed that his father was dying but complained that his wife and children were barred from seeing him until they pleaded with Coupet and were granted access Tuesday night.
“He’s very, very frail, he doesn’t have long,” Jermaine told the Mail. “The family needs to be by his bedside — that’s our only intention in his final days…We shouldn’t have to beg, plead, and argue to see our own father, especially at a time like this. We have been hurting…My mother was worried sick.”
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