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Celeb News: La Toya speaks on the Jackson drama
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Originally posted by ryanpittman97
but we had our reasons back in the day but ever since we found out the truth we arent as hard on her.  |
and how do you know the truth?
shut up. y'all always preaching against media manipulation but you still are as manipulable as those you accused. really, MJ must be ashamed of his fans and his attention-whoring kids.
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Originally posted by ryanpittman97
yas sis stan for king marlon
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Yes, LaToya spill the true tea
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Originally posted by Smooth Criminal
and how do you know the truth?
shut up. y'all always preaching against media manipulation but you still are as manipulable as those you accused. really, MJ must be ashamed of his fans and his attention-whoring kids.
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what are you talking about i was defending her, but honestly when your favs sister goes out and calles her brother a pedo, we've got every right to be mad and hate her for years, and how we manipulative please tell me how? and mj loved his kids and fans but you tried 
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Originally posted by Martin Margiela
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problem sis?
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Originally posted by ryanpittman97
problem sis?
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Bitch, I am screaming. 
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And they called her the crazy one...
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Originally posted by Martin Margiela
Bitch, I am screaming. |
i'll send captain marlon to your rescue sis
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I came in here suspecting that she was back up to her old tricks and that she had interviews booked on Good Morning America, The View, 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Ellen, all other TV shows, but I'm glad to see La Toya has learned that it is best to deal with it privately.
Much respect for La Toya despite the past. 
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Originally posted by Smooth Criminal
'La Toya the only sane member...'
Those MJ fans are fool - they always loved to scorn her back in the day. Now she's the nice one.
It's also funny how they jump up to speak bad of everyone but used to defend him in every situation. If he dangles his baby out of a window in front of a camera, ok. If his family is in a mess and no one knows a detail, they're evil.
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Originally posted by Smooth Criminal
and how do you know the truth?
shut up. y'all always preaching against media manipulation but you still are as manipulable as those you accused. really, MJ must be ashamed of his fans and his attention-whoring kids.
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STAWP!!!
If you're an actual fan of MJ, you should atleast know why LaToya did and said those **** back then...
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In 1987, Jack Gordon was hired to co-manage La Toya by her father, Joseph. He later took over her management completely. Under Gordon's management, Jackson's public image became increasingly sexier. Katherine Jackson recalled her shock seeing La Toya dance in a suggestive manner in 1988 for the first time in her autobiography My Family, The Jacksons, "she'd been so conservative that she'd once dropped a friend who had begun wearing low-cut tops and skirts with slits in them."  Katherine believed that Gordon was distancing La Toya from her family so he could "become the dominating influence in her life."
On September 5, 1989, after her Sizzling Spectacular concert in Nevada, Gordon forcibly married Jackson, claiming it was for her own protection against kidnapping by her family. La Toya Jackson states that this was both unplanned and against her wishes. According to Jackson; "I told him, 'No way, Jack! 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 don't have feelings for you.'"[16] Jackson tried to run out of the chapel three times but bodyguard Antonio Rossi grabbed her saying, "There's some things you have to do. Even if you don't want to."[22][23] Jackson told Ebony magazine the marriage was "strictly in name only. It has never been consummated." Six months into the marriage, Jackson asked Gordon for an annulment when in Rome, Italy. In response, Gordon repeatedly bashed her head against the corner of the hotel room table saying that he would never let her go. Paparazzi subsequently photographed Jackson with black eyes, which Gordon claimed was caused by an intruder.[ From this point forward, Jackson lost all contact with her family and wrote an autobiography, La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family, which accused her father of physical abuse.[26]
For roughly the next decade Gordon controlled Jackson with threats, lies, and routine violence. According to Jackson, "When he hit me, the first time I was in shock, I just recalled my ear ringing, just ringing so hard."[20] Gordon confiscated Jackson's passport, transferred her bank accounts into his name, hired bodyguards to watch La Toya constantly and banned her from speaking to or seeing her family, monitoring her every phone call.[20] La Toya's father Joseph stated in his book The Jacksons that he believed Gordon brainwashed La Toya and made her fearful of her own family.[5] Katherine also believed that La Toya had been brainwashed while Gordon claimed that Katherine had tried to kill her daughter. Sister Janet concurred with her parents saying at the time, "I think this guy who is with her has brainwashed her and made her like this... He keeps her away from the family, and now he's brainwashed her so much she keeps herself away from us."
In October 1992 while taping an Exotic Club Tour in Minneapolis Jackson approached sister Janet Jackson, also in town recording her fifth studio album with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, to ask for help in escaping Gordon. Janet struck La Toya, accusing her elder sister of recording their conversation. In 1993 in their New York home, Gordon beat Jackson repeatedly with a heavy brass dining room chair, leaving Jackson with black eyes, swollen lip and chin "the size of a clenched fist," cuts requiring 12 mouth stitches and contusions on her face, arms, legs and back. Jackson lost consciousness during the beating, leading Gordon to believe she was dead. She recalled, "He called his friends and said, 'She's dead. I killed her,' because I was lying in a puddle of blood and I was out."Gordon was arrested but then released, claiming he beat Jackson in self defense. In December 1993 Gordon hastily arranged a press conference in Tel Aviv, where he had Jackson read a statement claiming to believe the sensational sex abuse allegation against her younger brother Michael might be true. This was an abrupt reversal of her previous defense of Michael against the charges. Gordon claimed La Toya had proof which she was prepared to disclose for a fee of $500,000. A bidding war between US and UK tabloids began, but fell through when they realized that her revelations were not what she had claimed them to be.[39] According to La Toya, Gordon threatened to have siblings Michael and Janet killed if she didn't follow his orders.
Under Gordon's management, Jackson's career declined with his booking of disreputable jobs such as spokesperson for the Psychic Friends Network. Because of Gordon's steady stream of publicity stunts and her media portrayal as the Jackson family "black sheep" La Toya had become a hate figure of sorts.[41] By the mid-1990s Jackson's finances were in disarray and she was forced to file for bankruptcy in order to stave off claims of $650,000 in damages to the Moulin Rouge for ending her contract early.[42]
When Jackson became aware that Gordon was planning to feature her in a ****ographic film she decided she'd had enough. Jackson phoned brother Randy who flew to New York to help her escape while Gordon was out. Only days later, La Toya filed for divorce from Las Vegas and sued Gordon in civil court for years of abuse under the Violence Against Women Act.
La Toya Jackson ended her estrangement with the entire Jackson family and returned home to Hayvenhurst. Jackson forgave her parents for her stifled upbringing reasoning, "I've come to realize that as we get older, we grow and learn a lot more. And I think that my father and my mother, they raised children the best way they know how." According to La Toya, Michael knew that she was forced to attack him in the press against her will and he did not blame her. "He never held any of that against me, I remember when I'd got away from this total hell I'd been through where I'd been beaten, abused, controlled and forced to say those terrible things about Michael, which I didn't for a moment believe, he held out his arms and just hugged me. I was crying saying: 'I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.' He just held me tight and said: 'I am your brother, I always knew it wasn't you saying those words." 
After separating from Gordon, Jackson cloistered herself in her home and lived alone for the first time—the first six months she stated she never actually left her house due to being terrified of Gordon seeing her. Weary after her years of public scorn, she didn't know what to do with her life and was afraid to perform again.
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Source: La Toya's wiki page
Whatta life...
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Who would have thought she would be the voice of reason? 
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only on ATRL would i see someone say La Toya is the only sane memeber of the family.  delusion at best.
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Another Fireman morality thread. 
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
And they say LaToya is the crazy one. She's the one who called out all the drama years ago and is now staying away from it as it hits the fan.  |
She's made many mistakes in her life, but she's always had a sharp and fun personality. Besides, it was her husband who was abusing and manipulating her in the '90s; she says she didn't want to attack her family the way she did.
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The only Jackson that matters
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Originally posted by brIt-()nstar
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STAWP!!!
If you're an actual fan of MJ, you should atleast know why LaToya did and said those **** back then...
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Do you even know how to read? I'm not even attacking latoya. i'm attacking MJ fans. Please stop being such a joke.
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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I think it s the first time she says something clever !
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I hope the rest of the family is paying attention. When LaToya is being the calm, logical one, you know you're deep in loony d-bag territory.
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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But as MJ said: La Toya is a very nice girl ( except when she was forced to invent stupid things about his brother MJ)
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