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March 23, 2008

The Jacksons are broke: 'one brother stocking groceries, another repairing cars and others living at home with mom while hoping for sister Janet's next handout'

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New York Post:

Marlon Jackson, 51, an original Jackson Five member who stocks shelves at a Vons supermarket in San Diego, had to temporarily move into an extended-stay hotel.

Randy, 46, does odd jobs, including fixing cars in a Los Angeles garage owned by a family friend. He recently claimed Michael was going to give him $1.7 million – “a pipe dream,” said another brother last week.

Jackie, 56, the oldest and most debonair of the brothers, is struggling to manage his son Siggy’s aspiring rap career after an Internet clothing business startup and attempts to produce music failed.

Jermaine, 54, shuttles back and forth from his girlfriend’s home in Ventura County, Calif., to his parents’ mansion in Encino, where Jackie and Randy still bunk.

Tito, 55, is the only brother still making music, but it’s a meager living. The guitarist fronts a blues and jazz band that plays small venues and nets him $500 and $1,500 per occasional gig – a far cry from the days when the Jacksons could pull in 50,000 people at $30 a ticket.

Family patriarch Joseph Jackson, 79, spends most of his waking hours conjuring up schemes he hopes will replenish a bank account that once had more money than the FDIC cared to insure. Peddling musical girl groups in Las Vegas and a book about his family in Germany, Joseph, despite evidence to the contrary, is not convinced that time and the music industry have passed him by.

“We can get back out there and set the world on fire,” he told The Post last week. “If the Rolling Stones can still rake in the money, so, too, can my boys.”

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#1 Tito get me a tissue. says:

oh no. oh bummer.
Shouldnt have blown all my money on coke and little boys.

#2 boo hoo says:

who cares? seriously.

#3 demetrius says:

It could be worse. They could be Dion O'Roark.

#4 Mike says:

Dont believe everything you read.

#5 mizzak says:

Joe Jackson this is an indictment of your incompetence. How could you, with the knowledge of previous broke entertainers, allow all of the money that was made not go for the future of your boys. This story is pathetic and I argued with my co-woker and told him he was crazy. Your boys are to be pitied, only because you equipped them with nothing but the worthless entertainment skills that is outdated. Didn't you know they were a "Boy Group" and they are appealing when they are young and good looking to the young girls. The "Stones' are a rock and Roll group that can draw a crowd until they are seventy.This saddens me to have read this story and I hope you guys can right the ship and become successful at life.

#6 clarence says:

get back out there

#7 carmen says:

A lot of people wonder it this is true. I believe that it is because they haven't worked in decades and they're all divorced and had to pay settlements and child support. Truly, their father should've put them in school and not forced them to fulfill his own dream.

#8 Michelle says:

Everybody goes through hard time no matter what you go through know god has a plan for you the jackson are going do in history as one a the baddest damn music groups of all time if they made it throug the steal mill days when joe kept getting laid off you can definetly make it through this i still love the jackson and they were before my time i'm only 21

#9 meme says:

the rest of the brothers should have did what Michael did and went on a solo career who knows what they could have done. And joe needs to shut up cause he wouldnt be anything without all 5 of his sons not just michael jackson. thats what bugs me people act like michael was the only one in group, what michael sings lead and the rest are just backup dancer thats why they were called the JACKSON 5. Joe jackson makes me sick. Michael makes millions all his life and the rest bag groceries they all gave you guys great music and this is the thanks they get. Oh and not to mention you treat Michael like dirt. He puts out a great song and the next day yaw writing something thats not true.FYI Michael had lupus so he did not bleach him self idiots.....Now you guys want to put a the video of the pepsi commercial Michael is at peace now leave him alone if you didnt put the video out then dont put it out now you know michael wouldnt want it out..and carry out his WILL like he wants it if michael didnt want his father to have anything to do with the kids then dont let him....{{LEAVE THE JACKSON ALONE IF YOU WANT TO TALK DIRT ABOUT SOMEONE TALK ABOUT JOE}}

#10 mary says:

Michael paid for all of their bills and child support for Jermaine. Spare us.


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