Sentenced to 2 yrs. probation for beating his ex-wife Eliza and their
14 month old daughter, Billie Bodega, in Nov. 1991.
His father, Joe Jackson, is of African and distant Native American Ancestry. His grandfather, Israel Nero Jackson, was the son of Jack July Jackson (1803-1908), an indigenous Choctaw of the Plantation of Gale.
His second wife Alejandra was later married to his brother, Jermaine Jackson.