Joe Jackson, Father of the Late Michael Jackson, Dies at 89: Report
Source: People Magazine
KAREN MIZOGUCHI
June 27, 2018 11:49 AM
Joe Jackson, the music manager and father of 11, has died, TMZ reports. He was 89.
The Jackson family patriarch had been battling terminal pancreatic cancer and was “not doing well” as of late, a source previously told PEOPLE.
On June 21, son Jermaine told the Daily Mail, “He’s very, very frail, he doesn’t have long. The family needs to be by his bedside — that’s our only intention in his final days.”
Just days later, Jackson appeared to share an emotional tweet hinting at his worsening health struggles. “I have seen more sunsets than I have left to see,” read the caption on a photo of Jackson, in his trademark hat, silhouetted against sun rays. “The sun rises when the time comes and whether you like it or not the sun sets when the time comes
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That's a DAMN shame. 
This man was his abuser.
Beat him with a belt as a young child. 
He had no childhood as he was busy working all of the time.
Odd as MJ himself died on June 25, 2009, almost 9 years to the day.
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Lots of sickness in the house at that time. And then the word was the MJ had died of a heart attack at the age of 50.
It was not but a few days later that we lost Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, our great senator from Massachusetts.
It still bothers me. A lot.
