Joe Jackson was excluded from Michael's will: "It's a decision that his son has made"

Thanks to his relentless determination and ruthless impulse, Joe Jackson has modeled, trained and cajoled his brood in one of the biggest dynasties of the history show business. This is undeniable, but here the story of Patriarch Jackson, who died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 89, is starting to become blurred. His all-in-one role as a coach, preceptor, sergeant instructor and director undoubtedly left little time for gentleness. He famously made his children refer to him as "Joseph" or "Joe" rather than dad, and his penchant for corporal punishment threw him into the popular conscience as a strict disciplinarian or child abuser. .

He was the last in the eyes of his youngest son, Michael Joseph Jackson. King of Pop's relationship with Joe was marked by traumas of a difficult education in the city of Gary, Indiana. In many interviews before his death in 2009, Michael described troubling incidents in childhood, often through tears. In her version of their story, beatings were commonplace – punishments for minor offenses or poor performance – and her mother Katherine was powerless to intervene. "She was always the person in the background when he lost his temper – hit us and beat us," recalls Michael in a series of recorded interviews with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. "I hear now:" Joe, no, you will kill them. No! No, Joe, that is too much, and he would break furniture and it was terrible.

Joe Jackson and his son Michael Jackson.

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Joe himself remained impbadive, and even challenging to become physical with his children, telling Oprah Winfrey in 2010 that he did not regret using a strap as a typing method. "I'm glad to have been tough because look what I came out of," Jackson told Piers Morgan three years later. "I went out with kids that everyone loved all over the world, and they treated everyone properly."

During his childhood stay in the Jackson 5 alongside his brothers, Michael recalls spending long hours in the studio, within earshot of other children playing in the park. But he was paralyzed by his father's words: If you ever stop singing, I'll let you go like a hot potato. "You do not say something like that to children and I never forgot it. It affects my relationship with him today, "he told Boteach.

Michael often described being physically sick with nerves when Joe arrived, and quoted his father's teasing about his acne and his face ("God, your nose is big – you did not understand it" me", He recalls, saying in the 2003 documentary Living with Michael Jackson) as instilling a deep sense of physical insecurity. Yet, as he told Oprah Winfrey in 1993, "I love him".

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But their complicated relationship continued to play even after Michael's death. When his will, signed in July 2002, became public seven years later, it was discovered that Joe had indeed been stricken from his fortune. His father was not among the names on the "Petition for Probate" list, which describes all the beneficiaries and trustees named in the will and the Michael Jackson Family Trust. These included trusts for his children – Paris, Prince Michael, and Prince Michael Joseph Jackson II (known at the time as "Blanket"), and his mother, Katherine, who was appointed guardian of his children. Still, Joe does not seem indexed. In fact, rather than naming him as a backup guardian for his kids, Michael lists rather Donna Ross, a Motown legend.

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There were some in the Jackson family who claimed that the 2002 will was somehow fraudulent, presumably because Michael was apparently in New York the day the will was signed and dated, but according to Forbes, even though the documents were in somehow falsified (what they are not), the court would return to the three previous versions of the will – none of which mention Joe. His attempt to challenge the will in the wake of Michael's death ended in failure. "Joe Jackson does not take any of these badets," Judge Mitchell Beckloff said in 2009. "It's a decision that his son has made."