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Michael grew up with three sisters (Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet) and five brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy). A sixth brother, Marlon's twin Brandon, died shortly after birth. Jackson had a troubled relationship with his father, Joe. In 2003, Joe acknowledged that he regularly whipped him as a boy.
In the 1970s, as the youngest member of the Jackson 5, Michael was the cherub-faced wunderkind no audience could resist. But even before he began to alter his features, Jackson was wearing a mask, concealing a feeling of unbearable pressure to succeed, brother Jackie Jackson said in a 1993 interview. I used to go to Michael's room and I see on his wall he's writing, 'I will sell 20 million records' on his mirror, Jackie Jackson said. Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and the author of On Michael Jackson, said, I think he longed for some kind of peace of mind. ...