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Michael Jackson, undisputed ruler of the pop and R&B music charts throughout the 1980s, led a private life just as fascinating as his music and dance moves. The lead singer of the family group the Jackson 5, Jackson was in his early 20s when Thriller catapulted him into the ranks of the rich and famous. Unfortunately, he has never matched the success of Thriller, and in the 1990s his career suffered serious reversals, the most damaging being the accusations of child abuse leveled against the singer in 1993.

Jackson was born in the steel-manufacturing center of Gary, Indiana, outside of Chicago. The family had a small four-room house consisting of a living room, kitchen and two bedrooms. Parents Katherine and Joseph shared one bedroom, the five brothers shared the second bedroom, and the two oldest girls slept on a hideaway bed in the living room. Joseph, very demanding and rumored by his children to be an abusive man, aimed to turn h...

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