Joe Jackson

The father of pop singers Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and their other famous siblings, this talent manager formed a company called Joe Jackson Productions and guided his children's music careers. After growing up in Arkansas and Indiana, he began his adult life as a crane operator at the Inland Steel Company. His youngest child, Joh'Vonnie Jackson, was the result of a nearly three-decade-long extramarital affair with Cheryl Terrell. He married Katherine Scruse in 1949. The union resu