Michael Jackson’s monster dad Joe would make star stand barefoot on hot oven hobs as a boy to improve his dancing, producer claims
JOE Jackson made his son Michael dance barefoot on a hot stove to make him move faster while performing, a former colleague has claimed.
The troubled superstar, who died in 2009, thrilled fans with his incredible dancing and elaborate choreography in his groundbreaking music videos.
But according to producer Rudi Dolezal, who worked with Michael Jackson for years, the star’s monster father Joseph boasted proudly of how he abused his son as a child.
The music video maker told : “He put the 4-year-old on a hot stovetop barefoot.
“The way he told it, he was not regretting it. I felt really sorry for Michael.”
Dolezal, who first met Jacko when he filmed the Dangerous tour in Munich in 1992, said the controversial singer became obsessed with his plastic surgery because he didn’t want to look like his dad.
He added: “He hated his father.”
Despite his relationship with Jackson, who died in 2009, Dolezal praised explosive documentary Leaving Neverland which claims the legendary entertainer was a serial paedophile.
Speaking of the film, he said: “I believe almost every word. It’s brilliant work.”
Calling Jacko a “predator”, the filmmaker said: “If the Michael Jackson legend is destroyed by this, the person responsible is Michael Jackson — no one else.”
Michael Jackson strongly denied all allegations of sexual abuse made against him.
His estate has called Leaving Neverland “one-sided.”
Dolezal discussed Jackson’s excessive plastic surgery which drastically altered his appearance over the years.
He claims that filming was continually stalled because of the Billy Jean songwriter’s nose – which had collapsed because so much cartilage had been removed.
When he asked Jackson’s handlers why he couldn’t film at certain times, he was told: “On those days, he doesn’t have a nose.”
Dolezal adds: “He needed a plastic nose that took hours to put on with putty and makeup.”
Michael and his brothers and sisters spoke openly about the abuse they suffered at the hands of their ruthless father.
In the early 90s his sister LaToya revealed that Joseph, the manager of The Jackson Five, continued to batter his sons when they were adults.
Speaking on TV show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, she said: “My brothers were grown and my father would take his fists and punch them and knock them down the steps constantly.”
She then claimed that Michael was still being “beat” by Joseph during the success of his iconic records Off The Wall and 1982's Thriller – the latter of which is the biggest selling album of all time.
LaToya said: “Michael was doing…Off The Wall, Thriller and he was still getting beat.
“But what you guys see is him up on the awards, accepting these awards, and smiling – but my father is chasing him around the house and he’s running from him terrified.”
The singer said Joe Jackson, who died last year aged 89, would use “belts, whips, whatever” to assault his own children.
Joseph, who had 11 children including ten with wife Katherine, claimed in 2003 that he only “whipped” Michael with a belt.
He told the BBC: “I never beat him, before adding “you beat someone with a stick.”
The former crane operator, who was a failed blues singer, demanded that his children call him “Joseph” rather than “dad”.
In his memoir, Michael’s brother Jermaine Jackson said: “None of us can remember him holding us or cuddling us or telling us, ‘I love you.’”
During his infamous 2003 interview with Martin Bashir, Michael recalled being attacked by his dad, saying: "Oh my God it was bad. it was really bad.
“He’d throw you up against a wall as hard as he could.
“I remember hearing my mother scream, ‘Joe, you’re gonna kill him, you’re gonna kill him, stop it.”
SEXUAL ABUSE CLAIMS
In the same interview, LaToya claimed her father sexually abused her "very badly" from the age of 11.
She said: “There wasn’t just physical abuse there was also mental abuse which is very disturbing and also sexual abuse.”
LaToya said the alleged rapes carried out by Joe forced her sister Rebbie to leave home when she was 16-years-old.
Asked if her father Joseph sexually abused her, LaToya said: “Yes he did, very badly.”
In her 1991 memoir, the singer, now aged 62, claimed her mother Katherine knew her father sexually abused her and her sibling.
She wrote: “When your father gets out of bed with your mother and gets into bed with his daughter and you hear the mother saying, ‘No, Joe, not tonight.
“Let her rest. Leave her alone, she’s tired,’ that makes you crazy."
Speaking of her own experience, she said: “It began with me when Rebbie left.
“You live with this as if you’re doing something wrong and you’re frightened. And you’re embarrassed. I’ve been embarrassed all my life to ever talk about it, to mention it."
Who are Joe's children?
Joe and Katherine had ten children together, seven sons and three daughters.
- Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Jackson (born May 29, 1950)
- Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson (born May 4, 1951)
- Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson (born October 15, 1953)
- Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954)
- La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956)
- Marlon David Jackson (born March 12, 1957)
- Brandon Jackson (March 12, 1957 – March 13, 1957)
- Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
- Steven Randall "Randy" Jackson (born October 29, 1961)
- Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966)
Joe also has a daughter, Joh'Vonnie Jackson, who was born on August 30, 1974, during Jackson's 25-year-long affair with Cheryl Terrell.
She agreed that the Jackson family have been “living a lie.”
In 1993, LaToya claimed her mother Katherine suspected her son Michael of child abuse YEARS before the first allegations were made against him.
She spoke to NBC News following the claims made by the family of her brother's first public accuser Jordan Chandler.
LaToya claimed Katherine was “outraged” when she found evidence of payments in 1984 made to the families of kids who had allegedly slept with Michael
She said: “There were two cheques that I know of that she has shown me and it’s for a substantial amount of money and she was outraged over it.”
The singer later added: “My mother is very much aware of the children that were there. All the boys that stayed there.
“She’s the one who always said that Michael, excuse my expression ‘that f****t.’
“She would say ‘I can’t stand him. That damn f****t. I can’t stand him.’
Jordan, a former child companion of Michael, was paid a reported $23million by the singer to drop the sexual abuse allegations against him.
Two of Michael’s other accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck have spoken of their experiences with the Thriller singer in Leaving Neverland.
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In the early 90s, the Jackson family claimed that LaToya's husband Jack Gordon had forced her to make the allegations against her brother and father for financial gain.
LaToya eventually reconciled with her family and withdrew the allegations.
Michael Jackson strongly denied all allegations of sexual abuse made against him.
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