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LoginMICHAEL JACKSON'S MUM AND DAD SPLIT AFTER 60 YEARS
ABOVE: Katherine is fed up with Joe's behaviour over Michael Jackson's death 19th August 2010 By Steve HughesMICHAEL Jackson’s parents are splitting up after more than 60 years of marriage.
It was said mum Katherine has “finally had enough” of dad Joe’s behaviour.
Katherine, 80, has filed for divorce after cruel Joe, who abused Jacko as a child, blamed his wife for the death of their son in an interview.
Speaking about the months leading up to the Michael Jackson's death, outspoken Joe, 81, said of his wife: “I begged her to go over and stay with him, but she insisted he needed his privacy.”
The betrayal is said to be the last straw for Katherine, who won sole custody of Jackson’s children Prince Michael, 13, Paris, 12, and “Blanket”, eight, following the singer’s shock death last June at the age of 50.
A long time family friend said: “After 60 years, she’s had enough. She’s been humiliated by him for too long.”
Speaking about Joe’s latest interview, the friend added: “She’s absolutely livid. This time there’s no going back.”
Katherine has been living with family in Encino, California while Joe has been staying in a flat in Las Vegas and spending nights out at seedy joints on the infamous Strip. Until now Katherine has refused to consider divorce because “as a Jehovah’s Witness, she believes that a marriage is for ever,” said the insider.
But the years of humiliation, which reportedly included Joe fathering a lovechild, have taken their toll on Katherine.
In the 1960s Joe managed The Jackson 5, the band made up of his five sons Jackie, 59, Tito, 56, Jermaine, 55, Marlon, 53, and Michael.
In the 1980s it emerged he hit his sons if rehearsals went badly.
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