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The Jackson name is
in the news once again, and again it’s 39-year-old
Janet Jackson. It is rumored that her and her former hush-hush
husband James DeBarge has a secret daughter. The 18-year-old
daughter is named Renee.
This latest scandal was un-covered on New York City’s
WQHT-FM (“Hot 97”) last Friday by Young DeBarge-
the brother of James DeBarge. It took her a week for her
to even deny or confirm this rumor which leaves me skeptical-
but the pop star is never in a rush to confirm or deny a
story, it took her years to acknowledge that she was actually
married to DeBarge; it wasn’t until choreographer
Rene Elizondo filed for divorce that it was revealed.
It is said that Janet Jackson and James DeBarge, of the
family band DeBarge, wed in 1984 when she was 18 and he
was 21. The marriage was said to have ended in annulment
in 1985.
E! TV reports that. Brian Oxman, an attorney for the Jackson
family, said the version he heard had Jackson’s record
label urging the then- emerging star to keep the kid out
of the picture. Since Oxman was in a position to ask if
it was true, he said he did. “The answer was no way,
no how,” he said Monday. “From the sisters to
the mother, every last one of them never said it happened.”
E! TV did the math, a Jackson-Debarge baby who was 18 in
October 2005, would have to been born in 1987, or late 1986.
Either way, the timeline means the child would have been
born after the couple’s reported break up, and during
Jackson’s emergence as a superstar with her solo breakthrough
“Control”.
The teenage daughter is said to be living with Janet’s
sister, Rebbie Jackson, 56. Rebbie is the mother of three
children with he husband Nathaniel Brown.
In a brief statement to NBC’s Access Hollywood Janet
Jackson said in response to these allegations; “I
do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.”
The question is why are all these accusations are coming
out right now, is it because Young DeBarge has just released
a new album that he is currently promoting and wants to
boost sales?
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