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How Prince Michael Jackson
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It’s been seven years since Michael Jackson passed away, but his eldest son, Prince, is keeping his memory alive. On Monday, Prince Michael Jackson sat down with “Extra’s” Mario Lopez for a rare one-on-one interview at Universal Studios Hollywood, where he opened up about life with the pop star and how he is carrying on his legacy.
Prince, a student at Loyola Marymount University, told Mario he is part of a student organization at school called Heal Los Angeles, based on his dad’s Heal the World Foundation. “It’s a student service organization at Loyola Marymount University. My friend John Muto wanted to start a service organization in which we honor my father. That’s why we took it from Heal the World and we call it Heal L.A., so we can start locally and hopefully spread it around.” The group focuses on “Homeless in Los Angeles, child abuse, and child hunger.”
The 19-year-old is enjoying his time as a college student. “I love it. I take very interesting classes, I take very challenging classes; there’re pros and cons to both. I think I’m learning a lot.” He actually met his girlfriend on the first day of convocation at school.
Prince is not only going to school and lending his time to charity work, he also recently started a production company, King’s Son Productions. He shared, “It’s a little homage to my dad. We try to focus on bringing back the long form of storytelling in music videos.”
As for his favorite songs by his legendary dad, Prince said, “I have memories associated with songs.” He revealed his top three, saying, “'Billie Jean,' ‘Thriller,' and 'You Are Not Alone.’” Though he grew up with one of the biggest pop stars of all time, Prince reiterated that Michael was just "Dad."
“To me, it wasn’t different," Prince says. "He was my dad and he was just like everybody else’s dad.”
Prince is also working on something big for the Christmas season with Heal Los Angeles, explaining that folks can go to their Twitter page and access their GoFundMe account to donate funds to Heal Los Angeles' Boys & Girls Club event.
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Nel giorno del Ringraziamento, Prince nella sua pagina Instagram ha postato un breve messaggio dedicato a suo padre..
“A mio padre: nessuno potrà mai conoscere i valori e le lezioni che mi hai insegnato in vita."
"Il valore dell'amore, la comunità, l'umiltà, l'un l'altro; sia come esseri umani che come fratelli.
Ci hai insegnato come stare insieme e a fare affidamento l'uno con l'altro.
E anche se non sei qui con noi, questi insegnamenti vivono attraverso di noi e attraverso i nostri bambini. Ci sono molte parole per descrivere l'uomo che sei, ma l'unica che ti rende giustizia è grazie. Grazie per l'uomo che sei e per l'uomo che mi hai fatto diventare"
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Natale 2016 - Prince Jackson rende omaggio al padre dando continuità al suo impegno benefico
Il figlio maggiore di Michael Jackson, Prince, per questo Natale si è proposto di rendere il mondo un posto migliore al fine di onorare la memoria del suo defunto padre. Questo giovedì, il giovane ha voluto essere parte di un evento a Los Angeles dell'organizzazione 'Boys & Girls Club' - che aiuta i bambini a rischio di esclusione economica e sociale – contribuendo a dare visibilità al progetto e a sorprenderli con una visita di Babbo Natale, Topolino, Paperino e Pippo.
"Credo che sarebbe stato molto felice. Quando ero piccolo, ricordo che sempre mi raccontava di quanto fosse bello l'universo Disney e sono cresciuto guardando quei disegni. Ricordo anche quanto mi piaceva vedere Topolino e so che è stato grazie a mio padre. Così ora è bello pensare che posso fare lo stesso per gli altri bambini ", ha detto Prince, il cui vero nome è Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., in un'intervista a 'Entertainment Tonight'.
L'ispirazione per il 19enne coinvolto in molte iniziative benefiche non è opera solo dell'esempio del Re del Pop, ma di tutta la famiglia Jackson - inclusi sua sorella e suo fratello - con i quali non ha mai smesso di coltivare uno stretto legame.
"La verità è che do grande importanza alla famiglia, sono molto leale e devoto con la mia. Mi ispirano profondamente e spero di esserlo altrettanto per loro" ha detto.
Prince si è proposto di ricreare 'Heal The World Foundation' ma con degli studenti al fine di inculcare ad altri giovani l'importanza di prendere l'iniziativa a livello locale per affrontare i problemi sociali.
"La nostra generazione è focalizzata su questioni sbagliate, come quello che indossa tale persona o chi sta facendo cosa. Ma ci sono problemi e situazioni reali là fuori che potrebbero migliorare con l'aiuto, non dei potenti, ma di persone normali disposti a dedicare un po' del loro tempo. Tutto ciò che ti serve è quello di essere un essere umano che vuole aiutare gli altri. "
http://caracol.com.co/radio/2016/12/16/ent...176_869340.htmlPrince Jackson rinde homenaje a su padre dando continuidad a su labor benéfica
El primogénito de Michael Jackson, Prince, se ha propuesto hacer del mundo un lugar un poco mejor estas Navidades para honrar así la memoria de su fallecido padre. Este mismo jueves, Prince quiso formar parte de un evento en Los Ángeles de la organización 'Boys & Girls Club' -que ayuda a menores en riesgo de exclusión económica y social- para darle visibilidad y ayuda a sorprender a los niños con una visita de Papá Noel, Mickey Mouse, el Pato Donald y Goofy.
"Creo que él se sentiría muy contento. Cuando era joven, recuerdo que siempre me hablaba de lo maravilloso que era el universo Disney, y crecí viendo esos dibujos. Recuerdo lo contento que me sentía viendo a Mickey Mouse y sé que eso gracias a mi padre. Así que ahora es bonito pensar que yo puedo hacer eso mismo por otros niños", explicó Prince, cuyo verdadero nombre es Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., en una entrevista a 'Entertainment Tonight'.
La inspiración del joven de 19 años a la hora de involucrarse en tantas iniciativas solidarias como le resulta posible no solo ha sido el ejemplo del rey del pop, sino el de toda la familia Jackson -incluida su hermana Paris y su hermano Prince 'BG'-, con la que no ha dejado de cultivar su estrecho vínculo.
"La verdad es que yo le otorgo una gran importancia a la familia, soy muy leal y devoto de los míos. Me inspiran profundamente, y espero que yo también les inspire a ellos", aseguró.
Prince se ha propuesto ahora recrear la fundación Heal The World que creó Michael pero con estudiantes para inculcar a otros jóvenes la importancia de tomar la iniciativa a nivel local para abordar problemas sociales.
"Nuestra generación centra su atención en los temas equivocados, como qué lleva puesto tal persona o quién está haciendo qué. Pero hay problemas y situaciones reales ahí fuera que podrían mejorar con la ayuda no de los poderosos sino de personas normales y corrientes que estuvieran dispuestas a invertir su tiempo. Lo único que necesitas es ser un ser humano decente que quiere ayudar al prójimo".. -
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Natale 2016 - Prince Jackson rende omaggio al padre dando continuità al suo impegno benefico
SPOILER (clicca per visualizzare)Il figlio maggiore di Michael Jackson, Prince, per questo Natale si è proposto di rendere il mondo un posto migliore al fine di onorare la memoria del suo defunto padre. Questo giovedì, il giovane ha voluto essere parte di un evento a Los Angeles dell'organizzazione 'Boys & Girls Club' - che aiuta i bambini a rischio di esclusione economica e sociale – contribuendo a dare visibilità al progetto e a sorprenderli con una visita di Babbo Natale, Topolino, Paperino e Pippo.
"Credo che sarebbe stato molto felice. Quando ero piccolo, ricordo che sempre mi raccontava di quanto fosse bello l'universo Disney e sono cresciuto guardando quei disegni. Ricordo anche quanto mi piaceva vedere Topolino e so che è stato grazie a mio padre. Così ora è bello pensare che posso fare lo stesso per gli altri bambini ", ha detto Prince, il cui vero nome è Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., in un'intervista a 'Entertainment Tonight'.
L'ispirazione per il 19enne coinvolto in molte iniziative benefiche non è opera solo dell'esempio del Re del Pop, ma di tutta la famiglia Jackson - inclusi sua sorella e suo fratello - con i quali non ha mai smesso di coltivare uno stretto legame.
"La verità è che do grande importanza alla famiglia, sono molto leale e devoto con la mia. Mi ispirano profondamente e spero di esserlo altrettanto per loro" ha detto.
Prince si è proposto di ricreare 'Heal The World Foundation' ma con degli studenti al fine di inculcare ad altri giovani l'importanza di prendere l'iniziativa a livello locale per affrontare i problemi sociali.
"La nostra generazione è focalizzata su questioni sbagliate, come quello che indossa tale persona o chi sta facendo cosa. Ma ci sono problemi e situazioni reali là fuori che potrebbero migliorare con l'aiuto, non dei potenti, ma di persone normali disposti a dedicare un po' del loro tempo. Tutto ciò che ti serve è quello di essere un essere umano che vuole aiutare gli altri. "
http://caracol.com.co/radio/2016/12/16/ent...176_869340.htmlPrince Jackson rinde homenaje a su padre dando continuidad a su labor benéfica
El primogénito de Michael Jackson, Prince, se ha propuesto hacer del mundo un lugar un poco mejor estas Navidades para honrar así la memoria de su fallecido padre. Este mismo jueves, Prince quiso formar parte de un evento en Los Ángeles de la organización 'Boys & Girls Club' -que ayuda a menores en riesgo de exclusión económica y social- para darle visibilidad y ayuda a sorprender a los niños con una visita de Papá Noel, Mickey Mouse, el Pato Donald y Goofy.
"Creo que él se sentiría muy contento. Cuando era joven, recuerdo que siempre me hablaba de lo maravilloso que era el universo Disney, y crecí viendo esos dibujos. Recuerdo lo contento que me sentía viendo a Mickey Mouse y sé que eso gracias a mi padre. Así que ahora es bonito pensar que yo puedo hacer eso mismo por otros niños", explicó Prince, cuyo verdadero nombre es Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., en una entrevista a 'Entertainment Tonight'.
La inspiración del joven de 19 años a la hora de involucrarse en tantas iniciativas solidarias como le resulta posible no solo ha sido el ejemplo del rey del pop, sino el de toda la familia Jackson -incluida su hermana Paris y su hermano Prince 'BG'-, con la que no ha dejado de cultivar su estrecho vínculo.
"La verdad es que yo le otorgo una gran importancia a la familia, soy muy leal y devoto de los míos. Me inspiran profundamente, y espero que yo también les inspire a ellos", aseguró.
Prince se ha propuesto ahora recrear la fundación Heal The World que creó Michael pero con estudiantes para inculcar a otros jóvenes la importancia de tomar la iniciativa a nivel local para abordar problemas sociales.
"Nuestra generación centra su atención en los temas equivocados, como qué lleva puesto tal persona o quién está haciendo qué. Pero hay problemas y situaciones reales ahí fuera que podrían mejorar con la ayuda no de los poderosos sino de personas normales y corrientes que estuvieran dispuestas a invertir su tiempo. Lo único que necesitas es ser un ser humano decente que quiere ayudar al prójimo".
[Aggiungo un altro estratto dell'ultima intervista concessa a ET Online]Prince Michael Jackson: mio padre mi ha insegnato ad essere uomo
Prince Michael Jackson è tornato a parlare di suo padre il grande artista re del pop Michael Jackson, scomparso nel 2009.
Oggi 19enne, Prince Jackson ha parlato nuovamente degli insegnamenti ricevuti da Michael, rivelando: “Mi ha insegnato cosa vuol dire essere un uomo, spero di poter essere un buon padre come lui”, oggi ovviamente ancora giovane, riversa il suo affetto verso i figli dei suoi cugini come una vera famiglia.
“Michael mi ha insegnato tutto, mi ha mostrato cosa vuol dire essere un padre e vorrei passare questi insegnamenti ai miei figli un domani o aiutare qualcuno che ha dei bambini. Tratto i figli di mio cugino come fossero figli miei, mi diverto con loro e penso che sia il modo giusto per proseguire gli insegnamenti di mio padre”.
Prince Jackson tra l’altro ha lavorato con un gruppo di volontari presso Loyala Marymount University dove sta studiando attualmente, questo suo spirito caritatevole e la voglia di aiutare gli altri gli deriva da Michael come lui stesso sostiene: “Questo è qualcosa che mio padre ha sempre fatto e ha inculcato in me e i miei fratelli”.
Poi ha proseguito ricordando come il padre Michael Jackson aveva una vera e propria missione: “Il gruppo di volontariato Heal, che deriva dalla canzone di mio padre “Heal the World”, era uno dei principali obiettivi di Michael per aiutare i bambini senza fissa dimora e ridurre la fame nel mondo”.
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Paris is in Paris !!
Video dal set fotografico , vicino alla torre Eiffel, per Chanel !
E brava..
Ma la combinano sempre come una donna del triplo della sua età..
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Video dal set fotografico , vicino alla torre Eiffel, per Chanel !
E brava..
Ma la combinano sempre come una donna del triplo della sua età..
capisco i riferimenti, un vago mix fra Marilyn Monroe e Madonna.. però..
e poi perchè ricorrere ai "riferimenti a"? non ha bisogno di questi trucchi.. è bella, naturale e credibile così com'è!. -
.Paris is in Paris !!
Video dal set fotografico , vicino alla torre Eiffel, per Chanel !
E brava..
Ma la combinano sempre come una donna del triplo della sua età..
capisco i riferimenti, un vago mix fra Marilyn Monroe e Madonna.. però..
e poi perchè ricorrere ai "riferimenti a"? non ha bisogno di questi trucchi.. è bella, naturale e credibile così com'è!
Anzi, direi che è molto meglio al naturale piuttosto che "combinata" così. -
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PARIS JACKSON: LIFE AFTER NEVERLAND
In her first-ever in-depth interview,
Michael Jackson's daughter discusses
her father's pain and finding peace
after addiction and heartache
By Brian Hiatt
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson is staring at a famous corpse. "That's Marilyn Monroe," she whispers, facing a wall covered with gruesome autopsy photos. "And that's JFK. You can't even find these online." On a Thursday afternoon in late November, Paris is making her way through the Museum of Death, a cramped maze of formaldehyde-scented horrors on Hollywood Boulevard. It's not uncommon for visitors, confronted with decapitation photos, snuff films and serial-killer memorabilia, to faint, vomit or both. But Paris, not far removed from the emo and goth phases of her earlier teens, seems to find it all somehow soothing. This is her ninth visit. "It's awesome," she had said on the way over. "They have a real electric chair and a real head!"
Paris Jackson turned 18 last April, and moment by moment, can come across as much older or much younger, having lived a life that's veered between sheltered and agonizingly exposed. She is a pure child of the 21st century, with her mashed-up hippie-punk fashion sense (today she's wearing a tie-dye button-down, jeggings and Converse high-tops) and boundary-free musical tastes (she's decorated her sneakers with lyrics by Mötley Crüe and Arctic Monkeys; is obsessed with Alice Cooper – she calls him "bae" – and the singer-songwriter Butch Walker; loves Nirvana and Justin Bieber too). But she is, even more so, her father's child. "Basically, as a person, she is who my dad is," says her older brother, Prince Michael Jackson. "The only thing that's different would be her age and her gender." Paris is similar to Michael, he adds, "in all of her strengths, and almost all of her weaknesses as well. She's very passionate. She is very emotional to the point where she can let emotion cloud her judgment."
Paris has, with impressive speed, acquired more than 50 tattoos, sneaking in the first few while underage. Nine of them are devoted to Michael Jackson, who died when she was 11 years old, sending her, Prince and their youngest brother, Blanket, spiraling out of what had been – as they perceived it – a cloistered, near-idyllic little world. "They always say, 'Time heals,'" she says. "But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before. So I can handle it." Michael still visits her in her dreams, she says: "I feel him with me all the time."
Michael, who saw himself as Peter Pan, liked to call his only daughter Tinker Bell. She has FAITH, TRUST AND PIXIE DUST inked near her clavicle. She has an image from the cover of Dangerous on her forearm, the Bad logo on her hand, and the words QUEEN OF MY HEART – in her dad's handwriting, from a letter he wrote her – on her inner left wrist. "He's brought me nothing but joy," she says. "So why not have constant reminders of joy?"
She also has tattoos honoring John Lennon, David Bowie and her dad's sometime rival Prince – plus Van Halen and, on her inner lip, the word MÖTLEY (her boyfriend has CRÜE in the same spot). On her right wrist is a rope-and-jade bracelet that Michael bought in Africa. He was wearing it when he died, and Paris' nanny retrieved it for her. "It still smells like him," Paris says.
She fixes her huge blue-green eyes on each of the museum's attractions without flinching, until she comes to a section of taxidermied pets. "I don't really like this room," she says, wrinkling her nose. "I draw the line with animals. I can't do it. This breaks my heart." She recently rescued a hyperactive pit-bull-mix puppy, Koa, who has an uneasy coexistence with Kenya, a snuggly Labrador her dad brought home a decade ago.
Paris describes herself as "desensitized" to even the most graphic reminders of human mortality. In June 2013, drowning in depression and a drug addiction, she tried to kill herself at age 15, slashing her wrist and downing 20 Motrin pills. "It was just self-hatred," she says, "low self-esteem, thinking that I couldn't do anything right, not thinking I was worthy of living anymore." She had been self-harming, cutting herself, managing to conceal it from her family. Some of her tattoos now cover the scars, as well as what she says are track marks from drug use. Before that, she had already attempted suicide "multiple times," she says, with an incongruous laugh. "It was just once that it became public." The hospital had a "three-strike rule," she recalls, and, after that last attempt, insisted she attend a residential therapy program.
Home-schooled before her father's death, Paris had agreed to attend a private school starting in seventh grade. She didn't fit in – at all – and started hanging out with the only kids who accepted her, "a lot of older people doing a lot of crazy things," she says. "I was doing a lot of things that 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds shouldn't do. I tried to grow up too fast, and I wasn't really that nice of a person." She also faced cyberbullying, and still struggles with cruel online comments. "The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great," she says. "But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff."
There was another trauma that she's never mentioned in public. When she was 14, a much older "complete stranger" sexually assaulted her, she says. "I don't wanna give too many details. But it was not a good experience at all, and it was really hard for me, and, at the time, I didn't tell anybody."
After her last suicide attempt, she spent sophomore year and half of junior year at a therapeutic school in Utah. "It was great for me," she says. "I'm a completely different person." Before, she says with a small smile, "I was crazy. I was actually crazy. I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help." Her father, she says, also struggled with depression, and she was prescribed the same antidepressants he once took, though she's no longer on any psych meds.
Now sober and happier than she's ever been, with menthol cigarettes her main remaining vice, Paris moved out of her grandma Katherine's house shortly after her 18th birthday, heading to the old Jackson family estate. She spends nearly every minute of each day with her boyfriend, Michael Snoddy, a 26-year-old drummer – he plays with the percussion ensemble Street Drum Corps – and Virginia native whose dyed mohawk, tattoos and perpetually sagging pants don't obscure boy-band looks and a puppy-dog sweetness. "I never met anyone before who made me feel the way music makes me feel," says Paris. When they met, he had an ill-considered, now-covered Confederate flag tattoo that raised understandable doubts among the Jacksons. "But the more I actually got to know him," says Prince, "he's a really cool guy."
Paris took a quick stab at community college after graduating high school – a year early – in 2015, but wasn't feeling it. She is an heir to a mammoth fortune – the Michael Jackson Family Trust is likely worth more than $1 billion, with disbursements to the kids in stages. But she wants to earn her own money, and now that she's a legal adult, to embrace her other inheritance: celebrity.
And in the end, as the charismatic, beautiful daughter of one of the most famous men who ever lived, what choice did she have? She is, for now, a model, an actress, a work in progress. She can, when she feels like it, exhibit a regal poise that's almost intimidating, while remaining chill enough to become pals with her giant-goateed tattoo artist. She has impeccable manners – you might guess that she was raised well. She so charmed producer-director Lee Daniels in a recent meeting that he's begun talking to her manager about a role for her on his Fox show, Star. She plays a few instruments, writes and sings songs (she performs a couple for me on acoustic guitar, and they show promise, though they're more Laura Marling than MJ), but isn't sure if she'll ever pursue a recording contract.
Modeling, in particular, comes naturally, and she finds it therapeutic. "I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time," says Paris, who understands her dad's plastic-surgery choices after watching online trolls dissect her appearance since she was 12. "Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me – and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish."
But mostly, she shares her father's heal-the-world impulses ("I'm really scared for the Great Barrier Reef," she says. "It's, like, dying. This whole planet is. Poor Earth, man"), and sees fame as a means to draw attention to favored causes. "I was born with this platform," she says. "Am I gonna waste it and hide away? Or am I going to make it bigger and use it for more important things?"
Her dad wouldn't have minded. "If you wanna be bigger than me, you can," he'd tell her. "If you don't want to be at all, you can. But I just want you to be happy."
At the moment, Paris lives in the private studio where her dad demoed "Beat It." The Tudor-style main house in the now-empty Jackson family compound in the L.A. neighborhood of Encino – purchased by Joe Jackson in 1971 with some of the Jackson 5's first Motown royalties, and rebuilt by Michael in the Eighties – is under renovation. But the studio, built by Michael in a brick building across the courtyard, happens to be roughly the size of a decent Manhattan apartment, with its own kitchen and bathroom. Paris has turned it into a vibe-y, cozy dorm room.
Traces of her father are everywhere, most unmistakably in the artwork he commissioned. Outside the studio is a framed picture, done in a Disney-like style, of a cartoon castle on a hilltop with a caricatured Michael in the foreground, a small blond boy embracing him. It's captioned "Of Children, Castles & Kings." Inside is a mural taking up an entire wall, with another cartoon Michael in the corner, holding a green book titled The Secret of Life and looking down from a window at blooming flowers – at the center of each bloom is a cartoon face of a red-cheeked little girl.
Paris' chosen decor is somewhat different. There is a picture of Kurt Cobain in the bathroom, a Smashing Pumpkins poster on the wall, a laptop with Against Me! and NeverEnding Story stickers, psychedelic paisley wall hangings, lots of fake candles. Vinyl records (Alice Cooper, the Rolling Stones) serve as wall decorations. In the kitchen, sitting casually on a counter, is a framed platinum record, inscribed to Michael by Quincy Jones ("I found it in the attic," Paris shrugs).
Above an adjacent garage is a mini-museum Michael created as a surprise gift for his family, with the walls and even ceilings covered with photos from their history. Michael used to rehearse dance moves in that room; now Paris' boyfriend has his drum kit set up there.
We head out to a nearby sushi restaurant, and Paris starts to describe life in Neverland. She spent her first seven years in her dad's 2,700-acre fantasy world, with its own amusement park, zoo and movie theater. ("Everything I never got to do as a kid," Michael called it.) During that time, she didn't know that her father's name was Michael, let alone have any grasp of his fame. "I just thought his name was Dad, Daddy," she says. "We didn't really know who he was. But he was our world. And we were his world." (Paris declared last year's Captain Fantastic, where Viggo Mortensen plays an eccentric dad who tries to create a utopian hideaway for his kids, her "favorite movie ever.")
"We couldn't just go on the rides whenever we wanted to," she recalls, walking on a dark roadside near the Encino compound. She likes to stride along the lane divider, too close to the cars – it drives her boyfriend crazy, and I don't much like it either. "We actually had a pretty normal life. Like, we had school every single day, and we had to be good. And if we were good, every other weekend or so, we could choose whether we were gonna go to the movie theater or see the animals or whatever. But if you were on bad behavior, then you wouldn't get to go do all those things."
In his 2011 memoir, Michael's brother Jermaine called him "an example of what fatherhood should be. He instilled in them the love Mother gave us, and he provided the kind of emotional fathering that our father, through no fault of his own, could not. Michael was father and mother rolled into one."
Michael gave the kids the option of going to regular school. They declined. "When you're at home," says Paris, "your dad, who you love more than anything, will occasionally come in, in the middle of class, and it's like, 'Cool, no more class for the day. We're gonna go hang out with Dad.' We were like, 'We don't need friends. We've got you and Disney Channel!'" She was, she acknowledges, "a really weird kid."
Her dad taught her how to cook, soul food, mostly. "He was a kick-ass cook," she says. "His fried chicken is the best in the world. He taught me how to make sweet potato pie." Paris is baking four pies, plus gumbo, for grandma Katherine's Thanksgiving – which actually takes place the day before the holiday, in deference to Katherine's Jehovah's Witness beliefs.
Michael schooled Paris on every conceivable genre of music. "My dad worked with Van Halen, so I got into Van Halen," she says. "He worked with Slash, so I got into Guns N' Roses. He introduced me to Tchaikovsky and Debussy, Earth, Wind and Fire, the Temptations, Tupac, Run-DMC."
She says Michael emphasized tolerance. "My dad raised me in a very open-minded house," she says. "I was eight years old, in love with this female on the cover of a magazine. Instead of yelling at me, like most homophobic parents, he was making fun of me, like, 'Oh, you got yourself a girlfriend.'
"His number-one focus for us," says Paris, "besides loving us, was education. And he wasn't like, 'Oh, yeah, mighty Columbus came to this land!' He was like, 'No. He fucking slaughtered the natives.'" Would he really phrase it that way? "He did have kind of a potty mouth. He cussed like a sailor." But he was also "very shy."
Paris and Prince are quite aware of public doubts about their parentage (the youngest brother, Blanket, with his darker skin, is the subject of less speculation). Paris' mom is Debbie Rowe, a nurse Michael met while she was working for his dermatologist, the late Arnold Klein. They had what sounds like an unconventional three-year marriage, during which, Rowe once testified, they never shared a home. Michael said that Rowe wanted to have his children "as a present" to him. (Rowe said that Paris got her name from the location of her conception.) Klein, her employer, was one of several men – including the actor Mark Lester, who played the title role in the 1968 movie Oliver! – who suggested that they could be Paris' actual biological father.
Over popcorn shrimp and a Clean Mean Salmon Roll, Paris agrees to address this issue for what she says will be the only time. She could opt for an easy, logical answer, could point out that it doesn't matter, that either way, Michael Jackson was her father. That's what her brother – who describes himself as "more objective" than Paris – seems to suggest. "Every time someone asks me that," Prince says, "I ask, 'What's the point? What difference does it make?' Specifically to someone who's not involved in my life. How does that affect your life? It doesn't change mine."
But Paris is certain that Michael Jackson was her biological dad. She believes it with a fervency that is both touching and, in the moment, utterly convincing. "He is my father," she says, making fierce eye contact. "He will always be my father. He never wasn't, and he never will not be. People that knew him really well say they see him in me, that it's almost scary.
"I consider myself black," she says, adding later that her dad "would look me in the eyes and he'd point his finger at me and he'd be like, 'You're black. Be proud of your roots.' And I'd be like, 'OK, he's my dad, why would he lie to me?' So I just believe what he told me. 'Cause, to my knowledge, he's never lied to me.
"Most people that don't know me call me white," Paris concedes. "I've got light skin and, especially since I've had my hair blond, I look like I was born in Finland or something." She points out that it's far from unheard of for mixed-race kids to look like her – accurately noting that her complexion and eye color are similar to the TV actor Wentworth Miller's, who has a black dad and a white mom.
At first, she had no relationship with Rowe. "When I was really, really young, my mom didn't exist," Paris recalls. Eventually, she realized "a man can't birth a child" – and when she was 10 or so, she asked Prince, "We gotta have a mom, right?" So she asked her dad. "And he's like, 'Yeah.' And I was like, 'What's her name?' And he's just like, 'Debbie.' And I was like, 'OK, well, I know the name.'" After her father's death, she started researching her mom online, and they got together when Paris was 13.
In the wake of her treatment in Utah, Paris decided to reach out again to Rowe. "She needed a mother figure," says Prince, who declines to comment on his own relationship, or lack thereof, with Rowe. (Paris' manager declined to make Rowe available for an interview, and Rowe did not respond to our request for comment.) "I've had a lot of mother figures," Paris counters, citing her grandmother and nannies, among others, "but by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship." Paris sees herself in Rowe, who just completed a course of chemo in a fight against breast cancer: "We're both very stubborn."
Paris isn't sure how Michael felt about Rowe, but says Rowe was "in love" with her dad. She's also sure that Michael loved Lisa Marie Presley, whom he divorced two years before Paris' birth: "In the music video 'You Are Not Alone,' I can see how he looked at her, and he was totally whipped," she says with a fond laugh.
Paris Jackson was around nine years old when she realized that much of the world didn't see her father the way she did. "My dad would cry to me at night," she says, sitting at the counter of a New York coffee shop in mid-December, cradling a tiny spoon in her hand. She starts to cry too. "Picture your parent crying to you about the world hating him for something he didn't do. And for me, he was the only thing that mattered. To see my entire world in pain, I started to hate the world because of what they were doing to him. I'm like, 'How can people be so mean?'" She pauses. "Sorry, I'm getting emotional."
Paris and Prince have no doubts that their father was innocent of the multiple child-molestation allegations against him, that the man they knew was the real Michael. Again, they are persuasive – if they could go door-to-door talking about it, they could sway the world. "Nobody but my brothers and I experienced him reading A Light in the Attic to us at night before we went to bed," says Paris. "Nobody experienced him being a father to them. And if they did, the entire perception of him would be completely and forever changed." I gently suggest that what Michael said to her on those nights was a lot to put on a nine-year-old. "He did not bullshit us," she replies. "You try to give kids the best childhood possible. But you also have to prepare them for the shitty world."
Michael's 2005 molestation trial ended in an acquittal, but it shattered his reputation and altered the course of his family's lives. He decided to leave Neverland for good. They spent the next four years traveling the world, spending long stretches of time in the Irish countryside, in Bahrain, in Las Vegas. Paris didn't mind – it was exciting, and home was where her dad was.
By 2009, Michael was preparing for an ambitious slate of comeback performances at London's O2 Arena. "He kind of hyped it up to us," recalls Paris. "He was like, 'Yeah, we're gonna live in London for a year.' We were super-excited – we already had a house out there we were gonna live in." But Paris remembers his "exhaustion" as rehearsals began. "I'd tell him, 'Let's take a nap,'" she says. "Because he looked tired. We'd be in school, meaning downstairs in the living room, and we'd see dust falling from the ceiling and hear stomping sounds because he was rehearsing upstairs."
Paris has a lingering distaste for AEG Live, the promoters behind the planned This Is It tour – her family lost a wrongful-death suit against them, with the jury accepting AEG's argument that Michael was responsible for his own death. "AEG Live does not treat their performers right," she alleges. "They drain them dry and work them to death." (A rep for AEG declined comment.) She describes seeing Justin Bieber on a recent tour and being "scared" for him. "He was tired, going through the motions. I looked at my ticket, saw AEG Live, and I thought back to how my dad was exhausted all the time but couldn't sleep."
Paris blames Dr. Conrad Murray – who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in her father's death – for the dependency on the anesthetic drug propofol that led to it. She calls him "the 'doctor,'" with satirical air quotes. But she has darker suspicions about her father's death. "He would drop hints about people being out to get him," she says. "And at some point he was like, 'They're gonna kill me one day.'" (Lisa Marie Presley told Oprah Winfrey of a similar conversation with Michael, who expressed fears that unnamed parties were targeting him to get at his half of the Sony/ATV music-publishing catalog, worth hundreds of millions.)
Paris is convinced that her dad was, somehow, murdered. "Absolutely," she says. "Because it's obvious. All arrows point to that. It sounds like a total conspiracy theory and it sounds like bullshit, but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup. It was bullshit."
But who would have wanted Michael Jackson dead? Paris pauses for several seconds, maybe considering a specific answer, but just says, "A lot of people." Paris wants revenge, or at least justice. "Of course," she says, eyes glowing. "I definitely do, but it's a chess game. And I am trying to play the chess game the right way. And that's all I can say about that right now."
Michael had his kids wear masks in public, a protective move Paris considered "stupid" but later came to understand. So it made all the more of an impression when a brave little girl spontaneously stepped to the microphone at her dad's televised memorial service, on July 7th, 2009. "Ever since I was born," she said, "Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, and I just wanted to say I love him so much."
She was 11 years old, but she knew what she was doing. "I knew afterward there was gonna be plenty of shit-talking," Paris says, "plenty of people questioning him and how he raised us. That was the first time I ever publicly defended him, and it definitely won't be the last." For Prince, his younger sister showed in that moment that she had "more strength than any of us."
The day after her trip to the Museum of Death, Paris, Michael Snoddy and Tom Hamilton, her model-handsome, man-bunned 31-year-old manager, head over to Venice Beach. We stroll the boardwalk, and Snoddy recalls a brief stint as a street performer here when he first moved to L.A., drumming on buckets. "It wasn't bad," he says. "I averaged out to a hundred bucks a day."
Paris has her hair extensions in a ponytail. She's wearing sunglasses with circular lenses, a green plaid shirt over leggings, and a Rasta-rainbow backpack. Her mood is darker today. She's not talking much, and clinging tight to Snoddy, who's in a Willie Nelson tee with the sleeves cut off.
We head toward the canals, lined with ultramodern houses that Paris doesn't like. "They're too harsh and bougie," she says. "It doesn't scream, 'Hey, come for dinner!'" She's delighted to spot a group of ducks. "Hello, friends!" she shouts. "Come play with us!" Among them are what appear to be an avian couple in love, paddling through the shallow water in close formation. Paris sighs and squeezes Snoddy's hand. "Goals," she says. "Hashtag 'goals.'"
Her spirits are lifting, and we walk back toward the beach to watch the sunset. Paris and Snoddy hop on a concrete barrier facing the orange-pink spectacle. It's a peaceful moment, until a middle-aged woman in neon jogging clothes and knee-length socks walks over. She grins at the couple as she presses a button on some kind of tiny stereo strapped to her waist, unleashing a dated-sounding trance song. Paris laughs and turns to her boyfriend. As the sun disappears, they start to dance.
Paris Jackson vehemently objected to Joseph Fiennes' portrayal of her late pop-icon father Michael Jackson in an 'Urban Myths' trailer.
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In attesa della traduzione integrale dell'articolo PARIS JACKSON: LIFE AFTER NEVERLAND
ecco alcuni passaggi di questa lunga intervista....Paris Jackson parla della morte del papà. Michael Jackson “è stato ucciso”
Michael Jackson “è stato ucciso”. Ne sono convinti tutti e ne è convinta Paris Jackson che ha rotto il silenzio sulla questione in un’intervista a Rolling Stones.
La morte del papà è stata voluta da qualcuno. “È ovvio”, ha detto Paris riferendosi all’ipotesi di omicidio più volte rimbalzata nelle pagine dei giornali e tra i fan. “Può sembrare una teoria del complotto e una cavolata ma non lo è. I veri fan e la famiglia lo sanno. È stato tutto organizzato”.
Michael Jackson è morto il 25 giugno del 2009 a causa di un infarto causato da un mix di farmaci prescritti dal dottor Conrad Murray. Il medico è stato accusato di omicidio colposo e condannato a 4 anni di reclusione ma la verità non è stata mai appurata.
E che per omicidio sarebbe morto lo sapeva anche Michael che disse, più volte, ai figli: “Un giorno mi uccideranno”. Sapeva che qualcosa non stava andando per il verso giusto, ricorda Paris che adesso maggiorenne vuole giustizia. “La voglio ma è come giocare una partita a scacchi. Sto cercando di giocarmela bene, è tutto quello che posso dire al momento”. Per il momento l’unica conquista è il blocco dell’episodio dedicato a Michael Jackson nella serie tv Urban Myths.
Paris Jackson parla della morte del papà: “lo sento sempre vicino a me”
Nella lunga intervista, Paris ha rivelato anche dettagli della sua infanzia. Anni felici in cui il papà era tutto per lei e i suoi fratelli Prince, 19 anni e Blanket, 14 anni. “Pensavamo si chiamasse papà, non sapevamo veramente chi fosse”. Michael era sopratutto un papà normale.
“Andavamo a scuola ogni giorno – racconta Paris – e dovevamo fare i bravi. Se lo eravamo ogni weekend o quasi potevamo scegliere se andare al cinema, vedere gli animali o cose del genere. Se c’eravamo comportati male, invece, non era permesso fare tutte queste cose”. Paris ricorda un padre molto timido ma che le ha insegnato a cucinare – “la sua specialità era il pollo fritto” – e che l’ha sempre indirizzata verso la tolleranza. “Mio padre mi ha cresciuto con una mentalità aperta. Avevo 8 anni quando mi innamorai di una donna sulla cover di un magazine. Lui, invece di sgridarmi come fanno la maggior parte dei genitori, mi prese in giro dicendomi: ‘Hai una fidanzata ora’”.
E il dolore per la perdita del papà non passa mai. “Dicono che il tempo guarisce – ha detto – ma non lo fa. Ti abitui e vivi la vita con la consapevolezza di aver perso la persona più importante per te. Così, andando avanti, qualsiasi cosa di brutto accade non può essere brutta come quella che è accaduta. Posso sopportare tutto adesso”.
E Michal – che “sento sempre vicino a me” – la guida ogni giorno, nella vita e nella carriera. A 18 anni Paris lavora già nel mondo della moda ma vuole migliorare nella recitazione e nella scrittura delle canzoni. In futuro, magari Paris potrebbe seguire le orme del re del pop.
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