European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                La Toya unravels close knit Jackson imagery Dana Kennedy the associated press it does no to take Long for la Toya Jackson to shatter the myth of her family As the talented tight Jackson clan. Forget the Platinum albums. What la Toya Jackson wants to talk about these Days is her claim that she and her siblings paid for their Success by enduring emotional physical and sexual abuse a then parents. Several of the nine children attempted suicide she said. Jackson. 35. The older sister of Michael and Janet shifts in her chair in her Pla a hotel suite in new York c Ity. A hired bodyguard lurks outside. Her manager. Jack Gordon w Hom she says she married in la s9 to protect herself from family kidnapping attempts sits nearby. She pauses As she recalls her childhood in Gary ind. Before the Jacksons were famous. A my sister Rehbine and 1 slept in the same Sola bed Quot she recalled. A my father sexually abused Rebbie. Id tremble Down at the other end of the sofa. I  want to look.  now and then my Mother would come by and say. Not tonight  she needs her  a both Jackson parents. Joseph and Katherine strongly denied their daughters allegations tuesday calling them a a Bunch of  both blamed Gordon saying he Quot brainwashed la Toya. Rebbie Jackson. 42. A housewife and Mother in Simi Valley. Calif., could not immediately be reached for comment. La Tova said her sister called the police several times during their childhood because of the abuse and also pleaded with their Mother. She said Katherine Jackson ignored the problem. The family deterred the police and Rebbie left Home at la to live w Ith relatives. After that. La Toya claims her father began to sexually abuse her. Quot it s Virv hard for me to talk about  said Jackson whose new Book. Go no nov i in the in Ekstow family omits mention of sexual abuse. She said the publishers were  Jackson said her father fondled her while the family lived in Indiana. The Jacksons moved to Southern California when la Tova was 12 years old. A a the Only sexually abused me once in Cailor Nia Quot she said. Quot but he still kept up a lot of verbal abuse toward  a that s not True Quot her father said by Telephone from los Angeles. A la Toya is telling a Bunch of lies. We never sexually abused her. We never. Punched her or any of the  Quot the whole Book is full of lies Quot Katherine Jackson added. A Joe did no to beat the kids. Do you think they could function if we beat them like that they re out there singing and dancing and raising families. They could t have gone to school and done All that they did if we had beat them like  la Tova said All her siblings were traumatized by years of abuse. A you know All those big awards shows a she said. Quot Michael would go. Get All these awards and go Home and get beaten up by Joseph. It was embarrassing. It did no to matter How old you were. If he a mad my father would just punch  la Toya recounts a severe beating at the hands of her lather in her Book. A the next Day it was like nothing Ever happened Quot she said. Quot thais How dysfunctional the family  la Toya. Whose nude Playboy pictorial was a Best seller said she has never had a Boyfriend and has never known Michael to have a relation ship. She said her marriage to Gordon has never been consummated. Gordon says they will divorce Only when he he lives la Toya is a a Safe a from what he says has been her family a two attempts to Kidnap her she has not been in touch with her Brothers and Sisters since the Hook came out. But Michael called once through his publicist. A i keep hoping this Book will make my Broth ers and Sisters mute and stand up for themselves for  she said. Quot we bleed inside. We had everything but none of us is Happy s4s Kon George la Tova Jackson on her father Quot he Only sexually abused me once in California  22 1991 sunday a fast 11