LaToya Jackson is a married woman. According to Radar Online, the 57-year-old sister of the late Michael Jackson secretly wed her close friend and business partner Jeffre Phillips in a private ceremony. Phillips popped the question to Jackson earlier this year on her reality show "Life with LaToya."
On the episode Phillips asked her father, Joseph Jackson, if he had the family's blessings. While vacationing in Hawaii, Phillips asked Jackson to marry him.
"You mean the world to me," he said before popping the question.
Reportedly her mother Katherine Jackson and nephew Prince - Michael Jackson's son - was in attendance. It's not clear if her other siblings and father attended the ceremony.
This is the second marriage for Jackson who wed manager Jack Gordon in 1989. She has claimed on her reality show and in interviews that Gordon abused her and tried to control her life.
"He felt that he owned me and he controlled me, he abused me, he did all these things to me and I never thought that I would get away," she told HuffPost Live.
"He always promised to kill me or kill my brother if I didn't do what he wanted me to do," she said to the Huffington Post in a different interview. "My mother thought he was giving me mind-altering drugs."
Recently, Phillips opened up about his long-time friendship with Jackson to The Daily Beast.
"I met everyone in her family before her," he said. "I knew Michael and Jermaine and everyone before I met LaToya and to be honest I thought she was thee odd one! Then I met her and saw how smart and talented she was and we just became instant friends."
Jackson has not mentioned anything about the wedding on her Twitter account.
