Editing La Toya Jackson (section)

=== 1988–1991: Public notoriety, abuse and exile from the Jackson family ===
In 1987, [[Jack Gordon (entertainment manager)|Jack Gordon]] was hired to co-manage La Toya by her father, [[Joseph Jackson (manager)|Joseph]]. He later took over her management completely. Under Gordon's management, Jackson's public image became increasingly sexualized. [[Katherine Jackson]] recalled her shock seeing La Toya dance in a suggestive manner in 1988 for the first time in her autobiography ''My Family, The Jacksons'': "she'd been so conservative that she'd once dropped a friend who had begun wearing low-cut tops and skirts with slits in them." Katherine believed that Gordon was distancing La Toya from her family so he could "become the dominating influence in her life."<ref name="ebony1990">Jackson, Katherine. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n12_v45/ai_8904374/?tag=rbxcra.2.a.22 Everything you always wanted to know about Michael, Janet and LaToya: mother of Jackson family tells all – excerpt from Katherine Jackson's 'My Family, The Jacksons'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016205113/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n12_v45/ai_8904374/?tag=rbxcra.2.a.22 |date=October 16, 2015 }} ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'', October 1990</ref> Around this time Jackson was [[disfellowshipped]] by the [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]. Defying her father, Jackson made a stormy exit from the family's [[Encino, Los Angeles, California|Encino]] compound to take up residence in New York City.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104103101/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3883232.html 'La Toya off on her own'], ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' May 2, 1988</ref> In late 1988, Jackson released the album ''[[La Toya (album)|La Toya]]'', which featured the singles "[[You're Gonna Get Rocked! (song)|You're Gonna Get Rocked!]]" and "[[(Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do]]".<ref>{{cite book | last = Jackson | first = La Toya | author2 = Patricia Romanowski | title = [[La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family]] | publisher = Dutton Publishing | year = 1991 | page = [https://archive.org/details/latoyagrowingupi00jack/page/207 207] | isbn = 0-451-17415-1 }}</ref> The album also included a track titled "Just Say No", which was written for the [[Reagan administration]]'s [[Just Say No|anti-drug campaign]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Jackson | first = La Toya | author2 = Patricia Romanowski | title = [[La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family]] | publisher = Dutton Publishing | year = 1991 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/latoyagrowingupi00jack/page/205 205–206] | isbn = 0-451-17415-1 }}</ref> The album included four tracks produced by [[Full Force]], and three by [[Stock Aitken Waterman]]. 

In March 1989, Jackson posed topless for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine. Jackson saw the pictorial as a declaration of independence from her conservative upbringing and "to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more—that I control my life."<ref name="ebony1992">Randolph, Laura B. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n9_v47/ai_12268048/ 'LaToya Jackson on: fame, family and her future in Paris'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016205113/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n9_v47/ai_12268048/|date=October 16, 2015}}, July 1992</ref>  In 1989, Jackson began recording her sixth album ''[[Bad Girl (La Toya Jackson album)|Bad Girl]]''. That year Jackson staged a live [[pay-per-view]] concert, ''A Sizzling Spectacular!'', from [[Bally's Reno|Bally's]] theatre in [[Reno, Nevada|Reno]]. The show featured special guest star [[Edgar Winter]].<ref name="Herald-Leader">{{cite web |date=September 5, 1989 |title=Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) – September 5, 1989 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB73BA41EB22B55&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date=June 24, 2010 |publisher=Nl.newsbank.com}}</ref> 

On September 5, 1989, after her ''Sizzling Spectacular'' concert in Nevada, Gordon and Jackson were married. Jackson later claimed she had been [[Forced marriage|forcibly married]], with Gordon claiming it was for her own protection against kidnapping by her family. La Toya Jackson states that this was both unplanned and against her wishes. According to Jackson, "I told him, 'No way, Jack! I can't marry you. You know what marriage means to me. I've never been in love; I don't even date... It's not right. I don't love you. I don't have feelings for you.'"<ref name="ebony1992" /> Jackson told ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' magazine the marriage was "strictly in name only. It has never been consummated."<ref name="ebony1992" /> Six months into the marriage, Jackson asked Gordon for an [[annulment]] when in [[Rome, Italy]]. In response, Gordon repeatedly bashed her head against the corner of the hotel room table saying that he would never let her go. [[Paparazzi]] subsequently photographed Jackson with [[black eye]]s, which Gordon claimed were caused by an intruder.<ref name="abcnews">{{cite news |date=January 20, 2005 |title=LaToya Jackson Defends Michael |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/MichaelJackson/story?id=428847&page=1 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]}}</ref><ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-15-ca-462-story.html 'LaToya Jackson Beaten in Rome'] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', June 15, 1990.</ref> From this point forward, Jackson lost all contact with her family and wrote an autobiography, ''[[La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family]]'', which accused her father of [[physical abuse]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=La Toya |author2=Patricia Romanowski |title=[[La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family]] |publisher=[[New American Library]] |year=1991 |isbn=0-451-17415-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/latoyagrowingupi00jack/page/261 261]}}</ref> She posed again in ''Playboy'' in November 1991 to promote the autobiography. She later said that she initially refused to pose for the second spread, however, Gordon beat her into submission.<ref name="jet1996">"[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n9_v90/ai_18480043/ 'La Toya Jackson files gender-based violence suit against husband.'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016205113/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n9_v90/ai_18480043/|date=October 16, 2015}}, ''[[Jet Magazine]]'', July 15, 1996.</ref><ref name="larryking">{{cite web |date=March 4, 2003 |title=CNN.com – Transcripts |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/04/lkl.00.html |access-date=June 24, 2010 |publisher=Transcripts.cnn.com}}</ref><ref name="abcnews" />

For roughly the next decade Gordon controlled Jackson with threats, lies, and routine [[domestic violence]]. According to Jackson, "When he hit me, the first time I was in shock, I just recalled my ear ringing, just ringing so hard."<ref name="abcnews" /> Gordon confiscated Jackson's passport, transferred her bank accounts into his name, hired bodyguards to watch La Toya constantly and banned her from speaking to or seeing her family, monitoring her every phone call.<ref name="abcnews" /> La Toya's father Joseph stated in his book ''The Jacksons'' that he believed Gordon [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] La Toya and made her fearful of her own family.<ref name="thejacksons" /> [[Katherine Jackson|Katherine]] also believed that La Toya had been brainwashed while Gordon claimed that Katherine had tried to kill her daughter.<ref>Lavin, Cheryl. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24486352.html?dids=24486352:24486352&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+11%2C+1991&author=Cheryl+Lavin 'Brawl in the family La Toya Jackson's book heats up the tug of war between her family and her manager'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143659/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24486352.html?dids=24486352:24486352&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+11%2C+1991&author=Cheryl+Lavin |date=November 7, 2012 }}, ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' August 11, 1991.</ref> Sister [[Janet Jackson|Janet]] concurred with her parents saying at the time, "I think this guy who is with her has brainwashed her and made her like this... He keeps her away from the family, and now he's brainwashed her so much she keeps herself away from us."<ref name="jet1996" /><ref name="ebony1993">Norment, Lynn. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n11_v48/ai_13230337/ 'Grown-up Janet Jackson talks about racism, sensuality and the Jackson family'] ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'', September 1993. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126081349/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n11_v48/ai_13230337/ |date=November 26, 2009 }}</ref>

In 1990, Jackson participated in the [[Sanremo Music Festival 1990|Sanremo Music Festival]], entering "[[You and Me (La Toya Jackson song)|You and Me]]" an English-language version of "Verso l'ignoto" by siblings [[Marcella Bella|Marcella]] and [[Gianni Bella]]. While "You and Me" did not win Best Song, it entered Italy's [[hit parade]], peaking at number twenty-eight. That year Jackson signed on with German-based BCM Records and released the single "[[Why Don't You Want My Love?]]" Jackson recorded other material with BCM, but the label went bankrupt and album plans were scrapped. Jackson signed with Dino Records quickly thereafter. 1991 saw the release of ''[[No Relations]]'', an album with strong [[house music|house]] and [[funk]] influences. This album featured Jackson's top twenty-five Netherlands hit "[[Sexbox]]".