Tito Jackson: The Defiant Boy Who Began a Music Dynasty

9 life lessons to learn from his life

Gal Mux
9 min readSep 19, 2024
By the author on Night Cafe

It is early June 2005.

Tito Jackson is in a vehicle with his younger brother Michael together with their mother Katherine.

They are traveling back to Neverland ranch from the Santa Barbara courthouse in California. It’s the last day of Jackson’s infamous child molestation trial in which he was fully acquitted.

An emaciated Michael completely worn out from the almost six months long ordeal and feeling grateful for the support his family had shown him at his darkest hour turns to Tito and tells him, “ Tito I have a present for you when we get to the house.”

“ Michael you don’t have to give me no present,” Tito refuses.

“ I want to give you something.”

“No, Michael. I’m okey.”

“No, I have been thinking about this for a long time and I want to do it for you because I have never done anything for you. I just wanna do this,” Michael insists.

On arrival, Michael takes Tito to his garage where four Bentleys are packed.

He then goes, “Pick one!”

“ What!?” A puzzled Tito let’s out.

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