Joe Jackson’s famous family is deep in mourning after his tragic death, and are paying tribute to their father and grandfather online. Read their loving posts here.
When Joe Jackson, 89, passed away on June 27, his family quickly shared their feelings about their beloved father, grandfather, and husband with their fans. Their passionate and sorrowful tributes to Joe were so beautiful! Prince Jackson, Michael Jackson‘s eldest son, posted a lovely picture of Joe with some of his grandchildren on Instagram. He wrote,”This man is and always will be an example of sheer willpower and dedication. He didn’t choose the path that was the easiest but he choose the path that was best for his family. You taught me to take pride in the Jackson name and what it really means, you taught me dedication in the face of adversity and most of all you showed me strength and fearlessness. There is and never will be someone like you. Fly free and until we meet again The Hawk.”
One of his other grandsons, TJ Jackson, posted a sweet tribute on Instagram, along with a pic of Joe: “You did the unthinkable. You gave your all (and the prime years of your life) to make sure your kids and your family were a success. Some people will never understand the commitment and love it takes to do what you did. My life could have been so much different if it weren’t for you. I could have been in a gang. I could have a father who was in and out of jail. But I don’t. Why? Because you were plugged into your kids lives and saw a dream that they (or even the world) didn’t know could exist. It took all of your strength to keep your entire family safe from the real dangers in life. You are misjudged but I know who the real you is. And as your grandson I am forever grateful for the strength I have from you. I will always remember what I’ve learned from you. I will always cherish you. Always. I love you grandpa.”
Grandson Taj Jackson was forced to post something different about his grandfather’s death. He criticized those whose immediate reactions were to bring up the physical abuse allegations against them. “Disgusted by some of the comments I’m reading about my grandpa Joe by those who didn’t even know him,” Taj, who is Tito Jackson‘s son, tweeted. “Please don’t just regurgitate what you were spoon fed by the press. Joe was loved by our ENTIRE family and our hearts are in pain. Let us grieve without the nastiness.#ripthehawk”
This man is and always will be an example of sheer willpower and dedication. He didn’t choose the path that was the easiest but he choose the path that was best for his family. You taught me to take pride in the Jackson name and what it really means, you taught me dedication in the face of adversity and most of all you showed me strength and fearlessness. There is and never will be someone like you. Fly free and until we meet again The Hawk.
A post shared by Prince Jackson (@princejackson) on Jun 27, 2018 at 11:56am PDT
I will always love you! You gave us strength, you made us one of the most famous families in the world. I am extremely appreciative of that, I will never forget our moments together and how you told me how much you cared. #RIP Joe Jacksonhttps://t.co/F5UfYjEgYx
— La Toya Jackson (@latoyajackson) June 27, 2018
And Joe’s daughter, La Toya Jackson, posted a clip from Life with La Toya that showed her with her father. “I will always love you! You gave us strength, you made us one of the most families in the world,” she tweeted. “I am extremely appreciative of that, I will never forget our moments together and how you told me how much you cared. #RIP Joe”.
The week before Joe’s death, Janet Jackson paid tribute to her ailing father in a touching speech at the Radio Disney Music Awards. “My mother nourished me with the most extravagant love imaginable,” she said as she accepted the Impact Award. “My father, my incredible father drove me to be the best I can. My siblings set an incredibly high standard, a high bar for artistic excellence.”
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HollywoodLife.com” You and the Kingdom defend the Ring Of Honor Six-Man Tag Team championship against New Japan’s Los Ingobernables De Japon at Best In The World. What are you thoughts ahead of this match?
Vinny Marseglia: I am actually pretty excited! I am very excited for this show in general. It’s going to be a wild show and a huge lineup, from beginning to end! As far as that match, I am super excited because LIJ is some very great competition for us and we [The Kingdom] seek the best type of competition in Ring of Honor.
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Well, on “The Horror King,” I would say yes and No. “The Horror King” is very natural [and] is who I really am. What you see with it right now is Vinny Marseglia, times ten. It is everything I love brought into pro wrestling.
And growing up – it is funny that you brought up The Conjuring. That house is like thirty minutes from me. I just visited The Conjuring house a couple months ago. I never visited it before so I wanted to check it out. So right after the Annabelle: Creation movie came out I just took a ride there. And it is really eerie and it is in a really eerie location. Everything is like it was when it was first built so that is pretty cool and there is tons of no trespassing signs everywhere, so it shows how many people go there.
But, for “The Horror King,” how it all started was with my mother. I think I have said this a bunch of times but my mother was a big horror movie fan herself. So when I was six or seven years old, we would watch all the horror classics like the Friday the 13th movies or Halloween and we are big fans of Creepshow. And Killer Klowns from Outer Space was such a corny movie but so cool! The nostalgia of it! The Howling, American Werewolf in London, Puppet Master and all those fun house and classic horror films like The Shining. I would grow up always watching those.
Its funny. You would go to school and kids would love this cartoon or this comic or superhero but I would be like twelve and be like, ‘Yeah I watch Friday the 13th last night!’ So like ten years-old was probably not a good thing but my Mom would explain to me that it is just a movie and all acting and I just fell in love with it.
Growing up, when we would play Manhunt in the neighborhood – the whole neighborhood would play and in our version, I would dress up as a serial killer like Michael Meyers and chase people around. It was pretty wild because we owned the whole neighborhood.
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It’s also something different to bring to the audience. I know that when I go to horror conventions, that when I meet different wrestling fans there, I know that there are a lot of wrestling fans interested in horror and costumes and what not. It’s something they can relate to and something a little different.
“The Horror King” is very natural. What you see is Vinny Marseglia. Just bringing the different masks and the different jackets and the balloons, I like the creative side that I can kind of present myself and it is really cool. I am having a blast doing it. I get to do cool stuff and I have a lot more ideas coming up, so tune in and check it out. Some cool stuff is coming.
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The Find was awesome. It was my first ever movie. I got a call from the director [Daniel Dahlstrom] who works in lots of productions in Rhode Island and he sent me a script and told me that he was doing a horror film. The Find is basically your typical horror movie, which makes it awesome.
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It was a blast. They sent me the script and I immediately said yes. It was a no brainer. I didn’t even read the script. I was like “a horror movie and I get to be the killer? Yes, sign me up!” And then when I read the script and I loved it and it was an awesome experience. I was a vampire that entire week. I basically slept all day and we filmed from five thirty at night ‘til seven in the morning. It was wild. It is supposed to come out in October and the date is supposed to be Halloween It will be available on DVD and Netflix and all of that.
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It would be like a movie, a modern-day Freddy Vs. Jason. I guess I would be Freddy in a sense because Punishment is ten times bigger than I am. But I think it would be a very creative thing, one people would love if we were give the creative time. It would be something really, really special.
It is something that I always thought of and always wanted to do is work with someone like Punishment Martinez. What he said and all the creativeness we have and our personalities, it would be awesome and something different. It would be wild.
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Right! And those guys did so well with that. It would be so much different and our own spin on things and personalities and creativeness. I think it would be a legitimate horror movie in Ring of Honor. It would be awesome! Same thing goes for Jimmy Havoc, I think he is another dynamic between the two of us and what we live for, it would be a really entertaining thing. But absolutely!
What’s one thing about Vinny Marseglia would surprise fans if they were to find out? Are you secretly the best dancer in the ROH locker room?
[laughs] I am the John Travolta of the locker room! Something that they wouldn’t expect? God… I don’t think there is anything to outlandish. There isn’t anything… I mean you walk in my house and it is like a horror museum so they would expect that. We have tons of screen used memorabilia. We have the Halloween mask that was used actually. We have a bunch of The Lost Boys jackets from the film and we have a lot of those in shadow boxes. Me and my wife are equally into horror and I love that.
Nothing too outlandish, though. I like sewing. I like to be creative and sew things up a lot. I have helped some guys in their emergency needs. I have also performed surgery on Bernard the Bear one time. So maybe that is not something they would expect from ‘The Horror King’ so I do a lot of my own stuff as well.
Is there a “holy grail” movie thing you need like Freddy’s glove or something?
I was never a big Freddy fan growing up. He was the last pick for me. I was never really into him. I appreciated him more now that I am older but I think the whole “dream thing,” I didn’t care for it.
But my “holy grail” was to always have thee jacket from The Lost Boys that Alex Winter wears. The guy from Bill and Ted, he wears the one with all the patches and wild stuff on it. I wanted that jacket my entire life and now we have it and it is in a shadow box. That was the one thing I always wanted to get my hands on and now that I have it, it is kind of cool.
I forget about it at this point because it is in a shadow box on the wall. Every once in a while I will be like, “I can’t believe that I have what I always wanted as a kid!’ Then the Halloween mask was rad but nothing currently that is out there. Maybe a screen used Annabelle doll, because I think that is creepy as hell. Maybe the forty years later Michael Meyers mask but I would only settle for the one that was actually used because people make cheesy replicas. So I always want things that were actually used!
Ring Of Honor’s Best In The World takes place on Friday, June 29th at the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Fans can watch LIVE on Pay-per-view and with HonorClub VIP.
This interview has been edited.
