She was born into what would become one of America's most famous music families.
La Toya Jackson is the fifth, and middle, child in the Jackson family. Lss well-known than the Jackson Five or little brother Michael, La Toya carved out her own place in pop culture, as a singer and songwriter.
But little by little America learned about the private side of the Jackson family, the side the fan magazines didn't want to write about. It was a a story of domestic abuse.
I met La Toya in 1992, after her bestselling memoir "La Toya" was published.
