LaToya Jackson that is.
LaToya Jackson is returning to Las Vegas after years of feeling like a hostage here.
Jackson, who is in town today to promote an Australian malt liquor, said in a telephone interview that she hopes to have a new home in Las Vegas by late this year and still harbors aspirations of getting into show business here.
Jackson, who turned 50 in May, lived in Las Vegas about five years before moving to Los Angeles in 2001.
Jackson said she feared for her life while living at the Las Vegas Country Club because of death threats from Jack Gordon, her former husband/manager.
Gordon, a con man who unsuccessfully tried to bribe Sen. Harry Reid, died a year ago.
"This man had beaten me to the ground. I never left the house," said Jackson, who lived in the Regency Tower at Las Vegas Country Club.
During the interview, Jackson hinted that a big announcement involving her brother Michael was imminent.
That news, according to a number of wire reports: The former King of Pop is moving from Bahrain to Europe.
LaToya is a part owner of Star Ice, a flavored malt beverage. She’s attending a distributors’ gathering tonight at OPM (Forum Shops at Caesars).
"Las Vegas is my future," she said, adding that she hopes to have a dance music album out soon. It will be titled, appropriately, "Starting Over."
Norm Clarke
