The patriarch of the Jackson family - and manager of the Jackson 5 - died in LA today
Joe Jackson has died today at the age of 89 after battling terminal cancer.
TMZ reports the patriarch passed away at 3:30 AM Wednesday morning in LA.
He had been on his deathbed for days as worried family members surrounded his hospital bedside earlier this month, when he was first taken in.
The development comes days after his son Jermaine Jackson, who appeared on CelebrityBig Brother back in 2007, described his father as "very, very frail."
"He doesn't have long. The family needs to be by his bedside - that's our only intention in his final days," he said.
Pop star Michael Jackson with his father Joe (Image: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Pool)
Joe with the Jackson 5 and his younger son Randy (Image: Michael Ochs Archives)Joe, who suffers from diabetes, had gone through a number of health scares in recent years.
He had a stroke in Brazil in 2015 which left him temporarily blind and was treated in hospital a year later with a high fever after falling ill during a routine check-up, it was claimed.
Last weekend, Jackson's Twitter account shared a photo of him looking at the sunset, suggesting he's at peace with his mortality.
"I have seen more sunsets than I have left to see," it said.
Joe was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer"The sun rises when the time comes and whether you like it or not the sun sets when the time comes."
But his granddaughter Paris Jackson denied it was Joe who tweeted it, revealing she'd been by his side in hospital at the time it was posted.
"This is a beautiful tweet. though it upsets me to see whoever is in charge of this account taking advantage of it. my grandfather did not tweet this. i’m not sure if he’s ever used this account," she blasted.
"I was with him there’s no possible way for him to have tweeted it."
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