What do you get when you cross a celebrity’s brief marriage, an annulment and Janet Jackson? A secret baby scandal, that’s what!
On Wednesday, Jackson refuted claims that she has a secret daughter with ex-husband James DeBarge.
“I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false,” she said in a statement that aired on entertainment show Access Hollywood. On October 21, Young DeBarge told radio station Hot 97 that his brother James DeBarge and Jackson had a daughter named Renee, who is living with Jackson’s oldest sister, Rebbie Jackson.
The family’s attorney then told told E! Online that in previous years he had asked every member of the family and they all said the same thing, “From the sisters to the mother, every last one of them said it never happened.”
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Publicists for Jackson didn’t make any statement at the time, fueling rumors that Jackson would admit she did in fact have a child.
A brief history on the brief marriage: Jackson and DeBarge were married for only three months in 1984. Renee is 18, which means she would have been born in 1987, the same year Jackson’s debut album Control, was released. The whole secret child thing isn’t entirely hard to believe.
After her short-lived marriage to DeBarge, Jackson secretly married Rene Elizondo Jr. in 1991 and nobody really knew that happened until they spilt up in 1999. Currently the singer is publicly dating Jermaine Dupri who is acting as executive producer on the album Jackson is recording for release in 2006.
What a surprise you might say, but the question is if she will be tying the knot with longtime boyfriend JD anytime soon, and if so, if she
