La Toya releases new book and single / Summary @ Pg 30 / Pictures @ Pg 33

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Well I repeat - I wanted to know why she insists Michael was murdered. Wouldn't you?

LaToya has no clue whether MJ was murdered or not.She has said there was a conspiracy to murder MJ, which involved Branca.This is just mischief making on her part, just like Joe and Randy before her.Branca has not been charged as being part of a conspriracy to murder Michael,until he is, I think it is only fair to presume he is innocent.

Below is what she said during one of the interviews to try and sell her book, none of which is true.Branca had just been rehired a week before June 25th 2009.In his last week, MJ did not have time to hire a private investigator to snoop on Branca.
“Michael had fired John Branca. He didn’t want him around,” she said, adding that her brother then “hired a private investigator.”
“Then he found out John Branca had smuggled… $150-million off-shore of his money and he just started investigating,” she added.
“I’m not blatantly saying they killed him. This was a conspiracy to do this to him.”
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“Michael had fired John Branca. He didn’t want him around,” she said, adding that her brother then “hired a private investigator.”

Does LaToya listen to what she herself says at times? What sense does it make for Michael not wanting Branca around, yet hires him anyway? Its just funny sometimes how his own family makes him appear as though he had no sense.
 
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Abuse isn't a topic we should take so lightly. As I type this a woman is being abused and we must do something as a unit 2 put a end to this
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I'd like 2 thank every1 from the bottom of my heart 4 helping my book, "Starting Over" become a New York Times Best Seller! Thank U so much!
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latoyajackson La Toya Jackson
I'd like 2 thank every1 from the bottom of my heart 4 helping my book, "Starting Over" become a New York Times Best Seller! Thank U so much!
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New York Times Best Seller?!?! am i missing something here?

That girl is dumb.

Her book is # 35 ...lol Below the top 16 that is published.

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-...tion/list.html

Congrats on being on Amazon's best seller list at # 7,278

Soooo......being #35 is considered by LaToya a best seller? okay then.
 
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latoyajackson La Toya Jackson
I will NEVER STOP THE FIGHT!
1 hour ago

latoyajackson La Toya Jackson
Abuse isn't a topic we should take so lightly. As I type this a woman is being abused and we must do something as a unit 2 put a end to this
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

latoyajackson La Toya Jackson
I'd like 2 thank every1 from the bottom of my heart 4 helping my book, "Starting Over" become a New York Times Best Seller! Thank U so much!
1 hour ago

Hmmmmm ok.. Whatever.

If abusive relationship was such an important topic for, why did she only start pushing it 2 weeks ago?

That girl is dumb.

Her book is # 35 ...lol Below the top 16 that is published.

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-07-17/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html

Congrats on being on Amazon's best seller list at # 7,278
 
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/07/10/071011-arts-books-latoya-1-4/

Ms. Jackson’s not sorry
A second memoir from La Toya is unapologetic — and unintentionally hilarious
BY RICH JUZWIAK SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011

Not since Huckleberry Finn has literature seen an unreliable narrator as unwitting as La Toya Jackson. Her second memoir, “Starting Over,” picks up where her first, 1991’s “La Toya,” left off, and spends several pages revising the earlier book. “La Toya,” she claims, was written under the influence of Jack Gordon, the abusive man to whom she was married at the time of its release. Allegations she made about her brother Michael’s child molestation and her father Joseph’s child abuse (including the implication that he sexually abused her older sister, Rebbie) are explained away as resulting from Gordon’s coercion, which was part of a bigger plan to destroy her career. Why, outside of sadism, he’d be moved to do such a thing is never really explained, nor does it make much sense, given his persistent profiting off her. But maybe now is not the time to be asking questions — we’ve entered La Toya Land, a place where ignorance isn’t so much bliss as it is de rigueur.

That ignorance, which comes from being sheltered, is one element of consistency between the two books. Another is a shared storyline regarding controlling men who must be escaped. Except that the previous controlling man, her father Joseph, has now been accepted back into her life, and negative things said about him hurt her “deeply.” Whether they’re based on what she previously wrote or divulged via her “Jackson Family Secrets” 900 number is never accounted for.

Gordon is blamed for Jackson’s string of abysmal career decisions that followed his signing on as her manager in 1987, including two “Playboy” shoots. To hear Jackson tell it, she spent this time in a fog, oblivious, for example, to his smuggling diamonds and drugs via her inherited ability to breeze through airports. If you watch any of her TV appearances from these years, though, you see a confident woman who’s as open about her opportunism as she is with her body. But then again, there are pictures of her with black eyes, and Gordon was a known criminal. It’s useless to take a battered woman to task.

And anyway, Jackson’s book would not be worth reading if it were not so contradictory and goofy. The cluelessness that was apparently present throughout her life is key to this pop cultural runt’s adorability, and “Starting Over” runs on unintentional hilarity. Jackson speaks of her “passion for crests,” her former belief that “marijuana smells like popcorn” and her “lifelong love” of spicy food that resulted in a hemorrhoid operation. She backs herself into hilarious redundancies like, “Michael said it best in his song ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ when he sang, ‘All I wanna say is that, they don’t really care about us.’” At one point, Michael relays that both he and Diana Ross liked her first “Playboy” shots, and the imagery of the two superstars ogling a nude Jackson is howlingly absurd. “Starting Over” only helps cement Jackson’s reputation as a camp icon. Read it in that frame of mind and it is entirely enjoyable.

Like most camp, it’s a mess. Formally, it exists in the same state of flux as Jackson’s overall concept of the truth — it’s part revisionist history, part self-help narrative (emphasis on the self) and part whodunit about her one-woman inquest into the death of her brother Michael. Regarding the latter, she brings up some good points (why wasn’t Michael named a producer on his posthumously released documentary “This Is It”?), but her conspiracy theorizing that those closest to Michael killed him is based on conjecture and Michael’s own (possibly drug-induced) paranoia.

At the end of “Starting Over,” Jackson pledges “I’m not done with my investigation for the truth yet.” She’s talking about Michael’s story, but she might as well be discussing her own. We’ll see whether, in another 20 years time, she can turn that threat into a promise.

This is the damage the family is doing to MJ's legacy. Drug induced paranoia. I am not even gonna blame the press this time. The blame lays with these greedy Jacksons.
 
"posthumously released documentary “This Is It”?), but her conspiracy theorizing that those closest to Michael killed him is based on conjecture and Michael’s own (possibly drug-induced) paranoia."

Can't say I am surprise at this comment the way the family paint Michael one can only say he must have been high on something to be telling someone they are planing to kill me but not saying who are reporting it to police.
And the very people who he suspect of plotting against him he gone and bring them back in his life, (do this make any kind of sense to you?}
None of what the family are saying make any sense, so one is going to say it must be drug making MJ paranoia.
They need to stop with the MJ was control story and making him helpless and weak is not helping MJ.
 
If you think that LaToya is interested in fighting for MJ or his kids your are mistaken. This book is purely a money making venture.The only person LaToya is interested in is LaToya.
Could y'all just stop forcing your opinion on people?!
 
Could y'all just stop forcing your opinion on people?!
If it is my opinion that someone is mistaken if they think that LaToya's book is about getting justice for MJ and his kids , that is my opinion. I am not forcing my opinion on anybody.
 
If it is my opinion that someone is mistaken if they think that LaToya's book is about getting justice for MJ and his kids , that is my opinion. I am not forcing my opinion on anybody.

I agree with your opinion.
 
I have exclusive transcript of an interview with Latoya in the year of 2044.


"Interviewer: So Latoya, can you tell us, how did you decided to take on a such major tour at the age of 88?

Dame Latoya Jackson:My brother and I had the same lives, you know.

Interviewer: O, did you?

Dame Latoya Jackson: Of course we did, but you know the most talented ones are always suffering.

Interviewer: Michael and?

Dame Latoya Jackson:Let me finish, hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi. So in 2009 I told my brother, "Michael they will kill you, because of me.

Interviewer: Because of you?

Dame Latoya Jackson: They hated me, they want to make me crazy, all these people.

Interviewer: Can you give names? What kind of people?

Dame Latoya Jackson: People that were surrounding us, of course. Let me finish, hi-hi. So he said to me Latoya - for your sake I will die anytime. Just take care of my kids. Be sure they listen to Eminem's music and please, please Toya be sure they go to a lot of charities with you.

Interviewer: Wow

Dame Latoya Jackson: I was touched by the strong connection Michael had with me.
His last words to me were - Toya, dearest, my sweet sister, I want you to take on my legacy. First let Jermaine perform some of my songs for a couple of years, till he feels better about himself, then Toya I think you should start singing them, my songs, my music, so people couldn't forget them.You are the one who can do it. I can't depend on Janet, she has binge eating disorder these days.

Interviewer: What a strong message.

Dame Latoya Jackson: I looked him in the eyes and I said - Michael I except. I will crucify my promising career to celebrate your legacy.

Interviewer:Well...

Dame Latoya Jackson:So that's why I'm going on a tour.That's why I'm going to be performing my brother's songs only. I'm not trying to make money from his songs.

Interviewer:Thank you La Toya.

This was La Toya Jackson everybody, if you want to buy tickets for her concerts we still have 398 247 from the 400 000 tickets. The church of La Toya just bought 1752 and we gave special ticket to La Toya's biggest fan, 78 old Star lives in Texas.Congrats, Star.
She loves La Toya's music and she said in an interview that she especially likes the single she released in 2015 "They are trying to get me" from her "Abused" album, part of her "VICTIM" album trilogy, which also contains "CONSPIRACY" and her biggest selling album "Michael Jackson wrote this for me"

Everything is written in the purpose of comedy.
 
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/07/10/071011-arts-books-latoya-1-4/
Ms. Jackson’s not sorry
A second memoir from La Toya is unapologetic — and unintentionally hilarious
BY RICH JUZWIAK SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011

Not since Huckleberry Finn has literature seen an unreliable narrator as unwitting as La Toya Jackson. Her second memoir, “Starting Over,” picks up where her first, 1991’s “La Toya,” left off, and spends several pages revising the earlier book. “La Toya,” she claims, was written under the influence of Jack Gordon, the abusive man to whom she was married at the time of its release. Allegations she made about her brother Michael’s child molestation and her father Joseph’s child abuse (including the implication that he sexually abused her older sister, Rebbie) are explained away as resulting from Gordon’s coercion, which was part of a bigger plan to destroy her career. Why, outside of sadism, he’d be moved to do such a thing is never really explained, nor does it make much sense, given his persistent profiting off her. But maybe now is not the time to be asking questions — we’ve entered La Toya Land, a place where ignorance isn’t so much bliss as it is de rigueur.

That ignorance, which comes from being sheltered, is one element of consistency between the two books. Another is a shared storyline regarding controlling men who must be escaped. Except that the previous controlling man, her father Joseph, has now been accepted back into her life, and negative things said about him hurt her “deeply.” Whether they’re based on what she previously wrote or divulged via her “Jackson Family Secrets” 900 number is never accounted for.

Gordon is blamed for Jackson’s string of abysmal career decisions that followed his signing on as her manager in 1987, including two “Playboy” shoots. To hear Jackson tell it, she spent this time in a fog, oblivious, for example, to his smuggling diamonds and drugs via her inherited ability to breeze through airports. If you watch any of her TV appearances from these years, though, you see a confident woman who’s as open about her opportunism as she is with her body. But then again, there are pictures of her with black eyes, and Gordon was a known criminal. It’s useless to take a battered woman to task.

And anyway, Jackson’s book would not be worth reading if it were not so contradictory and goofy. The cluelessness that was apparently present throughout her life is key to this pop cultural runt’s adorability, and “Starting Over” runs on unintentional hilarity. Jackson speaks of her “passion for crests,” her former belief that “marijuana smells like popcorn” and her “lifelong love” of spicy food that resulted in a hemorrhoid operation. She backs herself into hilarious redundancies like, “Michael said it best in his song ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ when he sang, ‘All I wanna say is that, they don’t really care about us.’” At one point, Michael relays that both he and Diana Ross liked her first “Playboy” shots, and the imagery of the two superstars ogling a nude Jackson is howlingly absurd. “Starting Over” only helps cement Jackson’s reputation as a camp icon. Read it in that frame of mind and it is entirely enjoyable.

Like most camp, it’s a mess. Formally, it exists in the same state of flux as Jackson’s overall concept of the truth — it’s part revisionist history, part self-help narrative (emphasis on the self) and part whodunit about her one-woman inquest into the death of her brother Michael. Regarding the latter, she brings up some good points (why wasn’t Michael named a producer on his posthumously released documentary “This Is It”?), but her conspiracy theorizing that those closest to Michael killed him is based on conjecture and Michael’s own (possibly drug-induced) paranoia.

At the end of “Starting Over,” Jackson pledges “I’m not done with my investigation for the truth yet.” She’s talking about Michael’s story, but she might as well be discussing her own. We’ll see whether, in another 20 years time, she can turn that threat into a promise.
You know who is 'unintentionally hilarious'? This dude writing the article.
People seriously get bent out of shape over some guy who has the strange nerve to write that it's 'useless to take a battered woman to task'??? :rofl:


That, statement, right there, tells you all you need to know about the mindset of this 'critic'.

I didn't expect Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky when it downloaded onto my phone- which is why a digital copy is totally sufficient.

Funny thing is that are few details in that book ARE interesting to hear and that made me perk up mentally, but I didn't see the article writer picking up on them, he seemed busy making notes of the ridicule worthy stuff.

Secondly it's unintentionally hilarious when some dude, who's complaining about the things he can't do in the PC world of domestic violence, comes to conclusions.
So he accuses someone of 'conjecture', but has no issue unloading his own.

Thank God for people like Rich Juzwiak (what's that about Huckleberry Finn??? Again, who is this guy? I'd like to see his contributions to world literature, lol), who keep us safe from 'conjecture' by writing their own 'conjecture'. That indeed is unintentionally hilarious, especially if his own bias is weighing so heavily on him, that he has to fire off snide remarks that show you more than you need to know, no conjecture here.

(I'm not a busy family friend and lover, but I'm also not about to jump on the 'let's ridicule 'er with no mercy', bandwagon, not because we are pitiful know-it-alls, no, we do it 'de rigueur', because BS bias under the stealth-cap disguise of important sounding words is most definitely 'der letzte Schrei'.)

Honestly, reserve the right to think for yourself, devoid of categories and drawers people seem so attracted to. You don't have to 'hate the estate' or 'love/hate the family' to keep a little mental distance to both.

Oh yeah, a real sweetheart.
https://twitter.com/#!/RichJuz
 
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Hahahhahahahahaha
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I won't be shocked if she said that.
 
Charted higher than Janet's.
"LaToya releases new book AND SINGLE." How's that new single doing?

The book didn't come in at number one, maybe the single will.

I was thinking if the single does well, maybe MTV will allow her to perform the song at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
 
Charted higher than Janet's.
I already forgot Janet had a book out late last year/early this year... it's hard to keep track with all the ''authors'' in this family.

I have exclusive transcript of an interview with Latoya in the year of 2044.


"Interviewer: So Latoya, can you tell us, how did you decided to take on a such major tour at the age of 88?

Dame Latoya Jackson:My brother and I had the same lives, you know.

Interviewer: O, did you?

Dame Latoya Jackson: Of course we did, but you know the most talented ones are always suffering.

Interviewer: Michael and?

Dame Latoya Jackson:Let me finish, hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi. So in 2009 I told my brother, "Michael they will kill you, because of me.

Interviewer: Because of you?

Dame Latoya Jackson: They hated me, they want to make me crazy, all these people.

Interviewer: Can you give names? What kind of people?

Dame Latoya Jackson: People that were surrounding us, of course. Let me finish, hi-hi. So he said to me Latoya - for your sake I will die anytime. Just take care of my kids. Be sure they listen to Eminem's music and please, please Toya be sure they go to a lot of charities with you.

Interviewer: Wow

Dame Latoya Jackson: I was touched by the strong connection Michael had with me.
His last words to me were - Toya, dearest, my sweet sister, I want you to take on my legacy. First let Jermaine perform some of my songs for a couple of years, till he feels better about himself, then Toya I think you should start singing them, my songs, my music, so people couldn't forget them.You are the one who can do it. I can't depend on Janet, she has binge eating disorder these days.

Interviewer: What a strong message.

Dame Latoya Jackson: I looked him in the eyes and I said - Michael I except. I will crucify my promising career to celebrate your legacy.

Interviewer:Well...

Dame Latoya Jackson:So that's why I'm going on a tour.That's why I'm going to be performing my brother's songs only. I'm not trying to make money from his songs.

Interviewer:Thank you La Toya.

This was La Toya Jackson everybody, if you want to buy tickets for her concerts we still have 398 247 from the 400 000 tickets. The church of La Toya just bought 1752 and we gave special ticket to La Toya's biggest fan, 78 old Star lives in Texas.Congrats, Star.
She loves La Toya's music and she said in an interview that she especially likes the single she released in 2015 "They are trying to get me" from her "Abused" album, part of her "VICTIM" album trilogy, which also contains "CONSPIRACY" and her biggest selling album "Michael Jackson wrote this for me"

Everything is written in the purpose of comedy.
For a sec I thought this is real, until I read the jermaine and ''dearest toya'' part LOL!
 
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Single? I doubt she would top her number 13 club banger
"Just Wanna Dance", whose lyrics
"Shaking my ass
With lots of class, that’s why
But they don’t know if I’m a he or a she"
have become symbol of the USA club scene.
 
Yes, really. You linked to the Hardcover Advice chart. True You didn't chart on the combined chart, which is the main (read: recognized) list. La Toya's is on the combined list.



Because I wasn't aware of the site until now.

I couldn't find Latoya's book on the combined (hardcover and softcover non fiction) top 35 lists put out weekly by NYTimes. http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-07-17/combined-print-nonfiction/list.html

You can't seriously call it a best seller if it's not in the top 35 can you?

And I also can't find it in this weeks top 35 for nonfiction hardcover, combined print and e-book nonfiction, paperback nonfiction and e-book nonfiction.

So in which list really is Latoya a bestseller? From the looks of above it's not on NYTimes.
 
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Thread cleaned _ I really do understand your frustration :( but please try and stay on topic

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Charted higher than Janet's.

Are you kidding....? Unless you are referring to "Church of Latoya's Best Sellers list" ....Hmmmm you are wrong.

Janet's was #5 in the hardcover list and #1 in self help...but Latoya didn't even make the top 16 ..Which is the chart that is published in many newpapers all over the world.

Lay down the crack pipe. I like when people make statement that can easily be shut down and proven WRONG!!

Her book is a TOTAL failure...and people are laughing at her. Janet's book, though itself a failure, was a chart success compared to Latoya's.

Just now, it's # 14,496 on Amazon... smdh

Even MJ's name can't save that sinking ship.

Do us all a favour, church of Latoya owner, tell her she is a failure.

She did more interviews than Janet and thought releasing it on MJ's anniversary would help sale.

I am just happy not many people will read this crap. It's not even successful enough for paperback release. Yikes!!!!
 
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Are you kidding....? Unless you are referring to "Church of Latoya's Best Sellers list" ....Hmmmm you are wrong.

Janet's was #5 in the hardcover list and #1 in self help...but Latoya didn't even make the top 16 ..Which is the chart that is published in many newpapers all over the world.

Lay down the crack pipe. I like when people make statement that can easily be shut down and proven WRONG!!

Her book is a TOTAL failure...and people are laughing at her. Janet's book, though itself a failure, was a chart success compared to Latoya's.

Just now, it's # 14,496 on Amazon... smdh

Even MJ's name can't save that sinking ship.

Do us all a favour, church of Latoya owner, tell her she is a failure.

She did more interviews than Janet and thought releasing it on MJ's anniversary would help sale.

I am just happy not many people will read this crap. It's not even successful enough for paperback release. Yikes!!!!
Totally agree and :rollin:
 
Does anybody know what happened to LaToya's book on Jetzi? I was enjoying reading it then I had to go away for a few days and when I got home it had disappeared.
 
Does anybody know what happened to LaToya's book on Jetzi? I was enjoying reading it then I had to go away for a few days and when I got home it had disappeared.

She removed it after Mattykoo reported her website for copyright infringement to the book publisher.
 
She removed it after Mattykoo reported her website for copyright infringement to the book publisher.

Oh, that wasn't very nice of Mattykoo. He/she has spoiled it for a lot of people as well as me, in fact it was a mean thing to do. Mattykoo should be ashamed.
 
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