Paris Jackson
American model, actress, singer and musician
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson (born April 3, 1998) is an American model, actress, and singer. The second child and daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe, Jackson signed a deal with Republic Records in 2020. Her debut album, Wilted, was released that year.
Life and career
1998–2009: Early life
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson was born on April 3, 1998, at Spaulding Pain Medical Clinic in Beverly Hills, California, and was named after the French capital city in which she was conceived. Her name also comes from a promise that her father, aunt La Toya, and Kathy Hilton made when they were younger that if they had a daughter, they would name her Paris. She is the middle child and only daughter of singer Michael Jackson, and the younger child of Debbie Rowe. Rowe is Jewish, which makes Paris Jewish by birth according to Jewish law. She has an older brother, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (Prince). and a younger half-brother, Prince Michael Jackson II (Bigi), formerly known as Blanket.
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