LaToya’s timeline : 1997

January 21 : Katherine’s father, Prince Scruse, dies at the age of 90 years old.

February 13 : Debbie Rowe gives birth to Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr, first child of Michael, at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles.

Late February : Michael hosts a Jackson Family Day at Neverland to introduce Prince to the clan. Janet who is in studio in Minneapolis can’t attend the party. LaToya is not invited.

June 24 : The stormy six-year marriage of singer LaToya and Jack Gordon is officially over. The divorce is granted in Clark County Family Court.

Katherine, Joe, Randy, Jackie, Tito & Jermaine attend the first day of court to support LaToya and they also visit her Las Vegas home.

September : Latoya visits Janet at her Malibu beach house and the two sisters reconnect after 9 years apart.

Early November : LaToya is a guest on the RuPaul Show on VH1 where she speaks for the first time of her reconcilation with the family.

December : Janet is on the cover of Ebony magazine with new pictures and a new interview where she reveals that she recently reconnected with LaToya.

December 20 : Enid Spann Jackson, Jackie’s ex wife and mother of their children Siggy & Brandi tragically dies of a brain aneurysm in a movie theater bahhroom. The Jackson family gather at Hayvenhurst to support Siggy & brandi.

LaToya’s timeline : 1996

January 5 : LaToya & Jack are guests on Howard Stern and Maury.

January 18 : Lisa Marie officially files for divorce. Michael’s spokesman states that they remain friends.

Late January : LaToya reacts on Michael’s divorce on TV saying this mariage was an arrangment.

Live from London to NYC, LaToya gives an interview on the Rolonda Watts talk show. Once again, she accuses MJ saying he is “paying little boys”.

January 28 : LaToya appears as a Barbie doll mermaid in a clinging sequined white gown designed by Gai Mattiolo at the opening of Rome’s high fashion spring and summer shows in Italy. While in Rome, LaToya & Jack Gordon make their last public appearance together on an Italian TV show called I Fatti Vostri. For the last time, LaToya accuses Michael of bad behaviour with children.

April 25 : LaToya is spotted Walking On Madison Avenue with her blonde hair.

May 3 : Afraid that Jack Gordon wants to book her in a porn film, LaToya calls Randy and asks him to rescue her. Randy immediately catches a plane with his cousin Tony and they take LaToya from her New York hotel straight to her Las Vegas home. There, LaToya is treated for bruises and she files for divorce ans asks a restraining order to protect her from Jack Gordon. In the following days/weeks/months, LaToya slowly reconnects with the family starting with Randy, Jermaine & Joe and she speaks to Katherine on the phone.

May 13 : LaToya’s divorce papers detail abuse charges

LaToya Jackson’s marriage to agent Jack Gordon has gone from a tabloid melodrama over abuse allegations to the granting of a temporary protective order. On Friday May 10, Jackson filed for divorce from the man she married in Reno in 1991. The divorce papers, filed in Clark County District Court, offer the standard “incompatability” as the grounds and list only the couple’s houses in New York and Las Vegas as the community property to be divided. Court papers only hint at other valuables, which could include proceeds from Jackson’s marginal singing and acting careers and from psychic infomercials and her cable pay-per-view topless club tour. Jackson’s affidavit in support of the temporary protective order portrays Gordon as an abusive spouse who beat her with a bottle on May 2 in New York. Several weeks before, she stated, “he beat me because I refused to perform” in a European concert. Jackson, who turns 40 on May 29, complained that he then left her alone in New York for three weeks with no money before concluding she had been “punished enough.” She said he summoned her to Florida and again asked her to perform the European engagement but again she refused. “I said, ‘No, I’m not working for you any longer,'” she recalled in court documents. “So he beat me again.” “This has occurred many times (and) he repeatedly tells me he’s going to kill me,” Jackson swore in the affidavit that went to protective order commissioner Jack Fields on May 7. An attachment to the application for a protective order contends Gordon threatened to kill her “and if I don’t get you, my friends will.” On May 6, she gave a voluntary statement to Metro Police about the same incident, stating that Gordon also was mad at her over an “insurance matter.” The protective order was granted May 7 and is in effect until May 28 when a hearing is scheduled that will give Gordon an opportunity to present his side of the story. “We were both sitting on the bed and Jack just stared at me for a long time,” she said of the May 2 incident. “You could tell by his stare he was angry with me and wanted to hurt me. “He threw the bed spread over my head. When I went to take it off, he grabbed my left arm and twisted it real hard. It felt like he was going to twist my arm off or out of joint. “He then let go and started hitting me with a Diet Coke bottle. When he stopped hitting me, I asked him if he was done. He laid down on the bed and went to sleep.” In seeking the protective order, Jackson said Gordon also beat her and pulled her hair in April. She indicated that in the summer of 1994, Gordon was arrested in New York City on domestic violence charges. In recounting the incident, Jackson said: “He beat me with a chair, kicked me in the stomach repeatedly. I was knocked out and he thought he had killed me. I was lying in a puddle of blood larger than I was.”

June 11 : A Las Vegas judge has ordered LaToya Jackson and her husband-agent Jack Gordon to stay away from each other. Judge Fran Fine issued a protective order Monday banning the two from getting within 100 feet of each other pending a June 28 hearing on a permanent order.

June 25 : LaToya Jackson is using a new federal law to accuse her estranged husband Jack Gordon of repeatedly beating her into performing topless. The singer said in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Las Vegas that her soon-to-be ex-husband violated her civil rights under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. Jackson accused Gordon of slapping, punching and hitting her until she agreed to perform at topless shows in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Europe. On two separate occasions, Jackson said she was hit with a soda bottle and chair. “This is precisely what Congress wanted to stop, this beating up a woman until she posed for Playboy,” Jackson’s attorney, R. Brian Oxman, said Monday. Jackson is seeking an estimated $20 million, the amount she said she made from the performances and magazine photo shoots. “When you pimp or pander and beat a woman into submission to do these things, I think it’s only appropriate that you give back what you made off her,” Oxman said.But Gordon steadfastly maintains that Jackson’s allegations are “absolutely not true,” and the money was made by him while he managed his wife’s career.

July 25 : Alejandra gives birth to Jermaine’s son Jaafar Jackson.

September : Janet & Rene attend Stacee Brown wedding to Rex Salas at Neverland with all the Jackson family (except Michael, 3T & LaToya).

LaToya gives a phone interview to Howard Stern about Jack Gordon. It’s her last appearance on the show and the last time she speaks about Jack Gordon to US media until 2003.

November 15 : Michael gets married to Debbie Rowe.

LaToya’s timeline : 1995

“Stop In the Name of Love” is released as the ninth studio album by LaToya. The album, which was recorded and mixed in Sweden is a collection of dance-style well-known Motown covers, The entire album was recorded in one hour.

January 5 : LaToya and Jack Gordon give a press conference to announce “Jackson Family Secrets phone line” at Fashion Cafe in New York City.

April :  LaToya starts her Live Exotic Club Tour in Pensylvania and is booed by the male crowd when she refused to strip and remove her clothes…

November 15 : LaToya is a guest on Geraldo for the last time with a blonde wig. Once again she accuses Michael.

December : During an interview with Inside Edition, LaToya is asked : “Is your borther a pedophile? and she replies : “In my eyes, definately yes!”

December 6 : Fouth day of dress rehearlsals at the Beacon Theatre. Just before 5 P.M, during the second of several planned full-day dress rehearsals at the Beacon Theatre, Michael collapses on stage and he is rushed to Beth Israel Medical Center North at 170 East End Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York.

Janet cancels her appearance at the Billboard Awards after hearing that Michael had a stroke. She visits him at the hospital.

December 7 : LaToya, phones the New York Daily News with the assertion that she knows “all of Michael’s little moves and his little schemes that he pulls when he thinks he needs attention,” adding that his collapse was “a publicity move.”

LaToya’s timeline : 1994

January : During a TV interview in which she once again accuses Michael, LaToya leaves the studio upset and angry after the journalist claimed she is being told what to say in her earphone.

Late January : After the Hayvenhurst estate was damaged by the Northridge earthquake. Katherine, Joseph, Alejandra, Randy, Genevieve, Randy Jr, Jermaine and Lea Bongo move to a a mansion in Beverly Park during renovations. Michael pays for the renovations and the rented mansion (40 000 dollars a month).

February 18 : LaToya tapes an interview with Geraldo regarding the Jackson Family Honors. LaToya says that Johnnie Cochran threatened her career and says that Michael settled to silence Jordy. Jackson family friend Florence Anthony defends Michael on the same show.

February 21 : LaToya is a guest on “La Toya Jackson strikes back”, a special episode of Geraldo. She once again accuses Michael : “When he says that he is innocent. I know that he isn’t. I believe something has been going on”.

February 27 : LaToya gives another TV interview from Las Vegas to E to explains why she refused to appear on The Jackson Family Honors TV Special.

March : LaToya films an erotic video for Playboy.

It is reported in various newspapers that LaToya is preparing an album of country music. Tommy Martin is recruited as producer of the album by Jack Gordon. Recording sessions for the album takes place from March 20–27, 1994 at Creative Recording Studios in Nashville. The album is recorded with a live band and a team of three backing vocalists.

April 6 : LaToya is one of the very first celebrities to have a Celebrity Centerfold video for Playboy.  She also releases a step aerobics exercise video, Step-Up Workout and a country album titled “From Nashville To You“.

April 12 : LaToya is a guest on Geraldo.

May 26 : Michael & Lisa Marie secretly get married in a 12 minutes ceremony only attended by Eva Darling & Thomas Keough!

July : The album “From Nashville to You” is released by Mar-Gor Records, a label founded by Tommy Martin and Jack Gordon.

July 25 : LaToya visits the Video Software Dealers Association Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

August 10 : LaToya is a guest on Howard Stern in NYC.

August 11 : LaToya does an In Store Signing of her First Ever Erotic Video at RKO in New York City.

LaToya is a guest on Geraldo promoting her new album “From Nashville to You”. She sings “Crazy” and gets praised for singing live with amazing vocals. During the interview, LaToya tells Jack gordon that she wants a divorce : “I’d like for you to leave”.

August 12 : LaToya is a guest on Late Night With Conan O’Brien in NYC.

August 27 : Dee Dee Jackson (Tito’s ex wife and mother of the 3T) is found dead in her swimming pool by her boyfriend Donald Bohana. The Jackson family gathers at Hayvenhurst to support Tito and his kids the 3T. A few days letter, the whole family (except LaToya) attends Dee Dee’s funerals.

LaToya’s timeline : 1993

Randy moves to Hayvenhurst with Alejandra and their children Genevieve and Randy Jr.

February 15 : LaToya and Jack Gordon tape an “In Depth Interview With Joan Rivers” at CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.

February 26 : LaToya is spotted dressed as a man at the Dollhouse in New York City.

March 1 : LaToya performs in Copenhagen, Denmark.

April 20 : In their New York home, Gordon beat LaToya repeatedly with a heavy brass dining room chair, leaving Jackson with black eyes, swollen lip and chin “the size of a clenched fist”, cuts requiring 12 mouth stitches and contusions on her face, arms, legs and back. LaToya lost consciousness during the beating, leading Gordon to believe she was dead. She recalled, “He called his friends and said, ‘She’s dead. I killed her,’ because I was lying in a puddle of blood and I was out.

Gordon is arrested but then released, claiming he beat LaToya in self-defense.

Katherine flies to New York in order to reconnect with LaTota but it fails. LaToya refuses to speak to her and refuses to press charge against Gordon.

July 11 : Latoya poses Mary Kate Olsen, & Ashley Olsen during the Video Software Dealers Association Convention at Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas (where LaToya is promoting her “Step Up” VHS).

September 2 : LaToya supports Michael during an interview with Katie Couric on US Today Show.

September 6 : LaToya supports Michael on GMTV show.

September 14 : LaToya supports Michael on the Howard Stern Show : “I was not there and I support him. Nobody was in that room”.

September 17 : During a TV interview on Larry King Live on CNN, La Toya supports Michael : “He is my brother, I love him dearly and I stand by him and I certainly hope that all these allegations come to an end.”

October 31 : Joe’s father, Samuel Jackson dies at the age of 90.

November 09 : During the TV show Devil’s Advocate, LaToya responds to MJ fans : “I defend Michael. I stand up for him so much” but later she says : “if he was here, he would be very proud because he knows what I CAN say and I have not spoken out. I think I’m being very very kind.”.

November 15 : LaToya gives a press conference with Jack Gordon in Cape Town, South Africa.

December 08 : LaToya shocks the world by holding a midnight press conference in Tel Aviv, Istrael where she says that she “can no longer be a silent collaborator” to Michael’s ‘crimes against young innocent victims”. Her husband and manager Jack Gordon is by her side.
The Jackson family reacts immediately and holds a press conference at Hayvenhurst to refute LaToya’s claims. Katherine, Joe, Jermaine, Jackie, Tito & Randy tell CNN that LaToya has been brainwashed by her “money hungry” husband Jack Gordon.

December 09 :  In a pre recorded interview from Israel on US Today Show, LaToya tells Katie Couric that she believes Michael is a child molester because Katherine showed her checks in the 80’s at Hayvenhurst. She also claims that Katherine called Michael “a damn faggot”.

The same day, LaToya gives an interviews to Howard Stern on the phone : “It’s not that I knew for sure because I had never seen him in the act”.

December 11 : Margaret Maldonado leaves Jermaine & Hayvenhurst with Jeremy & Jourdyn.

December 22 : LaToya is a guest on Spanish TV Show ¡Hola Raffaella! where she once again accuses Michael.

December 24 : LaToya is a guest on RuPaul’s Christmas Ball.

LaToya’s timeline : 1992

February 19 : LaToya is a guest on French TV show TV show “Stars 90” filmed in Paris.

February 25 : LaToya is in Paris to announce her upcoming revue at Moulin Rouge.

March 15 : LaToya attends the funeral of artist Denise Weber in Paris.

March 23 : Janet attends the “White Men Can’t Jump” Westwood Premiere at Avco Center Cinemas in Westwood.

June 24 : Jermaine visits LaToya backstage at her Moulin Rouge revue in Paris.

July : LaToya is on the cover of Ebony Magazine about her new life in Paris performing a revue titled “Formidable” at the famous Moulin Rouge Cabaret.

LaToya leaves Paris and goes back to New York. She was to perform two shows a night, six nights a week and was the highest paid performer in the cabaret’s history earning a reported $5 million. Though Formidable was successful, selling out on most nights, LaToya departed half-way into her year-long contract owing the nightclub $550,000 in damages.

August 3 : LaToya & Jack Gordon attend “Follies” at Palace Theater in New York City.

September 4 : LaToya is spotted at Savoy Hotel in London.

October 2 : Alejandra Loaiza gives birth to Randy Jackson Jr in Colombia, South America.

November 15-18 : The Jacksons-An American Dream is aired on ABC. This mini series about the Jackson family produced by Jermaine & Margaret and becomes a huge success.

December : While taping an Exotic Club Tour in Minneapolis Latoya visits Janet, also in town recording her album, to ask for help in escaping Gordon. Janet gets mad at La Toya, accusing her elder sister of recording their conversation.

LaToya’s timeline : 1991

January 2 : LaToya is a guest on Des O’Connor Tonight.

July 12 : LaToya and her python arrive at the Long Island Pet Memorial Park to support of bereaved pet owners following the uncovering of swindle by the cemetery owner.

July 29 : LaToya attends Kim Hunter’s Birthday Party at Amazon Village in New York City with Donald Trump and Marla Maples.

September :  LaToya’s 7th studio album titled “No Relations” is released by Pump Records (Warner) along with the single “Sex Box”. The album Is only released in Colombia, Germany, and Holland, but Is imported throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

LaToya poses for the second time for the upcoming cover of Playboy magazine.

Jermaine, Margaret and their children move back to Hayvenhurst in Janet & Latoya’s rooms.

September 12 : Latoya publishes her autobiography “Growing Up In The Jackson Family” which causes a great controversy. During her promotional tour, LaToya gives many interviews with Jack Gordon by her side (including the Phil Donahue Show) and she claims that Rebbie and her sexually abused by Joe… The Jackson family denies the allegations and claims LaToya was brainwashed by her manager/husband Jack Gordon… Michael & Janet do not react publicly to those allegations.

September 16 : LaToya gives a press conference at Laura Belle in New York City to promote her book.

October/November : LaToya goes in Europe to promote her book. On October 31, she is in Paris to work on the French version of her autobiography titled “Jackson Story”. She gives interviews to Europe 1, Paris Match and Le Parisien. In November, she goes to Sweden for a TV show, in Spain, in Italy, in Munich for a TV show called “Grell-Pastell”, in the Netherlands on Gert Berg, a TV show, in London on Terry Wogan etc.

November 5 : LaToya is in Munich to promote the german version of her book.

November 13 : Katherine, Joe, Rebbie & Jermaine give a press conference in Paris to announce a clothing line.  Later they are guests on French TV Show Sacrée Soirée where they claim LaToya was brainwashed by Jack Gordon.

November 21 : Live from Las Vegas, LaToya appears on French TV Show Sacrée Soirée to refute the claims from her family.

December 1 : LaToya is in Montreal to promote the canadian version of her book.

December 2 : LaToya is in Toronto to promote the canadian version of her book.

December 31 : LaToya is in Paris to promote the french version of her book titled “Jackson Story”.

LaToya’s timeline : 1990

Dee Dee finds out Tito is cheating on her. She files for divorce and custody of Taj, Taryll & TJ (3T)

LaToya’s 6th studio album titled “Bad Girl” is released by Sherman Records. The album is released as many titles “He’s My Brother”, “Sexual Feeling”, “Playboy (Be My)”, “Why Don’t You Want My Love?” and “Be My Lover”.

LaToya moves to London with Jack Gordon and announces her upcoming memoirs. She stops speaking with the family.

January 25 : LaToya makes a photoshoot in Cannes, France.

March 3 : LaToya performs at “Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo” (Italian song festival of Sanremo), the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Liguria.

March 19 : LaToya attends a birthday party for actress Ursula Andress at Maxim’s in Paris.

April 25 : Martha Upshaw, Katherine’s mother dies. The whole family attends her funeral except LaToya who is abroad with Jack Gordon.

May 19 : LaToya is a guest on Bob Hope’s USA Road to the Berlin Wall and Moscow TV Special.

June 3 : Michael collapses while dancing at the Hideout. He is taken to St John Hospital of Los Angeles where he is treated for chest pains. He gets visits from the whole Jackson family (except LaToya).

June 10 : While on vacation in Rome, Italy, LaToya is beaten by Jack Gordon.

June 11 : Back to her London home, LaToya is snapped by paparazzi and the pictures of her beating are shown all over the world within the next 24h.

June 15 : Media start to report a fake story by Jack Gordon that LaToya

LONDON — LaToya Jackson, sister of pop superstar Michael Jackson, was beaten by a gang armed with metal pipes who broke into her Rome hotel suite, her manager said today.
Jackson, 31, was badly bruised in the attack and is resting at her London home, where she returned after the incident, said her manager, Jack Gordon.

Gordon said by telephone from the star’s apartment he believed the attackers had been trying to abduct her.

June 17 : Eliza gives birth to Steveanna Jackson but she files for divorce from Randy soon after.

October : Katherine Jackson publishes her memoirs titles “My Family : The Jacksons” and gives an interview to Ebony magazine to promote it (Michael, Janet & LaToya appear on the cover of the magazine).

December 19-25 : LaToya & Jack Gordon visit american soldiers during Gulf War and she performs on Bob Hope’s USA Road to the Berlin Wall and Moscow.

LaToya’s timeline : 1989

January 5 : Margaret gives birth to Jourdynn Jackson. A few months later, Jermaine, Margaret & the kids leave Hayvenhurst to move in their own house in Beverly Hills.

January 31 : LaToya gives a press conference in New York City to reveal her upcoming cover for Playboy Magazine. She is a guest on “Good Morning America” at ABC Studios and “Late Night With David Letterman”.

February : LaToya Jackson appears on the March cover of Playboy magazine and stops talking to the family who blames her manager Jack Gordon. She gives a one hour interview on the Phil Donahue Show.

March : LaToya performs her new single “Such a Wicked Love” in Puerto Vallarta for Mexican television and in Caracas for the Venezuelan television program “Only For Men”. She also performs her single “You Blew” in Caracas for the Venezuelan television program “Only For Men” and in two German TV shows, including Günther Jauch’s Na Siehste!

March 25 : LaToya debuts her new single “Such a Wicked Love” on “Bob Hope’s Easter Vacation in the Bahamas”. NBC’s Standards and Practices department censor her performance, deeming her dance moves “too prurient” for prime time television.

April 16 : The single “2300 Jackson Street” is released by Epic. It’s a tribute to Joe & Katherine with all the children (except Marlon & LaToya) & grandchildren singing and appearing in the video shot during a Family Day at Tito’s home.

June : Teldec Records initiates a huge promotional campaign for LaToya’s new single “Bad Girl” presenting the song in four TV shows, including Günther Jauch’s Na Siehste! (where she had previously performed her last single You Blew), followed by a performance on ZDF Fernsehgarten and the NDR Talk-Show (both shows being broadcast on the same day). The music video for the track shows LaToya with two male dancers who also performed with her on the TV shows.

June 8 : LaToya & Jack Gordon go to Moscow, Russia on a promotional tour.

June 19 : LaToya reaches out to a patient in pediatric ward of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. She serves breakfast to children in the huge South Bronx hospital.

August : Randy gets married to Eliza Shaffer but keeps on seeing his longtime girlfriend Alejandra.

September : LaToya performs a “Sizzling Spectacular” concert on pay-per-view at Bally’s Reno in Nevada.

September 5 : After on of her performances concert at Bally’s Reno in Nevada. Jack Gordon takes LaToya to a chapel for a surprise wedding!

September 11 : LaToya and Jack Gordon attend the Grand Opening Celebration of The A & S Store In Herald Square at A & S Store in New York City, where LaToya also performs.

December : LaToya & Jack Gordon go to Paris, France. LaToya attends the “Best” gala.

December 3 : Randy’s girlfriend, Alejandra Loaiza gives birth to his daughter, Genevieve Jackson while Randy’s wife Eliza is also pregnant.

LaToya’s timeline : 1988

January : Jermaine, Margaret & Jeremy moves into Hayvenhurst (in Janet’s bedroom). Some time later, Latoya leaves Hayvenhurst and goes to New York City with her manager Jack Gordon to work on her new album and upcoming concert in Atlantic City.

Latoya becomes national spokeswoman for Nancy Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ anti-drug campaign.

March 3+4+5+6 : Concerts at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. Among celebrities guests are Brooke Schields, Quincy Jones, Prince, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, New York City Mayor and the Jackson family (including Katherine, Rebbie, Janet and La Toya). Backstage, La Toya introduces Donald Trump to MJ.

March 27 : The single “You’re Gonna Get Rocked!” is  released throughout the U.S., Europe, and Canada. It will peak at #103, barely missing the Billboard Hot 100. Latoya shoots a music video for this song.

March 29 : LaToya gives her very first full concert at Donald Trump’s Castle Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City before a sold-out audience. Katherine, Rebbie, Janet & Rene attend the performance and visit her backstage with Donald Trump.

While in New Jersey, Janet & Rene have dinner with LaToya & Jack at the Cascio family restaurant and they all pose for a picture with Dominic & Connie Cascio.

Mid May : Michael moves out of Hayvenhurst to his recently purchased ranch in the Santa Ynez Vallez. He bought the Sycamore Ranch for $17 millions dollars and soon renames it Neverland Valley Ranch.

June 10 : LaToya performs at Businessman Donald Trumps 42nd Birthday Celebration at Trump Plaza Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

June 14 : LaToya and Lisa Hartman attend Donald Trump’s 42nd Birthday Celebration at Trump’s Castle Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

July 2 : LaToya is a guest on german TV show ARD-Show “Die verflixte 7”, in Wuppertal, Germany.

September 2 : Latoya & her manager Jack Gordon attend Michael’s concert at the Niedersachsenstadion in Hannover, Germany with Katherine and visit Michael at his hotel later. It’s the last time Michael & Latoya sees each other until 2002!

September 12 : LaToya is a guest on german TV show in Munich. While in Munich, LaToya is photographed by Fryderyk Gabowicz.

September 23 : LaToya is a guest on The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross.

October 25 : LaToya’s 5th studio album titled “LaToya” is released by RCA.”You’re Gonna Get Rocked!” is released as a single. The video is directed by Greg Gold. A huge promotion campaign followed in the fall of 1988, with LaToya performing the song live on many different TV shows worldwide.

November : LaToya poses for Playboy during a top secret photoshoot at Neil Simon Theatre in NYC.