Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson was born on April 3, 1998, in Beverly Hills, California.

Jackson
was named after the French city in which she was conceived.[7] She is the middle child and
only daughter of singer Michael Jackson and younger child of Debbie Rowe. She has one older
brother, Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr. (“Prince”) and one younger half-brother, Prince Michael
Jackson II. Jackson was raised solely by her father, who received full custody rights following
his divorce in 1999; Rowe had stated it was her intention and agreed upon with Michael that
he would raise and have custody of the children.[8] She grew up at Neverland Ranch with her
siblings. Her father made Elizabeth Taylor,[9] and Macaulay Culkin[10] the godparents of her
and her brother Prince. During her childhood, she and her siblings often wore masks during
public outings with their father to hide their faces from the public.[11] She has said that she
considers herself black and that she was immersed in the African-American culture by her
father.[12]

In 2010, Jackson and her brothers gave an interview for Oprah Winfrey alongside their
grandmother Katherine and their cousins about life after her father's death. She and her
brother Prince also accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Grammy Awards on
their father's behalf.[13] She and her brother Prince became enrolled at the Buckley School, an
exclusive private school in Sherman Oaks, California.[14] There, she participated in flag
football,[15] softball[16] and cheerleading.[17]

Jackson was sexually assaulted at 14 by an older man she describes as a "complete stranger".
This trauma, along with that of being cyberbullied,[18] drove her to attempt suicide three
times.[7] After the last attempt, she was sent to a therapeutic school in Utah, where she spent
her sophomore and junior year of high school, and which she credits with helping her
overcome depression.[19]

Career

In 2011, Jackson signed on to star in the children's fantasy film, Lundon's Bridge and the Three
Keys, a story adapted from a book written by Dennis Christen. Ultimately, the film ended up in
development hell.[20]

In May 2012, Jackson made People Magazine's Most Beautiful list.[21]

Jackson, her two siblings and her grandmother Katherine made plans to put together a
documentary film entitled Remembering Michael in remembrance of her deceased father.
Costs associated with the making of the project was hoped to be funded via contributing fans
through the crowdfunding site FundAnything. Due to the uproar from the fans and media
sparked by this method, Katherine decided to shut down the campaign. In a sneak peek of the
documentary, Paris remarked that her father had promised to teach her his famous dance
move, the Moonwalk, but never had the chance.[22] Since the shut down of the online
campaign, no further updates have been reported concerning this project.