La Toya Jackson's Stint In The Adult Entertainment Industry

In 1987, Jack Gordon was hired to co-manage La Toya Jackson by her father, Joseph. He later took over her management completely. Under Gordon's management, Jackson's public image became increasingly sexualized.

Around this time Jackson was disfellowshipped by the Jehovah's Witnesses. Defying her father, Jackson made a stormy exit from the family's Encino compound to take up residence in New York City.

In late 1988, Jackson released the album La Toya, which featured song title's like "Such a Wicked Love" and "(Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do".

The album was the first one Jackson released after changing her management. This became an interesting period in her life. The album cover for La Toya features a close-up photograph of La Toya Jackson herself. She is depicted wearing a striking rhinestone studded black bikini top attached to suspenders. Her hair is styled with voluminous curls, framing her face. La Toya's makeup features bold, dramatic eyes and purple lips, adding to the overall glamorous and fierce look.

The album cover exudes a sense of confidence and power, reflecting La Toya's image as a pop artist during that era. The combination of the purple color scheme and the edgy hairstyle contributes to the album's aesthetics and helps establish La Toya's own unique style.

The album cover showcases a bold and glamorous statement, capturing the essence of the music and fashion trends of the late 1980s.

In March 1989, Jackson posed topless for Playboy magazine. Jackson saw the pictorial as a declaration of independence from her conservative upbringing. 1989's Playboy cover contributed to La Toya gaining attention and recognition as a sex symbol. The explicit nature of the photographs brought her widespread media coverage and the image of being a provocative and appealing figure. Jackson's first cover for the magazine was equivalent to Vanessa Williams Penthouse spread in 1983 or her sister Janet's 1993 Rolling Stones topless cover.

That same year, Jackson began recording her sixth album Bad Girl and staged a live pay-per-view concert, A Sizzling Spectacular!, from Bally's theatre in Reno. 

The new album featured song title's like "Sexual Feeling", "Playboy (Be My)" and the title track.

She posed again in Playboy in November 1991 to promote her New York Times Best Seller autobiography, La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family. That year also saw the release of her album No Relations. This album featured Jackson's top twenty-five Netherlands hit "Sexbox" and other titles "Be My Playboy" and "Submission".

In 1992, Jackson signed a contract with cabaret venue Moulin Rouge in Paris to star in her own revue, Formidable. Jackson was to perform two shows a night, six nights a week. Jackson was the highest-paid performer in the cabaret's history, earning a reported $5 million. Initially Formidable was successful, selling out on most nights, Jackson departed half-way into her year-long contract.

In 1994, Jackson again worked for Playboy Entertainment, becoming one of the first celebrities to have a Celebrity Centerfold video. Playboy Celebrity Centerfold: La Toya Jackson was released in the first quarter of 1994 and sold roughly 50,000 copies.

Also during the '90s, La Toya embarked on her Exotic Club Tour. The tour saw Jackson traveling to places such as Hawaii, North Carolina, Texas and Fort Lauderdale. All of these locations received a home video release on VHS from taped performances.

By the late '90s, Jack Gordon had forcibly married La Toya and gimmicked her out of a career by manipulating her into sexual escapades and making allegations against her own brother Michael as well as spearheading what seems to be the most successful period of her career, all at the same time.

Soon, when Jackson became aware that Gordon was planning to feature her in a pornographic film she decided she'd had enough. She made her escape from Gordon with the loving help of her brother Randy and divorced Gordon.

Additionally, La Toya's overall style, beauty, and charisma also played a role in contributing to her status as a sex symbol. Although, the Jackson family's "black sheep" has become a Grammy Award-Winning Songwriter as well.

Ultimately, she triumphs NOT as the sex Goddess that she came to be known as during her "sexual liberation" venture into the adult entertainment realm, but as a survivor of one of the most tumultuous and unpredictable times of her life secretly orchestrated by a man who had his own personal plans and agenda for her life and career. She lives to tell the story. Breathing to help and inspire young girls and women like herself who have found themselves in a similar situation.

La Toya Jackson's name should be VICTORY!