She was born into what would become one of America's most famous music families. 

La Toya Jackson is the fifth, and middle, child in the Jackson family.  Lss well-known than the Jackson Five or little brother Michael, La Toya carved out her own place in pop culture, as a singer and songwriter.

But little by little America learned about the private side of the Jackson family, the side the fan magazines didn't want to write about.  It was a a story of domestic abuse. 

I met La Toya in 1992, after her bestselling memoir "La Toya" was published.