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Michael Jackson left one of the biggest fortunes in music. His father, the man who built the Jackson 5, got $0. Michael’s 2002 will left everything to his mother, his three children and charity. His father wasn’t even mentioned. Joe Jackson was the man who had pushed his sons from Gary, Indiana to Motown. He managed the Jackson 5. He was there before anyone knew Michael’s name. Five months after Michael died, Joe went to court. His lawyers asked the estate for a monthly allowance. His expenses, they said, exceeded $15,000 a month. His only other income was $1,700 a month in Social Security. At the same time, the court had approved more than $26,000 a month for Katherine and $60,000 a month for the children. In 2010, Joe withdrew the request. A year later, he sat down on camera and said what he really thought. “All that money that they’ve taken from the Jackson family, I wish it would go retroactive. Make them give it all back.” And then, with a laugh: “Everybody got paid but us.” Was Joe Jackson a father who was robbed, or a father who got exactly what Michael wanted him to get? Follow me for more stories of famous names who lost everything to the people closest to them.

Whitney Houston’s father was 82, sick, and suing his only daughter for $100 million from a hospital bed. He died a few months later. This is her father’s side of it, in his own words. John Houston said his company had helped Whitney through her worst years, including a marijuana charge in Hawaii, and had helped negotiate her deal with Arista. He said he was never paid. In 2002, his company filed the lawsuit. Whitney broke down on national TV when she was asked about it. He didn’t back down. “You get your act together, honey, and you pay me the money that you owe me.” “I need to guarantee myself against poverty. And at my age, I haven’t got that long.” He was right. In February 2003, John Houston died. Whitney reportedly skipped the public funeral and held her own memorial the day before. “I couldn’t grieve in privacy,” she said. Years later, she told Oprah her father had been “influenced” by the people around him. A father who walked her down the aisle. A lawsuit with her name on it. And no time left to fix it. Was he a sick old man used by the people around him, or a father who really believed his daughter owed him? Follow me for more stories of famous names who lost everything to the people closest to them.