in 2006 Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. was born on February 13, 1997, in
Los Angeles, California, US, to
Michael Jackson and his then‑wife,
Debbie Rowe. His godparents are
Macaulay Culkin and
Elizabeth Taylor. At the time of his birth, Jackson released a public statement and requested privacy for his son. Jackson and Rowe's second child,
Paris Jackson, was born in 1998. The couple divorced in 1999, after which Jackson received full custody of both children. Prince and Paris spent their childhood at the
Neverland Ranch in
Santa Barbara County, along with their younger half‑brother, Prince Michael Jackson II, who was born in 2002. He was widely known as "Blanket" during childhood and later legally changed his name to Bigi. Following
their father's death in June 2009, Jackson and his siblings were placed under the
legal guardianship of their grandmother,
Katherine Jackson; Jackson was homeschooled during his early childhood and later attended the
Buckley School in
Sherman Oaks, California. He graduated from
Loyola Marymount University in 2019 with a degree in
business administration. == Career ==