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They grew up as part of America's most famous showbiz family.

Yet the Jackson offspring have gone on to live very different lives, with Paris embracing showbusiness and embarking on a singing career, while Prince and Bigi have largely remained out of the public eye.

In recent days, Paris – who Michael shared with Debbie Rowe – has opened up about her struggles with mental health, revealing she underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after seeking help at five different institutions and a 'conveyor belt of medications.

Paris and her siblings have also been in the limelight this year with the release of Michael, which followed the tale of their father and became the first biographical film to reach $1 billion.

Michael proved to be a contentious project - dividing the opinion of the Jackson family and notably his children - with Paris publicly denouncing the film while her brothers stepped out to support it.

So what became of Michael's three children?

Inside the turbulent lives of the Jackson children and their varied fates as a rift over the Michael biopic threatens to tear them apart (Prince, Bigi and Paris pictured with Michael)

Paris and her siblings have been in the limelight with the release of the Michael biopic - of which Prince (L) and Bigi have supported while she has publicly slammed it (pictured in 2024)

Prince Jackson

Prince, 29, is Michael's eldest child, whom he shared with first wife Debbie Rowe.

He counts Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin and late Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor as his godparents.

After his parents divorced in 1999, Prince lived with his dad on his famous Neverland Ranch and was then raised by his grandmother, Katherine, following Michael's death.

In May 2019, he revealed he had graduated cum laude at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, 'with a focus on entrepreneurship.'

Prince thanked his cousins - TJ, Taryll and Taj - for helping him graduate with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

'[They] kept pushing me to graduate and finish up my degree when I wanted to quit,' he wrote at the time.

'Honestly I can't tell you if all of it was worth it yet but I am proud of my degree as I believe it is a testament to my dedication and discipline.'

Prince was a vocal supporter of the Michael movie, serving as producer, and attending the premiere (pictured at the event with Bigi)

Last year, Prince announced that he was engaged to his girlfriend, Molly Schirmang. The couple started dating in 2017, and have kept their romance largely private

During his college days, he met John Muto and the pair went on to found the Heal Los Angeles Foundation in 2016.

According to its website, the foundation's mission aims to 'improve the lives of young people' through 'impactful programs' that will arm them with life skills to help them 'pursue their dreams'.

One of the services Heal was able to provide during the COVID pandemic included delivering meals to people who were struggling in 2020.

Prince was a vocal supporter of the Michael movie, serving as producer, and attending the premiere.

During the promo trail, Prince opened up about his unusual childhood, saying: 'As I've gotten older, I've learned that a lot of what I think is normal life is not normal life.

'Growing up at Neverland with my siblings and my father, for us, it was hanging out together as a family, but with the backdrop of elephants and giraffes walking in the background.

'We spent a lot of time playing board games together, reading books, watching movies. It truly was, and is, magical. It felt like your own personal Disneyland.'

Last year, Prince announced that he was engaged to his girlfriend, Molly Schirmang.

Prince started dating Molly in 2017, and although they have kept their romance largely private, they have walked the occasional red carpet together.

Paris Jackson

Paris, 28, is the second child and only daughter of Michael and Debbie Rowe. Last week, Paris spoke about reconnecting with her mother later in life

Paris, 28, is the second child and only daughter of Michael and Debbie.

Last week, Paris spoke about reconnecting with her mother later in life after Debbie divorced Michael in 2000, and he received full custody.

Paris said: 'We connected when I was about 15 and then really started getting closer towards like the end of my teen years and things like that.

'I remember coming downstairs and she was in the living room with my grandma. I came in and I was just like, "hey, mum." And she was like, "hi."

'I sat down, we talked for a second and then we went out for the day and just like hung out. We're very similar.'

Paris explained how she didn't have any expectations when meeting Debbie and that helped them form a close bond.

She said: 'If I walk into a relationship with expectations, probably going to end up being maybe disappointed or frustrated or irritated or a resentment will be born or something.

'When I walk into something and I don't have expectations, it creates this really cool space for something organic to just blossom, yeah.'

Paris now has a good relationship with her mother but her memories of her late father are complicated.

It's been claimed she now believes the assault allegations against him after growing close to family of alleged victims. You can read more about that here.

The making of the Michael biopic has torn the Jackson family apart, with the late singer's estate recently hitting back at Paris after she denounced the biopic. Janet Jackson also distanced herself from the movie.

Paris had raised eyebrows when she claimed Michael was 'dishonest' and a 'fantasy', while levelling accusations against the two executors of her late father's estate who are behind the film’s production.

Her legal battle with John Branca and John McClain reached a peak last year when she accused them of financial mismanagement, lack of transparency and wasting estate resources since her father's death in 2009.

She said it was 'troubling' to her that Branca and McClain used estate funds to finance most if not all of the film’s $150million budget, calling it a 'botched production'.

The making of the Michael biopic has torn the Jackson family apart, with the late singer's estate recently hitting back at Paris after she denounced the biopic. The singer's aunt Janet Jackson also distanced herself from the movie

Criticising the film's plot, she said that she had 'moved on' after producers didn't address her notes, but said it would 'pander to a very specific section of my dad's fandom that still lives in a fantasy'.

She clarified at the time 'that I wasn’t involved at all' and disliked biopics in general because in Hollywood there is 'a lot of inaccuracy and there's a lot of full-blown lies'.

In response, lawyers for her late father's estate responded, telling TMZ that Paris's protests are 'without merit'.

They added that she and her lawyers 'seem far more interested in playing media games by making headline-grabbing, yet false, accusations; raising specific “concerns” over issues previously addressed and resolved, and staging tabloid press photo ops strutting into hearings with obvious props'.

Lawyers for Branca and McClain claimed that Paris and her lawyer also ignored an invitation to meet with them.

Paris has gone on to launch a career as a singer, and while promoting her new album this month, opened up about her struggles with mental health and addiction.

This week, she opened up about undergoing ECT, a treatment which involves sending an electric current through the brain and is used to relieve severe symptoms of some mental health problems.

Paris described the pain as 'the most sharp' she had ever experienced 'inside of my head', and admitted she had no recollection of the friends who visited her after the procedure.

While she said she saw results with ECT, she decided to stop after learning she would have to continue receiving treatment in some form for the rest of her life.

Paris has been candid about her struggles with depression and drug abuse over the years.

In 2017, she told Rolling Stone that several of her tattoos conceal both track marks from drug use and self-harm scars.

She revealed she had attempted suicide 'multiple times' and then went on to study at a therapeutic school in Utah, which she said was 'great' for her.

'I’m a completely different person,' she said. 'I was crazy. I was actually crazy. I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help,' she added.

The Rolling Stone article noted at the time she was 'sober and happier than she's ever been' and only caved into menthol cigarettes.

In January 2026, Paris marked six years of sobriety, writing on Instagram: 'sobriety was the best decision i ever made.'

Bigi 'Blanket' Jackson

Bigi, previously known as Blanket, is the most reclusive of the Jackson children (pictured with his brother at Prince's Halloween party in 2022)

He was born via surrogate in 2002, with his biological mother never named, and was famously dangled over a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Berlin by Michael

Bigi, previously known as Blanket, is the most reclusive of the Jackson children.

He was born via surrogate in 2002, with his biological mother never named, and was famously dangled over a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Berlin when Michael wanted to show him off to the fans below.

For most of his life, Bigi was known as Blanket, but he started going by a new moniker in 2015, according to Today.

While Bigi doesn't court the limelight, in April he made headlines when he seemingly entered the fray in the battle between his sister and the co-executors of their late father's estate.

Executors John Branca and John McClain said Monday in legal docs reviewed by the Daily Mail that Paris caused a deal to crumble that she and her brothers had previously agreed to.

Bigi's team were keen to iron out a pact agreeable to all parties, lawyers for the executors said in court filings.

The executors said that they 'believed they had reached an agreement spearheaded by the efforts of counsel for Bigi Jackson - who stated in email communications that he spoke for all three siblings and their counsel on the issues'.

Things took a turn, the executors said in the filing, when lawyers for Paris 'inexplicably reversed their position entirely and reneged on the agreement that was acceptable to all other parties'.

Paris pulled out of the deal just when it was about to close, the executors said in court filings, insisting on a list of demands 'radically different from what the parties had seemingly agreed to just a week prior'.