Los Angeles: Joe Jackson, patriarch of the singing Jackson family, was reported on Friday to be hospitalised with a serious, possibly terminal illness.
Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing family sources, reported that Jackson, 89, has terminal cancer and was in the end stages of life.
Hollywood publication Variety said a source close to the situation had confirmed the report, while DailyMail.com, citing family members and other unspecified sources, said Jackson had stage four pancreatic cancer.