LaToya Jackson Returns and Defends Michael

In 1980 LaToya launched a solo singing career. By the mid-'80s Gordon was working for her father. Soon he began to help Joe Jackson manage his daughter's career.

Latoya said Gordon also soon took charge of her life. As Katherine Jackson described it, LaToya went on a business trip to Japan with Gordon and they "never came back."

LaToya said Gordon took her passport, transferred her bank accounts into his name, dictated when and where she worked and monitored her every phone call. For the next 10 years, she said, she lived with Gordon throughout Europe and the United States against her will and always in fear.

She said Gordon, 20 years her senior, forced her to marry him, with the odd promise that she could have an annulment in six months.

When she asked for the annulment, she said he "reached over and he grabbed me and said, 'I own you, don't you understand, you're mine,'" said LaToya. "And he took my head, and he started banging it on the corner of the table in the room."

Days later a photograph of her badly beaten face appeared in the press. Gordon reportedly said his wife had been attacked in their hotel in Rome. In 1993 he was arrested for beating LaToya with a chair. He told authorities he was defending himself from his wife, who he said held a knife. LaToya never pressed charges.

Gordon denies beating LaToya and told "20/20" her allegations about him are not only "unbelievable" but they are "just not true." In fact, he has adamantly denied ever holding her prisoner or preventing her from traveling alone during their time together.

But LaToya insists his violence was the cause for her most outrageous behavior -- including the infamous "Playboy" photo shoots that shocked her family. She said her apparent willingness to pose nude was part of her then-husband's plan to sexually exploit her for millions of dollars. She said she complied out of fear.

Talking About Michael

After appearing on two top-selling "Playboy" covers, LaToya moved on to expose her family. Eleven years ago, she and Gordon faced a media frenzy in Tel Aviv when she condemned her brother Michael, accusing him of molesting children. She proclaimed she would not be a "silent collaborator" to Michael's "crimes."