JACK(ET)SON: Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine is going creepy, wearing the same jacket in concert that his much more successful sibling wore. (
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Jacko wasn’t the only wacko in the Jackson clan.
Jermaine Jackson is the new heir to the King of Pop’s kooky throne — donning the dead singer’s clothes, changing his legal name to “Jacksun” for artistic purposes, and spewing homophobic slurs on a Jackson family-reunion tour.
“We love women. We’re not faggots,” said Jacksun, 58, after a Guardian reporter asked about groupies last week.
When younger brother Marlon tried to smooth over the comment, Jacksun shot back, “Faggots, gay, whatever you call it.”
The spotlight-seeking troubadour apparently wants to become his dead brother, wearing Michael’s tight black jeans and sequined and military-style jackets with white T-shirts. “At first, we thought it was funny, or maybe it was a little tribute to Michael,” a sibling said, “but if you saw him now, you’d know that it’s no longer funny . . . it’s like he is on another planet.”
He’s also lost weight trying to look like Michael, who dropped 89 pounds during his 2005 molestation trial.
“He’s Michael-like skinny, and that’s not usually Jermaine,” the sibling added. “He’s been acting like he is Michael.”
Money woes could be pushing Jacksun over the edge, relatives say. He was at the forefront of a failed attempt to wrest control of Jacko’s estimated $2 billion estate last summer.
His book, “You Are Not Alone,” sold a scant 23,000 copies since its release two years ago, according to Nielsen Bookscan. And the tour, which includes three of the original Jackson 5, has been a dud.
The King of Flop is dependent on wife Halima Rashid, and “has run up massive bills . . . at hotels — bills he knows can’t pay for,” an insider said.
Now, Rashid has agreed to allow the wild Jacksun, who converted to Islam in the 1980s, to take another wife, the Guardian reported.
The singer was married three times in traditional American ceremonies and twice in Muslim ceremonies. He also has children with his brother Randy’s ex-wife, Alejandra.
Some relatives say he’s simply lost his mind because he feels guilty over Michael’s death by drug overdose in 2009.
In an effort to win over Michael, Jacksun would often warn the drug-addled pop megastar of his family’s plans to stage an intervention.
“It’s stuck with him, no doubt about it . . . because if the interventions had worked, who knows, Mike could still be here,” a relative said.
Jacksun, who’s always lived in his brother’s shadow, often lamented that he should have been the family’s biggest star.
In 1992, Jacksun released the song “Word to the Badd,” to rip Michael for bleaching his skin.
“Michael used to say all the time that there isn’t a such thing as bad media attention,” one family member said. “Jermaine is trying to use Mike’s blueprint. But Jermaine isn’t Michael, and he’s got to stop this madness.”
* Stacy Brown is a reporter and longtime friend of the Jackson family