MICHAEL Jackson was still being physically abused by his depraved father Joe during his Thriller heyday, his sister LaToya claimed.

It’s no secret that the troubled superstar, who died in 2009, was thrashed and throttled by his amateur boxer dad when he was a child.

However, in the early 90s his sister LaToya revealed that Joseph, the ruthless manager of The Jackson Five, continued to batter his sons when they were adults.

Speaking on TV show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, she said: “My brothers were grown and my father would take his fists and punch them and knock them down the steps constantly.”

She then claimed that Michael was still being “beat” by Joseph during the success of his iconic records Off The Wall and 1982's Thriller – the latter of which is the biggest selling album of all time.

LaToya said: “Michael was doing…Off The Wall, Thriller and he was still getting beat.

“But what you guys see is him up on the awards, accepting these awards, and smiling – but my father is chasing him around the house and he’s running from him terrified.”

The singer said Joe Jackson, who died last year aged 89, would use “belts, whips, whatever” to assault his own children.

My brothers were grown and my father would take his fists and punch them and knock them down the steps constantly

She added: “To this day they (my brothers) are still afraid of my father – they will tell you.

“They come to me and say ‘LaToya, we have kids in college’ and we are afraid of my father still today.”

Joseph, who had 11 children including ten with wife Katherine, claimed in 2003 that he only “whipped” Michael with a belt.

He told the BBC: “I never beat him, before adding “you beat someone with a stick.”

The former crane operator, who was a failed blues singer, demanded that his children call him “Joseph” rather than “dad”.

In his memoir, Michael’s brother Jermaine Jackson said: “None of us can remember him holding us or cuddling us or telling us, ‘I love you.’”

During his infamous 2003 interview with Martin Bashir, Michael recalled being attacked by his dad, saying: "Oh my God it was bad. it was really bad.

“He’d throw you up against a wall as hard as he could.

“I remember hearing my mother scream, ‘Joe, you’re gonna kill him, you’re gonna kill him, stop it.”

SEXUAL ABUSE CLAIMS

In the same interview, LaToya claimed her father sexually abused her "very badly" from the age of 11.

She said: “There wasn’t just physical abuse there was also mental abuse which is very disturbing and also sexual abuse.”

LaToya said the alleged rapes carried out by Joe forced her sister Rebbie to leave home when she was 16-years-old.

Asked if her father Joseph sexually abused her, LaToya said: “Yes he did, very badly.”

In her 1991 memoir, the singer, now aged 62, claimed her mother Katherine knew her father sexually abused her and her sibling.

She wrote: “When your father gets out of bed with your mother and gets into bed with his daughter and you hear the mother saying, ‘No, Joe, not ­tonight.

“Let her rest. Leave her alone, she’s tired,’ that makes you crazy."

Speaking of her own experience, she said: “It began with me when Rebbie left.

“You live with this as if you’re doing something wrong and you’re frightened. And you’re embarrassed. I’ve been embarrassed all my life to ever talk about it, to mention it."

She agreed that the Jackson family have been “living a lie.”

In 1993, LaToya claimed her mother Katherine suspected her son Michael of child abuse YEARS before the first allegations were made against him.

She spoke to NBC News following the claims made by the family of her brother's first public accuser Jordan Chandler.

LaToya claimed Katherine was “outraged” when she found evidence of payments in 1984 made to the families of kids who had allegedly slept with Michael

She said: “There were two cheques that I know of that she has shown me and it’s for a substantial amount of money and she was outraged over it.”

The singer later added: “My mother is very much aware of the children that were there. All the boys that stayed there.

“She’s the one who always said that Michael, excuse my expression ‘that f****t.’

“She would say ‘I can’t stand him. That damn f****t. I can’t stand him.’

Jordan, a former child companion of Michael, was paid a reported $23million by the singer to drop the sexual abuse allegations against him.

Two of Michael’s other accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck have spoken of their experiences with the Thriller singer in the explosive documentary Leaving Neverland.

In the early 90s, the Jackson family claimed that LaToya's husband Jack Gordon had forced her to make the allegations against her brother and father for financial gain.

LaToya eventually reconciled with her family and withdrew the allegations.

Michael Jackson strongly denied all allegations of sexual abuse made against him.

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