Jackie Jackson is still out there singing the Jackson 5 hits, and he isn’t slowing down.
Jackie is Michael’s oldest brother. He was born Sigmund Esco Jackson on May 4, 1951, which makes him 75 this year. And right now he’s on the road in the UK with his brother Marlon, another original Jackson 5 member, as The Jacksons. The tour opened at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on Nov 6. Tomorrow they play the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, then Wolverhampton’s Civic at the Halls on Nov 11 and London’s Eventim Apollo on Nov 13.
He hasn’t forgotten the brothers who aren’t up there with him anymore. Michael is gone, and Tito passed away in 2024. “I miss both of them dearly and at any given time we know exactly where they would be on stage,” Jackie told HELLO! magazine in July 2025.
In that same interview he mentioned something else. Away from the music, he’d started a whole new business.
It’s in Holland, of all places.
“I also own a furniture business in Amsterdam called Hayvenhurst, and we got to open up our first showroom in July. My wife is from Holland,” he said. His wife is Emily Besselink.
That name will ring a bell for any Jackson fan. Hayvenhurst is the name of the Jackson family home.
Jackie co-founded the company with a Dutch designer named Robert Milder. According to the company’s own site, they make furniture from recovered materials, with a production hub in the Netherlands. One of the lines is even called the Encino Collection. Encino is the Los Angeles neighborhood where the family home sits.
This short clip from a Jackson fan channel calls Hayvenhurst a legacy, and it gives you a quick look at the brand before you hear about the house behind it.
A short clip about Jackie’s Hayvenhurst brand
To understand why he’d choose that name, you have to know what the real Hayvenhurst meant to the family.
It’s a 2-acre compound on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino, in the San Fernando Valley. Joe Jackson bought it in May 1971, and Michael was 12 when he moved in.
He lived there until 1988, when he bought Neverland at 29. In between, that house saw a lot of history. Michael recorded demos there for “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad.” He worked on his moonwalk there. His chimp Bubbles lived there too.
Working hard at home was nothing new for the brothers. Looking back on their early years, Jackie told HELLO!, “Every single day we worked on it at home.”
So when it came time to name something brand new, thousands of miles away in his wife’s home country, he reached for the name of the house his family called home for all those years.
On the company’s founders page, Jackie explains what drives him now, and it sounds a lot like a family man talking.
“When we deeply care for those we cherish, we begin to care about the planet they will inherit.”