Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson (born April 3, 1998) is an American model, actress, and singer. The second child and daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe, Jackson signed a deal with Republic Records in 2020. Her debut album, Wilted, was released that year.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson was born on April 3, 1998, at Spaulding Pain Medical Clinic in Beverly Hills, California, and was named after the French capital city in which she was conceived. Her name also comes from a promise that her father, aunt La Toya, and Kathy Hilton made when they were younger that if they had a daughter, they would name her Paris. She is the middle child and only daughter of singer Michael Jackson, and the younger child of Debbie Rowe. Rowe is Jewish, which makes Paris Jewish by birth according to Jewish law. She has an older brother, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (Prince). and a younger half-brother, Prince Michael Jackson II (Bigi), formerly known as Blanket.
Paris was raised solely by her father, who received full custody after he and Rowe divorced in 2000; Rowe had said it was her intention and agreed upon with Michael that he would raise and have custody of the children. Reports alleged that the relationship was an "economic" transaction for Rowe, as Jackson wanted a baby. Paris grew up at Neverland Ranch with her siblings. Her father made Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin the godparents of her and her brother Prince. During her childhood, she and her siblings often wore masks during public outings with their father to hide their faces from the public and press.
When Michael Jackson unexpectedly died on June 25, 2009, she and her siblings were taken into the care of their grandmother and their cousin Tito Joe Jackson ("TJ"). On July 7, 2009, during the televised memorial for Michael, then 11-year-old Jackson concluded the service saying, "I just wanted to say, ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine." Consoled by her aunts, uncles and grandmother, she continued, "And I just wanted to say I love him so much", before she burst into tears and threw herself into her aunt Janet Jackson's arms.
In 2010, Jackson and her brothers gave an interview for Oprah Winfrey alongside their grandmother Katherine and their cousins about life after her father's death. She and her brother Prince also accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Grammy Awards on their father's behalf. Jackson enrolled at the Buckley School, an exclusive private school in Sherman Oaks, California, along with her brother Prince. There, she participated in flag football, softball, and cheerleading.
In 2011, Jackson signed on to star in the children's fantasy film Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys, a story adapted from a book by Dennis Christen, but it was not produced.
Jackson, Prince, Bigi, and their grandmother Katherine made plans to put together a documentary film called Remembering Michael in remembrance of Michael. It had been hoped that costs associated with the making of the project would be paid by fans through the crowdfunding site FundAnything. But due to the uproar from the fans and media sparked by this method, Katherine shut the campaign down. In a sneak peek of the documentary, Paris remarked that her father had promised to teach her his famous dance move, the Moonwalk, but never had the chance. Since the shutdown of the online campaign, no updates have been reported about this project.
In January 2017, Jackson appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone.
In March 2017, Jackson signed a modeling contract with IMG Models. Also in March, she made her acting debut with a guest starring role on FOX's Star.
Jackson made her feature film debut in Gringo in 2018.
She and musician/singer Gabriel Glenn formed a musical duo called The Soundflowers and performed their first gig at Canyon Sessions on June 23, 2018, with original songs "Daisy" and "In the Blue". Jackson sings and plays the ukulele while Glenn also sings and plays acoustic guitar. The Soundflowers released their first self-titled EP on June 24, 2020.
On June 24, 2019, the eve of the 10th anniversary of her father's death, it was confirmed that Jackson would appear in the third season of the VH1 television series Scream. She then appeared in Habit, portraying Jesus Christ. Jackson also signed a deal with Republic Records. Her first single, "Let Down", was released on October 29, 2020, with an accompanying video. Her debut album, Wilted, was released on November 13, 2020.
In 2021 the song "Notes on a ghost" performed by Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn won the Best Music award at the Top Indie Film Awards. The song was part of the soundtrack of the film The Passenger which was directed by Alexander Bruckner. On April 22, 2021, it was reported that Jackson joined the cast of the tenth season of the FX anthology horror series, American Horror Story in an undisclosed role. She starred as Maya in the first story of the American Horror Story spinoff series, American Horror Stories, which premiered July 15, 2021.
On June 12, 2022, Jackson attended the 75th Tony Awards with her brother Prince in support of the Broadway musical MJ the Musical and lead actor Myles Frost who won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Frost won the Tony Award for portraying Jackson's father Michael Jackson. MJ the Musical won a total of four awards that night. Jackson and Prince introduced a performance from the musical. Both siblings attended the opening night of the musical at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York along with cousin TJ, son of Tito of the Jackson 5.
On February 18, 2022, Jackson shared the Lost EP. The EP includes a collaboration with Caamp called "Lost", and solo songs "Breathe Again" and "Never Going Back Again". In June 2022, Jackson released the single and the following music video to "Lighthouse". The video has a 1990s-rock grunge vibe that pays homage to Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. On October 28, 2022, Jackson released a single titled "Just You".
In September 2024, Jackson walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2025 for Maison Yoshiki Paris, the high fashion brand created by Japanese rock star Yoshiki.
In July 2025, Paris Jackson formally objected to the Jackson estate's request for legal fees, raising concerns about "irregular payments", including so‑called "premium payments" for unrecorded attorney time, and urged the court to deny the request until full invoicing was provided.
Jackson has said that she is multiracial, but considers herself Black and that she was immersed in African-American culture by her father, Michael.