MICHAEL - LATOYA; 'MY EX-HUSBAND THREATENED TO KILL MICHAEL AND JANET'

LaTOYA JACKSON has accused her ex-husband JACK GORDON of threatening to kill her pop superstar siblings MICHAEL and JANET.

LaToya alleges she endured a physically abusive marriage to Gordon for eight years, but became particularly fearful when the names of her relatives were brought into their rocky incidents.

She tells American TV show 20/20, "(Gordon said) to me, 'If you don't do this, I'm gonna kill your brother and I'm gonna kill your sister.' He threatened their lives."

But LaToya - who claims her ex-husband also forced her to pose in PLAYBOY - alleges that Gordon almost took her own life in 1993, when he was arrested for beating her with a chair.

She recalls, "He called his friends and said, 'She's dead. I killed her,' because I was lying in a puddle of blood and I was out."

The pair eventually divorced in 1997, after an eight-year marriage.