Tito Jackson has died aged 70, according to family friend and former manager Steve Manning.
The Jacksons star is said to have suffered a heart attack while driving from New Mexico to Oklahoma, with the Jackson family’s former manager Steve Manning confirming the sad news to ET.
An official cause of death is not known.
The iconic group – also comprising Tito’s brothers Marlon, 67, and Jackie, 73, and his son Taryll, 49 – had played several shows this year, with Tito last onstage in Munich, Germany on September 10.
The older brother of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson and sister Janet, 58, shot to fame alongside his siblings in the Jackson 5 – who would later become the Jacksons – in the late 1960s and 1970s under the legendary Motown label.
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