Paris Jackson has announced that she is engaged to her bandmate Justin Long.
The model, 26, revealed that she is marrying the music producer in an Instagram post on Friday, sharing a sweet snap of the proposal and a montage of their time together.
Paris, daughter of the late Michael Jackson, posted the news while paying tribute to Justin – nicknamed Blue – on his birthday.
She wrote: ‘Happy birthday my sweet blue. Living life with you these past few years has been an indescribable whirlwind and I couldn’t dream of anyone more perfect to do it all with. Thank you for letting me be yours. I love you. (sic)’
While she didn’t specify when or where Justin popped the question, she was spotted wearing the ring in September. The couple is believed to have started dating in 2022.
Before that, she dated another bandmate, Gabriel Glenn, and when they split in 2021 after two years together, Paris described it as “the deepest heartbreak she’s ever experienced.”
Paris Jackson is engaged. The singer revealed that she is marrying her boyfriend, music producer Justin Long, and shared a sweet snap of the proposal.
Paris showed off her dazzling engagement ring in her snapshot gallery
She wrote in the caption: ‘Happy birthday my sweet blue. Doing life with you these past few years has been an indescribable whirlwind and I couldn’t dream of anyone more perfect for me.
Speaking about the split, she shared on Red Table Talk: “It was the deepest I’ve ever loved anyone, it was the most intense I’ve felt yet and the most intense betrayal I’ve felt and experienced yet.”
“It’s definitely closed me off from that, I’m very careful who I spend time with now and I’m very cautious and trying to protect myself.” He did not give further details about the betrayal.
Paris also dated the likes of TOWIE star Tom Kilbey, performer Michael Snoddy and was linked to Cara Delevingne.
Justin first appeared on Paris’s social media in a group photo with his band two years ago, and has since briefly appeared in a few posts.
He is a producer, mixer and music engineer from California who has worked with Paris behind the scenes at his shows for years.
His LinkedIn profile says he has “over a decade of experience making music, from engineering and mixing songs that have hit #1 on iTunes in the US and 20 other countries, to performing live as part of a band signed to a major label. .’
He attended Grace College and Seminary in Indiana, before embarking on an artistic career and then moving into music.
Other artists he has worked with include 5 Seconds of Summer, Nickel Creek, HOLYCHILD, Grace Potter, The Wombats and Sleater Kinney.
Justin is also a businessman and has created an app called Dayly, which is a personal habit diary and tracker.
They were photographed together in Los Angeles in October, with a small dachshund puppy that Paris introduced to her followers earlier this year.
The couple also posed sweetly outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Paris and Justin also posed for Polaroid photos together.
Paris and Justin sweetly kissed in another photo in the gallery.
Paris shared a sweet photo of the couple on a ski vacation.
While she didn’t specify when or where Justin popped the question, she was seen wearing the ring in September (pictured at Paris Fashion Week).
In 2020, the model opened up about her sexuality and said she mainly dated women.
While she insisted that when it comes to her romances, it’s more about how they are as people than ‘what’s in their pants,’ she confessed: ‘I never thought I’d end up with a guy.’
The model continued: ‘(I thought) I would end up marrying a girl. I have dated more women than men. I’ve been with more girls.
And Paris insists her late father Michael “felt the energy” that she was gay.
Speaking on her Facebook Watch show, Unfiltered: Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn, she shared: “I think he was feeling the energy and making fun of me the same way he made fun of my brothers, like, ‘You have a girlfriend!’ if I were staring too hard at a woman’s magazine.
‘I’m very lucky to have that, especially being so young, eight or nine years old. Not many kids have that experience.’
‘The first time I told a family member, they didn’t believe me. (Prince) said he just wants to learn more about it, understand it better. I’m lucky to have that too.’
However, not everyone was as sexually aware as Michael.
Paris continued: ‘The public is only aware of three long-term relationships that I have been in and they have been with men. “The public doesn’t know about most of the relationships I’ve been in.”
“I say I’m gay because I assume I am, but I wouldn’t consider myself bisexual because I’ve dated more than just men and women, I’ve dated a man who had a vagina.”
‘It has nothing to do with what’s in your pants, it’s literally like, what are you like as a person?’
Paris admitted that things changed after Michael’s death and she had to move in with her grandmother Katherine Jackson, claiming she felt she needed to hide who she really was to escape trial.
“Homosexuality in general is taboo in the black community,” the singer-songwriter said.
Paris was 11 when Michael died and she and her brothers Prince, 24, and Blanket, 19, went to live with their 91-year-old grandmother, Katherine.
Paris’s mother is nurse Debbie Rowe in the 2019 photo
Michael, who died in 2009 from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic Propofol, and Debbie divorced in 1999 and he was given full custody of the children (pictured in 1997).
Paris pictured with her brothers Prince, 27, and Bigi, 22, in March at the press night screening of MJ: The Musical at London’s Prince Edward Theatre.
Paris’s mother is Debbie Rowe, who was married to Michael from 1996 to 1999 after meeting him while working as a nurse at the dermatology clinic where he was being treated for vitiligo.
The superstar divorced Lisa Marie Presley the same year he met Debbie and she gave birth to the late star’s son, Prince, in 1997, three months after they married.
When Debbie separated from the singer, she agreed to give Michael full custody of their two children. Paris then reconnected with her mother at the age of 15.
Michael also had a son, Bigi. He was born through a surrogate mother in 2002 as Prince Michael Jackson II. The identity of the biological mother has not been publicly revealed.
Paris has said she is close with her brothers, who have supported her sexuality, and Prince joined a gay-straight alliance group at his high school.
In an interview, he also talked about meeting his birth mother, Debbie.
She said: ‘It’s great to meet her and see how similar we are.’
“As far as the type of music she likes, she really likes country and folk, I send her some of the stuff I’m working on… We’re a lot alike,” Jackson added.
‘It’s great to have her as a friend. It’s very peaceful, which I love, that’s the perfect word to describe it.’