Posted on 06/08/2003 11:49:56 AM PDT by 7 x 77
Jesse jackson has been caught up in a new love-child scandal -- two years after The ENQUIRER revealed he'd fathered a baby girl with a former staffer.
An unmarried Chicago woman has just given birth to a baby girl. Sources say Jesse's son Yusef is the father -- and he's agreed to take a paternity test, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
The ENQUIRER is withholding the names of the woman and the baby.
Back in January 2001, The ENQUIRER revealed exclusively that Jesse Jackson, then 59, had a long-term extramarital affair with 39-year-old Rainbow Coalition staffer Karin Stanford that resulted in a love child born in May 1999.
After the news broke, the civil rights leader publicly confessed to fathering Karin's child.
And in February 2001 The ENQUIRER broke the story that Jesse had funneled money to Karin from one of his nonprofit organizations.
The new love-child scandal involving Jesse's son heated up even before the woman gave birth to a baby girl last month in a Chicago hospital.
An employee of the business where the woman works said: "Everyone is talking about her having a baby by one of the Jackson brothers.
"But she gets upset if anyone asks her or if she overhears the speculation.
"So we all pretended not to notice as she got bigger and bigger.
"But when she wasn't around, it was the talk of the workplace."
Yusef, 33, met the woman at her workplace, said a source close to the Jackson family.
"Yusef and his brother Jonathan run the River North beer distribution company. Yusef went to her workplace on a regular basis and brought family and friends with him.
"He got to know her pretty good by doing business with her, and eventually invited her to a fund-raiser for Jesse's congressman son Jesse Jr. about two years ago."
The mother of the love child is a very sweet, softspoken girl, says a co-worker.
The place where she works is often frequented by celebrities.
The woman worked through her pregnancy, but it wasn't easy.
"There were days she cried a lot because she said she wasn't getting help from the father of her baby but then there were days when she threw herself into her work to keep her mind off her situation," the co-worker disclosed.
"She would not openly discuss the father of her baby at work. And she warned everyone to keep quiet about what they knew about her baby and the father.
"But after a while a rumor started that the baby was Yusef Jackson's child."
In fact, The ENQUIRER observed Yusef, who is not married, visit the woman and baby two times, leaving once with a photograph of the infant.
The ENQUIRER has also learned that before the woman entered her last month of pregnancy, she moved from a $100,000 condo she was renting to a new high-rise condo in the River North section of Chicago.
"With the baby coming she needed another bedroom and she got it in this gorgeous building," a friend told The ENQUIRER.
"Her two-bedroom unit cost about $358,000, although she's just renting. It's still a lot more expensive than where she came from.
"And there are amenities she never had before like a pool, sunning terrace, hot tub and a day-care center.
"On the first day she came home with the baby, May 29, she still had not named the child.
"Yusef showed up the same day to see the little girl. He didn't stay long but when he left he was carrying a picture of the baby.
"Yusef has been to visit the woman several times and never stays too long."
The ENQUIRER placed phone calls to Yusef Jackson and his brother Jonathan, as well as to the woman, seeking a comment, but the calls were not returned.
Yusef graduated from UVA in '92; played football here...
Yup...from Newsmax...
In conversation, the man – I'll call him Joe – quickly informed me he was an executive close to the Budweiser corporation. He said he could vouch for the accuracy of the account of Jackson's "shakedown" of Budweiser.As Timmerman writes, Jackson discovered that Budweiser had a poor record of having minorities head its distributorships.
Jackson used his standard tactics to get the beer company to give his son a lucrative beer distributorship on the outskirts of Chicago.
(At one point, to hurt Budweiser, Jackson had encouraged African-Americans to quit drinking alcohol because of the harm it had done to the black community. But that stopped once his family got the distributorship.)
Joe told me there was a lot more to the story. Jackson had actually been angling for a much bigger, more profitable distributorship in the New Jersey suburbs just outside New York City.
Budweiser cleverly maneuvered another minority into that position. Jackson was left with the Chicago outlet.
Joe, a Hispanic, noted that Jackson had a legitimate grievance about Budweiser. He added that Jackson, however, had little interest in making Budweiser actually reach out to minorities or create a real plan to fix its problems.
Instead, Jackson used his position and title to have Budweiser pay off his family to keep him quiet.
And that's the real story of Jesse Jackson.
In the 1980s, Jackson geared up to attack Coca-Cola for doing business in South Africa. Coke responded quickly by awarding distributorships to blacks. The first to receive a Coke franchise was Jesse's half brother, Noah Robinson. Also in line: Cecil Troy, an Operation PUSH funder. Robinson got on the Jackson family gravy train a year later when Jesse negotiated a similar deal with Kentucky Fried Chicken. As Kenneth Timmerman reported in his 2001 book Shakedown, Robinson once said, "I told Jesse, 'If you just do the talking for us — and I handle the financial operations — we can rival the Rockefellers in riches.'"
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