It seemed an unlikely match - the macho matinee idol, then heading into his 60s, and the delicate, asexual pop elf - but Jacko was apparently swept away by the actor's mercurial personality.
Previously Paris, 27, has always said that she doesn't believe that her 'kind-hearted' father could have sexually abused anyone, and denounced those suggestions as 'lies'.
He'd befriended the patriarch, Dominic, in 1984 at the Helmsley Palace in New York, where he worked as a general manager, and where Jacko often stayed when he was in the city.