The nanny who raised Michael Jackson’s kids, then turned on him and sold him out when she was fired, is finally history.
Grace Rwaramba is out of the lives of Prince, Paris, and Blanket Jackson after having an actual fist fight, sources say, with Rebbie Jackson.
Grace started at Neverland in the administrative office in 1994. Once source says she was introduced to Jackson by Deepak Chopra. She worked her way up to nanny in 1997 when Prince as born, and never let go. For years she was Jackson’s sole confidante.
There are often rumors that she and Michael Jackson were lovers, or some such nonsense. But Grace was married in 1995 to Stacey Adair. Last December 2008, she married again, to a fellow Ugandan who’s in the oil business.
Over the years, Rwaramba appeared to be fiercely loyal to Jackson. But last spring, when she was fired for the last time, by Tohme Tohme, she sold her story to Israeli interviewer Daphne Barak. They taped the interview just before Michael died. She quickly returned to the Jackson home, but the interview was revealed. Since the children have lived with their grandmother, Grace clashed with Katherine Jackson over how to raise them.
I am told Rwaramba is still in London, where she’s been trying to stop Barak from selling her interviews. In the meantime, she’s lost her status as the Jackson nanny.
August 24th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Fist fight? What could have caused that? I can’t see that happening.
And what could be the conflict in how to raise the kids? Is Katherine doing anything Michael would not have done? I doubt it.
August 24th, 2009 at 4:54 am
GOOD! While I’m sure the children will miss her, and likely don’t know 1/2 of her involvement in some of the things she is reported to have brought into Michael’s life (like the NOI), I think it’s a good thing.
Nanny Grace could have done more as a constant in Michael’s life to help him instead of reportedly aiding him in his addictions as well as selling him out to Daphne. As for fighting with Katherine and Rebbie– can you say– “whoopsie”…
Thank you Roger. I’ve been wondering what was going on with her.
August 24th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Grace may have “sold Michael out” after she was – once again – fired by him, but the Jacksons have been doing that for the last decades…
Especially LaToya: She has been portrayed as the oh so loyal, grieving sister since Michael’s death – everybody seems to have forgotten that she was the only one of the Jackson family coming forward during the 1993 allegations calling her brother a pedophile!
Grace has raised these kids and if they are as smart, well behaved and normal as everyone says it is probably mostly because of her influence.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:10 am
A ton of people lost money and other things when Michael died.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Another enabler that is gone (”Jackson 5 Knew Nanny Was A Drip”). Thanks for the good news.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Sir,
Would you please explain to us WHY you keep calling this ICON “j***”?…if you dislike him, why do you mention him at all? is it possible for him to be left alone in death?…seriously leave him alone to rest in peace.. even though it’s almost impossible, seeing how people cash in by trashing him….
August 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
The first thing I notice in this story is the continued use of the demeaning name “Jacko”. It was demeaning when Michael was alive and even more so now that he is gone. Several people have requested that you not use that moniker but apparently you don’t get the message.
As far as the story, doesn’t seem surprising. Sounds like maybe Grace knew how to work her way into situations and people’s lives but she really blew it with that interview. I can’t understand how someone who was supposedly so close to the family can then turn on them for money. I know she was fired but she should have really thought things through before doing the interview. From other supposed accounts, it sounds like she may have been rather controlling and manipulative. If I were in the Jacksons’ place, I too would not want her around now. Good or bad, Katherine Jackson is their grandmother and Michael wanted her in charge. If Rebbie supposedly did have a fist fight with her, considering Rebbie is portrayed as being stable and level headed, it probably was justified.
August 24th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Please refer to him by his name, which is Michael Jackson.
August 24th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I agree about stopping the “name” calling. Michael did an interview with Barbara Walters and shared how hurtful the term “Jacko” was to him. PLEASE, at least give him his respect in death, he deserves it!
August 24th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Didn’t the National Enquirer break this story a week ago? According to them, Nanny Grace was aggressively questioning Katherine Jackson’s methods of caring for her grandchildren, to the point of insulting her in her own home. When she wouldn’t calm down, Rebbie Jackson, a truly devout Jehovah’s Witness, had had enough, bitch-slapped Grace, and it was on.
Reportedly the Jackson children called her “Mom”. Grace Rwaramba was an obsessed fan who wormed her way into Michael Jackson’s life and forgot that she was just an employee. We’ve heard this story before.
August 24th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Hello Rogo…doesn’t sound very nice DOES IT? So quit the name calling his name was Michael Jackson.
In regards to the story I could not be happier for this person to FINALLY be out of the picture. I have sources that met her while she was living in Bahrain with Michael and she is definetely NOT this little poor nanny who got fired type of person that everyone tends to think. She was rather manipulative and VERY controlling of the children and Michael’s every move so much so that my sources told me when one of them ask Michael for a picture after a meeting he said : of course, but she abruptly interrupted and said: WE don’t allow pictures! At another meeting that took place she would be present and would never leave Michael alone always hovering around to see what was going on. This woman gives me the creeps. There is a reason she was fired so many times…..thank GOD this is the last time…..so long!
August 24th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
ahhh yes someone else broke the fist fight story a couple of weeks ago….a tad late there Roger lol
August 25th, 2009 at 4:49 am
Well Said Amanda.
Let go of the Jacko epitaph…friedman.
Amanda Says:
August 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Sir,
Would you please explain to us WHY you keep calling this ICON “j***”?…if you dislike him, why do you mention him at all? is it possible for him to be left alone in death?…seriously leave him alone to rest in peace.. even though it’s almost impossible, seeing how people cash in by trashing him….
August 25th, 2009 at 9:06 am
It was Rebbie who hit Grace, and with the violence already known within the Jackson family, I am not so sure Grace being gone is good at all. Michael was adamant that his children be raised with time-outs instead of violence.
Roger, you said in an earlier article that Katherine sanctioned violence used on children. We also know she never stopped Joe, and other family members have declared Joe’s brutality “normal” child-raising.
Why don’t you interview Deepak Chopra to get the truth about Grace, since he indeed introduced her to Michael, according to his own account.
Everyone who has met Michael’s children says they are the most amazing, wonderful children they’ve ever met. Grace is bound to have played a large part of that. Dr. Klein, Mark Lester, and others are concerned about how the children are being raised by the Jackson family, just as Grace is….and increasingly, I am too.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am
You know she’s gonna write a book…..she’s already proven she’s willing to sell him out.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I agree with Amanda – Please show some respect for the dead. You media people didn’t have the courtesy while he was alive and as far as I’m concerned played a big part in his insomnia. You people in the media including Martin Brashir and others should be hanging your head in shame. You are as responsible for his death as the doctors who fed his addiction, you caused it in the first place with all your lies and thrash you always threw around. Now there are three kids with no father and a bunch of rude comments and lies floating around about him. I hope the kids have the sense to believe only part of what you see and none of what you read.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I really do hope that the nanny now writes a HUGE tell-all that outs every single secret about Jacko and Jacko’s whole family!!
September 20th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Grace married Joseph Kisembo and that is her husband’s name.
Mark Lester? Are you kidding me? Mark claimed he was the real father of Paris and we found out that is not the case.
I like Dr. Chopra. I was a member of Intent where Grace posted a note about Michael’s passing. She didn’t pump Michael’s stomach but she also doesn’t mention Joseph Kisembo & how deeply she cherished Michael. My husband thinks Michael moght be Joseph Kisembo. But Kisembo has a facebook page. Last I looked Grace was NOT on the page. So I question 2.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I heard that Grace came back to Michael’s children. If you have more information regarding the previous interview, please let us know.