What goes up must come down, and the Jacksons, who once seemed on top of the world, have mostly hit rock bottom. Many of them are, according to the NY Post, "barely scraping by."

• Marlon, 51, works at Von's Supermarket in San Diego and lives in an extended-stay hotel.

• Randy, 46, does odd jobs, including repairing cars, and holds onto the "pipe dream" that Michael is going to give him $1.7 million.

• Jackie, 56, is trying to manage his son Siggy's rap career after his clothing business and producing career failed.

• Jermaine, 54, splits his time between his girlfriend's house and his mother's, where Randy and Jackie still live. He also named his son Jermajesty, but that's neither here nor there.

• Tito, 55, is the only brother still making music, but he only nets about "$500 and $1,500 per occasional gig."

• Joe, 79, reportedly spends much of his time dreaming up get-rich-quick schemes — to no avail, obviously.

Janet Jackson, who clearly and sadly, bears the weight of her whole clan on her more successful and competent shoulders, has already bought her mother a house in Las Vegas in anticipation of the family losing its expansive estate in Los Angeles. It seems that the brothers are holding out hope for a reunion tour with their more famous, slightly-less-financially-bankrupt, but probably-more-morally-bankrupt brother — who apparently contributed to their downfall by signing them to his label and refusing to ever release their music — although it's highly doubtful he will ever agree to such an arrangement. I mean, we all know that he's got his own issues.

Plastic surgery for blacks used to mean making your features whiter (see every single member of of the Jackson family's before and after nose pictures), but there is a growing trend of cosmetic surgery treatments for ethnic woman and men that have nothing to do with making them look less like their race.

At the black-owned, DC-based Cultura Medical Spa, which specializes in "ethnic plastic surgery," two-thirds of the patients are non-white. Clinics like Cultura cater to the special needs of minority patients, most notably concerns about scarring and hyperpigmenation. Despite these concerns, the number of minority plastic surgery patients is growing. According to the Washington Post, in 2002, 16 percent of plastic surgery patients were minorities. By 2006, that number had jumped to 23 percent.

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