John Branca grew up idolizing the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley. By the 1980s, he was the top confidante for another member of music royalty: pop king Michael Jackson.

John Branca was played by Miles Teller in 'Michael'

Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1933, Walter Yetnikoff shepherded artists such as Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Gloria Estefan, in addition to Jackson, with whom he began working at the start of his solo career in the late 1970s.

Tito Jackson's family recently announced his death in an emotional message — learn all about the Jackson siblings.