Alejandra Oaziaza, also known as Alejandra Jackson, is the mother of actor Jaafar Jackson. Originally from Colombia, she has worked in fashion design. She was married to Jermaine Jackson and previously had a relationship with his brother Randy. Her public story also includes a family television project that was announced in 2014 but later scrapped.
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Her work is best understood chronologically: a Colombian fashion venture, a proposed television series, then a more recent move into speaking and leadership advice. The television project was cancelled, so old launch announcements should not be mistaken for a series that aired.
Her children and connection to the Jackson family
REELZ's 2014 announcement describes Alejandra raising five children. Genevieve and Randy Jr. are her children with Randy Jackson; Jaafar and Jermajesty are her sons with Jermaine. She also raised Donte Jackson.
The children of Randy and Jermaine share a mother, making them half-siblings, while their fathers being brothers also makes them cousins.
Alejandra and Jermaine married on 18 March 1995. Contemporaneous reporting by Deseret News records that Jermaine filed for divorce in November 2004. That is the filing date, not evidence that the divorce was finalised that month.
Fashion work beyond the family name
Contemporaneous reporting puts a name to her early fashion business. In June 2009, El Espectador described a Bogotá shop called Shelter, By Alejandra Jackson, and her work promoting a fashion house led by her brother Franklin. The newspaper also reported an appearance at LA Fashion Week. These are historical accounts of a fashion enterprise, not evidence that the shop remains open today.
Fashion design was part of Alejandra's public profile before Jaafar's film debut. When REELZ introduced the family project in July 2014, its biography said she was working with her brother Franklin in Peru on plans to relaunch her fashion line.
The 2009 shop and the 2014 relaunch proposal give the fashion chapter more substance than the label “designer” alone. They show public activity connected to a named business and a continuing collaboration with Franklin, while the eventual outcome of the proposed relaunch remains unclear.
Her recent speaking and advisory work
Alejandra's public profile has also developed beyond fashion and the proposed television series. The official TEDxModena 2025 programme named her among the speakers for its 24 May event, presenting her work around women's empowerment and personal reinvention. Unimore's announcement, published on 20 May 2025, explicitly identified that speaker as Jaafar Jackson's mother.
Her own professional website, checked on 4 October 2026, advertises speaking, leadership advisory work and individual consulting. Its biography also describes her as co-founder and chief operating officer of ROGO Capital Partners. Those are her site's descriptions of her current work, rather than independently verified claims about the firm's operations or financial performance.
The official TEDx Talks channel published her presentation, Resilience – A Sacred Disruption, on 11 July 2025. That is the video’s release date; the Modena event itself took place in May.
In her own account of the appearance, Alejandra said she discussed motherhood, losing a sense of identity and rebuilding it. She framed starting again as an opportunity rather than a weakness. Those themes also connect with the services her website now advertises, including women’s leadership, personal reinvention and storytelling. They describe her public message and offer, rather than independently demonstrated results for clients.
What happened to Living with the Jacksons?
The proposed six-part REELZ series was intended to follow Alejandra and her family after they left the Jackson family estate. An initial November 2014 premiere was announced, and family members appeared at the Television Critics Association press tour that July.
The launch did not go ahead as planned. In August 2015, TV Insider reported that the series had been scrapped, after its premiere had already been pushed into 2015. The report cited an insider who said production had not been completed or delivered on time.
Her current professional biography describes a producer role on the project. That can refer to work preparing a programme; it does not overturn the later reporting that the planned series was scrapped.
Jaafar's account of showing her Michael
A more recent glimpse of their relationship came in Jaafar's conversation with Miles Teller, conducted in February and published by Interview in April 2026. Discussing his portrayal of his uncle in Michael, Jaafar said he had kept his preparation from his family for a year.
He recalled that his mother visited the set once and later watched the film with some of his siblings. In his telling, she found it difficult to connect the performance on screen with the son she knew. His account gives the film a particular family context: Alejandra was watching her son portray someone she had known within the Jackson family.
Updated: 4 October 2026.