Jackie Wilson's personal life was riddled with misfortunes. Wilson was shot & injured in a shootout in 1961 when he returned to his apartment with another lady, an ex-girlfriend of Sam Cooke, one of his girlfriends, Juanita Jones, shot and wounded him in a jealous frenzy. 
Wilson's first wife, Freda Hood, with whom he had four children, divorced him after 14 years of marriage in 1965. Jackie, Jr., Wilson's 16-year-old son, was shot and killed on a neighbor's porch in 1970, and two of Wilson's daughters died at an early age as well.
Sandra, his daughter, died of an apparent heart attack in 1977 at the age of 24. In 1988, Jacqueline Wilson was slain in Highland Park, Michigan, in a drug-related incident. Wilson was saddened by the death of Jackie Jr., and for the next few years he lived in seclusion.
Wilson married model Harlean Harris in 1967 and had three children with her, but the couple divorced soon after. Wilson later met Lynn Crochet and moved in with her. He worked for Crochet until 1975, when he died of a heart attack.
However, because he and Harris never divorced, Harris became Wilson's carer for the next nine years of his life.
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