If you follow the news at all, chaces are that you’ve heard some of the allegations that Young DeBarge has been making regarding Janet Jackson’s secret child — the one that she’s been hiding since her brief marriage to him in 1984. All the allegations have been denied and attributed to DeBarge trying to build up publicity surrounding the release of his new album, but my sources have just uncovered this rare photograph depicting Janet with her mysterious baby.

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The photo appears to have been taken at a BET awards ceremony sometime in 1985 or early 1986, but it isn’t clear why Janet brought him along. Perhaps her sitter cancelled?

It seems pretty clear that DeBarge isn’t lying about the mysterious child, but it appears he isn’t being 100% truthful about the child’s paternity…