Paris Jackson and Justin “Blue” Long are toasting to their engagement in the City of Love.
In a sweet selfie shared via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, December 10, Jackson, 26, locked lips with Long under the Eiffel Tower. The lights glimmered from the iconic monument.
Michael Jackson’s daughter confirmed on Friday, December 6, that Long popped the question. “Happy birthday, my sweet blue,” she wrote via Instagram. “Doing life with you these last years has been an indescribable whirlwind and I couldn’t dream of anyone more perfect for me to do it all with.”
She added, “Thank you for letting me be yours. I love you.”
Alongside the message, Paris shared a series of photos showcasing the couple’s romance, including one of Long getting down on one knee and proposing with a solitaire diamond ring. Paris dropped to her knees and kissed him in the pic.
Paris reposted the same photos via her Instagram Story with the caption, “Bday ❤️.”
Eagle-eyed fans later noticed that Paris appeared to be wearing a diamond ring on that finger back in September while attending Nina Ricci’s Paris Fashion Week presentation at the Hotel Potocki.
Paris and Long (no relation to the actor of the same name) have been together since 2022. Paris included an image of her and Long posing with bandmates in a November 2022 Instagram post. “The most fun, all of the gratitude ❤️,” she captioned the pics.
Paris is the second eldest of Michael’s three kids. Michael, who died in 2009 at age 50, shared Paris and son Prince with ex-wife Debbie Rowe, and welcomed son Bigi via surrogate in 2002.
Paris has been candid through the years about mourning the loss of her dad. (Michael’s death was ruled a homicide caused by a deadly combination of sedatives and propofol, a powerful anesthetic.)
“They always say, ‘Time heals.’ But it really doesn’t. You just get used to it,” Paris told Rolling Stone in 2017. “I live life with the mentality of ‘OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.’ So going forward, anything bad that happens can’t be nearly as bad as what happened before. So I can handle it.”
She added, “I feel him with me all the time.”
Years later, Paris honored him in a sweet social media tribute. “He would have been 65 years old today,” Paris wrote via Instagram in August 2023. “And he put 50 years of blood, sweat and tears and love and passion into doing what he did, so that I can stand up here on stage in front of you and scream into a microphone. So I owe everything to him.”