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Jackson custody twist
January 27, 2004
MICHAEL Jackson is not the natural father of his eldest two children, it emerged yesterday.
The singer's ex-wife Debbie Rowe has alleged in court papers that she was artificially inseminated by an anonymous sperm donor before giving birth to son Prince Michael Jr and daughter Paris.
The admission dispels Jackson's long-argued insistence that the children are his natural offspring. And it is likely to add weight to Ms Rowe's attempts to have them taken out of his custody.
Jackson, 45, facing charges of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy, fought off suggestions he was not the true father of the children when questioned about their fair complexions by TV interviewer Martin Bashir.
But the legal papers filed in California show he and Ms Rowe entered into a surrogacy agreement in January 1996 - for which she received $6 million, a $1.6 million home in Beverly Hills plus a car, clothes and jewels.