Michael Jackson’s will was filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust and cutting out his father, Joe Jackson, and former wife Debbie Rowe.
The will, dated July 7, 2002, estimated his estate at that time at more than $500 million.
The document gives the entire estate to the Michael Jackson Family Trust.
The will confirms that Michael’s mom, 79-year-old Katherine Jackson, was appointed by her son to take custody of his three children and the star’s lifelong idol Diana Ross was appointed as guardian if Katherine is unable or unwilling to care for them.
In regards to Michael’s former wife, nurse Debbie Rowe, the will reads: “Except as otherwise provided in this Will or in the Trust hereof, I have intentionally omitted to provide for my heirs. I have intentionally omitted to provide for my former wife, Deborah Jean Rowe.”
The true paternity of Michael Jackson’s three young children has been revealed, if a pair of tabloid reports released Tuesday are to be believed.
Sources tell Us Magazine that Dr. Arnie Klein allegedly is the father of Jackson’s two oldest kids, son Prince Michael, 11, and daughter Paris, 12. Both kids are the biologically children of Debbie Rowe.
Klein is the Beverly Hills dermatologist who treated the King of Pop in the 1990’s. Debbie was working as a nurse in his practice, where she later met the pop icon.
On the other side of the pond, Britain’s Star is reporting that a friend of Michael Jackson’s is the real father of the singer’s youngest child, Prince Michael II, affectionately nicknamed Blanket.
Al Malnik - a restaurateur with alleged links to the Mob- insists he is the biological parent of the seven-year-old and has pledged to help raise the boy following Michael’s death last Thursday.
“I’m the one who saved Michael from bankruptcy and, in return, he said he would name me the executor of his will. I was a father figure to Michael and I intend to be a father figure to the son who is rightfully mine.”
Of course we all loved Michael, but this is taking it a bit too far….
More than a dozen devoted Michael Jackson fans in Australia have reportedly committed suicide following the King Of Pop’s sudden passing last Thursday.
The calls come as Jackson Family Friend, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, urged fans not to “self-destruct.” Jackson said. “There is great pain but great cause to celebrate Michael’s life. It made Michael happy saying ”We Are The World”. Don’t self destruct.”
“This is a time when hearts are heavy,”
According Sky News, Gary Taylor from London, who owns Jacko’s online fan club has said that he was aware of at least 12 suicides following the performer’s death.
“It is a serious situation that these people are going through but Michael Jackson would never want this,” News.com.au quoted Taylor as saying.
“He would want them to live.”
As many as fifty callers seeking help from suicide prevention hotline Lifeline Australia have told counselors that the singer’s death has left them deathly depressed.
“We have had some calls related to this,” said Lifeline CEO Dawn O’Neil. “In some cases, (a celebrity’s death) can be very distressing.”
Celebrities llike Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Jesse Jackson, Clive Davis, Al Sharpton, and Kobe Bryant have penned touching tributes to The King Of Pop for a special commemorative issue of Time Magazine, hitting newsstands on Monday, June 29.
The stars are opening up about the death of Michael Jackson and the mark he has made on pop culture over the past four decades.
Michael Jackson passed away Thursday afternoon after a suspected cardiac arrest. He was 50.
Kobe, star of the reigning NBA champs The Los Angeles Lakers, remembered the musician as a “genuinely nice person” who offered to open his famous Neverland Ranch for the athlete’s wedding to wife Vanessa Bryant.
“One of the things he always told me was don’t be afraid to be different. He’s saying: ‘It’s OK to be that driven, it’s OK to be obsessed with what you want to do. That’s perfectly fine.’”
He added, “I remember my fiancee and I telling him we were getting married, and him just being really excited, and actually just offering up the ranch to have our wedding there, because privacy was going to be an issue….We wanted to get married in a church, so that’s what we wound up doing. But he made the offer.”
JC Chasez, who performed with Michael as a boy bander in *NSYNC, wrote: “He was doing vocal drills for an hour before he went out. It’s not something that magically appeared on him, the guy worked hard for it. 40 years old, and the guy is warming up for an hour before every show. He wanted to give that audience the best he had.”
John Mayer: “As a musician, the man was one of the purest substances ever in music,” he wrote. “But it’s frustrating, and somewhat pointless, to ever try and figure out how Michael Jackson arrived at an album like ‘Thriller’ and how you could arrive at something like it. It’s impossible. I mean it’s one of those things you actually don’t want to bring up to musicians because they don’t want to remember that that kind of greatness is achievable, because it skews the entire bell curve completely.”
Other celebs included in the commemorative issue are: Nancy Reagan, Lenny Kravitz, Jesse Jackson, Tommy Mottola, Berry Gordy, Spike Lee, Sheryl Crow, Anjelica Huston, Deepak Chopra, Lance Bass, Oscar De La Hoya, Savion Glover, A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, and more.
Debbie Rowe, the former dermatology receptionist who shocked the world when she married Michael Jackson in 1996, has confessed that the late pop icon was not the biological father of her 12-year-old son Prince Michael and Paris Katherine, 11. “It was a place in both of our lives when we were both very lonely. We both loved animals. That’s how we got talking.”
Debbie says she agreed to have Michael’s children after he told her that his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, had refused to have any with him.
“Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, ‘I will have your babies,’” Debbie says in a new interview with Britain’s News of the World. she says. “I went to the ‘office’, which is what we called the medical clinic. They impregnated me.”
“I offered him my womb - it was a gift. It was something I did to keep him happy….I was just the vessel. It wasn’t Michael’s sperm,”
“I got paid for it, and I’ve moved on. I know I will never see my children again.”
Debbie says she never had sex with her then-husband, who she accuses of callously kicking her to the curb after a rough delivery with Paris left her unable to bare anymore children.
“He never wanted to live with me. That’s why he bought me a house. There was always ‘my house’ and ‘his house’, never ‘our house.’”
“He wanted to pretend that we were a family. But we never lived together as a couple. We never had sex. He was on the road, doing his thing,” Debbie explains.
“The delivery was so hard. My insides were all torn up and I was barren. When he knew I couldn’t have any more babies he didn’t want anything to do with me.”
The former nanny of Michael Jackson’s children is speaking out on the late star’s alleged history of abusing prescription drugs.
Grace Rwaramba, who worked for legendary star for more than 17 years before being dismissed last December, claims the King Of Pop often mixed too many drugs at the same time, neglected his three young children, and would fire her at the drop of a hat.
According to a new report in The Times of London, Rwaramba, 42, says she would often pump Jackson’s stomach after she claims he would ingest a large amount of mixed drugs.
“I had to pump his stomach many times . . . He always mixed so much of it. There was one period that it was so bad that I didn’t let the children see him…”
Grace, a native of Rwanda, began working as an office assistant before becoming nanny to Jackson’s kids, Michael Jr, known as Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, 7.
“I just got a phone call that Michael is in such a bad shape. He is not clean. He has not shaved . . . His nails . . . He is not eating well,” she said of a call prior to Michael’s death on Thursday. “I used to do all this for him. They are trying to lure me to go back. But each time it happened before, he got rid of me. Then he made promises if I would come back. All these promises . . . After few days, it was the same abuse all over again.”
According to the report, Rwaramba alleges that Jackson fired her after she contacted his mother Katherine and his sister Janet to plan an intervention.
“He didn’t want to listen,” she says. “That was one of the times he let me go.”
Even his children’s love lived elsewhere, Grace claims.
“When Michael was around, they froze,” she said. “He didn’t like me hugging them. But they needed love. I was the only mother they knew… I [was] getting phone calls that they [were] being neglected. Nobody is cleaning the rooms, because he didn’t pay the housekeeper.”
In the report, Rwaramba also claims that Michael had serious financial problems, and she says that his mother, Katherine, called her on the day following the King of Pop’s death to ask where he hid his money at his rented L.A.-area home.
“She said, ‘Grace, the children are crying. They are asking about you. They can’t believe that their father died. Grace, you remember Michael used to hide cash at the house. I am here. Where can it be?’”
A grief-stricken Janet Jackson appeared at the 2009 BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The singing star brought fans a special message from her family in the wake death of her older brother Michael Jackson, who passed away suddenly last Thursday.
“My entire family wanted to be here tonight but it was too painful,” a choked-up Janet told the audience.
“To you, Michael is an icon. To us, Michael is family and he will forever live in our hearts. On behalf of my family and myself thank you for your love and support. We miss him so much. Thank you so much.”
In a cyber spat to end them all, Perez Hilton has used Twitter to accuse the Black Eyed Peas musician Will.i.am of assaulting him.
The American gossip blogger sent a series of messages via Twitter in the early hours of this morning saying he was in Canada, bleeding and needed help.
His one million followers on the mini blog site were able to see the message: “I’m in shock. I need the police ASAP. Please come to the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel now. Please.”
Hilton, in Toronto for the MuchMusic Video Awards, went on to explain: “I was assaulted by Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke.”
He posted a further five messages, as he spoke to police, tracked down his lawyer and, then finally, decided, apparently without irony, that he would not be drawn on the subject again.
“I won’t be talking about this any further. It is in the hands of the authorities,” he wrote.
Within hours, Will.i.am, who had attended the same awards ceremony, responded to the claims, also choosing to make his case on the web.
In a video posted on his own social networking site, Dipdive, the musician, famous for the hits Where Is The Love and Don’t Phunk With My Heart, accused Hilton of lying.
“This dude twists it and says that I assaulted him, when I was the one that came to him with respect and he was the one who called me a f#*^@t.
“I hit you, Perez? Come on, dude. I didn’t hit you. I told you that I didn’t like the fact that you disrespected us,” he said.
He continued: “Instead of calling the police, you twittered that I assaulted you? Sounds like somebody wants mad attention and is not really concerned about his health.”
“I didn’t hit you. It’s very wrong that you are tweeting that I did that - once again disrespecting me and everything that I stand for - and they’re lies. Shame on you, shame on your behavior, and that’s just messed up.”
Hilton then defended his decision to tweet, explaining he had already called the police and as he waited for them, he reached out for help.
“I called the police BEFORE I Tweeted about it. They were not showing up. I felt helpless.”
It is not the first time that Hilton has clashed with a member of the Black Eyed Peas. The group’s singer Fergie wrote the 2006 song Pedestal about the blogger, complaining about the rumors he spread and including barbed lyrics such as “people talking out of their a***”.
The blogger is also known for engaging in Twittter spats with celebrities. Earlier this year he exchanged a series of bilious messages with pop singer Lily Allen, at one point telling her that if he “wanted to be a f***** up Brit, I’d rather be Amy Winehouse - who’s got talent.”
Hilton, whose site regularly receives 8 million hits a day, has become one of the world’s most powerful showbusiness voices. In recent years he has increasingly stepped into the limelight himself, filming a video segment for Britney Spears’ high-profile world tour, recording a song for a movie soundtrack, and making guest appearances on TV shows MTV Cribs and Paris Hilton’s New BFF.
But he has also faced a raft of legal problems, including suits from Spears’s record label Zomba Label Group, photo agency X17Online and celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson.
But cops in Toronto tell us it was the general manager of the Black Eyed Peas — Polo Molina — who is under investigation and he turned himself in to police early this morning.
PREVIOUSLY: Beginning just after midnight West Coast time, Perez Hilton tweeted a series of messages alleging that Will.I.Am and his security guards had assaulted him.
Hilton was in Toronto Sunday for the Much Music Awards:
– I’m in shock. I need the police ASAP. Please come to the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel now. Please.
– I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke.
– Still waiting for the police. The bleeding has stopped. I need to document this. Please, can the police come to the SoHo Met Hotel.
– I spoke to my lawyer. I really need to talk to the authorities. Please come to the SoHo Met Hotel. Have called the police. Need them here.
– The Toronto police are here now. Thank you. Please stop calling them.
The last message he posted on Twitter before this series of tweets came about two hours earlier: “Is there a gay bar that we can go to with GaGa now that like has a balcony or some place to have fun but be safe?”
It goes without saying that Hilton’s claims have not been verified.
LOS ANGELES, California — If Rihanna takes the stand at Chris Brown’s preliminary hearing Monday, it will be her first time publicly talking about what happened the night her boyfriend allegedly attacked her.
Rihanna has cleared her schedule so she could be in court if prosecutors call her as a witness.
The singer could face questioning by Brown’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, about her argument with Brown inside a rented Lamborghini on a Hollywood street last February.
Geragos has said he hoped to avoid the spectacle of public testimony, but plea-deal talks failed and California’s Supreme Court last week rejected his request to delay the hearing to decide if the case should go to trial.
Brown, 20, entered a “not guilty” plea at an earlier hearing to felony counts of assault and making criminal threats, charges that carry up to four years, eight months in prison if he is convicted.
Los Angeles Criminal Court Judge Patricia Schnegg decided against allowing cameras into the courtroom during Rihanna’s testimony, court spokesman Allan Parachini said.
At the end of the hearing, which Parachini said could last two or three hours, Judge Schnegg will decide whether there is enough evidence to send the case against Brown to trial.
Rihanna — whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty — cleared her schedule so she could be in court if prosecutors call her as a witness, her lawyer, Donald Etra, said last month. Prosecutors told him they would call her, Etra said.
She has not attended any of the hearings, but she has been following the case closely, he said.
Rihanna’s testimony could reveal her current feelings about Brown, with whom she was in a relationship for more than a year before the February 8, 2009, incident.
Her lawyer told the judge at Brown’s first hearing four months ago that she did not want his bond to bar him from having contact with her.
“Rihanna requested that no such order be issued,” Etra said.
Rihanna did not file a complaint against Brown, but the prosecution’s case is built on what she told detectives and on physical evidence they collected from her — including photographs of her bruised and battered face.
It was not Rihanna who called police, but someone who heard her screams for help, according to a sworn statement by Los Angeles Police Detective DeShon Andrews.
The statement, filed with the court to support a search warrant for cell phone records, described a brutal attack against Rihanna allegedly by Brown.
Andrews said the incident began when Rihanna, who was riding in the sports car driven by Brown, found a text message on his cell phone from “a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with.”
“A verbal argument ensued and Brown pulled the vehicle over on an unknown street, reached over Robyn F. with his right hand, opened the car door and attempted to force her out. Brown was unable to force Robyn F. out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seat belt. When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against the passenger window of the vehicle, causing an approximate one-inch raised circular contusion,” the statement said.
“Robyn F. turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The assault caused Robyn F.’s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle,” the statement continued.
“Brown looked at Robyn F. and stated, ‘I’m going to beat the s–t out of you when we get home! You wait and see!’” The detective said “Robyn F.” then used her cell phone to call her personal assistant Jennifer Rosales, who did not answer.
The statement continued:
“Robyn F. pretended to talk to her and stated, ‘I’m on my way home. Make sure the police are there when I get there.’
“After Robyn F. faked the call, Brown looked at her and stated, ‘You just did the stupidest thing ever! Now I’m really going to kill you!’
“Brown resumed punching Robyn F. and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in [an] attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown.
“Brown continued to punch Robyn F. on her left arm and hand, causing her to suffer a contusion on her left triceps (sic) that was approximately two inches in diameter and numerous contusions on her left hand.
“Robyn F. then attempted to send a text message to her other personal assistant, Melissa Ford. Brown snatched the cellular telephone out of her hand and threw it out of the window onto an unknown street.
“Brown continued driving and Robyn F. observed his cellular telephone sitting in his lap. She picked up the cellular telephone with her left hand and before she could make a call he placed her in a head lock with his right hand and continued to drive the vehicle with his left hand.
“Brown pulled Robyn F. close to him and bit her on her left ear. She was able to feel the vehicle swerving from right to left as Brown sped away. He stopped the vehicle in front of 333 North June Street and Robyn F. turned off the car, removed the key from the ignition and sat on it.
“Brown did not know what she did with the key and began punching her in the face and arms. He then placed her in a head lock positioning the front of her throat between his bicep and forearm. Brown began applying pressure to Robyn F.’s left and right carotid arteries, causing her to be unable to breathe and she began to lose consciousness.
“She reached up with her left hand and began attempting to gouge his eyes in an attempt to free herself. Brown bit her left ring and middle fingers and then released her. While Brown continued to punch her, she turned around and placed her back against the passenger door. She brought her knees to her chest, placed her feet against Brown’s body and began pushing him away. Brown continued to punch her on the legs and feet, causing several contusions.
“Robyn F. began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away. A resident in the neighborhood heard Robyn F.’s plea for help and called 911, causing a police response. An investigation was conducted and Robyn F. was issued a Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order.”
At the end of his statement, the detective said Brown sent a text message nine days later apologizing.
“In the text message, Brown apologized for what he had done to Robyn F. and advised [Rihanna's assistant] Ford that he was going to get help,” Andrews wrote.
Brown issued a public apology for the incident just days after his arrest.
“Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired,” he said in a statement released by his spokesman. “I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God’s help, to emerging a better person.”
Katy Perry is suing Australian “luxury loungewear” designer, Katie Perry, over the use of their her name. Apparently, even though 2-year-old line doesn’t include candy colored rompers, the pop tart wants her to back off on exploiting her name for branding purposes.
Katie Perry didn’t take this so well. “I got such a huge shock. It really felt like I was being intimidated and bullied into signing everything away. [The papers] asked me to give up the trademark, withdraw sales of my clothes, withdraw any advertising and any Web sites and sign that I will not in the future use a similar trademark to Katy Perry. I pretty much burst into tears.” All this over some yoga pants?
Frankly, we don’t know what all the fuss is about because even when you Google Katie Perry clothes or Australia, the singer is the only one that comes up, despite the misspelling. Katy has clearly already taken over the world! Besides, there are a bunch of other famous peeps who have done just fine for themselves sharing a name with someone less famous. Here are seven, well, fourteen other names you’ll recognize.
Mark Walhberg of the Funky Bunch and acting/producing fame. And Mark Walberg, the host of “Antiques Roadshow.”
Sarah Haskins is a 2008 Olympic Triathelete. And Sarah Haskins is a hilarious lady host on Current TV. They share a name, a hair color, and a fightin’ spirit.
Tom Kruse infamously invented the Hoveround. And Tom Cruise the actor invented singing in a pink button up shirt, sans pants.
David “Davy” Jones is the singer/actor from pre-fab ‘60s pop group, The Monkees. And David Jones changed his birth name to “Bowie” so as not to be confused with him.
Robert Smith is the intrepid NPR reporter. And Robert Smith is the eye-liner loving lead singer of The Cure.
Vanessa Williams is a former Miss America, singer who can “paint with all the colors of the wind,” and now a star on “Ugly Betty.” And Vanessa Williams is the actress from “Soul Food” and “Melrose Place.” If these two same-namers haven’t clawed each other, how is Katy Perry gonna pick a cat fight?
The National Enquirer is reporting that 72-year-old Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman had a long-running sexual affair with his estranged wife’s 27-year-old granddaughter that began when the young woman was still in her teens.
This is just all kinds of sick…
The tabloid claims that a drunken Morgan tried to seduce his then-teenage step-granddaughter E’Dena Hines — who he has known since her birth— after a family dinner in the late ’90s. She turned him down to begin with but the pair later slept together in a California hotel.
The affair allegedly went on for several years before E’Dena confessed everything to her grandmother, blabbing tabloid spies squeal.
