'A Real Life "Momma Mia!" Who Are Parents Of The Jackson 3
A CLIFFHANGER
AS THE INEVITABLE CONFIRMATION COMES THAT MICHAEL JACKSON DIED OF AN OVERDOSE OF DRUGS, I find myself wishing that such finality was immiment in the question of who really are the parents of his children.
On its face, the answer is obvious. Michael Jackson was, and a supernaturally good one at that, at least according to public pronouncements from friends and family. I have no reason to doubt the truthfulness of those statements other than the odd video that surfaced after his death in which his children are miked and repeat lines that seem rehearsed. "Daddy, thank you for my birthday cake and I love you so much, and, and and, uh, I love my daddy so much. You're the best daddy in the whole world," Paris says to the camera.
Sadly, the pop star who was both "father and the mother" to three children is now dead, opening the Pandora's box of who their biological parents really are.
So far mentioned as possible sperm donors are Jackson's dermatologist Arnold Klein, the children's godfather Englishman Mark Lester, and just today Macauley Culkin emerges as a potential sperm donor. And then there's of course Jackson himself.
"They are all his children," MJ's brother Tito told U.K.'s Daily Mirror. "Blanket is Michael's, I can tell. Those eyes don't lie."
On the maternal side, there is less mystery, at least in the case of the two oldest children, Prince, 12 and Paris, 11. Debbie Rowe claims to be the mother, and the Los Angeles County Superior Court has granted visitation rights to her since since Michael's death.
Less convincing are the claims by one Claire Cruise who says she's mom to all three of MJ's kids -- along with a fourth -- Connor Cruise -- whom she contends Michael gave away to actor Tom Cruise because of his skin color. Whew. That was a mouthful. And doesn't that make you wish for the day when the press felt the need to corroborate statements before they printed them?
Adoptees prove that biology isn't everything. But when the person you called daddy dies and leaves you orphaned, we feel certain that the real mystery isn't quite as enthralling as that painted in last year's Momma Mia!, a movie with a similar storyline.
We don't know yet if we'll ever find out who the biological parents of Prince, Paris and Prince II really are, or whether the story will have a happy ending.
All we can say for sure is, if a movie was made exploring MJ's children's parentage, there would be no mystery over the background music.
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I thought I'd heard that the 2 children Paris and Prince are the children of Debbie Rowe, the third child also known as Blanket was from a different surrogate. Sad for these children, but they will be well taken care of as far as financial provisions are concerned. They are really beautiful children as far as I am concerned.
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