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Michael Jackson’s Children Banned from Looking in Mirrors

July 2, 2009 by Lisa Waller Rogers

Michael Jackson with son Prince Michael and Paris.

Michael Jackson with son Prince Michael and daughter Paris.

Michael Jackson’s children were banned from looking in mirrors and had their toys thrown away each night. So what kind of father was Jacko?

from the Daily Mail Online, July 2, 2009

by J Randy Taraborrelli

They met as children and for 40 years he was Michael Jackson’s confidant. Now, in an intimate account, J. Randy Taraborrelli writes about the Michael Jackson he knew. He reveals what sort of father Jackson was, and explains the great sadness of his mother, Katherine, who has been granted temporary custody of her grandchildren.

His first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, was firmly convinced that Michael Jackson should not be a father. He was too emotionally immature to raise a child, she concluded.

‘I think he needs a parent,’ she said. She refused point blank to have his babies. Undaunted, he hooked up with an old friend, Debbie Rowe, a nurse specialising in skin disorders, and she had his children instead, most probably after artificial insemination – although startling reports this week say that neither Debbie nor Michael are actually the biological parents of their two children.

When Debbie told her own father, he asked about this method of conception: ‘Isn’t he capable of fathering a child like anyone else?’ She laughed: ‘Michael doesn’t do anything like anyone else.’

On the insistence of Michael’s mother, Katherine, a devout Jehovah’s Witness, he and Debbie married after his divorce from Lisa. Six months’ pregnant and wearing black, she walked towards him at his suite in a Sydney hotel while he sat at the piano playing ‘Here comes the bride’.

Debbie Rowe and Michael Jackson wedding photo, 1996

Debbie Rowe and Michael Jackson wedding photo, 1996

He had on a creamy foundation that made his face almost stark white, and extra eyeliner. He wore a hat with one long curl framing each side of his face and fake sideburns. His ‘best man’ was a new friend named Anthony, whom Michael claimed was his nephew. He was eight years old.

It seemed that Lisa Marie might well have been right, then. Certainly, everything that happened over the next few years seemed to confirm her opinion.

Prince Michael Jackson, Michael’s son, was born in hospital in 1997, and together he and Debbie cut the umbilical cord. Then, while she stayed put, Michael rushed the baby off to Neverland, his Disney-style ranch home.

‘I have been blessed beyond comprehension,’ he announced to the world.

Michael Jackson with children, l to r: Prince Michael II (Blanket), Paris, and Prince Michael

Michael Jackson with children, l to r: Prince Michael II (Blanket), Paris, and Prince Michael

Six weeks later, the parents posed proudly for photographs with Prince – but it was the first time Debbie had seen the baby since giving birth, and the whole thing was a set-up.

She was smuggled in for the occasion, given the infant to hold for the cameras – then sent on her way.

She was essentially a surrogate and had no part in bringing him up.

‘We never saw her,’ one of the Neverland staff reported. ‘The baby was cared for by a team of six nannies and six nurses, who worked in shifts so that there were always two nurses and two nannies by his side.

‘They were kept under constant video surveillance, which was monitored by members of Jackson’s security team. The nannies all had special training.

‘The day-team did exercise drills with the baby to build up his strength. The night-team read and sang to him. But it was as if he had no mother.’

One nanny said: ‘We had to measure the air quality in his room once an hour. When we fed him, all the utensils had to be boiled and were all thrown away after a single use.’

The same went for his toys, which were thrown away each night for sanitary reasons and replaced the next morning.

Michael Jackson is shown dangling his newborn baby, Prince Michael Jackson II (also known as Blanket) from a Berlin hotel balcony

Michael Jackson is shown dangling his newborn baby, Prince Michael Jackson II (also known as Blanket) from a Berlin hotel balcony

Though rarely on the scene, Debbie announced nine months after the birth that she was pregnant with a second ‘gift’ for Michael.

The ‘gift’ he gave her in return – on top of the millions of dollars he was already paying her – was her own house in Los Angeles, which she moved into with her two pet dogs.

A daughter, Paris Katherine Michael Jackson, was born in April 1998. The following year, Debbie asked for a divorce, to which he consented, no questions asked, with a multi-million-dollar settlement.

Another surrogate was found – her identity was never disclosed – who, in 2002, gave Michael his third child, a boy he named Prince Michael II. He was nicknamed ‘Blanket’, as in blanketing someone with love and care, Jackson explained.

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  1. on July 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM Momstootie

    Those poor, poor children! I have prayed the three would be adopted by a normal couple, a Christian couple ,who will help them and give them true love and normalcy. Oh, the weirdnessand perversion is beyond belief. Only Jesus will be able to help them.

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  2. on July 31, 2009 at 5:40 PM Tambriell

    Michael Jackson must have been a good father, did you watch the funeral and the moving statement from Paris? So he was kindly obsessed with germs, so what? Does that make him ‘wierd’ or a ‘bad father’?

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  3. on August 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM Kim

    Kind of funny Lisa Marie “refused” to have children with MJ as she states herself quote “after I left him I obsessed about him for another two years”.

    I would rather have had a father like Michael, he was loving kind and protective, funny Lisa Marie says he should not have had the responsibility of raising children, Michael was an amazing man able to juggle a famous career whilst suffering from an auto immune illness dealing with being pulled into false molestation trials, he had a lot to teach his kids and knew a lot about the world, what a gift to give others.

    I could say much much more, in ending Lisa has been married more than a few times now herself.

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  4. on August 5, 2009 at 4:13 AM LIZ-ZIZA

    I think MJ was a great dad. He was just a little weird about germs, the real purpose of that overprotectiveness was keeping his kids safe. I know MJ had a hard time during the later part of his life, but, it seems to me that he handled his children well.

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  5. on August 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM terese

    I love prince michael 1 <33333333333333333

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  6. on August 16, 2009 at 1:19 AM UMAIR SATTI

    AFTER MICHAEL JACKSON IF SOME ONE HAS GOT ROOM IN MY HEARY IS BLANKET JACKSON.HEZ TOO CUTEY
    AND YEAH ,ICHAEL WAS THE BEST DAD FOR SURE…

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