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*It is my own personal view this is all a stunt by Debbie to force Michael to get back with her no mater how low she thinks she has to go to get him, sigh*
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196916,00.html
Judge Opens Michael Jackson Divorce and Custody Documents to the Public
Thursday, May 25, 2006
By Roger Friedman
Michael Jackson is not having a good week in the legal system.
Thanks to a California Superior Court judge, the story will finally come out about ex-wife Debbie Rowe complaining about her children being taken to live in Bahrain.
The judge ruled Wednesday that all the papers from the Rowe-Jackson custody and divorce case be filed for the public to view. Ironically, this may be in small part due to the ruling last week in the unsealing of papers filed in billionaire Ron Burkle's contentious divorce from his wife, Janet. Burkle was Jackson’s financial adviser and friend during part of 2005 until he became fed up with the pop star’s nuttiness. Now their personal lives have unexpectedly collided.
I told you almost a year ago what Rowe’s chief complaint was in the removal of her children Prince and Paris to Bahrain: Jackson had faked passports for them because he couldn’t get her permission to take the kids abroad and no longer had the original documents. The original passports had been filed with the court. Rowe tried to get the FBI and other government organizations involved to stop Jackson, but to no avail.
Rowe has had one visit with her kids since 2001 – late last summer, when Jackson’s nanny, Grace Rwarmba, brought them to Los Angeles. Rowe was not allowed to tell the kids she was their mother, however. Jackson has told them they have no mother.
The unsealed papers – which may be available shortly – may also reveal the true parentage of Prince and Paris. I also told you a year ago that even though Rowe is their biological mother, Jackson is not their biological father. Toward the end of the child molestation case last year, Jackson attorney Robert Sanger suggested as much to Judge Rodney Melville when he argued that a Jackson TV interview not be offered to the court because of its truthfulness on certain matters.
"The circumstances that relate to the birth of the children wouldn't be admitted for the truth of the matter,” Sanger said to a mostly drowsy, sparsely attended court on May 30, 2005. “Only his love of the children."
Meantime, Jackson has plenty of other legal problems. According to sources, he “giggled” and responded to few answers during a daylong deposition in London on Monday for the $4 million lawsuit filed by former partner Marc Schaffel. Like another deposition taken in the case last fall, this one was videotaped and it will be played for the jury when the case commences next month in Los Angeles.
This should be interesting, too: Jackson will not return to Los Angeles for this trial, and his own lawyers didn’t bother questioning him for the video testimony. I’m told he contradicts much of what he said the first time when he’s not laughing or acting strangely. That’s what this new jury will be shown. This latest deposition was held in London at the former King of Pop’s expense, as well, which suggests that in letting this absurd case proceed to a trial he probably can’t win, Jackson does not have the cash to settle it.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196916,00.html
Judge Opens Michael Jackson Divorce and Custody Documents to the Public
Thursday, May 25, 2006
By Roger Friedman
Michael Jackson is not having a good week in the legal system.
Thanks to a California Superior Court judge, the story will finally come out about ex-wife Debbie Rowe complaining about her children being taken to live in Bahrain.
The judge ruled Wednesday that all the papers from the Rowe-Jackson custody and divorce case be filed for the public to view. Ironically, this may be in small part due to the ruling last week in the unsealing of papers filed in billionaire Ron Burkle's contentious divorce from his wife, Janet. Burkle was Jackson’s financial adviser and friend during part of 2005 until he became fed up with the pop star’s nuttiness. Now their personal lives have unexpectedly collided.
I told you almost a year ago what Rowe’s chief complaint was in the removal of her children Prince and Paris to Bahrain: Jackson had faked passports for them because he couldn’t get her permission to take the kids abroad and no longer had the original documents. The original passports had been filed with the court. Rowe tried to get the FBI and other government organizations involved to stop Jackson, but to no avail.
Rowe has had one visit with her kids since 2001 – late last summer, when Jackson’s nanny, Grace Rwarmba, brought them to Los Angeles. Rowe was not allowed to tell the kids she was their mother, however. Jackson has told them they have no mother.
The unsealed papers – which may be available shortly – may also reveal the true parentage of Prince and Paris. I also told you a year ago that even though Rowe is their biological mother, Jackson is not their biological father. Toward the end of the child molestation case last year, Jackson attorney Robert Sanger suggested as much to Judge Rodney Melville when he argued that a Jackson TV interview not be offered to the court because of its truthfulness on certain matters.
"The circumstances that relate to the birth of the children wouldn't be admitted for the truth of the matter,” Sanger said to a mostly drowsy, sparsely attended court on May 30, 2005. “Only his love of the children."
Meantime, Jackson has plenty of other legal problems. According to sources, he “giggled” and responded to few answers during a daylong deposition in London on Monday for the $4 million lawsuit filed by former partner Marc Schaffel. Like another deposition taken in the case last fall, this one was videotaped and it will be played for the jury when the case commences next month in Los Angeles.
This should be interesting, too: Jackson will not return to Los Angeles for this trial, and his own lawyers didn’t bother questioning him for the video testimony. I’m told he contradicts much of what he said the first time when he’s not laughing or acting strangely. That’s what this new jury will be shown. This latest deposition was held in London at the former King of Pop’s expense, as well, which suggests that in letting this absurd case proceed to a trial he probably can’t win, Jackson does not have the cash to settle it.