Michael Jackson's mom gets custody

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-08-04 08:48

The "Thriller" singer had said in his will that he wanted his mother to care for Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, 7.

In a surprise move, a lawyer for Jackson's dermatologist, Dr Arnold Klein, said Klein wanted a say on the custody issue because he had "unique interests" in respect to the children.

Klein has been the subject of unconfirmed rumors in celebrity media that he was the sperm donor of Jackson's two children with Rowe, a nurse who once worked for him.

Beckloff said however that the "conclusive presumption" was that Jackson and Rowe were the parents and that Klein would have to file legal papers if he wanted to press his case.

The biological mother of Prince Michael II, also known as Blanket, has never been revealed.

The cause of Jackson's death is still awaiting toxicology tests and an investigation by Los Angeles police and U.S. drug agents into the possible role of drug use and doctors who were prescribing medication to the singer.

Dean Hansell, an attorney for Katherine Jackson, said in court "there may be an interest the LAPD has in at least one issue" regarding AEG's contract with the Jackson camp.

Hansell did not say what that issue was, but an attorney for Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal doctor to Jackson who is at the center of a police probe into the pop star's death, has said that AEG paid for Murray's services.

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