Michael Jackson children custody announcement

Michael Jackson certainly left a legacy. One of two halves. The first is his music, where his records still have the capacity to succeed at the highest level. The other half is his life, now lived out seemingly in perpetuity by a variety of gainsayers, truthmixers and dodgy dealers.

According to Associated Press, the attorney for Michael Jackson's mother says an announcement is imminent on a custody deal regarding the pop icon's two oldest children, but stopped short of saying an agreement had been reached. This wrangling will go on for a very long time unless some immediate action is taken. To bring it to a halt, a DNA testing would help considerably. There are several people jostling for custody of these children. One of which is Jackson's mother. But Ms Rowe, the biological mother has suggested that Jackson isn't the biological father, and that she wants custody.

All the while the children are kept in a neverland of nonsense and the lawyers get rich by deluding themselves and trying to avoid the truth. Some lawyers they are!

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I watched the Michael Jackson funeral on BBC News. I doubt there was a news channel in the world that didn't take it. It was all Hollywood mixed with liberal doses of gospel rhetoric and American schmaltz. I wondered what Rev. Jesse Jackson was doing there. He didn't seem to be acting as a minister. This was nonconformity at its most extreme. Jesse Jackson is best at being Jesse Jackson in the way that stars are good at being stars. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's Jesse Jackson!" And on he trots. But he couldn't be vaguely related as he was born Jesse Burns.

Michael Jackson will live on, that's for sure. His life will be in his death and his death will allow records to rise in the charts. His casket was a gleeming white affair. The pharoahs would be rather jealous. Americans have dispensed with coffins in favour of humungous caskets. I understand the best require expensive pulleys to lower them into the ground. Pallbearers now just walk alongside these ten-ton burial boxes. Why did I get the impression this was a money making venture for some?

Now, as I have written before, speculation is rife after his death. The doctor who was his dermatologist has issued a denial that he was the sperm donor of Jackson's two oldest children. Interesting that in the pictures so conveniently supplied to the Daily News his left ear looks remarkably like that of Paris'. Why should I be bothered? Because I think this ongoing insanity, as Dr. Arnold Klein calls it, will just continue until a definitive answer is given. One by a DNA test. Surely the children should have the truth rather than innuendo.

Then there is the manner of Jackson's death. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Jackson's brain, or at least part of it, was still being held by investigators and would be returned to the family for burial once neuropathology tests were completed. But why all the tests? What do they think they want to know that Jackson's doctors can't tell them? Again more stuff to keep things going.

I thought Michael Jackson's music was sometimes very good. But he was only a singer. He is being turned into a shrine occupant. That is unfortunate, because it won't be Jackson's memory that will be remembered as such but the money making ventures that will spring up. It's all a bit, well, not that edifying. Rest in peace was what used to be said. Will Michael Jackson be allowed to?

Michael Jackson's secret girlfriend!

Sky News is getting all excited. Any piece of Jackson sensationalism and we all know about it. I kind of watch Sky News. But it's done with the ability to change channels quickly. This morning some character described as being "Matt Fiddes, the tragic singer's friend and UK bodyguard" gave his "astonishing news" that Michael Jackson had a secret girlfriend. So that gives Matt the opportunity to dine out on something and it also offers Sky News the opportunity to go sniffing around southern California. Remember it was a Murdoch ragsheet reporter who fingered Robert Murat in Portugal about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

So we've got another question mark added to the mix. Who is this mystery woman? Is she a woman or what? My bet is that the secret girlfriend is anything from a friend of Bubbles to a figment of Fiddes' imagination. What is reality when it comes to anything about Michael Jackson? The story will run it's course no doubt.

Michael Jackson's genetic inheritance

Much has been said about Michael Jackson in the past few days. It used to be said that one shouldn't speak ill of the dead. In Jackson's case it's not so much about speaking ill as trying to illicit the truth. He appears to have left more questions than answers which always causes a frenzy in the media.

One question which hasn't been answered is the case of the children. If the three children grow up to adulthood as normal loving people then miracles do happen. Until now they have been treated as a commodity. They were produced in a most peculiar way and then basically bought by Jackson from the biological mother as she is being described. Somehow we are led to believe they are his children. It is all too bizarre and I would suggest that the deceptions and the untruths stop now for the sake of those children. One thing almost everyone wants to know is where they themselves came from. Surely that is why genealogy is one of the top subjects of the internet. These children deserve to know the truth because otherwise the absurd speculation will carry on all their lives.

Jackson is said to owe money to all and sundry. So the creditors are scrambling around like vultures. It would be best for a set of accountants to get through the whole estate and just tell it like it is otherwise all sorts will be claimimg this and that is theirs. And the powers-that-be need to get the actual detail of his death clarified and confirmed, otherwise this issue will carry on with all sorts suggesting this or that did or did not happen.

When a life has been led with such bizarre activity attached to it there can be little wonder that people are curious. Curiosity is one thing, manipulative speculation is quite another. It would be far better that Michael Jackson's closest friends and family spell out the truth of his problems rather than let his memory be tainted with innuendo and gossip for ever and a day.

Michael Jackson's "final curtain call"

Michael Jackson is dead. However, like Princess Diana and John Lennon to name two whose lives live on, he will be immortalised as Jacko the King of Pop. Troubled people tend to make the best artists. That may sound weird but it does have a pattern. All the best comics and comedians were troubled. It is as if the human workings cannot do everything. In Michael Jackson's case that was an impossibility. His death will spawn a whole new raft of books, films, TV shows, and newspaper articles. The internet will be alive and well with Jackson stuff.

His music was certainly in the highest realms. You may or may not have liked it but it was greatly appreciated by many. And it will live on. I always liked his first solo song, "Ben" which is still played on radio stations. I didn't take to everything he did but what he did I always knew was good. He was also a magic man with the dance moves. Many a child has tried to emulate Michael Jackson.

Much has been said about his life. Cut short in the biblical sense. He was only fifty. Two things occur to me. He was always criticised about being with children on his own. So was Lewis Carroll. Adults have a propensity to fear what they perceive as being unhealthy in this regard. I doubt if Jackson had an unhealthy thought in that sense. He appears to have remained childlike in his emotional state. Whilst being an adult he could also relate to the offhand way adults sometimes treat children. He could not stand children being ignored. He was the exact opposite of allowing children to be "seen and not heard". Adults expect children to go through a set number of hoops in order to reach adulthood. One ridiculous hoop is the "losing your virginity" one. It is like a badge of honour. In fact for most teenagers it represents failure and a general feeling of personal unfulfillment. Jackson's sexuality was discussed ad nauseam.

My take is that he recognised the "grown up" thinking that many children possess. My daughter used to tell me not to be "so silly" and she was only three then! Whilst a child is still a child, it does not imply that the child should be ignored or treated as if opinions do not count. Jackson appeared on their terms and was able to relate to them. His being with children freaked out some adults. However, I see it a bit like the innuendo of Kenneth Horne's radio shows. He said the innuedo was in the minds of the listeners. His Round the Horn and Beyond Our Ken had not a single rude word in them!

The second point is that Michael Jackson was also criticised for his appearance. This did appear bizarre. A black boy turns into white superstar. Whatever the reasons for his desire to experience the pains of plastic surgery for bodily enhancement, it kept the media motivated. Now he needs no more enhancements. Death is the same for us all. It is the greatest leveller in that respect.