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Michael Jackson’s three children were genetically engineered, according to recent reports. The King of Pop allegedly planned the conception of Prince Michael 12, Paris Katherine, 11 and seven year old Blanket using donated sperm and carefully chosen surrogate mothers.

“Michael is not the father of a single one of the children in the biological way, but in chemical terms he oversaw their creation as a dad” a close source told Britain’s News of the World newspaper. “He was adamant that the children should come from intelligent, respected and- most importantly- healthy genes.”

Recent claims by Jackson’s close friend Mark Lester, who played Oliver Twist in 1968’s Oliver! and who was the children’s god father that he may be the father of Paris Jackson were followed by reports that Jackson’s former dermatologist Dr Arnold Klein may also be the father of one of the children.

The source said Jackson did not want to pass on vitiligo, the hereditary skin condition he suffered from to his children, so he had asked several friends to help him create offspring by donating their sperm and eggs. Debbie Rowe, Jackson’s ex-wife who he met whilst she was working as a nurse at Dr Klein’s office carried the first two children, whilst a Mexican nurse called Helena was the surrogate mother for Blanket.

Jackson’s mother Katherine became the children’s legal guardian after the singer died of cardiac arrest on June 25.

According to his father Joe Michael Jackson will finally be laid to rest on August 29th, the day that would have marked his 51st birthday.

The singer, who died on June 25th, will be buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles following a short 10am ceremony Joe Jackson told press.

Jackson Sr. said that the plans have only finally taken shape in the last few days and that there were a number of details yet to be finalized.

Forest Lawn is the final resting place of dozens of stars of stage, screen and the music world so it is a logical choice for the King of Pop.

There are not quite as many celebrities buried at this Forest Lawn as there are at the original Glendale site but it is still home to graves and memorials of the likes of Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Stan Laurel, Telly, Savalas, Andy Gibb and Liberace to name just a few. More recently John Ritter, Ed McMahon and David Carradine have all been buried there.

Rumor has it that Michael’s body is in cold storage somewhere on the property and that his mother Katherine has visited it on several occasions. Jackson Sr did not address that issue with reporters.

During the interview with the New York Daily News Joe Jackson also commented upon the ongoing police investigation into his son’s death. He said that he approves of the investigation so far but also said that he feels that Dr Conrad Murray may be being used as “the fall guy for a whole lot of people”.

He also dispelled rumors started a few weeks ago by his daughter Latoya that Michael Jackson’s famous Neverland Ranch was going to be sold and moved to Las Vegas ” How the heck would they do that?” he said. In fact the whole Neverland subject is a touchy one it seems for the Jackson family.

Jermaine Jackson has seemed keen to turn the ranch into a visitor’s attraction somewhat akin to Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, TN, including some say, having his body interred there. Other family members disagree, especially since Michael himself had developed distaste for the property after a 2003 raid on the property related to the child molestation charges he was acquitted of in 2005. After that acquittal it is believed he never lived at the ranch again and it currently belongs to Colony Capital, a Century City private equity firm.

Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson has always been a controversial and outspoken figure, qualities he put to good use while guiding his children’s careers over the course of forty years. In the weeks since his son Michael’s death it has become clear that the bond – or some might say hold – he had with the King of Pop had faded long before the singer died on June 25^th. Michael Jackson’s legal will was dated in 2002, and even seven years ago the singer chose not to include a provision in it that might benefit his father, leaving his entire estate in trust for his mother and his three children. According to lawyers the only other beneficiaries were a few as yet unnamed charities.

So statements Joe Jackson made to a TV One reporter Smokey Fontaine that Omer Bhatti, the 25 year old Norwegian rapper who was seated with the Jackson family at Michael’s memorial service, is indeed the singer’s biological son may be eyed with more than a little suspicion. In the interview Jackson Sr told the young reporter that the family had always known that Omer was Michael’s child and that his was welcomed into their clan.

In an interview on CNN for his part Smokey Fontaine said he believed that Joe Jackson was telling him the truth. He told anchor Campbell Brown that the question about Bhatti came at the end of a two interview during which Joe had been very frank and open on a number of issues that Fontaine had expected he might avoid. He went on to say that the man he met with was a grieving father, not a man looking for a controversial sound bite, and that he found all of his responses to uncomfortable questions to be perfectly genuine.

Omer Bhatti is known to have spent many years with Michael Jackson, both at his Neverland Ranch and on various trips around the world. There are photographs of him with the singer, dressed in identical clothing and some pictures he certainly does seem to bear a striking resemblance to him. He has also been seen since the memorial at the Jackson family compound playing with Michael’s acknowledged children, Prince Michael Jr, Paris and Prince II (or Blanket as his Uncle Tito referred to him on television.)In the past Bhatti has denied any blood connection to Michael Jackson, but reporters now say that his publicist has stopped returning calls since the Joe Jackson interview.

Whether or not he is Michael Jackson’s son may eventually become a matter for the courts to decide, but in the TV One interview Joe Jackson seemed pretty convinced saying that “the kid looks like a Jackson, he can dance like a Jackson. The kid is a fantastic dancer- matter of fact he teaches dance”.

Nobody doubts that Omer Bhatti shared a connection with Michael Jackson, but whether or not that connection was actually biological is just another unanswered question in the mystery that was the King of Pop.