Celebrity Justice
Debbie Rowe to Jacko -- "I Need Cash, STAT!"

Michael Jackson's ex-wife claims the singer owes her a fortune and that she desperately needs money. She says she "sits on the brink of bankruptcy."

TMZ obtained a motion filed by Debbie Rowe, asking a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to order Jackson to pay her $50,000 in living expenses for the next four months. In the legal papers Rowe claims she needs the money to continue her fight for the custody of the couple's two children. Rowe is also asking for $195,000 in legal fees. Rowe says if she does not get the money to pay her lawyers, she will have to represent herself in the custody battle.

In her motion, Rowe attached the couple's financial settlement agreement from their 1999 divorce case. The agreement provides that Rowe was to receive $1 million dollars up front, and an additional $1 million dollars a year for the next three years. After that, Rowe was to receive $750,000 a year for the next six years. Rowe's total take: $8.5 million. Rowe claims Jackson has not lived up to the agreement.

Under the settlement, Rowe also acquired the couple's Beverly Hills mansion.

The settlement agreement provides a peek into Jackson's lavish lifestyle. It lists 59 vehicles the singer owns, including a Rolls Royce limousine, four tractors and firetrucks.

The motion also includes the custody arrangement, which provides that Rowe was to get visitation once every 45 days, from 10 a.m. to 7p.m.

Rowe is currently challenging the custody and visitation agreement.

Click to read the documents.



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31. Whether she did it for the money....whether he did it just to have kids...it's really none of our business, who are we to judge her? He may very well be a good dad, but I think life with him would be unbearable. We don't know what he could have threatened her with. He's got money, she's broke. There had to be a prenup. Just the fact that she only gets to see her kids once every 45 days for 9 hours says alot. He's brainwashing those kids. And aren't only 2 of them hers? Where did the 3rd one come from? oh wait the space ship!
Michael give her what you owe her and let her see her kids....Debbie next time don't marry a twisted idiot.
BTW my kids are half black and both of them look white.

Posted at 4:31AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Bunny

32. When he was up for the charges of molestation why were the kids not taken from him? Celeberties get treated different then regular people. Neither one of them should have the kids.

Posted at 4:33AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Robert

33. She's not a mother, she a golddigger. She gave him the kids for a buck and now wants more. Sad to the bone!!!

PS He really shouldn't have them either. But what mother gives her to kids to the Wacko Jacko!!!

Posted at 5:19AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Lisa

34. 9. Um..what caught my attention? He owns firetrucks. FIRETRUCKS. What normal human being owns....nevermind, I answered my own question.

Posted at 2:19AM on Jul 8th 2006 by Blah

Wasn't it John Du Pont that owned some army tanks? I remember an incident where he showed up at a neighbor's house, dressed in combat gear, driving a tank, and asked the poor unsuspecting woman if her husband could come outside and play ... lol

Posted at 6:43AM on Jul 9th 2006 by BoardMan

35. Yo Debbie......when you sleep with dogs, don't complain when you wake up with fleas.

Posted at 8:33AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Wally

36. I agree with justpicky, Debbie get a job, sell the mansion. First of all any woman who gives up her children for $$$ is worth NOTHING. She should have had a motherly bond with those children after carrying them for 9 months. The courts need to take those children away from both of those crazy fools!! Those children go out in public with mask over their faces, is that NORMAL "NO". There are so many couples who would do anything to have and love children. Michael does not give those children the love they need and deserve. Debbie is CRAZY and Michael is CRAZIER.. My heart goes out to the children. The system needs to save the children.

Posted at 9:02AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Linda

37. She doesn't deserve a dime. She out right sold her children to that child molester. I wish the children were taken from both of them and adopted by a good, decent family where they can lead a normal life.

Posted at 9:14AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Janice

38. So the lady just gave birth to the kids, sold them for money, took care of her horses, which by the way are so much better looking than she, now she needs money because she "wants her children" how is the heck is she going to support them with no money? Oh yeah - she will take him to court again for child support. Poor children! I bet she was not thinking of them when she got that first installment!

Posted at 9:55AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Sharon Holmes

39. Its always been about the money but then again Jackson seems to make up his own laws when it comes to custody matters...She should not have folded on the witness stand in Jacksons trial she should have been tough and told the jury what she told Prosecutors ...but she folded fast and this is the result

Posted at 10:08AM on Jul 9th 2006 by Scott

40. You folks do know that Debbie Rowe carried the babies but they are not from her eggs... The eggs were from surrogates and donated sperm that's why it was so easy for her to give up the kids ... Michael "paid" her for carrying the babies and her silence.

Posted at 10:33AM on Jul 9th 2006 by d moss

41. Shamina - it's because of people like you that things don't get better. That, "oh well, nothing we can do about it so let's hope for the best" kind of complacent attitude is what makes it harder for those trying to implement the changes. You'll be singing a different tune if one of these screwed up kids end up hurting your kids or someone you know, and then you'll only have yourself to blame for sitting on the fence and waiting for someone else to do the work.
Don't be so naive - this shit is happening everywhere around you. It's not just for celebrities so you should adopt a more realistic approach about the issue.

Posted at 1:12AM on Jul 10th 2006 by gia

42. See, Shamina ... it's people like you who have that complacent "it's not happening to me, which means there's nothing I can do so all we should do is pray" crap that makes things worse for everybody. You'll be singing a very different tune if one of MJ's kids or another innocent child that got screwed because of his parents hurts you or someone very close to you, and then you'll think back and wonder if there was something you could have done to change anything.

Sitting on the fence and watching wrong being done to someone is far worse than being wrong.

Posted at 1:23AM on Jul 10th 2006 by gia

43. SHE IS A BIG USER/ GET HER BUTT UP AND WORK. THIS IS NOT MOTHER OF THE YEAR, OR IS SHE.

Posted at 12:17PM on Jul 10th 2006 by Bella

44. What a horrible mess, those poor children! I have to wonder about what must be going on behind closed doors in that backwards Middle Eastern deluxe shithole he's hiding in. I doubt that Whacko Jacko will ever return to the states and Debbie Rowe is the next lowest form of slime, after Whacko of course. They should sort it all out on "Maury".

Posted at 12:42PM on Jul 10th 2006 by James in Milwaukee

45. On Kubbys remarks,It said He owed HER money not HIM,, But i feel those poor little kids should be put in a normal home and taken away from both of them,,Sharron

Posted at 12:48PM on Jul 10th 2006 by swthing1542

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