Michael's Will -- Katherine Should Get Custody

Michael JacksonThere are reports that Michael Jackson's will says the singer wanted his mom, Katherine, to get custody and wanted assets to be placed in trust.

The will, according to the AP, lists Jackson's lawyer, John Branca, and John McClain, a music exec, as executors.

The will has not been filed with the court.

As for custody -- the will does matter, but ultimately the decision on who gets custody is in the hands of the judge.

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31. #12, so glad to hear that

Posted at 8:36PM on Jun 30th 2009 by tre

32. Katherine & JOE have been separated since the 1980's. If Michael says in his Will who should have custody of his children thats that.

Michael raised those kids from newly born babies with the help of a nanny. Those are his kids. DEBBIE ROWE needs to keep her ass where ever she is because she knows those kids were not made with her DUSTY OLD "EGGS". Thats why she said she doesn't want the children. THEY ARE NOT HERS EITHER "BIOLOGICALLY". She so quick to say that MICHAEL is not the BIOLOGICAL FATHER, but rumors are coming from all over the place that it was NOT her eggs used in-vitro to conceive those 2 kids. She needs to tell her lawyer the truth. But all they see is $$$$$$$ now so, let the LEGAL SAGA begin.

Posted at 8:37PM on Jun 30th 2009 by Tiannia

33. 26. 23. I'm trying to figure out how other celebrities use surrogates all the time and don't use their eggs and everything is fine. Michael used a surrogate to have his kids like a lot of people. Therefore, he didn't have to adopt them..they are his kids!

Posted at 8:31PM on Jun 30th 2009 by Sharona
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I guess that's why you're not an attorney....

Posted at 8:33PM on Jun 30th 2009 by beachy


LOL..I GUESS THAT'S WHY THE JUDGE PLACED THE KIDS THAT AREN'T HIS WITH THE JACKSONS...I AM SURE THE FAMILY WILL BE ABLE TO GAIN FULL CUSTODY OF THEM! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:58PM on Jun 30th 2009 by Sharona

34. TMZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

WHAT ABOUT FARRAHHHHHHHHHHH

YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:37PM on Jun 30th 2009 by pink

35. SHEESH! Don't call yourselves TMZ anymore, change the name to MJ24/7, I'm thinking Harvey wants to win a prize for best reporting of a scandal...TMZ IDIOTS. Way to piggyback on a tragedy.

Posted at 8:37PM on Jun 30th 2009 by SHADDUP ALREADY

36.

This may have killed Michael Jackson......read about this sleeping medication he had taken intravenously before. This may be the reason the cardiologist was spending the night and why he waited so long to call 911. He thought he could rouse Michael from the deep induced sleep this drug causes......

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_drugs

Posted at 8:41PM on Jun 30th 2009 by emf

37. I would like to know how they got a shot of michael jackson in the ambulance ? Was it when they brought him from the house to the ambulance since the medics were trying to work on him. if so then how can this be when they were up at the front of the house behind the gates. how did someone take the photo with body guards and security all around. Also why was the ambulance moving so slow leaving the home. .backing up so slow.I know in my area if they are trying to save same one they move like a bat out of hell. something is not right here. How come no doctors made the speach about michael dying. why his brother. If that was me i would be so devasted their is no way that i would be able to speak infront of the cameras. they all seem like no big deal so something is not right here. His death is a hoax ! maybe his father is a bit senile but something is not right.this was planned out in advance to right him in society. how fast they forget how they crucified this poor man all those years and labled him a monster!! Now all the alagations are washed and the news praises him. shame on the news ! this man was innocent to begin with and they forced him to do this. they wreacked him emotianaly physicaly brokehim down and tarnished his rep. for years they labled him a bad person. but now he is like a god to them they all feel bad now .So now michael fixed them good . Faked his death to see how they would treat him as a person.Like i said the family is moving very quickly on every aspect and no tears are shed. very very strange. He is alive and watching all this. Good for you michael. The world and greedy people stole your money and threatened to lock you up with no real truth. now you can take all the money and start to rebuild your life good luck!!

Posted at 8:41PM on Jun 30th 2009 by screamin in digital

38. TO 23 Sharona

NAME ONE !!!!!!

YOU CAN'T BECAUSE THEY DO ADOPT IS THEY DON'T USE THEIR OWN EGGS.


BUT DEBBIE DID USE HER OWN EGGS, JUST NOT MICHAELS SPERM...
THAT IS WHY THE KIDS ARE ALL WHITE..
LOOK AT THE HAIR ON THE OLDEST BOY, EVEN LIGHTER THAN DEBBIES HAIR

Posted at 8:42PM on Jun 30th 2009 by NAME ONE

39. The godfather should get custody of the children considering the way he treated Michael.

Posted at 8:54PM on Jun 30th 2009 by One of your biggest fan in Sweden

40. RIP MJ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYan1j-KQ8

Posted at 8:43PM on Jun 30th 2009 by ????

41. Oh dear. Betty Bowers is on this forum. Look out or risk being smote by her very, very best friend JC.

Betty, dear, what do you think 'surrogacy' is? It is purchasing children for people who cannot have them or do not want to be bothered, so it is not accurate to say children 'cannot' be purchased. Maybe they should not be, but that is not the same thing. Nothing illegal about surrogacy and Jackson would indeed have been the legal guardian under a binding surrogacy contract, if he had one. We don't know if he did or not. We don't know who the biological parents of those kids are, either. We really don't KNOW much of anything. This is all speculation and conjecture.

#14. Katherine apparently kicked Joe to the curb years ago. They don't live together. She lives in LA, he lives in Vegas. Her religion forbids divorce, but for all intents and purposes, they are not a married couple any more according to Roger Freidman, a journalist who works for the Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 8:45PM on Jun 30th 2009 by Mickey

42. LOL..I GUESS THAT'S WHY THE JUDGE PLACED THE KIDS THAT AREN'T HIS WITH THE JACKSONS...I AM SURE THE FAMILY WILL BE ABLE TO GAIN FULL CUSTODY OF THEM! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:37PM on Jun 30th 2009 by Sharona

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In LA - money buys things. You are a fool. Plus - this is new law (go look that up, genius).

I couldn't care less either way about this freak. Imagine his poor "kids". Two parents that aren't their parents and they've been wearing masks all these years and haven't been educated. Talk about head cases....

Yeah - he was the king. King of ruination - for himself and his "kids". And if you think the family wants those "kids" for anything but their inheritance and getting control of it - you must live in LA. Haha!

In other parts - we learn about life - not celebrities.

Posted at 7:17AM on Jul 1st 2009 by beachy

43. Every person has a RIGHT to do their will as they desire so why are some people questioning Michael Jackon's WILL? It's really nobody else's business and I get sick and tired of hearing how they think he should have done it. The media has gone crazy with their rantings on who should get custody and who should get money. They dogged Jackson in life and now in death so I hope the people doing it get the same treatment one day.

Posted at 8:48PM on Jun 30th 2009 by BooHoo

44. BREAKING NEWS>>>>>>
His nurse and nutritionist Cherilyn Lee is stating that he had terrible insomnia and he begged her for a powerful drug that could only be administered thru an iv.........that sunday before he died, someone called her and begged her to come over. He was half cold and half hot. She told them to go to the hospital but they didn't and he died 4 days later........LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid.

Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, said Tuesday that she repeatedly rejected his demands for the drug, Diprivan, which is given intravenously.

But a frantic phone call she received from Jackson four days before his death made her fear that he somehow obtained Diprivan or another drug to induce sleep, Lee said.

While in Florida on June 21, Lee was contacted by a member of Jackson's staff.

"He called and was very frantic and said, `Michael needs to see you right away.' I said, 'What's wrong?' And I could hear Michael in the background ..., 'One side of my body is hot, it's hot, and one side of my body is cold. It's very cold,'" Lee said.

"I said, `Tell him he needs to go the hospital. I don't know what's going on, but he needs to go to the hospital ... right away."

"At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system," she said, adding, "He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out."

Jackson did not go to the hospital. He died June 25 after suffering cardiac arrest, his family said. Autopsies have been conducted, but an official cause of death is not expected for several weeks.

"I don't know what happened there. The only thing I can say is he was adamant about this drug," Lee said.

Following Jackson's death, allegations emerged that the 50-year-old King of Pop had been consuming painkillers, sedatives and antidepressants. But Lee said she encountered a man tortured by sleep deprivation and one who expressed opposition to recreational drug use.

"He wasn't looking to get high or feel good and sedated from drugs," she said. "This was a person who was not on drugs. This was a person who was seeking help, desperately, to get some sleep, to get some rest."

Jackson was rehearsing hard for what would have been his big comeback — his "This Is It" tour, a series of performances that would have strained his aging dancer's body. Also, pain had been a part of his life since 1984, when his scalp was severely burned during a Pepsi commercial shoot.

Several months ago, Jackson had begun badgering Lee about Diprivan, also known as Propofol, Lee said. It is an intravenous anesthetic drug widely used in operating rooms to induce unconsciousness. It is generally given through an IV needle in the hand.

Patients given Propofol take less time to regain consciousness than those administered certain other drugs, and they report waking up more clear-headed and refreshed, said University of Chicago psychopharmacologist James Zacny.

It has also been implicated in drug abuse, with people using it to "chill out" or to commit suicide, Zacny said. Accidental deaths linked to abuse have been reported. The powerful drug has a very narrow therapeutic window, meaning it doesn't take doses much larger than the medically recommended amount to stop a person's breathing.

An overdose that stops breathing can result in a buildup of carbon dioxide, causing the heart to beat erratically and leading to cardiac arrest, said Dr. John Dombrowski, a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Because it is given intravenously and is not the kind of prescription drug typically available from pharmacists, abuse cases have involved anesthesiologists, nurses and other hospital staffers with easy access to the drug, Zacny said.

In recent months, Lee said, Jackson waved away her warnings about it.

"I had an IV and when it hit my vein, I was sleeping. That's what I want," Lee said Jackson told her.

"I said, 'Michael, the only problem with you taking this medication' — and I had a chill in my body and tears in my eyes three months ago — 'the only problem is you're going to take it and you're not going to wake up," she recalled.

According to Lee, Jackson said it had been given to him before but he didn't want to discuss the circumstances or identify the doctor involved.

The singer also drew his own distinctions when it came to drugs versus prescription medicine.

"He said, `I don't like drugs. I don't want any drugs. My doctor told me this is a safe medicine,'" Lee said. The next day, she said she brought a copy of the Physician's Desk Reference to show him the section on Diprivan.

"He said, 'No, my doctor said it's safe. It works quick and it's safe as long as somebody's here to monitor me and wake me up. It's going be OK,'" Lee said. She said he did not give the doctor's name.

Lee said at one point, she spent the night with Jackson to monitor him while he slept. She said she gave him herbal remedies and stayed in a corner chair in his vast bedroom.

After he settled in bed, Lee told Jackson to turn down the lights and music — he had classical music playing in the house. "He also had a computer on the bed because he loved Walt Disney," she said. "He was watching Donald Duck and it was ongoing. I said, `Maybe if we put on softer music,' and he said, `No, this is how I go to sleep.'"

Three and a half hours later, Jackson jumped up and looked at Lee, eyes wide open, according to Lee. "This is what happens to me," she quoted him as saying. "All I want is to be able to sleep. I want to be able to sleep eight hours. I know I'll feel better the next day."

Lee, 56, is licensed as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner in California, according to the state Board of Registered Nursing's Web site. She attended Los Angeles Southwest College and the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Sciences in Los Angeles.

Comedian Dick Gregory, who knows Lee and her work, said he believes Jackson's insomnia had its roots in the pop star's 2005 trial on child molestation charges. Jackson's health had deteriorated so much that his parents called Gregory, a natural foods proponent, for help.






Posted at 8:48PM on Jun 30th 2009 by May

45. I saw him! In a Subway shop in Oklahoma City!!!!!!!!!!! He was with Elvis.

Posted at 7:16AM on Jul 1st 2009 by beachy

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