While Michael Jackson’s mom, Katherine Jackson continues to fend off Debbie Rowe over the issue of custody for the late King of Pop’s kids, it’s Michael’s sister Janet Jackson who has emerged in the eyes of many as the favored caregiver for the three children. And, sources tell OK!, that appears to be just what Prince, Paris and Blanket want most.“All three want Janet to read to them at night,” a Jackson family friend says. “They just melt into her arms when she walks into the house.”

The feeling is mutual, adds the insider.

“Janet has completely bonded with those children in the last two weeks,” the friend continues. “She has been their rock. It’s clear to everyone that they are looking to her for comfort and guidance.”

Michael’s will names his mother, Katherine as the children’s guardian, but Debbie, the biological mother of the eldest kids, has expressed interest in raising them. All three currently live at Katherine’s Encino, Calif. home.

“[They] are doing great. Mom and Janet are taking care of them,” Michael’s brother Jackie tells OK!.

One concern raised is that at 79, caring for three kids might be too much for Katherine, a problem eased by Janet’s presence.

“Janet is not only willing to raise those children, she is also the only relative who knows how to protect them,” the insider tells OK!. “Janet knows the value of a private life and knows how to keep her personal life out of the news. She is determined to do that for Michael’s children. She is saying that he would want no less for them, pointing out how far he went to shelter them.”

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Video from the 1984 Pepsi shoot where Michael Jackson’s hair caught fire … finally released.

The video, obtained by US Magazine, shows exactly what went down when a pyrotechnic mishap ended in Michael’s scalp being scorched.

After the accident, Jackson became addicted to painkillers.

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Michael Jackson’s longtime dermatologist Arnold Klein — the biological father of Jackson’s eldest children Paris, 12, and Prince, 11 — was served a subpoena this afternoon, an official from the L.A. County Coroner tells Usmagazine.com.

“We are serving a Coroner subpoena at the office of Dr. Klein to obtain medical records,” Craig Harvey, Los Angeles County’s chief coroner investigator, tells Usmagazine.com. “That is all I can comment on.”

As for reports that Klein is under investigation, Harvey tells Us: “We do not investigate physicians, so I cannot comment on that. We routinely serve coroner subpoenas on physicians and hospitals and have served several in connection with this case. I cannot comment on who we have served subpoenas on or what records we have received or not.”

Klein denied he was being examined by authorities for supplying Jackson with prescription narcotics during a July 8 appearance on Good Morning America. (The singer was reportedly using powerful sedative Diprivan — generic name: propofol — at the time of his June 25 death from cardiac arrest.)

“I say that anyone who makes someone an addict or gives a person potentially dangerous substances directly to them to use, like [anesthesia] propofol is a criminal,” Klein told GMA. “It becomes nothing more than a manslaughter, or something worse than that.

“There was nothing wrong with the manner I treated Michael, because what I had to do is restructure for an individual who had lupus, who had terrible acne scarring his face,” Klein added. “But I was not one of the doctors who participated in giving him overdoses of drugs or too much of anything. In fact, I was the one who limited everything, who stopped everything.”

Toxicology reports that may determine the cause of Jackson’s death could be completed as early as Friday Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Monday.

This guy just looks creepy, if he’s guilty, they need to throw the book at him.

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Michael Jackson’s “secret son” – devastated over the King of Pop’s sud­den death – is plan­ning to have a DNA test that could put him in legal conten­tion for a huge chunk of the singer’s estate, The Enquirer has
learned exclusively. Omer Bhatti, 24, wants to find out “once and for all” whether he’s Jackson’s biological son, reveal sources.

It has been reported that Omer, a close friend of Michael, was conceived in a one-night stand between Jackson and a Norwegian fan.

Under a secret agreement with the boy’s mother, Jackson moved Omer into his Neverland home in 1997 – and the boy ended up living on and off with the entertainer for the next few years and even appeared on stage with him. The two often dressed in identical clothing.

“Michael’s death has propelled Omer to seek the answer to a question he’s wrestled with his entire life: Is Michael his father?” a close source told The Enquirer.

“Omer is mourning Michael’s passing, but when that subsides, he’s determined to have a DNA test.”

The younger man had been billing him­self as a hip-hop musician called O-bee. After Jackson died, Omer proclaimed on a Web site: “We have lost a family member.”

When The Enquirer contacted mem­bers of Omer’s family July 2 at his home in Oslo, we were told: “Omer is too distraught to talk at this moment.”

It’s clear there was a special bond between the two.

The boy flew to Tunisia in 1996 to meet Jack­son when the singer arrived there on his HIStory world tour.

“And Omer was going to surprise Mi­chael on his scheduled comeback concerts,” revealed the close source. “He was going to go onstage with him and recapture the mo­ment when they sang and danced together back at the HIStory concert.

“Omer doesn’t care about the hundreds of millions in Michael’s will – he just wants to know if Michael is really his dad.”

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Although a newspaper report today claimed Debbie Rowe had given up custody of Michael Jackson’s two eldest kids, Prince and Paris, for $4 million, her rep denies that the matter has been settled.

Eric George, who represents Debbie, tells CNN that the report claiming she wouldn’t challenge Katherine Jackson for custody was “completely false.”

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A friend of Michael Jackson’s babymama Debbie Rowe has come forward with revealing e-mails that make it clear that Rowe has no interest in actually getting custody of the two children she had with the King of Pop.

In an interview to air tonight on Extra Debbie Rowe’s friend and confidant, Rebecca White, reveals details from e-mails from Rowe sent days after Michael’s tragic death.

From the start, Rowe made it clear that she did not want custody of the kids. In an email dated July 2, 2009, she writes:

“I’m not going after custody. These kids are not mine. They were never mine. They were always Michael’s. I was Michael’s best friend.”

But then, three days later on July 5, Rowe writes to White:

“My lawyer is telling me I have to take some responsibility about the welfare of the children. Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don’t want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them. Would Michael want Joe to have them? I think it would be the last thing that he would ever have wanted.”

And one bit of information White shares would all-but confirm the report from this morning that Debbie had reached a settlement with the Jacksons.

White tells Extra: “In one text message [Debbie] had just said, ‘Just wait until the 14th. Everything will be done after the 14th’…There’s definitely going to be a secret deal. There’s definitely going to be a settlement that’s going to come out of this.”

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When Kim Kardashian watched Paris Jackson’s tearful tribute to her father at his public memorial Monday, Kardashian could identify with the little girl’s feeling better than most.

“I thought it was very moving and very brave of her,” Kardashian, who spoke at her own famous father Robert Kardashian’s 2003 funeral, told People Thursday at the Three-O Vodka launch party in New York.

“That was the hardest thing I ever had to do,” added Kardashian. “I couldn’t remember anything and I was shaking and it was really, really tough, and I was 22. [Paris is] only 11, and I thought it was very courageous of her to get up there.”

Despite the difficulty, Kardashian says speaking publicly was good for her then and is good for Paris now. “I was so glad I spoke at my father’s funeral even though I was really nervous and I thought I couldn’t do it,” she told People. “At the end of the day, you have that one opportunity to do that, and you want to say how you feel. She lived in the moment. I think it was really well said, and she did the best she could.”

Paris’s moving speech about Michael Jackson was just one part of a tribute that Kardashian says was fit for the King of Pop. “Everyone was sharing their most special moments with him and everyone was laughing and crying, and there was every emotion in that room. It was so special, and I’m so glad that I went.”

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