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Rowe Wants Kids— or More Cash

If it's truly the kids she's after, she's only hurting them

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 3, 2009 9:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – After Debbie Rowe announced she wanted custody of Michael Jackson’s two older children, her lawyer “scrambled to say she had reached no final decision,” writes Michael Daly for the New York Daily News. Which means she could probably still be persuaded to, say, accept another big payment to relinquish her parental rights for the third time. So far she’s received more than $4 million, plus a house.

Rowe voiced barely any “difficulty detaching from her offspring and the matter seemed closed until Jackson's death,” Daly continues. “If she really does want custody, that could turn into a messy fight whose primary victims would be the kids”—and the kindest thing would be “to leave them with their younger sibling, their grandmother, and the nanny who has been the closest thing to a mother they have known.”

In this 2002 file photo, Michael Jackson holds daughter Paris Katherine as he stands in the window of his suite in the Adlon hotel in Berlin.
In this 2002 file photo, Michael Jackson holds daughter Paris Katherine as he stands in the window of his suite in the Adlon hotel in Berlin.   (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)
In this 1996 file photo, pop singer Michael Jackson, left, and his wife Debbie Rowe are shown in Pasedena, Calif.
In this 1996 file photo, pop singer Michael Jackson, left, and his wife Debbie Rowe are shown in Pasedena, Calif.   (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)
In this 2005 file photo, Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex-wife, arrives at the  Santa Barbara County courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. at Jackson's child molestation trial.
In this 2005 file photo, Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex-wife, arrives at the Santa Barbara County courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. at Jackson's child molestation trial.   (AP Photo/Aaron Lambert)
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muleskinner
Jul 4, 2009 12:27 PM CDT
whats the big deal,,,everyone steals or sues today---no one knows honest days pay for an honest days work---why do you think everyone wants to be a movie star or a singer---easy work and plenty of money to piss away---and inbetween movie gigs its laying on the beach or drugs and booze
Kookey90
Jul 3, 2009 11:58 AM CDT
I can just see Debbie Rowe (AKA Overpaid uterus) and her lawyers huddled together trying to figure out how much money they can make off this deal - I also assume there must be a few hundred folks out there that are planning to follow suit against the Jackson estate - Nothing personal, It's all about the money.
Shannonals
Jul 3, 2009 10:31 AM CDT
This woman is a disgrace. She went to court in 2001 to terminate her parental rights, than went back in 2004 to reverse the case but choose not to when her requset for further funds was approved. This woman is a disgrace to women everywhere

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