Rowe Drops Bid for Jacko's Kids ... for $4M

Babymama gives up rights for the final time, says a source
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 14, 2009 10:49 AM CDT
Rowe Drops Bid for Jacko's Kids ... for $4M
In this 1996 file photo, Michael Jackson and wife Debbie Rowe are shown in Pasedena, Calif.   (AP Photo)

Debbie Rowe is giving up her custody fight against Michael Jackson’s mother—for the bargain price of $4 million, a family source tells the New York Post. “It’s one final payday,” the source says. “They felt it was like a ransom-type thing.” The biological mother of Jackson’s two elder children, who has received Jackson-related payouts twice before, will no longer be able to challenge custody arrangements. (More Michael Jackson stories.)

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