In this open letter to Debbie Rowe, mother to two of Michael Jackson’s three children (Prince, and Paris), the Michael Jackson Accountability Network (M.J.A.N.) urges Ms. Rowe to take action now, and come get all three children out of that home, and away from the quarreling Jackson family! Given recent events, including reports of family strife and the disappearance of the children’s sole guardian, Katherine Jackson, the home environment of the children now seems to be unhealthful, if not a genuine risk to their safety. An investigation by DCFS would seem to be in order, now. (A recent CNN headline about this ongoing saga reads: “The Jackson Strife: Family Bickers over Whereabouts of Michael’s Mom” http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/23/showbiz/katherine-jackson-dispute/index.html?hpt=hp_t3) So Debbie? Please come get your kids!
It must have looked like the very picture of normalcy, when officers from the Pima County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Department interviewed Katherine Jackson on Sunday, based on a missing person’s report filed by her nephew and caregiver, Trent Jackson. It’s doubtful that there was much of anything really “normal” about it. As reported by CNN and other news outlets, the children in her charge – Prince Michael Jr., Paris, and Prince Michael II. (“Blanket”) had been effectively abandoned, for over a week. (Michael Jackson’s will designates his mother Katherine as guardian — and no one else.) The cozy little family, minus Michael Jackson’s children, is shown in a recent photo, smiling broadly and engaged in a card-game. What is WRONG with this picture? Oh, let us count the ways? For one thing, Paris Jackson, distraught about the disappearance of her grandmother, tweeted a desperate plea: “Yes my grandmother is missing.” She then tweeted the phone number of her Security, begging for information about her missing guardian – from anyone.
The latest firestorm of controversy in the Jackson family centers around a published letter to the Executors of Jackson’s estate – John Branca and John McClain. In this letter, Rebbie, Janet, Tito, Jermaine, and Randy, call for the executors’ resignation, and openly accuse them of conspiracy, and of abusing Mrs. Jackson. The letter claimed that Mrs. Jackson had had a mini-stroke, as a result of the stress of the executors’ “heinous and heartless threats.” Oh, really? Would these be the same executors who give Mrs. Jackson an allowance of seventy-thousand dollars a month? The same executors who paid off her outstanding debt, of six million dollars, to Korean promoters? The same executors who brought the Jackson estate out-of-the-red, and who have assured Prince, Paris, and Blanket, a future free of financial worry?
And yet? On July 23, the Jacksons (some of them) released the following statement: “This fallacious missing persons report was created by the very person and persons we are trying to protect our mother from. We feel that there is a conspiracy to deflect the attention away from a letter we wrote asking for the resignation of executors, John Branca and John McClain, as well as some of her ‘advisors’ and ‘caregivers.’” But, how could the report possibly be “fallacious,” when Mrs. Jackson’s grandchildren didn’t know where she was, and could not reach her?
So, why are some of the Jackson brothers and sisters so upset? Could it be that they were entirely cut out of their brother, Michael’s, will? And that when their mother passes on, they will have no more access to their brother’s money? Has Mrs. Jackson had a stroke? A “mini-stroke?” How IS she, really? Randy Jackson reported that she had had a mini-stroke. Paris Jackson tweeted that her grandmother was fine (but how would she know?). Jermaine insists that his mother is fine, and is “resting.” But, resting without her grandchildren, who had no idea where she was, for over a week? Something is terribly wrong here. Isn’t it?
One cannot help but wonder if the family squirreled Mrs. Jackson away from phone and internet, and contact with her grandchildren, so as to avoid any counter-statements from her, to their letter? There is so much that seems fishy here, that we at M.J.A.N., and certainly many other Michael Jackson fans, hope that authorities do a thorough investigation to ensure that Mrs. Jackson is not being held against her will, and is not being threatened – not by the executors, but by some of her own adult children!
And Debbie Rowe, we hope you take this plea seriously! This sounds very much like a family in chaos. You will have the support of so many of Michael Jackson’s fans, if you step up now and rescue your children from stress, strife, and what truly seems like abandonment by the one person charged with their care and well-being.
