This story made headlines all over the world this weekend, and by Sunday morning, the sleuths over at People mag were on top of it. It turns out that former British child star Mark Lester was being the attention whore and opportunist that we all thought he was when he laid claim to Michael Jackson’s kid, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, saying the 11-year-old was his biological daughter.
Lester told a British tabloid over the weekend that he donated sperm for his longtime friend Michael Jackson so he could start his own family. It seems Michael was enamored with Lester’s 4 blond haired, blue eyed children and wanted some of his own to raise.
Now Lester’s reps are saying the tabloid twisted his words. Yeah, right.
Sources say that while Lester had donated sperm, he is not Paris’ biological dad. “They twisted his words around. He’s not claiming to be the father of Paris Jackson,” says one close family source. “He has known Michael for many years and his children play with Michael’s children,” says longtime Jackson family associate and past lawyer Brian Oxman. But in all the years he has known Lester, Oxman says Lester never indicated he was Paris’s father.
Us Weekly reports that the L.A. County coroner returned Michael Jackson’s brain to his family last week and he was buried in an intimate ceremony last Thursday at Forest Lawn cemetery.
Will the circus atmosphere surrounding Jackson never end?
