New eccentricities coming from pop star Michael Jackson. He doesn't allow his ex-wife Debbie Rowe to tell their two children she is their mum. The woman has the right to visit Prince Michael (8) and Paris (7), but she can't reveal her true identity.
"That topic is off-limits. But it will be revisited when they are older", a source told America's New York Daily News.
Deborah Jeanne Rowe was Michael Jackson's dermatologist nurse. They got married in 1996 and divorced later in 1999. Rowe declared that she wanted Jackson to have the children as a "gift", so she gave up her parental rights, but from 2005, a family court case is under way regarding visitation rights.
Michael Jackson has yet another son, Blanket, apparently with a surrogate mother, born in the spring of 2002.
After the children were briefly seen in "Living with Michael Jackson" documentary, there were questions whether they are indeed Jackson's biological children, as they had no obvious African features about them.
Jackson has revealed that Blanket's mother was black.
The star is to leave US for good after the way he was treated by the authorities and media during his trial.
He is presently living in Bahrain, as a guest of the royal family.