Luke Harding
Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson’s wife, is expecting the birth of a girl in February, a year after that of their first child, Prince Michael Jackson Jr.
The daughter’s name, she said, would contain the names Michael, Paris (where she was conceived), Katherine (Michael Jackson’s mother), and, of course, Jackson.
Together with two nannies and a nurse, Jackson looks after his nine-month-old son at his Neverland ranch in California. Rowe lives 160km away in a flat in Los Angeles. The singer says that DNAtests prove he is the boy’s father, and denies that artificial insemination was used.
He and Rowe married in Australia last November when she was six months pregnant. The wedding came less than a year after the end of Jackson’s marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, and three years since his $25- million out-of-court settlement with a teenager who claimed Jackson had sexually abused him.