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Joe Jackson: There are no plans for Michael Jackson's children to become the 'Jackson 3'
BY Nancy Dillon
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF
Monday, July 20th 2009, 11:20 PM
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Joe Jackson speaks to the media last month.
LOS ANGELES – Joe Jackson has no plans to take Michael Jackson's grieving kids on the road as the “Jackson 3,” the family patriarch vowed Monday.
“I'm not encouraging them to do nothing. They have to be what they are, kids at the moment,” he said on “Larry King Live,” distancing himself from earlier statements that he saw star quality in the youngsters.
He called the “Jackson Three” rumor “a bunch of jive.”
Jackson also denied ever hitting his late son, despite Michael's accusations to the contrary.
“I never abused my son,” the former crane operator and boxer from Gary, Indiana, said. “Michael was never beaten.”
In his first live interview since his son's sudden death of a suspected drug overdose, Jackson backed away from earlier comments to ABC that he wanted to help raise Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7, so they could “grow up to be strong Jacksons.”
“I keep watching Paris…she wants to do something,” he previously told ABC. “And Blanket, he can really dance.”
Joe revealed he didn't know the locaton of Michael's body, said he hadn't seen any results from the family's private autopsy and repeated his claim that he suspected “foul play” in Michael's death.
He again pointed the finger at Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician who found his superstar son unconscious and with only a faint pulse in bed on June 25. Investigators later found prescription drugs and the surgery-strength sedative propofol in the King of Pop's house.
Murray's lawyer has said nothing the doctor gave Jackson “should have” caused his death.
“The doctor gave him something to make him rest and he don't wake up no more,” Joe Jackson said on Larry King. “Something is wrong.”
Speaking about his grandchildren, Jackson was quick to point out that he lives in Vegas while the kids are at home in Encino, Calif., with his wife Katherine, their temporary court-appointed guardian.
Joe Jackson's influence on the kids is an issue for Michael's ex-wife Debbie Rowe, who is considering a bid for custody, a source told the Daily News.
Rowe is the biological mother to the two eldest kids and wants to take an active roles in their lives, her friend and former attorney Iris Finsilver said Monday, also appearing on Larry King Live.
“She would like to have a relationship with her children,” Finsilver said, citing recent conversations with Rowe. “I don't know if she wants everyday hands on custody with the kids.”
A source earlier told the Daily News that Joe Jackson was willing to step aside if it would help Katherine's bid to gain permanent guardianship.
“He's talked about it. Whether or not it comes to that, I'm not sure. He would do whatever it takes for the kids to stay (with Katherine),” the source said Monday.
People.com reported that Joe Jackson was willing to sign something agreeing not to meddle in the kids' upbringing, but Joe Jackson, who turns 80 this month, denied that to King.
Court hearings on Michael Jackson's estate and guardianship of his kids are set for Aug. 3.
A lawyer for Katherine Jackson said Monday that she will not contest her son's will, though she does want a judge's opinion on whether she can challenge the appointment of named executors in the future without triggering the will's no-contest clause.
“Despite false reports, neither Mrs. Jackson nor any of her lawyers has or will be contesting the will. Nor has she decided whether or not to raise any challenge to the appointment of the executors named in the will or whether to seek the appointment of an additional co-executor. Her top priority remains the care of her son's three children,” attorney Londell McMillan said in a statement.
He said Katherine filed her question with the court on Friday to “preserve her legal options.”
Meanwhile, a movie based on AEG Live footage of Michael Jackson rehearsing for his “This is It” comeback tour is in the works with Sony leading a bidding war that erupted last week, blogger Nikki Finke reports. Bidding reportedly started at $50 million.
The film is expected by year's end, and “High School Musical” director Kenny Ortega, Michael's creative collaborator for “This is It,” is expected to cobble everything together.
“They've talked about Kenny Ortega directing it. They've got more than 100 hours of footage. Now it's just a matter of editing,” a person with knowledge of the material said.
The sought-after footage offers an eerie window into the last, highly productive weeks of Jackson's tragic life.
The movie might also include follow-up interviews with people close to the late superstar.
“Do they want to bring in people after the fact? It will be a creative process with the producers,” the source said.
Concert promoter AEG also is shopping TV rights for a tribute concert featuring Justin Timberlake and other artists that would make use of the staging, costumes, choreography and aerial acrobatics from the “This is It” show, according to Variety.com.
NBC has been in talks to acquire the TV show, an NBC spokeswoman confirmed.
The staging date is tentatively scheduled for Jackson's birthday, Aug. 29, as the Daily News previously reported.
The two lawyers acting as executors of Jackson's estate have been moving quickly to cut deals, a nod to the surge in Jackson mania since Michael's passing. Jackson's mother and children will benefit from any profits, but family members are not calling the shots since they are not executors.
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