The future of Michael Jackson's children remains uncertain as the mother of two of them revealed the pop icon was not their biological father.
Debbie Rowe, 50, claims the two eldest children, 12-year-old Prince and 11-year-old Paris, were artificially inseminated by an anonymous donor, the News Of The World reports.
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The identity of the mother of Jackson's third child, Prince II, has never been made public.
In a further twist, Rowe made it known she was not seeking custody of the children and did not expect to see them ever again.
"I was never a good mother [and] I never felt any attachment to them," she said.
"It was a better feeling giving them to him than it was keeping them as my own."
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Rowe, a nurse at a skin clinic where Jackson was receiving treatment in the mid-90s, said she offered her womb to Jackson because she saw he was lonely and wanted children.
In the three years the pair were married they never had sex and lived in separate houses as a "sham" couple.
The death of Jackson freed Rowe from a legal agreement which had prevented her from speaking publicly about the pair's marriage and two children.
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"Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children … I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies'," she said.
"I was just the vessel — it wasn't Michael's sperm.
"I got paid for it and I've moved on."
Rowe claimed Jackson dumped her cruelly after the birth of Paris left her "all torn up inside" and unable to bear more children.
"He didn't want anything to do with me … he took the kids," she said.
"The settlement was written up and he just wanted me to be quiet."
Rowe was reportedly paid more than $8.5 million to give up her parental rights to the children, in addition to the luxury home in Beverly Hills she had been given during the marriage.
It is now thought custody of the three children could fall to either Jackson's 80-year-old mother Katherine or their nanny, 42-year-old Grace Rwaramba.
Jackson family lawyer Brian Oxman has said that any court would probably rule in favour of the children's grandmother.
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