Michael Jackson family dispute plays out in public

Jackson’s interview followed a statement from Mr Branca and Mr McClain on
Tuesday in which they said: “We are acutely concerned about the welfare
of Mrs Jackson, and most particularly with Michael’s minor children. We are
concerned that we do what we can to protect them from undue influences,
bullying, greed, and other unfortunate circumstances.

“While we do not have standing to directly intervene, we have monitored
the situation and will continue to do so. We believe measures are being put
in place that will help protect them from what they are having to deal with,”
Branca and McClain said in the joint statement.

Jackson’s daughter Paris tweeted on Tuesday that she had not spoken to her
grandmother in nine days. Celebrity website TMZ reported that Mr Branca and
Mr McClain would head to court to support a move for temporary guardianship
of Jackson’s children on behalf of Tito Jackson junior, 34, the son of Tito
Jackson and cousin to Jackson’s children.

ABC television chat programme “Good Morning America” posted a video
taken from what it claimed was a security camera of a confrontation among
family members in the driveway of the Jackson’s Los Angeles-area home.

In his interview with Rev Sharpton, Randy Jackson said he and his sister Janet
Jackson went there on Monday but “were kind of denied access.”

“We did go to the home to let Paris and Prince know that they can visit
with or talk to their grandma at any time,” Jackson said. “This is
all an effort to try to deflect attention away from a letter that was
written asking for the resignation of John Branca and John McClain.”

The letter, signed by Jackson siblings Tito, Randy, Jermaine, Janet and
Rebbie, claimed that the Jackson estate executors had presented a fraudulent
will of the late singer to the family and their actions were affecting
Katherine’s health.

When the letter surfaced last week, the executors issued a statement saying “any
doubts about the validity of Michael’s will and his selection of executors
were thoroughly and completely debunked two years ago when a challenge was
rejected by the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the California Court of
Appeals and, finally, the California Supreme Court.”

On Rev Sharpton’s show, Jackson repeated past claims that his brother could
not have signed the will because he was in New York City the weekend of the
signing. Sharpton showed a video of him and Jackson that he said was taken
that weekend in New York.

In his will, Jackson had stipulated that money earned by his estate would
benefit his mother and his three children.

Source: Reuters

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