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This is going to be a hot mess…
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a “family disturbance” at the
Jackson family home after, sources said, Randy, Jermaine and Janet Jackson showed up
and apparently tried to take Michael Jackson’s kids away.
Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday there was a “scuffle” between two family
members at the Calabasas home of family matriarch Katherine Jackson, but no arrests were
made. TMZ posted a photo of siblings Janet and Jermaine Jackson standing outside the home
around the time police were called, according to the website. Katherine Jackson’s laywer,
Sandra L. Ribera, issued a statement today, saying “Jackson family members ambushed Kath-
erine Jackson’s home after their vehicle tore through security gates on the tails of the SUV con-
taining Michael Jackson’s children.” Ribera said Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson were taken
to safe location. “An altercation ensued shortly thereafter and law enforcement arrived at the
scene,” according to the statement. ABC News consultant Howard Bragman of Reputation.com
said, “This is truly an escalation of what’s been going on. There’s a lot of private security, so to
actually have law enforcement called is a big step up.” It was the latest drama that has plagued
the Jackson family in the past few weeks. Katherine Jackson was reported missing Saturday
only to be found “resting” with her daughter in Arizona. X17Online obtained a photo of Jackson
smiling and playing Uno with her family in Arizona. Her children released a statement Monday
saying the missing person’s report was “created by the very person and persons we are trying
to protect our mother from.” Trent Jackson, Katherine Jackson’s nephew and confidante who
reported her missing, tweeted Michael Jackson’s 14-year-old daughter, Paris: “I know it’s com-
pletely unfair for them to do this you and your brothers. We will keep trying. I love you.”
Paris Jackson tweeted Monday , “8 days and counting. Something is really off, this isn’t like her
at all. I wanna talk directly to my grandmother.” Katherine Jackson is the legal guardian of her
late son’s three children and there is no word on who is watching them in Jackson’s absence.
Jermaine Jackson released a statement earlier this week about his mother’s whereabouts, say-
ing this is all “a conspiracy to deflect attention away from a letter we wrote asking for the resign-
ation of executors” of Michael Jackson’s will. Five of Michael Jackson’s siblings last week said
his will was fake and the executors of his lucrative estate, John McClain and John Blanca,
should step down. Jackson’s entire fortune was left to his mother and three kids. “They [execu-
tors of the will] will not stand down because the siblings who were left out of Michael’s will
want them to,” said Zia Modabber, who is the attorney of the Jackson estate. Howard Mann,
Katherine Jackson’s business partner, believed money is pulling the family apart. “I believe
that Katherine and the children who are benefactors of the estate fall on one side, and then
Randy, Jermaine and Rebbie and Tito fall on the other side,” Mann said. “They’re a group of
people who have a great deal of questions about the administration of the estate.” Modabber
said, “I can’t speak for them. I don’t know what’s motivating Jermaine and Randy and some
of these others, but money is not a bad guess.” Modabber and Mann faced off in court Monday
in a dispute over Mann and Katherine Jackson’s selling Michael Jackson merchandise. “It
doesn’t matter that it’s Howard Mann and he may give some of the money to his family, to
Katherine Jackson or anybody else,” Modabber said. “You can’t take property that belongs to
the estate, make money from it, without getting permission from the estate.” Mann’s attorney
argues the material is and always was owned by Katherine Jackson and her husband, Joe,
and not the late King of Pop. Michael Jackson’s estate is now worth about $1 billion and count-
ing.
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