MJ’s family lawyer dismisses claims Lester is Paris’ father
August 10th, 2009 - 6:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 10 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s family lawyer has rubbished claims that child star Mark Lester might have fathered Paris Jackson.
Lester, 51, was a close friend of the late pop superstar and godfather to Paris, 11, and Jackson’s two other children, 12-year-old Prince, and Prince Michael II, the seven-year-old nicknamed Blanket.
He has said that he secretly donated sperm to help King of Pop become a father, and that the strong likeness between Paris, 11, and his own daughter Harriet, 15, had left him convinced the former was a part of him.
However, in an interview to GMTV, Brian Oxman, the Jackson family’s lawyer, said that he was confident the ‘Thriller’ hitmaker was Paris’ father.
“The thing I always heard from Michael was that Michael was the father of these children, and I believe Michael,” the Telegraph quoted Oxman as saying.
Oxman told GMTV he did not think that Lester was lying, but that he was repeating what he had wrongly been told.
“Mark Lester is a friend of mine - he is a straight shooter,” he said.
“I think what Mark said is what he understands - he was told these things. That’s what Michael wanted it to be. But Michael always told me he was the papa,” he added. (ANI)
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