Michael Jackson’s children and his mother enter into a new inheritance dispute

Catherine, 93, is suing for half a million dollars from her late son’s estate

Those closest to the King of Pop are once again clamoring for his millions. Michael Jackson’s three grown children and his 93-year-old mother have long been at odds over how to manage his estate, but this time things have gone too far. Younger son Blanket moved in a US court to bar his grandmother from spending family money on personal legal expenses.

US outlets have reported that Katherine Jackson owes $561,548 to a law firm she hired to represent her in a dispute with the two executors of her late son’s wills. Joe Branca and John McClain have been managing the money and properties left by the singer for years. They claim that thanks to their good work, his heirs have received millions in profit over the past 15 years. They often had to enter into disputes with his mother, but in one of the last transactions she was decisively opposed and things went to court.

Michael Jackson died suddenly in 2009 from a drug overdose. According to a will made seven years earlier, he left his entire fortune to his three children and his mother, who was to care for them until they came of age. The older son Prince and daughter Paris were born to his nurse Debbie Rowe, who, however, renounced parental rights because, according to her, she never wanted to have children, but

simply “suggested the womb.”

you are like a gift to Michael”,

who dreamed of heirs. The second son, Blanket, was born through a surrogate mother, whose identity is still unknown. So after the death of their father, the three live with his large family, but the main responsibility for them lies with their grandmother.

As Katherine Jackson grew older, she periodically tried to transfer custody of them to younger family members, but was met with serious resistance from the overseers of her son’s will. They are ready to deprive her of millions if she stops taking care of the children, which is the will of the singer. On the other hand, his siblings believe that Michael Jackson’s lawyers falsified his 2002 will to disinherit them.

Tensions became particularly high in 2012 when Catherine mysteriously disappeared for 10 days. Custody of the children was given to their cousin, Tito Joe Jackson, and the grandmother quickly returned. Prince, Paris, and Blanket accuse their aunts and uncles of lying about her disappearance so that one of them could take control of

their father’s inheritance,

estimated at $2 billion

When all three come of age, they begin to make their own decisions about how it should be run, which is even more displeasing to their late father’s older relatives. At the beginning of this year, it became known that the giant Sony Group acquired half of Michael Jackson’s music catalog for about 750 million dollars. It is believed to be the largest such deal to date, which includes the transfer of song rights to other artists as well. The King of Pop continues to be one of the best-selling artists, with Billboard magazine estimating that his legacy brings in about $75 million a year. Although the sales and streaming of his music around the world are constantly growing, he also bequeathed a lot of debt to his children. They had to fight a legal battle with the US IRS, who were chasing them for about $700 million. During the trial, it became clear that in the last years of his life, the singer lived in the red. Because of the accusations of pedophilia, he had a hard time finding sponsors for his world tour. Between 2006 and 2008, he failed to earn a cent from his star image. All this reflects on the lives of the other members of his large family who are in show business.

The rise of the Jackson clan began in the early 1960s in the American industrial city of Gary, when Joe Jackson, a father of nine, abandoned his hopes of becoming a professional boxer and took a job as a crane operator in order to support his family. His instruments at home attract the attention of his eldest sons and they try to play them. Joe Jackson quickly realized they had talent and began putting them through long, intense rehearsals. First, he created the “Jackson Brothers” group with the three eldest, Jackie, Tito and Jermaine, and after they were joined by the younger Marlon and Michael, the “Jackson 5” appeared.

Joe Jackson guides his children’s performances with an iron hand. After some of the older boys embarked on solo careers, their younger siblings joined the family group. However, one of them stands out as a real star and that is Michael Jackson. At seven he became the soloist of the group, at 11 he wrote some of his hits, at 20 he was already so recognizable as a singing and dancing style that he started a solo career. It is she who makes him one of the most famous singers in the world.

At the height of his fame, he would admit that his father’s strict discipline played a large role in his success, but she

also contributed to

his mental lability,

as he was physically and emotionally abused by him. In his words, Joe Jackson often stood with a belt in hand while his sons rehearsed around him, “ready to tear them apart if they didn’t do it the right way.”

The father outlived his star son by nine years, and even after his sudden death, he said that he did not regret his strict upbringing, because it was the success of his children.

The famous ranch of the “Neverland” star is coming back to life

Michael Jackson’s Santa Barbara mansion has been restored for the filming of a new biopic about him, due for release next year. For the first time, the King of Pop will be played by someone related to him by blood. His 27-year-old nephew Jaafar Jackson will be reincarnated in the image of his famous uncle. He is also a musician and dancer. He has a single released in 2019, but gained worldwide fame after the news of his upcoming acting debut.

Michael Jackson turned the Neverland ranch into an amusement park, but had to part with parts of it after he was accused of sexually assaulting children at the site. Although various investors bought stakes in the famous property over the years, it never managed to regain its glory. Now the hopes are that the new biopic can do just that. Also to present all three of his children as mature people with their own aspirations and interests. So far, only daughter Paris is involved in music. Sons Prince and Blanket prefer to work on charity projects related to global challenges such as poverty and climate change.