The News-Courier in Athens, Alabama

July 2, 2009

Lawyer: Rowe deciding whether to seek custody


LOS ANGELES — An attorney says Deborah Rowe has not reached a final decision on whether to seek custody of the two children she had with Michael Jackson.

Rowe’s attorney, Eric M. George, spoke Thursday on a telephone conference call but declined to take questions.

He did not say why a delay in a guardianship hearing had been requested by him and attorneys for Katherine Jackson.

Katherine Jackson has temporary guardianship of her son’s three children, who range in ages from 7 to 12.

Rowe is the mother of Jackson’s two oldest children, 12-year-old Michael Joseph Jr., known as Prince Michael and 11-year-old daughter Paris Michael Katherine