As we mentioned earlier, Katherine Jackson and Debbie Rowe have reached a custody agreement over the fate of Michael Jackson‘s children. Katherine will have custody and Debbie will be allowed visitation.
But while we thought that it was drama free and all done in the children’s best interest, it turns out there may have been a little more devil in the details.
Rowe has forgone custody of the children in exchange for spousal support payments which total $4 million overall.├é┬á According to Rowe (who was left out of Jackson’s will), the King of Pop had an arrangement with her in which he paid her $1 million dollars a year.├é┬á Unfortunately for Rowe, this was a verbal agreement and so she had no physical proof of the agreement.├é┬á
As a result, Jackson’s brothers were incredibly reluctant to adhere to her demands that she continue to be paid and, apparently, Jackson’s lawyers even said they had grounds to fight the claim. Ultimately, however, Jackson’s mother, Katherine, made the executive decision to give Rowe her money just to put the whole mess to rest and avoid putting the kids through even more of a media circus.
One source said, “they just want to get rid of her.├é┬á They recognized early in this process that she had no interest in playing a real role in their lives and that it was all about money.”
Katherine will remain the children’s guardian, and Rowe, in turn, will receive a few hundred thousand dollars a year over a set period of time and be allowed supervised visits.
Apparently, as part of the agreement, the Jackson clan has to say that it wasn’t a matter of money for Rowe, even though it was.
It sounds like even though the Jacksons will have to continue paying Rowe, the children ended up with the person who will really look out for them.
All’s well that ends well…but Debbie Rowe still sucks.
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