Michael Jackson’s family lawyer has rejected claims from child star Mark Lester that he could be the biological father of the pop star’s daughter Paris, says The Daily Telegraph.
Mr Lester, 51, who found fame in the 1968 musical Oliver!, was a close friend of the late pop superstar. He is 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 claimed over the weekend that he gave Michael his sperm so that the King of the Pop could have kids and he said he felt a "definite bonding" with Paris, the 11-year-old, with pale skin and blue eyes might be his daughter, the Metro reports.
However, Brian Oxman, the Jackson family's lawyer, said he was confident the King of Pop was Paris' father.
He said: “The thing I always heard from Michael was that Michael was the father of these children, and I believe Michael," he said on GMTV from Los Angeles, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Mr Oxman went on to say in 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.”
Mr Lester told the News of the World he was speaking out because he claimed he had been “cruelly” cut out of the lives of Jackons’ children since the start did in June, says the Metro.
He said up until the pop singer’s memorial last month, he was in touch with them on a weekly basis, but recently all of this phone calls and emails had gone unanswered.
“This isn’t what Michael would have wanted,” Lester continued to tell the News of the World. “I feel I have to come forward, as my only way of saying, ‘Please don’t shut me out!’.”
He was supported by Jackson’s close friend, Uri Geller, The Daily Telegraph reports.
"I have no reason to doubt Mark's story simply because I remember years ago in New York Michael implied to me that he wanted Mark to help him father a child for him," he told GMTV.
Though Mr Uri Geller said he cannot be 100 per cent sure that Paris is the biological daughter of Mark but he remembered those words, knowing the close relationship that Mark had with Michael and his families and his children.
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