The singer had a clear goal with this wedding - to be a father and start a family.
In 1996 Michael Jackson was an eminence. He had had a successful career and, recently divorced from Lisa Marie Presley, the singer wanted to start a family. He wanted to be a father.
In some confessions to his trusted dermatologist and to the nurse who assisted him, he found the solution to his paternity. Deborah Rowe, Nurse Debbie, offered to carry a baby for him. Michael Jackson had been going to the dermatologist Arnold Klein for 15 years, something that made him forge a great friendship with him and with his nurse, Debbie.
The idea obsessed him and he accepted immediately. He wanted to be a father and start a family, so he didn't hesitate for a second and asked Debbie Rowe to marry him.
24 years since the wedding of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe
Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe were married at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Sydney, Australia, on November 15. He was 38 years old and she was 37. It was a very special and unconventional wedding. It was completely out of the typical patterns of a wedding. The bride and groom dressed in black and there was no big party. The couple's kiss also left a lot to be desired. Michael Jackson sealed "her love of him" by kissing Debby on the cheek. She was already pregnant on the day of the wedding.
Few photographs exist of this day. One of them is this. Both appear smiling and with their hands on Debbie's belly, who gave birth to the singer's first two children, Prince was born in 1997, and Paris in 1998, and everything was by artificial insemination.
“I was impregnated. It is as if he fertilized my mares to reproduce. It was very technical. I was his thoroughbred,” the nurse commented in an interview. She and the King of Pop were never really a couple and did not have a relationship.
Years later Debbie talked about her wedding and confessed to The Sun: “Michael was divorced, alone and wanted to have children. I was the one who told him: 'I will have your babies'. I offered him my womb, it was a gift, I wanted to see him happy.”
The British newspaper also cites statements from 2003 in which Rowe claimed that she never had to do anything with her children. “Michael Jackson did it all. I didn't try to be a mother. I didn't change diapers, I didn't get up in the middle of the night. Even if I was there, Michael did everything."
The marriage between Michael Jackson and Debbie ended in October 1999. Rowe renounced her rights over the children, although a court dismissed this request and the couple had to reach an agreement so that Jackson would retain custody of the children. kids.
“They are his children, I had them for him. They would not have been born had it not been for my love for him. I did it for him to become a father, not for me to become a mother."
The truth is that the paternity of the singer has always been questioned. His children are fair-skinned, the oldest is blond and Paris has blue eyes. The third, Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, is said to be the product of a surrogacy from another woman in 2002, although the mother's name has never been revealed.
After the death of Michael Jackson, in 2009, Rowe began a new legal battle with Katherine Jackson, the singer's mother, who had been left with the custody of the three children. Jackson himself left written in the will that it would be his mother who would take care of his children and named the singer Diana Ross as second guardian.
Rowe received an eight million dollar settlement and a house in Beverly Hills. Finally, the mother and Debbie also reached an agreement: the children's mother would have the right to visit them. So Debbie regained the love of her children.
