Despite being quoted personally and seemingly professing to be the biological father of Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris Jackson, former child star Mark Lester isn’t trying to cash in his ticket for the paternity lotto … not just yet anyway.
“I’m sure, as far as I know, [the children] were all his,” Mark Lester, who starred as the title character in the Oscar-winning Oliver, told E! News.
“I expected lots of things to come out, but this is extraordinary.”
Not that the celebrity gossip tabloids who reported this completely made it up out of thin air. Mark Lester, 51, is the godfather of Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket and considered Michael Jackson a close friend for nearly 30 years.
Moreover, he admits that he once complied with Jackson’s request to donate sperm to the pop star: “It’s been a secret for so long,” the osteopathic doctor admits. “In 1996 Michael asked me if I would give him my sperm and I said yes.”
Lester also said it’s possible his “gift” to Jackson could have been put to use … one would have to imagine so, as it’s kind of an unusual gift.
Michael Jackson’s close friends Mark Lester and Dr. Arnold Klein didn’t just provide trust and friendship to the late King of Pop. They both bestowed sperm at one point.
As for the Jackson three, while Lester told a British tabloid on camera that he can see “strong similarities” between his own 15-year-old daughter and Paris, he told E! that Michael was the only person the trio share an uncanny resemblance with.
“Paris is very pale and Prince has Michael’s eyes,” he said. “And certainly Blanket is facially very similar to Michael. I’m really amazed to hear that.”
We were pretty amazed too … when he said it.
Another Jackson friend, Dr. Arnold Klein, lodged an objection in court last week to Katherine Jackson, Michael’s mother, being granted full custody.
Why does Klein want a say in how the kids are raised? Klein is also rumored to be the father of Paris – and Prince Michael – and also donated sperm.
In an unrelated note, a woman named Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise just filed three guardianship papers alleging that she’s the mother of all three.
Another alleged Jackson baby mama, Billie Jean Jackson, appeared in court this morning for the estate hearing in the King of Pop’s case, as well.
Who is Paris Jackson’s biological father?