Mile High Thriller: Michael Jackson Sperm Takes Flight
10:26 am, September 1st, 2009
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Remember yesterday’s crazy rumor identifying “Home Alone” kid Macaulay Culkin as the biological father of Michael Jackson’s son, Blanket?
Well, consider this “Sperm Alone 2: Lost in Baggage Claim.”
The Mirror recently reported that the King of Pop’s family intends to fly to England a sperm sample Jackson supplied to a Los Angeles donor bank last year. The reasoning? There is so much money at stake with the late superstar’s estate, members of Jackson’s inner circle worry that scheming fortune seekers will do anything to get ahold of his DNA to create a new heir.
Jackson supposedly authorized a number of people to have access to the sample, but the family doesn’t know who or how many, and, according to a source, fear that “something sinister could easily happen.” The London clinic where Jackson’s sample would now reside has “extremely strict” security.
Gossip Cop reached out to several people close to the Jackson family, but none could validate the rumor.
Look: We understand that a mammoth fortune hangs in the balance, that there have always been questions about Jackson’s paternity, and that stranger things have happened during the pop icon’s life and death. There is reason to protect his DNA.
But the man was just laid to rest and (already) has three children whose summer has been dominated by non-stop, completely speculative coverage of their family’s future. Just because “anything is possible,” as the anonymous source tells the Mirror, it doesn’t mean everything is. Gossip Cop will continue to do its best to separate the fact from the fiction.
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