{"id":694582,"date":"2026-01-14T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:00:20","slug":"this-tiny-detail-in-michael-jacksons-music-videos-could-finally-solve-mystery-of-who-really-fathered-his-children-and-its-not-marlon-brando-but-its-the-prince-of-pops-harrowing-confession-to-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694582\/","title":{"rendered":"This tiny detail in Michael Jackson’s music videos could finally solve mystery of who REALLY fathered his children – and it’s not Marlon Brando. But it’s the Prince of Pop’s harrowing confession to the actor that will truly chill you to the core…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isolated from the world by his stellar fame and bizarre lifestyle, Michael Jackson<\/a> cut a lonely figure. Lasting friendships were rare \u2013 often only with fellow superstars who had some inkling of what it was like to live under his level of constant global scrutiny.<\/p>\n

One such close friend was screen god Marlon Brando who met the singer in the early 1980s after reportedly being introduced by record producer and composer Quincy Jones.<\/p>\n

It seemed an unlikely match \u2013 the macho matinee idol, then heading into his 60s, and the delicate, asexual pop elf \u2013 but Jacko was apparently swept away by the actor\u2019s mercurial personality.<\/p>\n

For Brando\u2019s part, he enjoyed the singer\u2019s lavish surroundings and spent a great deal of his later years staying at Jackson\u2019s huge Neverland Ranch estate \u2013 even though he had to cart an oxygen tank with him because of breathing difficulties.<\/p>\n

\u2018Marlon Brando has become a very close and trusted friend of mine,\u2019 Jackson gushed in his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk. \u2018I can\u2019t tell you how much he\u2019s taught me. We sit and talk for hours.\u2019 Brando was \u2018like a father to me\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n

Which makes for some very weird family dynamics if a startling new claim is true \u2013 that Brando fathered Jackson\u2019s youngest child.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the star of The Godfather, On The Waterfront and Apocalypse Now donated sperm to the pop star before his son, Bigi Jackson, was born via a surrogate in 2002.<\/p>\n

Bigi \u2013 previously known as Blanket \u2013 was born two years before Brando\u2019s death, aged 80, in 2004. Jackson himself died only five years later, of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication in 2009. \u2018It has all kicked off within the wider Jackson estate quite recently, with Paris and Prince [the eldest of Michael Jackson\u2019s children] being told of this development,\u2019 a source told The Sun newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is all very strange, but the pieces of the puzzle seem to add up. Everyone is trying to get their heads around it.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Michael <\/p>\n

Michael Jackson met Apocalypse Now actor Marlon Brando in the early 1980s, with the singer writing in his memoir: ‘Brando was like a father to me\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Bigi <\/p>\n

Bigi Jackson, left, with his elder siblings Paris, centre, and Prince in 2012<\/p>\n

As well they might be. For the \u2018origins\u2019 of Jackson\u2019s three children \u2013 charity founder Prince, 28: singer, actress and model Paris, now 27; and the far more private 23-year-old Bigi \u2013 remains one of the greatest mysteries about the star.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail approached John Branca, co-executor of Jackson\u2019s estate, to ask about the Brando claims, but we have had no response. Of course, it\u2019s a sensitive issue for the trio, but the speculation has only intensified over the years as the children have grown up looking less and less like their famous father. And, indeed, less and less like each other.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t the first time Brando has been mentioned as one of Jackson\u2019s sperm donors, although some observers have claimed that Bigi\u2019s biological father could also be Marlon\u2019s son, Miko, now 64, who worked as a security guard and driver at Neverland in California\u2019s Santa Barbara county. Miko is one of Brando\u2019s 11 children by his three wives and has his father\u2019s heavy eyebrows and dark eyes\u2026 as does Bigi. Although, of course, the same is true of countless other men.<\/p>\n

Miko also appeared in the video for Jackson\u2019s 2001 song You Rock My World and has previously talked about the time his father Marlon spent on Jackson\u2019s luxuriously appointed and well-staffed 2,700-acre estate.<\/p>\n

\u2018He loved it. He had a 24-hour chef, 24-hour security, 24-hour help, 24-hour kitchen, 24-hour maid service. Just carte blanche,\u2019 said Miko. \u2018Michael was instrumental in helping my father through the last few years of his life. For that, I will always be indebted to him.\u2019<\/p>\n

The ranch \u2013 packed with children\u2019s attractions including a Disney-themed train station, carousel and other fairground rides \u2013 was also where Jackson allegedly sexually abused a string of young boys.<\/p>\n

Jackson always denied the claims but, in 1994, Marlon reportedly told LA prosecutors he thought it was \u2018pretty reasonable to conclude that [Jackson] may have had something to do with kids\u2019. Brando told LA deputy district attorneys he once confronted his sexually repressed friend at Neverland over the child abuse allegations against him and Jackson broke down in tears.<\/p>\n

\u2018My impression was that he didn\u2019t want to answer because he was frightened to answer me,\u2019 said Brando. \u2018I had asked him if he was a virgin and he sort of laughed and giggled, and he called me Brando. He said, \u201cOh, Brando.\u201d I said: \u201cWell, what do you do for sex?\u201d And he was acting fussy and embarrassed.\u2019<\/p>\n

When Brando asked Jackson about his friends, Jackson reportedly replied: \u2018I don\u2019t know anybody my own age. I don\u2019t like anybody my own age.\u2019<\/p>\n

The actor also said he passed on \u2018impressions and concerns\u2019 he had discussed with son Miko.<\/p>\n

Brando\u2019s conversation, among other revelations, has fuelled speculation over the years that Jackson had an intense phobia of heterosexual sex \u2013 possibly as a consequence of his overbearing father, Joe, making Michael and his older brothers perform in strip clubs when they were very young.<\/p>\n

\"Michael <\/p>\n

Michael Jackson was married to Debbie Rowe for four years<\/p>\n

\"Brando's <\/p>\n

Brando’s son Miko – one of 11 of ther actor’s children – has the heavy eyebrows and dark eyes of a Brando<\/p>\n

\"Prince, <\/p>\n

Prince, Paris and Bigi. The \u2018origins\u2019 of Jackson\u2019s three children remains one of the greatest mysteries about the star<\/p>\n

That suspicion was strengthened by various supposed girlfriends such as actresses Tatum O\u2019Neal and Brooke Shields admitting their relationships with Michael had been entirely asexual. Rumours also swirled that Jackson was in fact impotent.<\/p>\n

He was also married, for just two years between 1994 and 1996, to Elvis Presley\u2019s daughter, Lisa Marie. She insisted they had sex regularly although she has said she didn\u2019t want to have children with him, fearing a \u2018nightmare\u2019 custody battle and also believing he was too emotionally immature to be a father.<\/p>\n

The mother of Paris and Prince is Debbie Rowe, a nurse Jackson met when she was working as an assistant to his dermatologist Arnold Klein.<\/p>\n

Rowe claimed that, following his divorce from Lisa Marie, Jackson got upset that he might never become a father.<\/p>\n

A devoted Jackson fan, she suggested she could bear his children \u2013 an account that was later corroborated by Lisa Marie, who told Playboy in 2003 that even during their marriage, Jackson was aware the besotted Rowe \u2018had a crush on him\u2019 and wanted to have his children.<\/p>\n

Rowe was the same age as Jackson and became his second wife in November 1996, a month after it was revealed that she was pregnant (having suffered an earlier miscarriage).<\/p>\n

According to Rowe, Jackson impregnated her artificially with his own sperm, although he initially denied it (as he did reports that his relationship with her was rooted in money).<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson Jr \u2013 nicknamed Prince \u2013 was born the following February and Rowe gave birth to daughter Paris, again apparently following artificial insemination, just 14 months later in April 1998.<\/p>\n

However, the couple divorced in 2000 with Rowe \u2013 who gave Jackson full custody rights \u2013 reportedly overwhelmed by the intense public attention. Prince Michael Jackson II \u2013 alias Blanket, alias Bigi \u2013 was born in 2002 to a surrogate mother who has never been identified. Jackson said the baby was again produced through artificial insemination using his own sperm.<\/p>\n

Oddly, he initially claimed he\u2019d had a relationship with the mother and she wanted to remain anonymous but later changed the story and insisted he had never even met her.<\/p>\n

But if there is at least some agreement about the mothers of Jackson\u2019s children, there\u2019s none \u2013 other than Jackson\u2019s insistence that he sired all of them \u2013 about the fathers.<\/p>\n

\"Brando, <\/p>\n

Brando, pictured with Miko, had conversations with Jackson that have fuelled speculation over the years that the singer had an intense phobia of heterosexual sex<\/p>\n

\"Bigi <\/p>\n

Bigi was born in 2002 to a surrogate mother who has never been identified, with Jackson saying he was produced through artificial insemination<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the fact that Debbie Rowe was white, their fair skin and Caucasian looks \u2013 Prince\u2019s hair was initially blond, while Paris has blue eyes \u2013 soon prompted speculation that he was not their biological father.<\/p>\n

The idea was strengthened by the farcical lengths Jackson took to hide their faces in public behind masks or blankets. However, Jackson \u2013 who was born black despite reportedly lightening his skin with bleaching cream \u2013 insisted he was their biological father in a notorious 2003 interview with Martin Bashir.<\/p>\n

\u2018I used a surrogate mother [for Blanket] and my own sperm cells. I had my own sperm cells in my other two children,\u2019 he said. \u2018They are all my children.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, in the same year, biologists and geneticists started telling the media that, although it was theoretically possible that Jackson and Rowe had produced light-skinned children, the odds were low.<\/p>\n

Reports began to circulate that Jackson suffered from a low sperm count and had turned to other men \u2013 friends he trusted and admired \u2013 to provide him with children. Speculation began to build to a frenzy.<\/p>\n

Initially, attention was focused on his dermatologist (and Rowe\u2019s former boss) Klein, who released a decidedly ambiguous statement days after Jackson\u2019s death in June 2009, saying: \u2018To the best of my knowledge, I am not the father of these children.\u2019<\/p>\n

Klein later said he had given Jackson some of his sperm and thought he could be father of the older two. Prince does indeed look similar to Klein.<\/p>\n

Years later, when someone on X suggested the skin specialist could be his father, Prince cryptically commented: \u2018The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.\u2019<\/p>\n

Observers took it that Prince was saying \u2013 as many others have over the years \u2013 that his biological parentage was irrelevant as Jackson had raised him.<\/p>\n

Almost as soon as Jackson died, the plot became murkier still, with sources telling showbusiness website TMZ that neither Michael nor even Debbie Rowe were the biological parents of Prince and Paris.<\/p>\n

In fact, other people\u2019s sperm and eggs were used for the embryos, they claimed.<\/p>\n

Yet more stories around the parentage of Jackson\u2019s children emerged. A month after the singer died, a woman named Claire Fields Cruise filed an astonishing lawsuit in Los Angeles claiming to be the sole mother of all three children. She said Prince was fathered by a man living in France, while Paris Jackson\u2019s father had been Fields Cruise\u2019s \u2018unofficial college sweetheart\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fields Cruise, who was seeking guardianship of the trio, claimed for good measure that Jackson actually fathered Connor Cruise, adopted black son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but gave him to the Hollywood couple because he didn\u2019t like his skin colour.<\/p>\n

Just a day before this utterly wild and predictably fruitless claim was filed, another potential parent entered the ring.<\/p>\n

British actor Mark Lester \u2013 who played Oliver Twist in the 1968 film Oliver! \u2013 claimed he donated sperm to Jackson in 1996 and that he could be Paris\u2019 biological father. Lester became a close friend of Jackson (a fan of the classic musical) and is godparent to all three of Jackson\u2019s children along with Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin.<\/p>\n

Lester, now a 67-year-old osteopath, cited physical similarities between Paris and his daughters Harriet and Olivia, and indeed with himself when he was young. \u2018There\u2019s a possibility that one or all, very unlikely all, but one of those kids may be mine,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

He said he\u2019d provided the sperm as a \u2018gift\u2019 to enable his superstar friend to become a father.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was just helping out a friend. I think he had a problem with actually doing the physical act of sex and had a very low sperm count as well,\u2019 he told the Daily Mail in 2017. Lester claimed Jackson had been scared off women for various reasons, including the \u2018trauma\u2019 of being propositioned by Madonna, lying naked in bed for him in her hotel room.<\/p>\n

Lester said Jackson asked him to make a sperm deposit at a Harley Street clinic in London \u2013 and made it clear he wasn\u2019t the only friend that Jackson approached.<\/p>\n

\u2018Michael said it would all be completely confidential and I knew he was asking others in his inner circle \u2013 actors Macaulay Culkin, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, Uri Geller, people from Harvard with doctorates, all sorts,\u2019 he told this newspaper.<\/p>\n

Lester also said he was \u2018pretty sure\u2019 that Bigi was Michael\u2019s biological son, although he didn\u2019t say why. Nor did he expand on why he \u2018couldn\u2019t be bothered\u2019 to take a DNA test, which the Jackson children also declined to do.<\/p>\n

Although celebrities like Culkin have distanced themselves from such speculation, there was one other notable paternity claim.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Jackson\u2019s death, his former bodyguard, martial arts expert Mark Fiddes, insisted he had also donated sperm to the Jackson collection and that the singer told him he was keen to have \u2018an athletic child\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fiddes speculated that he \u2018might\u2019 be the biological father of Bigi and reportedly asked for a DNA test to prove he was father to Paris, too. Again, he didn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

Any reluctance on behalf of the children to get DNA tests isn\u2019t linked to their legitimate right to inherit money from his estate \u2013 all three are named beneficiaries in Jackson\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

The saga continued in 2013 when AEG, the concert promoter being sued by the Jackson family for $40 million (\u00a330 million) over Michael\u2019s ill-fated This Is It tour, was reportedly prepared to present the court with evidence that only Bigi Jackson was the singer\u2019s biological child.<\/p>\n

At the time, a Jackson clan member reasoned to the New York Post that Bigi \u2018looks just like him\u2019. Yet now we\u2019re told that everyone thinks he looks just like Marlon Brando.<\/p>\n

Without those conclusive DNA tests, the mystery of who fathered the Jackson Three is unlikely to be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isolated from the world by his stellar fame and bizarre lifestyle, Michael Jackson cut a lonely figure. Lasting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[92,77,269,1411,7794,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-paris","12":"tag-prince","13":"tag-tvshowbiz","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115891459127077555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}