1995–1999 Debbie Rowe

July 2 1997

Michael takes Debbie & Prince to Vienna where he performs in concert

July 4 and 6 1997

Concerts in Munich (attended by Debbie)

July 6-10 1997

Michael takes Debbie & Prince to Sheffield, United Kingdom.

July 10 1997

Concert in Sheffield (attended by Debbie)

July 11 1997

While a pregnant Debbie returns to the states Michael goes to London where he is joined by his ex wife Lisa Marie

The single HIstory/Ghost is released in Europe.

Toledo Blade, Jul 14, 1997

WE LOVE to tell you the latest on MICHAEL JACKSON and DEBBIE ROWE. I guess that’s because we know an insider in the Jackson camp who loves to tell us. Sharing — that’s what it’s all about. Anyway, Debbie, MJ and baby Prince continue their royal progress through Europe, while Michael plays to sold-out stadiums. Although Debbie is not at all a grandiose type — “just a home girl,” as she often jokes — she can’t help being thrilled by the nearly royal reception she receives whenever she’s spotted by the fans. ”Its almost a Princess Diana thing”, says my source, who has witness the frenzy.` Debbie’s boss, dermatologist Dr. Arnie Klein, is missing her presence in his office, so she will return to her ordinary day job in LA as soon as Michael finishes his tour. As for another Jackson baby, our acute and observant source says, “I believe No. 2 will be on its way.Debbie herself seems totally happy and fulfilled. “We are really in love,” she said recently, “and Michael has been so romantic.’

ET Tonight, July 15th 1997

Michael’s personal photographer John Isaak was also interviewed by Entertainment Tonight yesterday. Commenting on media rumors that Michael’s marriage to Debbie is not happy, he said, “It’s all lies. A lot of it, they just make up stories and that bothers me, and I am sure it bothers Michael so much.” They showed photographs he took of Michael and his son Prince never seen in US before, including one of just Michael’s large hand holding Prince’s tiny fist.

Jul 17, 1997

They split last year, but Michael Jackson and former wife Lisa Marie Presley were hand-in-hand Tuesday night returning to his hotel after his sell-out London concert. Presley stood at the edge of the stage through the show at Wembley stadium. Afterward, the two returned to the Carlton Towers hotel and Jackson waved to fans.

July 17, 1997

Lisa Marie Presley stood stageside at Michael Jackson’s Tuesday performance in London’s Wembley Stadium and afterward returned with him hand-in-hand to the Carlton Towers Hotel. Current wife Deborah Rowe – nowhere in sight.

Daily Record, July 26, 1997

Michael Jackson is a hunk in the bunk, according to his wife Debbie Rowe. Speaking for the first time about their bizarre marriage, Debbie said Michael Jackson lives to make love round the clock. Debbie, 38, said she doesn’t give a hoot that he and first wife Lisa Marie Presley spent time together in London recently.

And she revealed he wants a bunch of kids and plans to name them ALL Prince, just like the baby boy she had for him.

Fun-loving nurse Debbie insists she and Jackson can hardly keep their hands off each other and have sex whenever they can. “I can’t wait to see him again,” she said. “We’re going to stay all day and night in bed – I can’t wait.”

Sep 20, 1997

Odd popman Michael Jackson and usually absent wife Debbie Rowe are expecting another baby, according to London tabloids. Jackson supposedly was so pleased that he immediately gave her a $168000 Mercedes S600.

September 22 1997

Singer Michael Jackson’s publicist denies reports that Jackson’s wife, Debbie Rowe, is expecting to give birth to the couple’s second child in December.

Last week, the “New York Post” reported the story, and carried a photo of Rowe wearing a suggestively loose-fitting shirt, which seemingly fueled the reports, yet doesn’t actually mean anything.

Rowe also reportedly quit her job as an assistant to Jackson’s Beverly Hills dermatologist last week, six months after marrying one of the world’s wealthiest entertainers.

The couple’s first child, a boy named Prince, was born last February.

Sep 24, 1997

Recent photos of Debbie Rowe show a noticeable tummy bulge, leading to speculation that she’s as much as six months’ pregnant. But gossip maven Liz Smith says somebody in the know insists that Rowe isn’t expecting. “Debbie is a big, healthy girl,” the source told Smith.”At her trimmest, she’s somewhat Valkyrian in build.” In other words, it ain’t over till the fat lady gives birth, which the source says isn’t happening “anytime soon,” even though the couple “are trying, as the coy phrase goes.” Their first child, Prince Michael Jackson Jr is 7 months old.

Oct, 20 1997

MJ, LMP, his parents and her children in South Africa.

Victoria Advocate Oct 20, 1997

But did you know that Debbie Rowe, the dermatologist’s-assistant-turned-King-of-Pop-spouse was fuming at photos of the event? Rowe, who is reportedly pregnant with Jackson’s second child, was left in the dark about the trip. The entertainer was snapped with former wife Lisa Marie who was accompanying him on the tour with her two children by previous hub Danny Keough – Danielle, 8, and Benjamin, and Michael and Lisa Marie were holding hands and inseparable the whole time, says the Star tabloid.

Enquirer, October 21, 1997

MICHAEL JACKSON has reportedly begged LISA MARIE PRESLEY to give marriage a second try. The king of pop whisked his ex-wife away for a hush-hush second honeymoon in exotic South Africa. And during the romantic getaway with Lisa Marie’s daughter DANIELLE, Jackson popped the question to her. A source told American tabloid THE STAR, “He’s really excited about the possibility of starting over with Lisa Marie. While they were in Africa they both realized how much they had missed each other.” Michael’s kid sister, a great friend of Lisa Marie, played matchmaker to bring the couple together. And despite Jackson being married, his wife DEBBIE ROWE was unaware of the they secret tryst at the Palace Hotel, in Johannesburg. Jackson and Lisa Marie stunned the world when they married in the Dominican Republic. But 20 months later the fairy tale union ended in divorce. Even though Jackson has fathered a baby with his new wife, Rowe, he has always remained close to ELVIS PRESLEY’s little girl.

20th November 1997

LIfe magazine has an exclusive photo essay hitting stands Monday- Michael Jackson, posing with his baby boy, Prince, for the cover. And many pages inside.

LIfe’s photos are taken by the great Harry Benson: Michael is awash in gentle light and shown performing all sorts of Daddy-like tasks, changing diapers, etc. And there are even photos of Michael’s bedroom, which one enters by passing under campy Boy and Girl Scout mannequins. Prominent on the wall of this sanctum is a painting of Jesus-the traditional Anglo-Saxon blue-eyed version, with the halo and the blood-red Sacred Heart. Jackson, naturally, had complete control of which photos Life used.

The text, by David Friend, is also revealing. Michael’s voice “quavers” when he speaks of ex-wife Lisa Marie, and the writer observes that Michael seems to “pine for her.” And Michael implies that Lisa Marie would still like to have a baby with him, “She’d like to, yes,” he says, before putting a finger to his lips. “Shhhh.” (Michael keeps a magazine photo of Lisa Marie at age 5, with her father, Elvis, framed on the table of his nightstand. ” This is the age when I first met LIsa Marie. I’ve known her ever since.”)

OK, so where does all this leave the current Mrs. Jackson, the infrequently seen Debbie Rowe? Michael insists they do spend quality time together, watching cartoons, playing with the baby, and she has been out on tour with him “a lot.” Debbie is no longer working for Dr. Arnie Klein, leaving herself free for Michael.

Michael plays coy as to why Debbie isn’t present for the photo shoot, hinting that her absence might have to do with having to “take it easy.” Then he whispers, “There’s a new one on the way.”

My inside-the-Jackson-camp sources insist Debbie is pregnant, after months of rumors. Antoher little Jackson is on the way. And they say Michael and Debbie aleady know the sex of their upcoming addition – it’s a girl.

Time will tell, Meanwhile, Michael, from all appearances, seems to be a devoted father.

P..S. ON Michael Jackson. Michael and his wife, Debbie Rowe, were together last Wednesday when our story broke that they are expecting a baby girl. The life magazine article in which Michael more or less tipped the world to his “expectancy” (though not to the sex of his child) was read over the phone to him Wednesday night. The people at Life believe he was pleased with their effort.

So how did the article by Harry Benson and David Friend come about?

Michael himself phoned Friend about a month ago to congratulate LIfe on its “Life Legends” speicial issue. One thing led to another and pretty soon David had an exclusive interview, and Harry was warming up his cameras. These Lifers say Michael made no demands and does not have any rights over the photos, nor did he ask for any. “He trusted us,” says David.

Life got an usual tour of Michael’s bedroom at his Neverland rack hear Santa Barbara, Calif., including a look into his closet to see all his many toys, his gittering wardrobe and his amazing belts and hats. Writer Friend says the thing that he had not known was that Macaulay Culkin is the godfather of Michael’s son, Prince.

Nov 22, 1997

Michael Jackson confirms in the Life magazine issue out Monday that wife, Debbie Rowe, is pregnant with their second. Says work has hindered their home lives, (“It’s very hard. We haven’t been able to spend time as a family. Not at all”). Says Wife No. 1, Lisa Marie Presley is sorry she never had his kid (“She regrets it. She said so,” says Jackson).

THEY’LL LOVE PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME JAX, WIFE TO NAME GIRL AFTER CITY OF LIGHT, Nov 27, 1997

The pop star’s nurse wife, Debbie Rowe Jackson, also told KNBC-TV in Los Angeles she doesn’t feel threatened by her hubby’s friendships with other women, including ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley and Elizabeth Taylor. “My friendship with him is the most important thing to me,” the normally reclusive Rowe Jackson said. “And if this marriage gets in the way of that friendship, then we’ll put the marriage aside. But I want to go on as friends.”

Rowe Jackson told the station she still lives in L.A. and often visits Jackson and their 9-month-old son, Prince Michael Jackson, at the Neverland Ranch about 100 miles away. And the King of Pop was reportedly so thrilled he was going to become a pop again he gave his wife a $168,000 Mercedes.

Paris Michael Katherine Jackson is scheduled to debut in May.

“He’s picking out clothes already to dress her up,” she added. “I wanted to name her Michael after Michael, but Michael said no.”

She called the secretive singer a doting dad.

“Whenever the baby is awake, he is with the baby the whole time,” she said. “When the baby is napping, that’s when he steals away to work, to write music, to dance.”

She said they may try to have another baby after Paris is born.

“He loves kids,” she said. “I hope we have lots of kids together.”

Her first pregnancy, announced before the wedding, was met with worldwide disbelief, and critics called it a publicity stunt to divert attention from Jackson’s child-molestation scandal.

Jackson denied tabloid reports that Rowe was artificially inseminated and paid $528,000 to have his baby. But her dad, Gordon, said the new mom told him she had been artificially inseminated.

Transcript of KNBC News Interview, November 28 1997

Kelly Lange [of KNBC news]: She is Mrs. Michael Jackson, Debbie Rowe. She has never given and interview about her marriage or her baby until now. Tonight Debbie Rowe speaks exclusively with our Chuck Henry about her life, her baby son, and Michael. Chuck Henry got the story and he’s here now with all the details.

Introduction:
Chuck Henry Interviewer

Debbie Rowe works as a nurse in a Dr’s Office. Keeps her job, goes to work every morning, she really is an ordinary woman. But, she’s involved in an extrodinary situation.

Debbie: I haven’t abandoned him, a lot of people think I have abandoned him. I haven’t abandoned him. I haven’t abandoned my husband.I’m there! It’s not like I’m that far away, I can be there in 13 hours.
Interviewer: And Debbie flies to Paris twice a month for a weekend visit. Do you miss your son?
Debbie: Sure. And I miss Michael a lot too. But I don’t feel like I have to be there. I don’t think being there 24 hours a day makes a better relationship.
Interviewer: Debbie says there was no prenuptual agreement, and no financial payoff for her carrying Jackson’s child. Which she says was concieved naturally.
Debbie: I would never do this for money. I did this because I love him. That’s the only reason I did this.
Interviewer: Giving all the stories about Michael Jackson does Debbie feel totally comfortable about this arrangement?
Debbie: Obviously I wouldn’t have had a child if …..
Interviewer: And you wouldn’t leave your child….
Debbie: And I wouldn’t leave our child there…..
Interviewer: If any of those things were true.
Debbie: If any of them were true. If I even suspected any of them were true. He feeds him, he changes his diapers, he reads to him, he sings to him, if he’s on the phone the baby’s in his arms, if he’s having a meeting the baby’s there. He takes naps with him. He, he, he’s….the…..I don’t need to be there. I don’t need to be there. Cause Michael’s…..I’ve got nothing to do.
Interviewer: On her visits to Paris Debbie says the three of them just…..
Debbie: Get up in the morning. Watch cartoons…cause I like cartoons….play with the baby all day….just hang out.
Interviewer: Having the baby was her idea. It was a subject that was talked about before Jackson’s marriage to Lisa Marie Presley.
Debbie: He did love her very, very much, still does. Still cares about her very, very much. But, um, it didn’t work out. And, uh, he was devastated.
Interviewer: After the divorce, Debbie, who met Jackson while working in a Dr’s Office again brought up the subject of children.
Debbie: Well, I said, I said, you know, my offer still stands….
Interviewer: So, if you want to be a parent ….
Debbie: So I said, I said…If you want to be a daddy…I want to do it.
Interviewer: A week after the story broke Debbie got a call from Jackson…
Debbie: Asked me if I would get married to him, and I said “you really want to?” And he said, “yeah”. And I say, “that’s not gonna affect our friendship? We’re still gonna be friends, right?” And he said, “I promise!” And I say, “the first time this marriage interfers with our friendship, we’re goin’ back to being friends, and forget this other stuff.” And he says, “it won’t happen, I promise!”
Interviewer: So now you’ve had the baby,
Debbie: It was the world’s best experience.
Interviewer: And through it all, Michael never left her side.
Debbie: He did not let go of my hand the whole time. It’s like no, no go see what he looks like. No I’m not gonna leave ya, no you have to go, you have to go!
Interviewer: Do you want to have more children?
Debbie: Yeah
Interviewer: Does Michael want to have more children?
Debbie: Yeah
Interviewer: You will have more children?
Debbie: We hope so, yeah.
Interviewer: Sooner, Later?
Debbie: Well, depends on our scheduling. (giggle)
Interviewer: Interesting story! Debbie says that she and Michael also plan to have a home together….someday.
Debbie: People say this is your job. It is not my job, it is not my duty. And he understands that…and he understands that I need my independence that I still need to be Debbie.
Interviewer: Yes, she is Mrs. Michael Jackson. Yes, she is the mother of a 14-week old baby. So why isn’t she living full-time with her little boy?
Debbie: We’re untradional people. He works there and I…I work here. And I think that it’s better that a baby’s with his parent whether it be his mom or his dad more than the child would be with a nanny. If the baby were here he’d be with a nanny, because I do work…every day.
Interviewer: Now, I notice that there are no pictures of the baby anywhere in this apartment. Why is that?
Debbie: Well, my apartment had been broken into and pictures were stolen of Michael and I. I don’t want that to happen again. I also am basically a very selfish person when it comes to certain things. And this is one of them. I don’t want to have to share my child with the way he looks, or what he looks like, or adorable moments with anybody.
Interviewer: Debbie says there are just a few people that either of them can really trust, so they end up living a very quiet life together.
Debbie: I don’t like to go out to dinner….I don’t like to go to affairs and things like that. I like to stay home and I like to spend time with him and the baby.
Interviewer: Do you consider yourself Michael Jackson’s best friend?
Debbie: I consider him MY best friend. I would hope I’m one of his closest friends.
Interviewer: But Debbie also says that anyone who knows her, knows that money is the last thing on her mind. She says that she and Michael have no financial arrangements whatsoever. She also says that they may have another child.
Interviewer: First of all, lets address the speculation. Debbie Rowe says she was not paid to have Jackson’s child, this child was conceived the old fashion way, and there was no pre-nuptial agreement. Debbie Rowe is probably unlike any woman Michael Jackson has ever known. Michael Jackson’s wife loves to ride her Harley. An outspoken woman who is independent and self reliant.
Interviewer: Have you ever got Michael Jackson on this thing?
Debbie: Yes, a couple of times.
Interviewer: Why is it that you and Michael don’t live together?
Debbie: I’m really independent and Michael understands that. And I’m really fortunate to have a husband who does understands that…who knows that I need to work and I need to have my own self…because he is so big and he is so Michael. I don’t need to live with him 24 hours a day. He’s working right now. When he comes home we’ll have time and we’ll be together more. I don’t wanna give up my job. I…I don’t wanna do that. I don’t wanna be that…part of that lifestyle.
Interviewer: For Debbie not being with her 14 week old son is not a bad thing.
Debbie: It is unusual…but, I don’t think it’s weird.
Interviewer: There are no pictures of the baby anywhere in the apartment. Why is that?
Debbie: No…well, my apartment had been broken into and pictures were stolen of Michael and I. I don’t want that to happen again.
Interviewer: What would you say to people that would say…well, you and Michael must have had some sort of a financial arrangement. That this was the way it was always meant to be. That you were gonna have the baby…
Debbie: Money….I don’t need money. I would never…I would never do this for money. I did this because I love him. Michael Jackson is an entertainer. What he does on stage is everyone’s business. What he does with me is my business. Our life is our business and no one else’s.
Interviewer: This week tabloid papers are once again speculating. This time they are speculating that Mrs. Jackson is pregnant again. She says that is simply not true.

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Life Magazine, December, 1997

Even Debbie has acknowledged that Michael is still smitten. “He cares about her very much, but it didn’t work out and he was devastated,” she has said. “He loved her very much. Still does.”

Michael’s Women

DEBBIE ROWE, aka Debbie Jackson, wife of Michael Jackson, is ho-humming over recent tabloid stories that had her husband getting back together with his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley. It was at Debbie’s urging that Lisa Marie joined them in South Africa recently. “After all,” says our Jackson source, “they are all very close friends.” Oh, it’s so terribly sophisticated and civilized and Noel Coward-like. When Debbie heard that Michael had supposedly remarried Lisa in Johannesburg, her lighthearted reaction was that Michael was not, to her knowledge, a Mormon!

No word yet on any new Jackson progeny, but Debbie and Michael have welcomed an addition to the family- a beautiful German shepherd puppy.

They are just your average young couple in love with all the usual accoutrements- kids, pets, castles, a famous former wife and a gazillion bucks.

“To try and prevent some of the taboo, you know if you have a child out of wedlock. The kids were gonna have it hard enough as it was. They didn’t need to have that label placed upon them, like their father had so many placed upon him. They shouldn’t. If there’s one way we could remove it or try to make it what people thought ‘normal’.”

Rowe was quoted in the tab as saying that she and the Gloved One had sex but didn’t conceive. “Michael then said that artificial insemination would be a foolproof way of doing it and he was proven right,” she reportedly said.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Mar 9, 1998

So what in blue blazes is going on between Michael Jackson and ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley? The odd couple want all of us to think there may be romance afoot. On Valentine’s Day, King Michael and his princess Lisa arrived at Hollywood’s trendy Ivy restaurant without reservations. Michael, wearing his now-legendary surgical mask, was the usual object of frenzied gossip, finger-pointing and general amazement. But the couple was given a table – pronto! They enjoyed an “intimate” dinner and then walked along Robertson Avenue window shopping, while the photographer they brought with them recorded every oh-so-private moment. Talk about controlling your own publicity and magnifying your image. Meantime, we haven’t heard much about Michael’s present wife, Debbie Rowe. She is somewhere in Hollywood expecting his second child.

April 3 1998

Debbie gives birth to Paris Michael Katherine Jackson at the Spalding Pain Medical Clinic of Beverly Hills. Michael attends the birth and soon takes his baby girl to Neverland.

Newsday, April 27, 1998

I HEAR that Debbie Rowe and her hubby, Michael Jackson, are “outraged” by the continuing supermarket-tabloid allegations that they are headed for divorce. Or that their marriage is invalid; a fake in some way. Michael’s feeling feisty and righteously litigious at the moment. The pop icon was recently awarded $2.7 million when he won a lawsuit filed against a man who claimed – in a book and without any proof whatsoever – that he had seen explicit videos of Jackson and a young boy.(And it would have been nice if this victory had been a front-page story, as the initial accusation was.) Anyway, “strong letters” have been sent to those in the media who suggest that Jackson and Debbie, the mother of his two children, are not blissful. In their fashion.

Taken in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills about two weeks after Paris was born in April, 1998









“Michael didn’t spend much time talking to Debbie during the meeting – but he was happy to watch her with the children.

“It was his idea to do the photos. He was already thinking ahead. He wanted the pictures so he could show the children when they were older, so they’d know who their mother is.”