London, July 26: ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson requested his friends before he died to not to let his dad- Joe take the custody of his three children.
According to contact music.co.uk, “The 50-year-old pop icon – who died of a suspected cardiac arrest earlier this month – was adamant Joe, who he accused of physically abusing him as a child, should care for Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II.”
A close source revealed, “It was as though he’d had a premonition of his own death. The one thing he wanted and insisted upon was that his father Joe didn’t get anywhere near the kids. He said- ‘I don’t want him doing to them what he did to me.’”
It has been claimed Michael was keen for his mother Katherine who he named as the person who should care for his children in the event of his death in a will drawn up in 2002.
—Agencies