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Jacko's Ex Could Reveal Kids' Parentage

Today is supposed to be "D-Day," or "Debbie Day," for the prosecution in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon has subpoenaed Debbie Rowe, the singer's ex-wife and mother of his two oldest children, because he thinks she will damage Jackson in front of the jury. The worst she can do is answer questions about her children's paternity. If she does, I am told, she will have to concede that Jackson is not the father of Prince, 8, and Paris, 7.

Rowe has suffered for years by perpetuating the lie that they were conceived in a conventional manner. The truth, according to my sources, is that she acted as a surrogate twice and was artificially inseminated — and not with Jackson's sperm. This open secret was revealed in a London tabloid last year, and Rowe has verified it to friends.

My sources say Jackson has a well-constructed fantasy about this truth, much like his claim that a 20-year-old boy who lives at Neverland, Omar Bhatti, was his son. That proved untrue as well, as this column reported exclusively last year...

For one thing, Rowe admits that the couple married because she was pregnant with Prince. She admits to not spending her wedding night with Jackson and not visiting Neverland very often at all. She also says that if she had been asked at the time of the marriage, she would have said she had no physical attraction to Jackson. Drew asks — and it's hard to believe this would have been a sanctioned question — "Did you have sex to make [Prince]?"

Rowe responded evasively but strongly, "That is extremely inappropriate to ask. My answer is: That is an extremely inappropriate question. So let's not go there. Thank you."

Rowe, by the way, had to get permission from both her attorney and Jackson's to do the interview so she wouldn't break the confidentiality agreement she signed with the singer.

After the interview aired, she received not even a thank-you from Jackson and never saw her children again, despite having a visitation schedule.

Jackson, according to sources, never even returned her phone calls.

I don't know if y'all've noticed, but um... those kids ain't black. Not even mixed. Those kids are 100% glow-in-the-dark Caucasian. They don't even tan. And I know he's had a lot done to his face, but I still don't think there's an operation that reconstructs your DNA.

My money? It's always been on Jackson hiring a beard to make him some legal babies that would be harder for the cops to take out of his bed, and then paying her to vamoos, complete with gag order.

But what do I know?