Issues Surrounding Custody of Michael Jackson's Children

The popular singer Michael Jackson died this past Thursday due to cardiac arrest and a possible drug overdose. Currently, there are issues surrounding who will care for his three children surrounding his untimely death. The decision will ultimately be left up to the courts to decide. The children are currently in the care of the extended Jackson family.

The person who has the strongest legal claim to his two oldest children, named Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, is their mother and Jackson's ex-wife named Deborah Rowe. She will have to have an evaluation done by the court to decide if she is the best person to care for the children. It is possible that the children may not go to her since the final decision is up to the court and they decide who is the best choice for the children to live with. Rowe has not had a close relationship with the children.


It is not known who the mother of the youngest child is, named Prince Michael II, but it is possible that she may not have signed away her parental rights even though she was a surrogate mother. It is not currently known who Jackson designated as the guardians of his children in his will. Jackson's will may have been done many years ago.

Rapper M.I.A. Gives Birth to Baby Boy

On her blog, the rapper M.I.A. has announced that she has given birth to a healthy baby boy. The father of the child is her fiance, who is the musician Benjamin Bronfman. M.I.A. is known for her recent song called "Paper Planes."

Alicia Keys’ Myspace Page Hacked

The MySpace pages of Alicia Keys and other musicians have been hacked. The discovery came after users reported that the Alicia Keys page was blocked. The pages were flagged by users of Exploit Prevention Labs’ Linkscanner Software, which blocks pages containing malicious codes. When a visitor views the page, it would try to install malware on the visitor’s computer if there is no protection against it. If it can install the malware, then the user is asked to install a fake codec to see a video. The user is also in trouble if they click anywhere on the page, including ads, that are not a legitimate link, because the page would still try to install malicious codes.

Because the attack happened to many different pages, they don’t think that MySpace is involved in the hacks and the domain of the hackers is registered to Xiamen Hua Shang Sheng Shi Network Co. Ltd, in Xiamen, Fuji. They also don’t think that it is people trying to get the user names and passwords of the pages. MySpace says that it has taken care of the problem and they have removed the source of the phishing attempt and restored the celebrity profiles.