As if you could ever have thought it possible, the Michael Jackson saga just got a whole lot weirder. Jackson’s long-time friend, former child actor Mark Lester, has sensationally claimed that he believes he is Michael’s daughter Paris‘ biological father. Lester says he donated sperm to Jackson in the mid-1990′s when his friend told him he was desperate for children, but was unwilling to have intercourse himself.
“In one of our regular phone conversations he said he realised [sic] having kids was a natural thing but that he just couldn’t do it. I mentioned the fact there are alternative ways of going about it. We even joked that you can use a turkey baster, referring to artificial insemination. “I think he’d already tried using his own sperm but it hadn’t worked for him, so I made an off-the-cuff comment saying: ‘Try mine!’” he said.
Mark, a Brit who took the starring role in children’s classic musical Oliver!, says that although he then donated sperm in a London clinic for Jackson, the two never talked of the incident again. Mark and his family of four children continued to spend much of their free time with the Jackson family, and are godparents to each others’ children: “Our families often holidayed together and staff, especially nannies, watching the children play together would say how similar the two girls looked,” he added.
Despite keeping the sperm donation secret from even his own wife, Mark says he is only speaking out now as he’s been cut off from the Jackson children since the superstar passed away this June.
“Now I’m not able to have any communication with the children. My repeated phone calls aren’t returned and emails go unanswered. This isn’t what Michael would have wanted. I feel I have to come forward, as my only way of saying, ‘Please don’t shut me out!’” he says. The 51-year-old acupuncturist says he’s willing to take a paternity test to prove his suspicions – which will be the only way of seeing if there’s any truth to this incredible claim, which has already been denied by sources close to the Jackson family.ÂÂ
