Michael Jackson’s former British bodyguard has launched a legal bid to prove he’s the biological father of the late singer’s youngest son.
Martial arts master Matt Fiddes, who provided protection for the King of Pop when he was in the UK, is filing court papers in America to demand the right to see 10-year-old Blanket, whose birth name is Prince Michael Jackson II. Fiddes claims to have given Jackson – who also had two other children, Prince Michael, 15, and 14-year-old Paris – a sperm donation in a London hotel a year before Blanket was born in 2002. He has vowed to provide officials with a DNA sample so they can confirm his paternity claim.
”I am going to lodge my DNA and formally ask the Jacksons for access. I want visitation rights,” he said, according to WENN. ”Michael is their father and I do not want that to change, but I want the children back in my life. The only way that’s going to happen is through legal action. I think Blanket is mine, but I want final proof.”
Fiddes, who has three other children, alleges Jackson’s family has refused to speak to him or answer his letters since his death in 2009. He claims Jackson’s mother Katherine, 81, has done her best to block his attempts to see Blanket, believing he is after money.
He says Jackson told him he was Blanket’s real father in November 2002, after he infamously dangled the then nine-month-old child over a hotel balcony.
”I sat there and asked the question, ‘Is Blanket my child?’ He said, ‘He’s my child, Matt, but I used your sperm to produce him,”’ Fiddes said.
Jackson died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 at the age of 50.
