She didn’t have her first boyfriend until she was 30, but within two years was a ‘biker babe’ tricked out in black leather, who swore like a sailor and drank like one, too.
Rowe got to know Jackson in the Nineties, when she was working as a nurse for his skin doctor, Arnold Klein. A certain intimacy had developed between the two when Jackson dripped a skin-bleaching agent on his scrotum and Rowe attended to his burns. Klein and Rowe began travelling with Jackson. When the singer toured, she would give him massages.
In 1996, as his 19-month marriage to Lisa Marie Presley was ending, he confided his distress over his wife’s refusal to bear him children. Rowe said she would be happy to take the job. She was already pregnant, by in-vitro insemination, in November 1996 when the couple married at the Sheraton Hotel in Sydney, Australia. The best man at the ceremony was an eight-year-old boy.
After exchanging pecks on the cheek, the couple retired to separate suites and never slept in the same bed.
Michael Joseph Jackson Jnr – soon to be known as Prince – was born in February 1997. Rowe said she had ‘never seen Michael so happy’, and offered to serve as surrogate a second time. Paris Michael Katherine Jackson was born in April 1998.
Jackson divorced Rowe in 1999, securing sole custody of the kids with a deal to pay her a reported $8 million and buy her a house in Beverly Hills.
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