Michael Jackson's ex wife confesses children 'not his'

No longer bound by a legal agreement following Jackson's death, Rowe has revealed Jackson had nothing to do with her babies' births.The mother of Prince, 12, and Paris, 11, has spoken of her "sham marriage" to Jackson in her first public interview with British tabloid newspaper News of the World.

Rowe, who married Jackson at the Sheraton Hotel Sydney in November 1996, said she was artificially inseminated by an anonymous donor.

"I was just the vessel. It wasn't Michael's sperm," Rowe told News of the World.

"I got paid for it, and I've moved on. I know I will never see my children again."

Rowe revealed she and Jackson never had sex and did not share a bed during their three year marriage, describing the union only as a friendship.

Prince and Paris now face an uncertain future, effectively orphaned, although they and their younger brother Prince Michael II, also known as 'Blanket' - born to an anonymous surrogate mother - were reported to be in the care of Jackson's 79-year-old mother Katherine at the family estate in Los Angeles.

Rowe, who met Jackson when she was a receptionist at a Beverly Hills dermatology clinic, where he went for skin treatments, said Jackson was lonely and desperately wanted children.

"Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies'.

"I offered him my womb...it was a gift. It was something I did to keep him happy."