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Potential Father Of Paris Jackson Comes Forward

• 13th Aug 2009

A former child actor who starred in the lead role in the 1968 film version of the Oliver! musical, has claimed that he is the father to one of his kids.

Mark Lester claimed that he donated sperm to help the late singer have a child, and has outlined his desire for a paternity test to see if he is indeed father to 11 year-old Paris.

“This is not what Michael would have wanted. I feel I have to come forward, as my only way of saying, “Please do not shut me out!”

Lester said that he made the offer in 1996 because Jackson was petrified of having sex himself, so feared he could not naturally father a child.

“Michael was not gay,” he said, “but I would say he was asexual. I think he had already tried using his own sperm but it had not worked for him, so I made an off-the-cuff comment saying, “Try mine!”