Did the man who so famously sang “the kid is not my son” in “Billie Jean” actually have a child the world didn’t know about?
The Jackson family — or, at least, brother Jermaine — is speaking out already to welcome 25-year-old Norwegian rapper Omer Bhatti, who was photographed sitting in the front row amongst Michael’s siblings at the singer’s memorial service on July 7.
Said Jermaine to reporters yesterday, “If Omer’s his son, he’s his son.We won’t deny it. We are going to give him the same love and care that we give Prince and Paris and Blanket. I can’t clearly say if he is Michael’s but I saw this kid around him.”
Multiple news and gossip outlets are speculating that Bhatti is the product of a one-night stand between Jackson and a Norwegian woman named Pia Bhatti in the mid-’80s.
The boy grew up in Norway, but reportedly met Michael in 1996 during the HIStory tour, spent time at Neverland Ranch, and performed in a traveling Michael Jackson tribute act as a child. He is also said to be seeking a DNA test to find out whether Jackson is in fact his father.
Watch two videos below of young Omer in a very MJ-esque ensemble, breakdancing and moonwalking on an Italian talent show in 1995, and later, rapping under the name Obee — and quite clearly playing up the connection to his possible superstar parent:
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He really looks like Michael’s other kids. Good dancer too!
ok so michael is like a father to his other kids, but he is not their biological father. michael jackson is black his kids should look a bit darker and have that curly hair which they dont. this Omer Bhatti is not his son. Clearly
just because micheal is black does not mean that his children would be. They are biracial and take on traits from both parents, their skin tone and hair could be from their mother(s).
Just because his kids didn’t come out dark doesn’t mean anything..I am a black woman whose mother is bright skinned and father is dark skinned There are many different shades of black in the AA community. My hair is thick and straight like a white girls and my father’s hair is thick and curly. It doesn’t matter. He looks like Mike, dance like mike and talk like Mike….JUST LOOK AT THE EYES!!! THE EYES HAVE IT
You know nothing about mixed-race children, clearly. Just because a parent is darker doesn’t mean that the children will automatically be dark, or have curly hair. This is coming from a mixed-race person, who looks nothing like his black family.
That doesn’t always apply, My friend is White-American & the Father of her children is Black (and not light skinned but on the real dark side) and her kids are white with Blonde Hair, 1 has blue eyes & the other green & 1 has curly hair but the other doesnt…It’s all about who’s genes are more dominant…
you obviously don’t know many biracial people then because sometimes you come out looking mixed, just looking black, or just looking white or just looking mexican or filipino in my family’s case. i come from a multicultural family and two of my nephews, from a black father and white mother, look straight white with dirty blonde hair. id you look at Michael’s kid’s features against his features before the surgeries you can clearly see similarities. i don’t know if this is his kid or not but their facial structure, cheekbones, eyes shape, and chin are very similar.Joe says he is and the family seems to have embraced him so that’s enough for me.
The fact that NONE of Michael’s kids look black or even dark enough to have black in them only proves that Michael DID in fact have the skin condition therefore making his kids look the way they do!!!
I THINK BOY IS MICHAEL’S BECAUSE HE GOT THAT BLACK BLOOD IN HIM.IT ALSO DON’T MATTER IF THE OTHER KIDS ARE NOT DARK A LITTLE LIKE MICHAEL WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY.
Sorry,mnm, but this is an ignorant statement. I am a blonde who is married to an frican with dark skin that can trace his black ancesters for generations, our children have a variation of eyes from green to brown, 3 of them have skin lighter than my own with golden, loose curls, the fourth has slightly tanned skin with darker hair with tighter curls that could easily be straightened with relaxer
He does look and move like MJ.
WOW ! That’s MJ’s kid for sure !
No, of course he is not. Tragical discussion.
^ agree. Probably some young guy Mjackson picked up on his many round the world trips. He had a lot of little “kids” that he traveled the world with. Read Bob Jones book, Michael Jackson.
what’s even weirder is he looks just like Michael’s daughter Paris.
I think he resembles Blanket as a kid, so maybe all the kids are in fact his biological children. The truth of the matter is as long as he was a father to them, who cares if they came from his sperm. Just because someone donates sperm, that does not make them a father. Time, energy and love make a good father and dad.
He looked just like Blanket in that first video!! There is definately a physical resemblance to the Jackson kids. Watching that fluid motion dancing at the end of the second videos was just like MJ… I have actual goosebumps. I think a DNA test result headline is coming our way.
THAT IS THE TURE
I ALSO THINK THAT THE BOY LOOKS JUST LIKE M.J.
Surely a great talent. And as surprising optical kinship with Mr. J.’s children, indeed.
Are you people smoking crack. Michaels kids are not biologocally his. They are basically adopted. They are clearly white, he was not so clearly black.
Not saying I agree or disagree that those are his kids but just because they don’t look black does not mean they are not his. I come from a very diverse family and I have several biracial family members who resemble only one race.
Thank you. I was just going to say the same thing. My cousin, who is Irish/Italian is married to a Black man. Their 2 kids came out with light brown hair and white skin. Just because one of the parents is Black doesn’t mean the kids will be dark skinned. As for Michael’s kids, all 3 of them are his (the first 2 are from Debbie Rowe). If you watched the Barbara Walters special you would know that. If they belonged to that doctor he would have demanded a DNA test to prove that he fathered them & claimed the money those kids are worth. Those are just people looking for their 15 minutes of fame. The same thing happened when Anna Nicole smith died.
Um if the kids biologically belonged to the doctor, they wouldnt be worth anything! If the doctor was or was not the father then why didnt he get a DNA test to show us the truth???
Ugh, the kids were raised as Michael Jackson’s and I’m sure he knew the paternity, so if they were the doctor’s they would still be in for his fortune. MJ appears on Prince’s birth certificate as the father– in California, that’s enough to make you the legal father.
Sarai, you think the doctor should have a DNA test to show you the truth??? Really, who are you? I wouldn’t take a DNA test so some random stranger could know a truth that has nothing to do with them. The people it affects ie Debbie, Michael, Prince, Paris, Blanket, the doctor, and their families know the truth, that Michael is/was the father to his kids in everyway. Do you have kids? Maybe you’d and their father would like to take a DNA test for all of us just for the heck of it so “we” can know the truth. That’s pretty much the most asinine thing I’ve ever heard.Why would he take a test because a group of malicious people still won’t stop trying to downgrade a wonderful man even after his death? Get real here!
Tim is right. Jackson turned white so that he could match his kids’ skin color.
MJ had a condition which required medicine that led to his skin lightening. The plastic surgery was likely a result of body dysmorphia.
just the fact that the kids are light skinned does not mean they are not half black.
i myself am half black and am just as light as the MJ kids are…
He’s got michael’s eyes
“…eyes were like miiiine…”
‘Tragical discussion’, hm? Well, thanks for adding to it.
Surely there are more important things going on in our lives that this right now…
if YOUR life is so important then why did you take the time to come to this site and post a comment?
lol!
He looks more like MJ than his kids do!
if he is not his son, make him!
M.J. is alive!
Boring dancer. Nothing like MJ!!
^ Plus off-the beat.
who was really there to prove this kid belongs to michael jackson, come on now looks don’t make a child your child we should know this from watching maury, only dna can say for sure
THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE WITH COMMON SENSE! JUST BECAUSE THEY MAY LOOK LIKE HIM DONT MAKE THEM HIS!!!! kudos veola
Get Maury on the case!
YES!!!! 4 kids, One daddy. We find out. In the case of fey looking Omar, Michael you are/are not the father. (Exit large woman crying off the stage)
Hahahahhe!! YUP Maury will find out if “You ARE the father or You ARE NOT the father”!!!! That was a great comment orangefreedom…
I think that if he was really MJ’s son he would have been proud to let the world know – he did not attempt to keep his other children secret and went to a lot of trouble to have them. Maybe Omer is Blanket’s father, not his brother, and that’s why the mother is a secret? So many questions, and answers we may never know – and does it matter now? No.