Lawyer: Announcement pending on custody of Michael Jackson’s kids

NEW YORK (AP) — The attorney for Michael Jackson’s mother says an announcement is imminent on a custody deal regarding the pop icon’s two oldest children, but stopped short of saying an agreement had been reached.

L. Londell McMillan said in an interview with The Associated Press that word of an agreement between Katherine Jackson and Deborah Rowe, the biological mother of Prince Michael, 12, and Paris-Michael, 10, would come sometime today.

McMillan has previously said any agreement will be in the best interest of Jackson’s children. He declined to go into specifics and would not address reports about what kind of visitation Rowe would get, if any.

E-mail messages sent to Rowe’s attorney seeking comment today were not immediately returned.

Michael Jackson, who died June 25 at 50, was the sole parent to his three children.