Michael Jackson gets more bizarre after death

By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bizarre in life, Michael Jackson's complex personal affairs are taking even stranger twists in death, with sketchy reports on Tuesday of plans for an elaborate public memorial and questions over the parentage of his children.

After five days of television replays of Jackson's hit songs and glowing tributes to his musical genius, attention has turned to the murkier side of the "Thriller" singer.

Celebrity website TMZ.com, which broke the news of Jackson's death, reported the entertainer was not the biological father of his three children and that his ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, was not the genetic mother of the eldest two.

A copy of Jackson's will from 2002 was turned over to a family attorney, a source familiar with the documents said.

The will remains largely a mystery because it has not been presented in court. But the source said it names Jackson's mother, Katherine, as the guardian of his children and places his assets in a trust, and it names his longtime attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain as executors.

The King of Pop is reported to have cut out his father, Joe, who Jackson had accused of beating him as a child.

Several media reports said Jackson's body would be driven to his Neverland Valley Ranch near Santa Barbara in Central California on Thursday ahead of a public viewing this weekend.

One story in Britain's Sun newspaper said Jackson's body would first be driven through Los Angeles in a glass-sided horse-drawn carriage, complete with a matching glass coffin.