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Omarion Has 'Nothing But Love' For Lil Wayne, Despite Leaving Young Money

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 10:02 PM PDT

Singer left Wayne's Young Money label earlier this week.
By Shaheem Reid


Omarion
Photo: Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images

released an official statement on Friday (August 21) regarding his parting of ways with Lil Wayne's Young Money label earlier this week. The statement reiterates the singer's Twitter post on Wednesday, dispelling rumors that he'd been dropped.

"I have a lot of respect and admiration for the genius of Lil Wayne and the entire Young Money family," he said. "I asked to be released from the label to pursue other opportunities that were recently presented to me. Because of our relationship, Lil Wayne had no issue with us ending our business relationship and released me from the label. Lil Wayne and I have nothing but love for each other, there is no beef. I also wanted to make it clear that my company nor did I, leak the song, 'I Get It In,' and I want to dispel any rumors that have surfaced. I appreciate my relationship with Young Money/ Cash Money and look forward to doing business in the future.

"There will be a major announcement regarding my career and my new album, Ollusion, coming next week," the statement promises.

Young Money member Mack Maine broke the news of Omarion's departure on his Twitter page Wednesday night, writing, "ATTN: Omarion is no longer Young Money ... the song they leaked featuring Wayne is not official ... Good luck to him in his future endeavors."

Omarion has not released an album since 2007's Face Off duet with Bow Wow. The former B2K member was released from his contract with Sony music, and in 2008, there was talk of him signing to Timbaland's Mosely Music Group. Except for a few songs that leaked to the Internet, nothing transpired from that collaboration.

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Aubrey O'Day: My <i>Playboy</i> Photos Are Better Than Heidi Montag's

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 01:50 AM PDT

Ex-Danity Kane singer says 'Hills' star should 'take risks' if she poses for magazine again.
By Jocelyn Vena


Aubrey O'Day
Photo: Akshay Bhansali / MTV News

We're sure plenty of people are comparing Aubrey O'Day's and Heidi Montag's recent Playboy pictorials — and O'Day is one of them. Earlier this year, O'Day bared it all for the magazine, and Montag was recently featured in a less revealing pictorial. O'Day said she feels the "Hills" star could have taken a few more chances when she posed for the magazine.

But, before O'Day told MTV News what she really thought of the photos, she complimented Montag's pictorial.

"I think Heidi is a beautiful girl and it's an honor to be a part of an iconic lineup of women," she said. "I'm happy that she took the opportunity. She looked beautiful."

However, O'Day didn't have to think twice when asked whose pictorial she thinks is better. "I'd have to go with mine," she said. "There's been so much speculation and competition between the two MTV girls, and I had heard that Spencer made a statement about it, but, I don't know, I think mine's still the winner."

The former Danity Kane singer, who is currently prepping to star in "Peepshow" in Las Vegas, also has some advice for Montag. "I mean, every woman has their own way of expressing themselves," she said. "I think that my Playboy photos express very strongly my nature as a woman. They were classy, they depicted the parts of my body that I love, and I felt completely beautiful and secure and empowered by them."

O'Day, who said she would "absolutely" pose for the magazine again, added that she thinks that if Heidi has plans to do so — as she has hinted — she needs to step it up for her next pictorial.

"So whatever her journey is, I'd say ... to just take that risk, really do something kind of ... maybe do something she's a little scared to do, so she overcomes a fear and feels really proud," she advised Heidi. "You know, you can take a million pretty pictures, every celebrity girl has taken a million pretty pictures, but it's like: Which pictures are really going to stand out and be iconic, and which pictures are just pretty pictures that are here today, gone tomorrow?"

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Drake Blogs About 'The Craziest Part About Becoming 'Famous' '

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:14 AM PDT

'To have anyone of any significance in our lives that we can look up to there will be things that we must look past,' he writes.
By Kyle Anderson


Drake
Photo: Tyrone Kerr/FilmMagic

Drake may be signed to Lil Wayne's label, but he seems to be taking more than a few cues from his mentor Kanye West. Case in point: Thursday, Drake took to his personal blog to get something off his chest. In the post, he contemplated how odd his particular brand of fame is and also defended his decision to release his So Far Gone mixtape as a CD.

"People often ask me the craziest part about becoming 'famous' and I've never had an answer until yesterday," he wrote. "You'll spend half of your time defending yourself and the other half trying to stay sane resulting in you being forced to find time to be creative."

He also openly wonders if the "cyber world of instantaneous information" will ever again yield the sort of rap star who will be able to maintain his image. "I am just urging a generation to understand that in order to have anyone of any significance in our lives that we can look up to there will be things that we must look past," he wrote, likely responding to the rumors floating around the Internet that he's gay.

In the post, Drake defended the forthcoming release of his mixtape So Far Gone, which was previously available for free. "I am only releasing this EP so that everyone involved in the project can hold a physical copy of the CD in their hands and see it in the store," he wrote. "If you got it for free and want to keep it that way then by all means I urge you to."

Drake is currently at his home outside Toronto where he is working on his upcoming full-length debut Thank Me Later and awaiting surgery on his knee, which he injured while on Lil Wayne's America's Most Wanted tour.

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Exclusive: Jordan Scott Reveals Why She's Suing Stephenie Meyer

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:08 AM PDT

Writer says she's not seeking publicity by suing the 'Twilight' author, but does her case have merit?
By Gil Kaufman


Jordan Scott
Photo: jordanscott.com

If Jordan Scott could ask "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer one thing, it would be, "Why?"

"That would be my question ... the thing I would have to say to her," Scott told MTV News in her first interview since her lawyers filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meyer on Wednesday over claims that 2008's "Breaking Dawn," the fourth book in the "Twilight" author's series, plagiarizes from Scott's 2006 novel, "The Nocturne."

"I don't think it's a coincidence. This isn't about vampires or vampire lore, it's about the events in the book," she said. "From the main characters getting married and the description of the ceremonies, the feelings the characters are going through, the scene on the beach, the pregnancy and the discussion about it being a boy and giving him a weird name and the husband having to cut the baby out, the wife coughing up blood ... these are not things you typically see in the vampire genre."

Scott, 21, who said she graduated from high school at 14 and is now enrolled in a distance learning program at UCLA, adamantly denied speculation raised in a statement from Meyer's publisher, Hachette Book Group, that the legal action was an attempt at advancing her music/modeling/writing career. "I'm a student ... I do play guitar and I like music, but it's not a career," she said. "I'm not planning an album. I have modeled because I could, but I'm not out to be a model. What career would I be trying to advance? I didn't go to the media. The first I heard about [the lawsuit] was a couple weeks ago when I got questions based on [the cease-and-desist] letters [sent by her lawyers to Hachette]. If I was trying to seek publicity, I would have done it last year and not tried to settle it peacefully with them."

New York-based copyright attorney Tom J. Ferber, who is not involved in the case, said that based on his reading of the lawsuit, it's unclear if Scott has a rock-solid argument. "You could have a lot more similarities than those alleged in the complaint and still have no infringement unless it was the product of copying," said Ferber, who has practiced copyright law for 27 years and agreed to review the complaint at MTV News' request.

"There must be copying, and it must be of protectable elements," he said, pointing to a trio of allegedly similar scenes mentioned in the suit: weddings, consummation of the marriages on a beach and then pregnancies. Without the benefit of having read both books, Ferber said his reading of the complaint makes it seem as if the scenes fall under a copyright term called Scenes A Faire, which refers to elements in a work that one would logically expect to come from a certain topic or theme.

"Talking about a lot of flowers, or a beautiful dress, or sex after a wedding ... those are scenes a faire, of course you would consummate after the wedding," he said. "I don't know what's special about the beach, that's kind of a romantic place. The three examples listed as similarities strike me was unremarkable. ... I would expect more context and discussion of key characters and plots."

Reacting to another claim in the Hachette statement that "The Nocturne" was never formally published, Scott explained that while it was not formally published until 2006, she filed for copyright protection for the novel as early as 2003, when she began slowly posting chapters and portions of the book as it was being written at the behest of her online following.

"It was a trial-and-error thing," Scott said about the slow unveil of the book. Asked what motivated a 14-year-old to not only have the presence of mind to research and write a novel while her friends were likely busy obsessing over all things high school, but to also apply for a copyright, Scott said it's just her nature. "I have friends who like to write, and they encouraged me, and I liked the weird challenge of writing a book. I intended it as a 10-page short story, but I did a lot of research and tried to be thorough in researching the time and lore. I just did it for my own enjoyment. It was out there on the Internet and easily accessible."

Hachette has vehemently denied the claims in the case and said the alleged similarities between Meyer's book and Scott's "online story" were "wholly lacking in substance," explaining that it is indisputable that "Breaking Dawn" was based on the original "Twilight" sequel "Forever Dawn," which was written in 2003 and registered with the U.S. Copyright Office in January 2004.

Ferber said that ne of the key questions, should the case go before a judge is if "The Nocturne" — which was available on a handful of online book stores and on Scott's Web site — was widely disseminated, and did it reach a threshold where you could assume Meyer could reasonably have had access to it? "If there's not enough availability to get past that threshold, then all the similarity in the world would not get you a copyright case, unless there's proof of verbatim copying," he said.

Scott's lawyer, Craig Williams, said the complaint contains just enough evidence to enable the defendants "to understand the scope of the allegations being made against them," and that some of the questions Ferber posed would be answered later.

Asked if she thinks it's possible Meyer could have seen or read "The Nocturne" as she was working on "Twilight," Scott said, "I think it's a great possibility." When friends began pointing out to her the alleged similarities between her book and "Breaking Dawn," Scott — who said she's never read any of the "Twilight" books or seen the movie — said she looked at "Dawn" and thought the similarities were too numerous to be a coincidence. That led to the cease-and-desist letter and then to Wednesday's lawsuit.

"It looks like she used ['The Nocturne'] as a model ... I don't know if she read a chapter and wrote a chapter, but the similarities are there," Scott said, noting that the two books take place in different eras. "I hope that I could get recognition for my work and an admission from her. I'm not out for money. ... Next year, I'm done with school, and I want to go into screenwriting."

Next up for Scott is a screenplay based on "The Nocturne," as well as a sci-fi/political thriller and a cop drama, plus, possibly, a date in court.

Tony Yayo Feels 'A Little Sorry' For Young Buck

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 07:23 AM PDT

G-Unit rapper speculates on whether the whole crew will ever reunite, in Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid


Tony YaYo
Photo: MTV News

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You can never say never, but the chances of the Beatles of hip-hop getting back together are looking very slim. Last month, Game apologized for the friction he stirred while being a member of the G-Unit, and just recently Young Buck went the same route. But could 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo ever find it in their hearts to embrace their lyrically potent onetime crew members?

"Shout to Young Buck," Yayo said standing in the G-Unit offices earlier this week. "I wish you was with us, getting some money, living the life."

Has Yayo's stance actually softened towards Buck after all this time? His response to the Cashville rapper's recent words on cyberspace was, "When I see it, I feel a little sorry for him, because he could be taking the same advantages I'm taking.

"ThisIs50.com is the biggest hip-hop network out there — as well as the Web sites that come after it," Yayo continued. "He could be taking advantage of it, but you don't hear his mixtapes; you don't see nothing from nowhere. I just wish that the guy thought better or was a better businessman, instead of just being a good rapper. You being disgruntled towards 50, now what do you have? You could have been with us in Peru. We went to Switzerland, Istanbul, we went everywhere, man. I'm too real for the industry. Even if I was disgruntled about anything, I wouldn't care, because I'm still getting money. Still got houses, still got cars, sprinklers still come out the ground. I think people get jealous of 50, of how big he is. You wake up, Mayor Bloomberg is talking about 50. Then in the New York Post, he had two pages. Then he was on Fox 5 [New York] news because we're doing an event for the kids and grown-ups — August 30, come nice, in good behavior.

"But the thing is, a lot of artists don't hit that plateau where they're on CNN, on Fox 5," Yayo said. "But what happens, when we're around 50 and dudes is in the circles, dudes start to get mad jealous. They want 50's money. That's what happened with Game and Buck, there was no way they were supposed to mess up the money. That's what they did, they started messing up the money."

Yayo said the Unit could never take Game seriously because "Game is bipolar." As for Buck, whom they knew a lot longer and were closer friends with, it doesn't look like Yayo will be slapping him five anytime soon.

"Buck, I think he's at a point where financially, I don't think he got it, homie," Tony explained. "What are you doing? I don't see him anywhere. Even when you don't see me, Yayo's in Peru getting a nice check with 50. You can call it whatever you wanna call it; I'm still buying cars, Louis glasses, Porches. If Buck was around, he would still have these outlets available to him. Why apologize now?"

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Gucci Mane has a handful of major songs in rotation, such as "Break-Up," "LOL Smiley Face" and the "Obsessed" remix. He's on fire, no doubt. Gucci's album however, has been pushed back from September to December. Still, he will have something for the fans next month. The Atlanta concrete king will be dropping Wasted: The Prequel, an EP packed with his biggest mixtape records of the last year. His latest mixtape, The Movie 2, is a special-edition Gangsta Grillz with DJ Drama.

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Lady Gaga Gets Racy At Tel Aviv Show

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 09:48 AM PDT

Singer fakes orgasm, talks about Israeli men's genitalia at concert.
By James Montgomery


Lady Gaga (file)
Photo: Andy Sheppard/ Redferns/ Getty Images

In a press conference earlier this week Lady Gaga promised to tone down her outrageous outfits and keep a lid on her notorious statements while visiting Israel.

Speaking to the media in Tel Aviv, Gaga pledged to keep it demure while touring Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, calling her visit to the Holy Land "an emotional and spiritual experience."

She didn't say anything, however, about reining in the antics during her stage show. And, on Wednesday night, she most certainly didn't.

Decked out in her famous barely there attire, Gaga faked orgasms, made reference to the size of Israeli men's genitalia and cursed like a sailor during her show at Tel Aviv's Fair, Trade & Convention Center, drawing whoops of joy from the capacity crowd and earning comparisons to Madonna in at least one Israeli media outlet.

In camera-phone footage of the show, Gaga can be seen greeting the crown by huffing and puffing her way to a screaming fake orgasm, then stating "Shalom Israel! My name is Lady Gaga. How you doing?" Later, while surrounded by a troupe of dancers, she shouts "Tel Aviv, get your d---s out, because I heard there's some pretty big c--ks here in Israel," then orders the masses "Put your hands up and dance, you motherf--ers!"

Gaga also serenaded the crowd with an impromptu version of "Shalom, Friends" (while crouching onstage in a sparkly unitard), attempted to lead the audience in "a motherf---ing Hail Mary," and said that, after swimming in the Dead Sea, she felt like "motherf----ing Superwoman."

She also took time to praise the local cuisine, telling the audience "You guys have the f---ing best hummus I've ever had in my whole life. I mean, I think I am a chick pea right now. I think I might smell like chick peas."

Perhaps feeling inspired, Gaga also performed two versions of her massive hit "Poker Face," one in which she mounted her piano (and, according to local reports, told a lengthy story about how she "did it" while covered in Dead Sea mud), and then the album version's arrangement, which fans had been clamoring for all night.

From Israel, the singer will head to the U.K. for the V Festival on Saturday and Sunday. She'll be back in her native New York to perform at MTV's Video Music Awards on September 13; her co-headlining tour with Kanye West is expected to begin in Buffalo, New York, on October 4. The U.S. tour is expected to run through mid-December.

The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards will take place September 13 at 9 p.m. ET. Additional celebrity presenters and performers will be announced in the coming weeks. To be the first to find out the inside scoop, follow the Inside MTV Twitter account at Twitter.com/InsideMTV.

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Michael Jackson Burial Rescheduled For September 3

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 10:29 PM PDT

Family rep does not give reason for delay.
By Kyle Anderson


Michael Jackson
Photo: Dave Hogan/Getty Images

Earlier this week, a spokesperson for the Jackson family confirmed that Michael Jackson would be buried on August 29 — the day that would have been the late singer's 51st birthday. But it now appears that the family needs more time to prepare and has changed the date.

Initial reports suggested that the new date would be two days later, on August 31, but Jackson family representative Ken Sunshine announced on Friday (August 21) that the new date for the ceremony will be September 3, according to The Associated Press. Sunshine did not give any specific reason for the delay, although Jackson's father Joe said earlier in the week that the family had to make arrangements before the burial could take place.

The ceremony will still happen at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, and per a request from the Glendale Police Department, the Jackson family has agreed to cover all costs for the event, which includes money for police officers and additional security personnel.

Jackson's burial won't be the end of the tributes to the legend, who passed away on June 25. Tickets went on sale Thursday for the Jermaine Jackson-produced tribute concert in Vienna, Austria, on September 26. Though that concert still doesn't have a lineup, its official Web site reportedly crashed after more than a million people tried to buy tickets.

And on October 28, the Kenny Ortega-directed film "This Is It," a documentary made up mostly of rehearsals for Jackson's planned residency at London's O2 arena, will hit theaters for two weeks only. Tickets for the movie go on sale on September 27.

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Jay-Z's Mystery Collaborator: Who Is Luke Steele?

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 12:35 AM PDT

'It's gonna be a pretty big honor,' Empire of the Sun frontman says of guesting on leadoff track 'What We Talkin' About.'
By Gil Kaufman


Luke Steele
Photo: Jo Hale/ Getty Images

A glance at the list of guest spots on Jay-Z's upcoming Blueprint 3 album reveals a bunch of familiar faces — Kanye West, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Pharrell, Young Jeezy and Swizz Beatz — alongside hip-hop up-and-comers like Drake, J. Cole, Kid Cudi and Mr Hudson.

Then there's the leadoff track, "What We Talkin' About" — which has a feature from some guy named Luke Steele from Australian synth-pop duo Empire of the Sun — that will likely have most of Jay's fans asking, "Jigga, who?"

"It's gonna be a pretty big honor," Steele said of having the first track on the eagerly awaited album.

But just how did Jay find the still-somewhat-obscure-in-the-U.S. group best known for over-the-top, futuristic videos that look like a mash-up of "Dune" and old Duran Duran clips? "Apparently, he was watching 'Entourage,' and he heard one of our songs and he needed this chorus for one of the tracks," the impossibly laid-back Steele said in his halting, laconic tone. His relaxed air is a far cry from the bouncy, bright-eyed pop of "Standing on the Shore," the tune Jigga heard on the "Running on E" episode of "Entourage," which aired August 2.

So Jay's people called Luke's people, and they asked him to jump on a jet to New York for sessions, but because Steele couldn't get a flight out of Perth, Australia, on time, the track was sent to him instead. "I tracked it all day, for 12 hours, and then I sent it back," he said. "I was a bit nervous, wondering what everyone thought, and Jay-Z called me at 3 in the morning, and he said he loved it."

Steele — whose brilliance has also been shouted out by the track's producer, Kanye West, on his blog several times — said he took the original hook of "Shore" from the band's 2008 Walking on a Dream debut album and did his usual studio manipulation on it. "It's just whatever comes to mind," he said. "I added some reverse [vocals] and wrote a Neptunes-y, Beach Boys melody on the chorus, and it turned out to be great."

Asked why his music has gotten such a warm embrace from the man he called the "Empire State Building" of hip-hop, Steele said it might have something to do with the fact that, admittedly, he's not a very good singer. "I've always gotten by by being experimental and knowing that I only had one voice box and I need to be able to turn this voice box into a chameleon and slice it into different tones and colors and characters," he said. "And the other half that goes with my voice is the melody. From way back in the day, I've always experimented with a lot of ways you can get a different melody and working different phrases, slicing up things and reversing them."

One of the things Jay loved was how Steele tried a lot of different rhythmic patterns on the song, some of which didn't work. But, by tweaking his vocals so much, he came up with a trippy chorus that perfectly fit the tune.

"I still haven't met him," said Steele, 29, who described the whole cross-planet collaboration as "more surreal than the word surreal. I feel like I'm drunk on acid." And while, in his own chilled-out way, the singer is totally geeked about the prospect of finally hooking up with Jay in the flesh and even joked about moving to New York, he's savvy enough to know he's got to dial it back.

"You do the track, but you have to play it cool as well," he said. "I don't want to be the kid calling him on speed dial every minute."

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30 Seconds To Mars Import Iranian Fans, Tibetan Monks For New Album

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 01:04 AM PDT

'We wanted to further the connection between the band and the audience,' Jared Leto says of band's 'digital summits.'
By James Montgomery


30 Seconds To Mars' Jared Leto
Photo: Charles Eshelman/ FilmMagic

When it comes to 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto really only knows one way of operating: global.

He's written songs in Berlin, then recorded them in Hawaii (with Kanye West), held RSVP-only "summits" (basically fan-only recording sessions) in Australia, Italy, France and Japan (to name just a few), drew influence from German electronic act Tangerine Dream and had an entire project helmed by British producer Flood.

So it should come as no surprise that, as the sessions for 30 Seconds to Mars' new album enter the home stretch, he's still expanding borders — with a so-called "digital summit" and some very unorthodox guest stars.

"I actually ended up getting a Twitter from someone in Iran, saying that they wanted to be a part of our summits but couldn't make it to any of the worldwide summits," Leto told MTV News Thursday. "So the idea to do the digital summit was born out of that. ... We wanted to further the connection between the band and the audience, to use the collective conscious as an instrument on the record."

So 30STM put a request out to their fans: submit content through TwitVid.com, and it could end up on the new album. And just like that, the floodgates opened.

"People are sitting in front of their computers, either by themselves or with their friends and family, all around the world, and they're recording sounds and singing and answering interview questions. ... It's as simple as clapping or stomping, to singing a chorus on a song," Leto explained. "We're experimenting with what you can do with a group. It's wonderful to see that people are so excited for this. Eventually, we're going to have to call it off, since we've gotten so many submissions. It's going to take awhile to go through all of them."

And while they cull through the video submissions, Leto and company are still putting the finishing touches on the new album (which Leto won't totally confirm is going to be called This Is War, despite several reports). The goal, Leto said, is to have the album in stores this year.

"We are literally in the death throes or about to give birth to this record," he said. "We're at the very, very, very end, wrapping things up, and it looks like the album will be coming out sooner rather than later."

And while fans already know that Kanye and Killers frontman Brandon Flowers make a cameo on a track called "Hurricane," there are some new guests that Leto personally invited to appear on the album: a group of Tibetan monks.

"There's a disparate nature to a lot of the songs. We explored a lot, and I think people are gonna be really surprised with this album," he said. "One really exciting thing we did a couple of weeks ago, we had been working on recording with some Tibetan monks for about a year, and we finally got them in the studio and recorded their voices chanting. We did some chanting with them. ... They were in [my] house, chanting and recording."

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Godfather Of Michael Jackson's Kids Thinks He Might Be Paris' Dad

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 11:56 PM PDT

Former child star Mark Lester says on the 'Today' show that he donated sperm when Michael was trying to have children.
By Kyle Anderson


Mark Lester on NBC's "Today"
Photo: NBC

The saga of Michael Jackson's children continues to become more complicated. In an interview on the "Today" show Friday morning (August 21), Mark Lester — a former child star and godfather to Jackson's kids — said there is a possibility that he is actually the father of Paris Jackson. Lester admitted that he has no proof of this, but he did say he donated sperm when Michael was first trying to have children.

"I would make absolutely no claim on Paris or any of the kids, but there is the possibility that one of those kids is mine," he said. "And even if I was, it would make no difference to the status quo of the family anyway."

Lester said that he wanted to get the story out there before the tabloids had the chance to break it. "Michael was very shy when it came to women, and he confided in me that he had found it very difficult to actually do the sexual act," Lester told Matt Lauer. "So I jokingly said, 'Well, if you don't want to do it, maybe I'll do it for you.' "

Lester's 15-year-old daughter was also on hand for a side-by-side comparison to a photo of Paris, with Lester pointing out both of their high cheekbones. But when pressed about the strangeness of the situation, Lester said that it was a gift "and I didn't want anything in return for it." Lester has stated that he is willing to take a paternity test.

Katherine Jackson, who was awarded custody of Michael's children (as Michael wished in his will), told 'Today' through Jackson family lawyer Londell McMillan: "These newfound efforts appear to be self-serving, lack legal standing and do not serve the best interests of the children."

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