Hollywood legend Marlon Brando may have fathered Michael Jackson’s youngest child, it was claimed last night.
The Godfather actor, who died in 2004 aged 80, donated sperm to the pop star before his son Bigi Jackson, 23, was born via a surrogate in 2002, sources told The Sun.
There have long been rumours that Jackson may not be the biological father of any of his three children.
Now friends of the late musician’s family think that Brando may have donated the sperm used to conceive Bigi, previously known as Blanket. ‘It has all kicked off within the wider Jackson estate quite recently, with [siblings] Paris and Prince being told of this development,’ a source said.
‘It is all very strange, but the pieces of the puzzle seem to all add up. Everyone is trying to get their heads around it.’
The Hollywood star, who died of respiratory failure two years after Bigi was born, was famously close with Jackson.
Hollywood legend Marlon Brando may have fathered Michael Jackson’s youngest child, it was claimed last night
‘People have said for years that Michael used sperm donors,’ a well-placed source said.
‘And that’s pretty much accepted as a fact these days, despite what the Jackson family might have said publicly in the past.
‘But what hasn’t been said until recently is that Marlon Brando was among the people who helped him become a dad because he was unable do it himself.’
The insider added: ‘They were both megastars and very close, so they had a lot of trust between them.
‘That’s why it has stayed quiet for so long, but a handful of people close have always known.’
Brando, who fathered at least 11 children, chose to keep many of his kids away from the spotlight and brought them up on his secluded private Tahitian island.
Fans online have previously noted a striking similarity between Bigi and Brando’s son Miko Brando, 64, who worked as a driver and security guard at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.
Previous claims have suggested that Jackson, who has two other children Prince, 28 and Paris, 27, had a low sperm count and intimacy issues.
The Godfather actor, who died in 2004 aged 80, donated sperm to the pop star before his son Bigi Jackson, 23, was born via a surrogate in 2002, sources told The Sun
There have long been rumours that Jackson may not be the biological father of any of his three children (his sons Prince and Bigi and daughter Paris are pictured in 2011)
The 13-time Grammy award winning singer died in 2009 aged 50 from a drug-induced cardiac arrest.
It comes after Michael’s daughter Paris accused the executors of her late father’s estate of mismanaging millions, in legal docs filed in Los Angeles.
Paris, 27, said in a court filing that while administrators John Branca and John McClain have reaped ‘enormous sums of cash’ from the estate of the late Thriller singer personally, they have neglected to properly invest massive sums that could be lucrative to the bottom line.
Lawyers for the daughter of the late King of Pop said that she is ‘increasingly concerned the Estate has become the vehicle for John Branca to enrich and aggrandize himself,’ according to legal docs filed in Los Angeles Superior Court obtained by Daily Mail.
The Los Angeles native said the focus of the co-executors should be to ‘serve the beneficiaries’ best interests and steadfastly preserve her father’s legacy.’
The filing was made after Paris – whose brothers are Prince, 28, and Bigi, 23 –  fell short in a previous legal bid to audit work the executors have done managing the estate’s finances.
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Specific claims Paris pointed to in her latest legal filing include the co-executors ‘apparently undertaking no effort to’ properly invest $464 million in cash the estate had on hand.
It comes after Michael’s daughter Paris accused the executors of her late father’s estate of mismanaging millions in new legal documents
Attorneys for Paris said that the co-executors did not appear to make moves to ‘make this substantial sum productive’ to the estate’s bottom line.
Paris also expressed her ire at the estate’s distribution of money to lawyers handling varied affairs.
In legal docs, Paris said that 10 law firms had been awarded more than $4.5 million in 2021, a sum that exceeded the money given to any ‘individual beneficiary that year.’
Paris said that between 2009 and 2021, executors were paid a total of $148 million.
