The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to a "family disturbance" at the Jackson family home after, sources said, Randy, Jermaine and Janet Jackson showed up and apparently tried to take Michael Jackson's kids away.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday there was a "scuffle" between two family members at the Calabasas home of family matriarch Katherine Jackson, but no arrests were made.

TMZ posted a photo of siblings Janet and Jermaine Jackson standing outside the home around the time police were called, according to the website.

Katherine Jackson's laywer, Sandra L. Ribera, issued a statement today, saying "Jackson family members ambushed Katherine Jackson's home after their vehicle tore through security gates on the tails of the SUV containing Michael Jackson's children."

Ribera said Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson were taken to safe location. "An altercation ensued shortly thereafter and law enforcement arrived at the scene," according to the statement.

ABC News consultant Howard Bragman of Reputation.com said, "This is truly an escalation of what's been going on. There's a lot of private security, so to actually have law enforcement called is a big step up."

It was the latest drama that has plagued the Jackson family in the past few weeks. Katherine Jackson was reported missing Saturday only to be found "resting" with her daughter in Arizona.

X17Online obtained a photo of Jackson smiling and playing Uno with her family in Arizona.



Her children released a statement Monday saying the missing person's report was "created by the very person and persons we are trying to protect our mother from."

Trent Jackson, Katherine Jackson's nephew and confidante who reported her missing, tweeted Michael Jackson's 14-year-old daughter, Paris: "I know it's completely unfair for them to do this you and your brothers. We will keep trying. I love you."

Paris Jackson tweeted Monday , "8 days and counting. Something is really off, this isn't like her at all. I wanna talk directly to my grandmother."

Katherine Jackson is the legal guardian of her late son's three children and there is no word on who is watching them in Jackson's absence.

Jermaine Jackson released a statement earlier this week about his mother's whereabouts, saying this is all "a conspiracy to deflect attention away from a letter we wrote asking for the resignation of executors" of Michael Jackson's will.

Five of Michael Jackson's siblings last week said his will was fake and the executors of his lucrative estate, John McClain and John Blanca, should step down. Jackson's entire fortune was left to his mother and three kids.

"They [executors of the will] will not stand down because the siblings who were left out of Michael's will want them to," said Zia Modabber, who is the attorney of the Jackson estate.

Howard Mann, Katherine Jackson's business partner, believed money is pulling the family apart.

"I believe that Katherine and the children who are benefactors of the estate fall on one side, and then Randy, Jermaine and Rebbie and Tito fall on the other side," Mann said. "They're a group of people who have a great deal of questions about the administration of the estate."

Modabber said, "I can't speak for them. I don't know what's motivating Jermaine and Randy and some of these others, but money is not a bad guess."

Modabber and Mann faced off in court Monday in a dispute over Mann and Katherine Jackson's selling Michael Jackson merchandise.

"It doesn't matter that it's Howard Mann and he may give some of the money to his family, to Katherine Jackson or anybody else," Modabber said. "You can't take property that belongs to the estate, make money from it, without getting permission from the estate."

Mann's attorney argues the material is and always was owned by Katherine Jackson and her husband, Joe, and not the late King of Pop.

Michael Jackson's estate is now worth about $1 billion and counting.

ABC News' Sheila Marikar contributed to this report.

SOURCE: http://gma.yahoo.com/katherine-jackson-home-scuffle-between-family-members-074234960--abc-news-celebrities.html

Michael Jackson's estate is now worth about $1 billion and counting

digitite: How will this positively effect the cost of Garri in Nigeria ?

This is Nairaland. Not Americaland.

To each his own.

ebamma: michael jacksons older brothers are a disgrace,imagine 60 something year olds fighting over a younger brothers property,make them go find work jare.

timmy1999:
It happens everywhere as long as u r african..just becos dey are black america,doesn't mean d african blood,d ancestral lineage isn't flowing in them..do u remember how pple fight on properties left behind by rich pple..eg abiola,..its normal in black pple..u will never know who love u,until wen u die

mama-gee:
Na wa oooooo

binger: Wetin concern us with this story? Long,boring,illogical,and made no particular point at the end.

digitite: How will this positively effect the cost of Garri in Nigeria ?

This is Nairaland. Not Americaland.

To each his own.

Okiki_Oluwa: Even Janet. Na wa o!.

kwenu: when a bread winner dies u see relatives fighting over property,
well i m not suprised because same thing happened to me when i lost my dad then i was just about 5 years old, i didnt know much about him.there came disunity among uncles, aunties and half brothers and relatives, quarrels, malice, neglect, drama, blackmail, fraud ect.all towards the deceased family .

when two elephants fight the children suffer.

I really feel for those kids and pray that God come to thier aid and Michael Jacksons relatives should consider the lives and future of those kids in whatever they do with thier fathers wealth .

God is with those kids, this i m confident of

tpia@:


wahala dey.

Ten days after Katherine Jackson inexplicably cut off communication with Michael Jackson's three children and took off for Arizona without them, she has lost custody of them. A judge ruled on Wednesday that the 82-year-old be stripped of her guardian duties and has handed over the responsibility to her grandson, Tito's son Tito Joe "TJ," temporarily. At the emergency hearing, the 34-year-old told the court that during a phone call with his grandmother on Tuesday, "she wasn't sharp. The pauses, choice of vocabulary … she has not used certain phrases like that before."

TJ, who was choked up throughout much of his testimony, added that he thought perhaps Katherine was talking in code to him, since she has been closely monitored in Arizona by her oldest daughter Rebbie, who has been in cahoots with her siblings Jermaine, Randy, and Janet to convince their mother to contest Michael's will … which left them nothing. During the hearing, the judge made it clear that he didn't feel Katherine had done anything wrong, but he felt she was being prevented from being the guardian of Prince, 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10, by an "intentional act from third parties." The matriarch's own lawyer, Sandra Ribera, also said she had visited her client several times recently and believes she was being held in Arizona against her will.

More here: http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/jam/katherine-jackson-loses-custody-michael-children-temporarily-grandson-192234958.html

Tinyemeka:

I tire. What do they even mean by "...USD1bn and counting"?

I was made to believe that just before his death, MJ had almost gone bankrupt. Now I'm hearing this amount. Well na dem sabi.

Jermaine and co sef should be ashamed of themselves. Going this dirty way. As for their dada, MJ never had much love for him.