Debbie Rowe Sues Over Slanderous Interview

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Oct 17th 2009 09:09AM

Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe doesn't take kindly to the implication that money is more important than her children. She is suing a Florida woman who claimed - on television - that Rowe was only interested in getting cash from the singer's family and didn't intend to gain custody of her two children.

Rowe sued Rebecca White in July for White's comments to the television show 'Extra.' White was described in the segments as a "close friend" who said Rowe had emphatically stated in an e-mail exchange that she didn't want custody of Jackson's children. Rowe's attorneys have denied that White and Rowe are friends.

White was described in the segments as a "close friend" who said Rowe had emphatically stated in an e-mail exchange that she didn't want custody of Jackson's children. Rowe's attorneys have denied that White and Rowe are friends.

Rowe's defamation and invasion-of-privacy lawsuit sought to recoup any money that White may have been paid for the interview, which aired in July. Rowe's attorneys estimated those earnings at $100,000 on a court filing.

They are also seeking $100,000 for emotional distress, $45,000 for medical and attorney's fees and $245,000 in punitive damages.

A hearing on Rowe's petition to issue a default judgment against White is scheduled for November.

Rowe has some visitation rights with the two children under an August agreement with the singer's mother. No money is believed to have changed hands in the arrangement.

Stories aired by "Extra" were based on White's description of e-mails she said were exchanged with Rowe after Jackson's June 25 death. Rowe, 50, denies she sent any recent e-mails to White.

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Saturday 17 October

By John

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There is no news coverage anymore, there is only hype. No journalists exist. Only shills who spout whatever will sell the snake oil. hours a day go to in depth analysis of garbage about the personal lives of celebrities, politicians, and the tragedy of the week while real news about the real world never gets on the air. DILLIGAF about some publicity seeking schmuck who staged this baloon stunt to get seeeriously stoooopid media morons suckered into whatever stunt he's pulling.

Sunday 18 October

By richard Fusilier de la Claire

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Amen

By Becky

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The b--ch doesn't want her kids. She is thinking of the money only. She is greedy and only thinking about herself.

By DiamondQT

how do you have lawyers say that you don't know White, but then you state in an interview that you haven't sent any recent emails to White? Something isn't adding up.

By milagros

Diamond you are right said the same thing she is not friend with her and then says she has not sent her an e mail recently..The other lady will heve to show those emails

By colcam

I was sent an email by a person two years ago asking if I knew a third party-- I replied that I did not, and got a second email telling me I must have met her. I did not reply to that email, and like Rowe, I would have to say that I did not know the person and that I had not recently sent them an email. What's so hard to grasp about that?

By Bill520

Rowe's attorneys have denied that White and Rowe are friends.Does not say Rowe doesn't know her, It says they are not friends. I know lots of people who are not friends.

By CBC

Ms. Rowe is ONLY interested in $$$$$!!! Who is she trying to fool??? Any woman who could sell her children to a suspected child molester has lost any decency she may have had. She's pathetic & an embarrassment to those children. She has lost her gravy train and is trying to figure out another way to satisfy her greed. You don't see her filing a lawsuit "to see her children more often or to provide more $$$ for their care & support", do u? She's so obvious in her constant motive to get someone else's $$$. So sue me, Debbie!

By MoKG

Not about the money? Then why is she trying so hard to sue for more money in the name of her children...I agree with CBC.

By Schmice

I'm so afraid that that assbag will sue me that I don't dare say anything about her being in it only for the money.

By twopottersinlove

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WHO CARES?

By mrgmorgan56

What a mutt. Someone had children with this yutz?

By laughin

the woman was right this hog of a thing has only been about the money since the day of conception of these kids facts are facts and if she does get any moeny out of i do hope she gets a face job ewwwwwwwwwwww

By ScotinMilwa

About Debi Rowe's Face? She does have an unusaly---- face but we are all that way one way or anothere maybe she should sell dog food? or Tree bark?

By Mary Arthur

I do not believe Debbie Rowe said anything to anyone about whether or not she wanted custody of her children. If she had, someone who would report what she said is NOT a friend!!!

By malcom

another trashy white woman doing anything for money and to have a Black baby.

By TJK

Debbie Rowe & MJ's babies are not black, they're white or are you color blind.

By Dean

Haven`t we heard enough from this trash?

I say this again, if don't know someone you will not say you had not recently sent them email. If you do then you are crazy as hell. So colcam are you grasping what i am saying now? You tell someone who don't know that person and clarify it even more to say who have never emailed them. Any person with half of brain which I am guessing you don't have would know that.

By S321Saint

Hey any story about the late Michael Jackson cannot by definition be in any way libelous simply because he was guilty of most things that others never think of.

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