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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Comments

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Sunday 18 October

By Deborah

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Didn't say that she didn't know her. Said, that she hadn't sent any emails recently. Read the story.

By flowers4me

You People don't know crap about Debbie!!
Why do you believe everything the Media tells you. She isn't in it for the money as you all may think.

I will leave it at that!

By Deliah

Hope she kept the e-mails. She may need them to prove her case against Rowe.

By Vienna

OH, COME ON, FOLKS!! If Rowe gave a crap about her character being slandered, she would have sued the SNOT out of the media and many many many many other people they've known her YEARS AGO!!
WHY NOW??
We ALL have been calling her a money-grabbin' skank for YEARS....this is NOT the first time she's heard it.
WHY NOW??
That would be MY defense in court.

By Joey

It looks like White was right from the looks of the law suit. She IS after the money. It sickens me to think of how low some poeple will go.....

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