Michael Jackson Facts: Singer's Wife, Kids, Age, Albums, Net Worth ...

Who was Michael Jackson married to and how many kids did he have?

In 1993, Michael Jackson proposed to Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, over the phone.

They later married in La Vega, Dominican Republic in May 1994. Their marriage ended just over a year later, and they separated in December 1995.

Michael's second wife Debbie Rowe met him while working as a nurse in Dr Arnold Klein's dermatology office. She said that after Jackson's divorce from Lisa Marie Presley, he was upset at the possibility that he might never become a father.

Rowe, a longtime Jackson fan, proposed to give him children.

Jackson and Rowe married on November 13, 1996, at the Sheraton on the Park Hotel in Sydney, Australia.

The night before the wedding, Jackson had called Lisa Marie Presley, who gave him and Rowe her blessing.

Several months after his divorce from Presley, it was revealed that Rowe was pregnant with his child.

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Newspaper reports at the time claimed that Jackson would be raising the child alone, and that he impregnated Rowe artificially with his own sperm cells.

Jackson and Rowe's first child, Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr (also known as 'Prince Michael'), was born on February 13, 1997.

Six weeks after the birth, Rowe saw her son for the first time, but did not raise the child with Jackson. At Neverland, Prince was cared for by a team of six nannies and six nurses during his first few months.

Rowe announced that she was pregnant with Jackson's second child in November 1997. The baby was a girl named Paris, after the French city in which her parents said she was conceived.

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Rowe later asked Jackson for a divorce, which he granted on October 8, 1999.

Rowe received around $10 million in a settlement. Rowe also gave Jackson full custody rights to her children.

In 2002, an anonymous surrogate mother gave birth to Michael's third child, Prince Michael Jackson II (nicknamed 'Blanket'), who had been conceived by artificial insemination.

In 2006, Rowe applied for access to her two children to be reinstated and reached an agreement with Jackson. Following his death in 2009, his mother Katherine was made the permanent guardian of Prince Michael, Paris, and their half-brother Prince Michael II.

A new custody arrangement was made with Rowe, who now had visitation rights with her two children and continued to receive support payments.