Michael Jackson didn’t want Joe near the kids

In all the custody challenges going on for Michael Jackson’s kids, the one person the star didn’t want to get custody was his famewhore father (who has already attempted to pimp out the kids as performers).

Michael had said in the past that his father physically abused him as a child and was adamant his father not have access to Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II.

“Michael talked so much about his kids. He said he was doing his comeback concerts for them. He hoped to give them financial security,” said a source. “It was as though he’d had a premonition of his own death. The one thing he wanted – and insisted upon – was that his father Joe didn’t get anywhere near the kids.

“I know the last thing he wanted was for Joe to play a part in the raising of his children if he died. He told me, ‘I don’t want him doing to them what he did to me.’”

The source added that though Michael named his mother as guardian, he wanted his sister, Janet, to have input on their care.

The source explained to the National Enquirer magazine: “The family is going to splinter over this. Janet will go up against her mother and will likely get the backing of her brothers.

“But her sister La Toya will side with her mother. It is believed Michael named Janet to get custody on some papers. He often said in the last two years, ‘Janet is the only sane person in my whole family. She’s the only one who isn’t out for herself and actually cares about these kids.’”