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Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. was born on February 13, 1997, in Los Angeles. Nicknamed Prince, he is the first child of the late pop singer Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe. Following their 1999 divorce, Rowe signed over custody of Prince and his sister, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson. Prince and Paris’ youngest sibling is Prince Michael “Bigi” Jackson, who was born to an unknown surrogate.
Prince’s pop star father suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009, and died shortly thereafter, at the age of 50. Prince was 12 years old at the time of Michael’s death. His grandmother Katherine Jackson became the legal guardian of Prince and his siblings.
In February 2010, an official coroner’s report on Michael’s cause of death was released, revealing that the singer had died from acute propofol intoxication. Aided by his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael had used this drug and others to help him sleep at night. After a police investigation revealed that Murray wasn’t licensed to prescribe most controlled drugs in California, his actions while caring for Michael Jackson were further scrutinized. Michael’s death was ruled a homicide, of which Murray was found guilty on November 7, 2011, receiving a four-year prison sentence.
Believing that A.E.G. Live—the entertainment company that promoted Michael’s planned comeback series, This Is It, in 2009—had failed to effectively protect the singer while he was under Murray’s care, the Jackson family decided to take legal action against the company. Katherine officially filed a wrongful death lawsuit against A.E.G. with Prince, Paris, and Bigi. The trial began in April 2013. Lawyers sought up to 800.5 billion, an estimation of what Michael could have earned over the months since his death if he had still been alive, on the family’s behalf.
In October 2013, a jury determined that A.E.G. wasn’t responsible for Michael’s death. “Although Michael Jackson’s death was a terrible tragedy, it was not a tragedy of A.E.G. Live’s making,” A.E.G.’s lawyer Marvin S. Putnam said.
In March 2024, Bigi took his grandmother, Katherine, to court, asking that she should not be able to use Michael’s estate to fund her ongoing legal battle against the executors in an argument over an undisclosed "recent transaction."
Initially, both Bigi and Katherine were aligned in fighting the estate’s proposed transaction — which appears to be the estate’s estimated $600 million catalog sale to Sony. However, he argued in the court filings obtained by PEOPLE that the estate wouldn’t “benefit” from Katherine’s appeal after a judge ruled the transaction could move forward.
In December 2023, Katherine requested the estate to cover her legal bills in her appeal, which Bigi said would be “unfair.”
"It is readily apparent that a reversal on appeal would be an extreme longshot,” lawyers wrote on behalf of Bigi. “Given those odds, Bigi decided not to waste his resources to participate in an appeal. Nonetheless, Katherine has decided to appeal this court’s ruling. That decision is not for the benefit of the heirs.”
FULL NAME: Prince Michael Jackson II
BORN: February 21, 2002
BIRTHPLACE: La Mesa, California
FATHER: Michael Jackson
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Pisces
Prince Michael Jackson II was born February 21, 2002. Known as Blanket in his childhood and now Bigi, he is the third child of pop legend Michael Jackson and allegedly the only biological child of the star, but no confirmation has ever been made. The identity of his biological mother, a surrogate, is unknown.
Debbie Rowe, the mother of Michael’s other two children—Paris Michael Katherine and Michael Joseph “Prince” Jackson—publicly denied being Bigi’s biological mother, following his birth and subsequent media speculation regarding his conception.
Michael Jackson holds his son Prince Michael Jackson II on a balcony in Berlin.A famous photograph of Bigi was taken in 2002 when, at only 9 months old, his father dangled him over a balcony in Berlin.
Jackson lives in Calabasas, California. He attended the Buckley School, a private school in Sherman Oaks, California. Due to his grandmother’s advanced age, along with siblings Michael and Paris leaving the nest as young adults, Jackson was under the supervision of older cousin T.J. Jackson in his later teen years.
While sources told People magazine that he had the hardest time of his siblings adjusting after his father’s death, he is now doing well, having focused on grades and sports while in school and spending time with his more than 30 cousins.
Among Michael’s kids, Bigi has generally stayed out of the spotlight. However, he made a rare appearance at older brother Prince’s graduation from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in May 2019. He and Prince also attended the Michael Jackson ONE show at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in August 2023, on what would have been their father’s 65 th birthday.