Fans pay tribute to the singer at a public memorial Tuesday at Harlem's Apollo Theater
CNN reveals Michael Jacksons will which was written several years ago.
A lawyer filed Michael Jackson’s will — written seven years ago — with the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday morning, court officials said.
The pop icon placed his entire estate — which he estimated to be worth at least $500 million — in the Michael Jackson Family Trust, which was described in another document not filed in court.
The mother of his two oldest children was left out of his will.
“I have intentionally omitted to provide for my former wife, Deborah Rowe Jackson,” Jackson’s will said.
While it will be up to a court to decide who gets custody of Jackson’s three children, the singer nominated his mother, Katherine Jackson, as their guardian. If Katherine Jackson, 79, is not living, Jackson said, “I nominate Diana Ross as guardian.”
The children — ages 7, 11 and 12 — have been placed under his mother’s temporary guardianship.
Jackson attorney John Branca, attorney Barry Siegel and John McClain, a music industry executive and longtime Jackson friend, were named as executors of the will.
