LOS ANGELES, Aug 4, (Agencies): Janet, Randy and Rebbie Jackson say the executors of Michael Jackson’s will are causing harm by damaging “fundamental family relationships” and isolating matriarch Katherine Jackson “from anyone questioning the validity of Michael’s will.”
The Jackson siblings released a statement late Friday through an attorney amid a fight over their brother’s will with the executors of his estate.
On Thursday a judge named TJ Jackson, a cousin to Michael Jackson’s three children, as co-guardian with Katherine Jackson, who was named their sole caretaker in the disputed will.
Janet, Randy and Rebbie Jackson accuse the executors of a “relentless” negative media campaign and say they have been barred from visiting their 82-year-old mother or Jackson’s children.
“The effect of that notice not only is to damage fundamental family relationships, it is also to isolate Katherine Jackson from anyone questioning the validity of Michael’s will,” reads the statement by Janet Jackson’s attorney, Blair G. Brown, released on behalf of Janet, Randy and Rebbie Jackson.
They say they will continue to contest Michael Jackson’s will because “the executors have never explained how Michael could have signed his will in California on a date that irrefutable evidence establishes that he was in New York.”

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Representatives for the executors of the will did not immediately respond to calls and emails requesting comment. However, representatives for executors John Branca and John McClain released a statement some weeks ago saying, “Any doubts about the validity of Michael’s will and his selection of Executors were thoroughly and completely debunked two years ago when a challenge was rejected by the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the California Court of Appeals and, finally, the California Supreme Court.”
Janet, Randy and Rebbie Jackson say they will continue to contest Michael Jackson’s will, adding, “they stand nothing to gain financially by a finding that the will is invalid.”
“The individuals who have the most to lose by a finding that the will is invalid are, of course, the executors and those on the executors’ payroll.”
The siblings say they will “press forward in their search for the truth in order to carry out the wishes of their brother Michael.”
Three of Jackson’s siblings vowed on Friday to keep up their fight to have the pop star’s will thrown out, but denied their efforts were motivated by money.
Janet, Randy and Rebbie Jackson said in an attorney’s statement issued on their behalf that their aim was only to replace the executors of their brother’s multimillion-dollar estate, who they accuse of mismanagement.
The statement followed two weeks of Jackson clan infighting, including a trip by family matriarch Katherine Jackson, to Arizona in which she has said she was cut off from the outside world and was reported missing.
Jackson, who died in June 2009, appointed his mother guardian of his three children, and made the children beneficiaries of his estate. His father and eight siblings were not included.

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“It is important to stress that Janet, Randy and Rebbie have questioned the validity of the will with no financial motive whatsoever – they stand to gain nothing financially by a finding that the will is invalid,” Friday’s statement said.
“What will be gained ... is that the executors will be replaced and the estate and the guardianship will be managed in a manner that is in the best interests of the children,” it added.
Michael Jackson’s estate is managed by a music executive and a lawyer. According to recent court documents, the estate has earned $475 million in gross profits since the singer died of an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol.
The executors have said that any doubts about the validity of Jackson’s will were debunked two years ago in a legal challenge that went all the way to the California state supreme court.
But Friday’s statement said that “Janet, Randy and Rebbie will continue to press forward in their search for the truth in order to carry out the wishes of their brother Michael.”
The bitter dispute has led to Janet, Randy and Rebbie being barred from visiting their mother and Jackson’s children at their home near Los Angeles following an angry altercation there last week.
Brothers Jermaine and Tito Jackson have backed down from the public campaign to throw out the will, and appealed instead for family unity.