MICHAEL JACKSON WILL

Michael Jackson’s seven-year-old will has been filed in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust and naming his mother as a beneficiary of the trust and the guardian of his three children.

The will, filed on Wednesday, names singer Diana Ross as a successor guardian to 79-year-old Katherine Jackson if necessary.

The will, dated July 7 2002, estimated his estate at that time at more than $US500 ($618) million. It gives the entire estate to the Michael Jackson Family Trust. His for
mer wife Debbie Rowe is cut out of the will, as is his father Joe.

The five-page Michael Jackson will is available here and here.  For commentary on the will, see: