HEADED FOR TROUBLE: Paris Jackson (right), who was saved from a suicide attempt this week, with her younger brother Blanket and older brother Prince. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin.com)
Katherine Jackson (AP)
T.J. Jackson (WireImage)
HEADED FOR TROUBLE: Paris Jackson (top right), who was saved from a suicide attempt this week, with her younger brother Blanket and older brother Prince. (
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Child-welfare investigators descended on the home of Michael Jackson’s family after Paris Jackson’s suicide bid — and were shocked to find that her co-guardian is nearly out of the picture, sources told The Post yesterday.
Cousin T.J. Jackson — who is supposed to be watching the teen and her brothers with their 83-year-old grandma, Katherine — is now living almost two hours away from the family’s Calabasas, Calif., home, sources say.
LA County Child and Family Services agents had no idea that T.J. had flown the coop until they inspected the home hours after Paris scarfed down pills and had to be hospitalized Wednesday.
“They thought he was living around the corner,” a family pal said. “They were totally surprised by this. They’ve said they’re going to need a few days to sort this out.”
The 34-year-old T.J. had been picked last year to be the co-guardian of the late singer’s kids — Paris, 15, Prince, 16 and Blanket, 11 — along with Katherine Jackson, Jacko’s mom.
He was chosen to help Katherine because he is considered responsible and is well liked by all parties and because he lived close by.
He apparently moved out of the area a few months ago and now lives 76 miles away in the town of Corona, according to family sources and property records.
“So the bottom line is we have an 83-year-old woman raising teenagers by herself, and that just won’t fly,” said a close family friend, who said the Jacko estate didn’t know about T.J.’s new home until after Paris’ suicide bid.
Another source close to the estate, however, tried to downplay the situation, saying the executors knew T.J. had moved. The source also said T.J. spends several days a week at the kids’ home.
“They [the executors] are very satisfied with him,” the estate insider said. “There is no issue.”
But that may not be the last word on the matter.
“Even if the estate said it’s OK with this, it doesn’t mean DCFS will be OK with it,” a family source said, referring to LA’s Department of Child and Family Services.
Paris was resting at an LA hospital yesterday. She swallowed a bottle of Motrin and cut her wrists with a kitchen knife after feuding with family members over her growing relationship with her biological mom, Debbie Rowe.
Paris also reportedly acted out after being told she couldn’t go to a Marilyn Manson concert.
Yesterday, the goth rocker told Paris via TMZ: “I hope you feel better. You will be on my guest list any time you want.”
Additional reporting by Richard Johnson in Los Angeles