Debbie Rowe, the baby mama to the King of Pop’s two eldest children but a persona-non-grata to the Jackson clan, will soon become co-guardian to her daughter, Paris Jackson, family sources said.
In a stunning, hush-hush switch, Rowe will replace Jacko’s nephew, T.J., as co-guardian while Katherine Jackson, the children’s 83-year-old grandmother, continues as the other co-guardian, sources said.
The change would pave the way for the troubled Paris to leave her brothers and the sprawling Jackson estate and move in with Rowe on her 2-acre horse ranch in Palmdale, Calif., about 90 miles away.
The guardianship case in LA Superior Court began when Paris, 15, cut her wrist and overdosed on pills at the family’s Calabasas estate in June.
Child Protective Services opened an investigation and pressed for a review of the guardianship arrangement.
The agenda for the case’s Oct. 15 hearing notes, “Removal of Guardian,” and the “Appointment of Guardian,” a lawyer formerly associated with the case confirmed.
Jackson family sources and a person close to Rowe confirmed a “non-monetary” deal is in place between Rowe and Katherine to share guardianship.
The $86,000 per month Katherine and the children receive from Jacko’s estate will continue to flow, sources said. Despite moving out, Paris would remain entitled to her share — about $20,000 monthly — and she, like her brothers, would inherit the entire $1 billion to $2 billion fortune beginning at age 30.
“You can’t be serious if you don’t believe that there haven’t been very carefully negotiated terms of this arrangement,” a source said.
“Debbie will get whatever Paris may need in terms of resources, but [Katherine] will continue to be in control of most things, including when and how some of the monies are disbursed.”
Rowe’s confidantes insist she isn’t doing this for money; she’s merely being a responsible parent.
Still suffering nightmares and flashbacks of seeing her father’s body laying on a hospital slab, Paris cut herself with a kitchen knife and OD’d on pills after a tantrum inside the Jackson estate in June.
“She tried to kill herself,” Rowe told a jury during the family’s failed wrongful-death lawsuit against concert promoter AEG Live this summer.
“She is devastated. She has no life,” Rowe said. “She doesn’t feel she has a life anymore.”
The guardianship change does not appear to include siblings Prince, 16, or Blanket, 11, the source told The Post. Blanket has a different mother, and Prince has been reluctant to form a bond with Rowe.
Howard Weitzman, the attorney for Jacko’s estate, denied there is a hearing scheduled to change guardianship.
Stacy Brown is a reporter and former longtime friend of the Jackson family.