Friedman’s comment on Mark Lester’s claim

Friedman wrote on his blog: To the star of the film Oliver: “Sir! Please stop it!” Mark Lester, the child star of the film “Oliver” and a masseur now, lived for years in anonymity in an area around London. He was a friend of Michael Jackson, but he kept himself away from fame. During Michael’s 2005 trial, I and Lester sometimes talked. After the police arrested Michael in November 2003, Lester spent New Year’s Eve at a house rented for Michael by the “Islamic Brotherhood” group. Lester was also there by coincidence when Martin Bashir made his documentary “Living with Michael Jackson” in Neverland. We talked a lot about Michael, his health, and his children. Throughout all that time, Lester never once said that he thought he was the biological father of Michael’s daughter, or that he had given him sperm for artificial insemination. Last March, he was in the same car that Michael and Randy Phillips were taking to O2 for a conference—where Michael announced the execution of 50 concerts. After the 2005 trial ended, during the year and a half that Michael was outside the United States, he often met with his children—his wife and children. But Lester as Paris’s father? That seems unlikely. To my utmost disappointment, it appears Lester sold his story to an English tabloid newspaper. Like everyone else, he made money from Michael’s death. Maybe even a book is on the way: “Michael, My Friend.” What a shame! Lester claims that Paris looks like his daughter. They have no resemblance. Harriet Lester only looks like her father in those years when he was the star of Oliver. She has the same light blond hair. Paris’s hair—which Debbie still insists is brown because she says Paris was conceived in the city of Paris, and that’s why they named her Paris—is brown. The idea that Michael—who was so obsessed with and concerned about his children—would spend time with a man who is their biological father is even more ridiculous and makes no sense. If Lester felt he was Paris’s father, shouldn’t he have raised it publicly and gotten money? He could certainly have contacted Michael’s lawyers without scaring or frightening the child and arranged a few meetings. And he could have done all of that without taking money. Referring to the line Lester says in the film Oliver: “Sir! Please stop it!” Source: eMJey / Showbiz411.com