BET.com--MICHAEL Jackson’s father Joe has turned his back on his wife and the King of Pop’s children for a female “companion” 51 years his junior.
Wealthy Indonesian beauty Lavinia Iskandar, 33, has been photographed with Joe, 84, at a string of events in Las Vegas since April.
The pair were spotted at former world heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson’s one-man show.
And astonishingly, they were also caught on camera in July at the Jacksons’ Unity Tour gig.
They even spent time with two of Joe’s sons Jackie, 61, and Jermaine, 57, after the show.
A source close to the family said last night: “It’s been an open secret that Joe and Lavinia spend all their time together.
“Joe owns a condo in Vegas and she has been staying there.
“He hasn’t seen his wife Katherine in weeks and simply wasn’t around during the recent dramas about Michael’s estate when she was spirited away to a spa in Arizona, leaving his children home alone.”
Katherine, 82, who has been married to Joe for 63 years, is said to be “seething” over her husband’s interest in Lavinia.
The source added: “This time he’s gone too far.
“Katherine wouldn’t shed a single tear if he never set foot through her door again.”
A spokesman for Joe yesterday insisted Lavinia, who escorted him to the Grammy Awards in LA in February, is a “business associate”, saying: “He is promoting his new range of after-shave and she has extensive contacts in Asia.”
Friends claim, however, the two have become “inseparable” and Joe is “completely smitten” with Lavinia, who comes from a super-rich family in south-east Asia and who is said to be a huge Michael Jackson fan.
They met a year ago, according to one pal of Joe’s, who said: “She’s a wealthy fan who’s living out some sort of fantasy by hanging out with Michael’s dad.
“But their relationship is hurting Katherine badly. She has long been used to his self- confessed cheating ways but this time she thinks the age difference of more than half a century is ridiculous.”
Philandering Joe has confessed to fathering two love children, Tawanda and Joh’Vonnie Jackson, in 1972 and 1974 respectively, with two different women. He has said: “I don’t believe I was made to be a one-woman man.”
Jackson family sources claim he has virtually turned his back on Michael’s children – Prince, 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10 – since they moved with their grand-mother to a new estate in the leafy LA suburb of Calabasas late last year.
Like the King of Pop’s brothers and sisters, he was completely excluded from Michael’s will.
A friend of Katherine’s said last night: “Sadly, he’s drifted apart from the family and is pursuing a very separate life these days.”
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 4:52PM
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