Ms Chase was hired by the pop legend in March, briefly made redundant in May, before returning on June 2.Ī trained chef, Ms Chase was required to make fresh, healthy food for Jackson and his children. Less than an hour later at 2.26pm, Jackson was pronounced dead. I saw paramedics running up the stairs.'Īs the house was overrun by chaos, Ms Chase joined the children, their nanny and a housekeeper in a circle to pray for Jackson's recovery.Īt 1.30pm, Ms Chase and the other staff were told to leave Jackson's rented $100,000-a-month mansion in Holmby Hills. 'I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. 'Prince runs to meet Dr Murray and from that point on you could feel the energy in the house change. I run into the den where the kids are playing. Ms Chase recalled: 'He's screaming very loud. While preparing lunch, Dr Murray ran down the steps into the kitchen shouting for her to get 12-year-old Prince. Recollection: Michael Jackson's personal chef Kai Chase said she prayed with Michael Jackson's three children for his recovery shortly before he died Ms Chase's usual routine saw Dr Murray bring the breakfast up to the singer in his bedroom, while she would feed his three children Prince, Paris and Blanket.ĭr Murray is currently the focus of a police investigation into Jackson's death of a cardiac arrest. Kai Chase had an inkling something was wrong with Jackson when his doctor Conrad Murray failed to collect his breakfast as usual on the morning of his death. Meanwhile, the late singer's personal chef has spoken of the last moments leading up to his death. However, court records say she soon stopped visiting because 'it was not working out'. Rowe was originally given visitation rights to the children during her 2000 divorce settlement with Jackson. The agreement fulfils Jackson's wishes for his mother to have custody as stipulated in his will. Prince, Paris and their seven-year-old brother Prince Michael II, aka Blanket (whose biological mother is not known) have been living at their grandmother's Encino home since their father died of cardiac arrest on June 25. Bhatti subsequently signed a record deal to perform under the stage name O-Bee.Visitation: Debbie Rowe, who has no relationship with her children, will be re-introduced to their lives Bhatti also made news when he announced that Jackson had agreed to let him record some of his songs with a local rapper named Jae-R in Norway. Bhatti has also picked up a following as something of a Michael Jackson imitator, doing moonwalk-like steps to public acclaim. In 2001, Jackson dedicated his "Invincible" album to one of Omer's friends, an Afro-Norwegian boy named Benjamin Hermansen who was killed by neo-Nazis. A voice-over intones: "Here's a boy who looks like Michael getting gifts from him."īack in Norway, Omer has become a local celebrity thanks to his Jackson connection. In a February 2003 NBC "Dateline" special that showed home movies of Christmas 1998 at Neverland, Bhatti is seen receiving gifts from Jackson and hugging him gratefully over and over. Bhatti, even as a 12-year-old, had long flowing black hair, white-ish but not exactly Caucasian skin, and an upturned nose. The pair, at least superficially, resemble each other. There are photographs of him on tour with Jackson in places like Japan and Poland. Omer, dressed like Jackson's "mini-me," has traveled the world with the singer. The father, Riz, became a driver for Michael." "The mother, Pia, became a nanny for Michael's son, Prince, when he was born a few months later. "Michael hired Omer's parents to work for him," say two of my sources.
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