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Could the King of Pop be a pop four more times?


Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson reportedly is expecting quadruplets from a surrogate mother, the latest twist in the strange life of the accused child molester. Us Weekly says Jackson, 45, recently spent time with the unnamed, pregnant woman in Miami, where he stayed in a $4,000-per-night hotel suite.

The National Enquirer says she’s an actress and former Prince groupie who wrote him a fan letter.

A Jackson representative said the information “is not true and we are not going to further comment on stories of this nature.”

Los Angeles attorney and longtime Jackson critic Gloria Allred says the stork report — if true — “is very troubling. He’s exercised very poor judgment when it comes to his own children.”

He already has three children: Prince Michael, 7, and Paris, 6, both born to ex-wife Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael II, 2 — the child Jackson once dangled from a balcony — who was born to an unknown surrogate mother.

These days, he really is a prince

Speaking of Prince, the man who wrote such songs as “Gett Off,” “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and “Kiss” says he’s moving away from explicitly erotic lyrics now that he’s a father.

“I have a responsibility to young fans to perform in a manner that I would like my children to be performed in front of,” Prince, 46, said Tuesday on CBS News’ “The Early Show,” adding: “I just want to be the best human being I can be … on stage and off.”

It could get to be a long line for Federline

Britney Spears‘ fiance is a father for a second time.

Kevin Federline’s longtime girlfriend, actress Shar Jackson, delivered their second child on Tuesday. The baby’s gender was not immediately reported.

Spears has said she plans to meet Federline’s children and would like kids of her own someday — “four or five.”

Guess she’s gambling this one will work

Spears, by the way, is said to be sparing no expense for her planned wedding to Federline (a former dancer for her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake) at the Beverly Hills Hotel this November.

The estimated budget is a cool $1.8 million, and Spears reportedly is particularly keen on covering the venue with special white tulips from Amsterdam at a cost of $180,000.

“She loves the tulips and wants the whole place decked out with them,” a source says. “She’s also specified that she wants 300 bottles of Cristal champagne. … She wants a massive affair that is nothing like the cheap Las Vegas wedding she had before.”

There’s no tomorrow for those two

The romance, however, is over for Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Dunst, the 22-year-old co-star of “Spider-Man 2,” and Gyllenhaal, 23, who appeared in the disaster epic “The Day After Tomorrow,” have gone their separate ways. “It’s been a while, but they have remained the best of friends,” his publicist says.

They began dating about two years ago after being introduced by his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who appeared with Dunst in “Mona Lisa Smile.”

The birthday bunch

Actor Orson Bean (“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”) is 76. Actress Louise Fletcher is 70. Actor Terence Stamp is 65. Singer George Clinton is 64. Game-show host Alex Trebek is 64. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 61. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 58. Singer Don Henley is 57. Actor Danny Glover is 57. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 57. Actor Willem Dafoe is 49. Singer Keith Sweat is 43. Singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 41. Actor-comedian David Spade is 40. Actor John Leguizamo is 40. Actress Franka Potente (“The Bourne Identity”) is 30.