Just a little while ago, on MSNBC, Rev. Al Sharpton interviewed Randy Jackson, Michael’s brother, about yesterday’s fracas. Randy says quite clearly. “We were denied access to our own home.” Is Randy delusional? The home, in a gated community in Calabasas, is rented by the Michael Jackson estate for Katherine Jackson and her three grandchildren. Also living there is Joe Jackson’s nephew, Trent, whom Randy and Jermaine despise. But Trent was hired by Michael Jackson years ago to take care of his mother. It’s the estate on the lease, with occupants listed as Katherine, the kids, and Trent. Randy Jackson, accusing the executors of Michael’s estate of criminal misconduct, now believes that house in Calabasas is his, too.

Meanwhile, Randy, Jermaine, Rebbie and Janet have caused a huge problem in their family. Tonight, Marlon, Tito, and Jackie appeared on “The Insider.” Marlon broke down in tears claiming they don’t know where their mother is, and that they’ve been prevented from speaking with her. What a nasty situation the others have wrought. It’s going to end very badly. And it’s all because of money.

One reason for all the hostility between Michael Jackson’s brothers and the estate: the brothers had to come to the executors hat in hand for money to pay their mutual ex and mother of their children. You know, Randy and Jermaine share an ex–Alejandra. Each of them has two children with her. Randy lived with her, then Jermaine married her. When Jermaine was stuck in Burkina Faso, Africa last winter, and couldn’t get back into the U.S. unless he paid back child support, Katherine Jackson intervened. She went to the executors and asked for the $91,000 Jermaine owed in child support. The estate loaned her $80,000, which Katherine then handed over to Jermaine.

UPDATE: The estate absolutely turned down requests from Jermaine and Randy, I am told.

Interestingly, the estate has had no problems with Michael’s other siblings. Jackie Jackson has actually done work for them. Marlon and Tito each work, and long ago got off the Jackson gravy train. Rebbie Jackson’s husband, Nathaniel, has had a series of jobs including, I am told, mail carrier, which is a decent civil service job and coveted in this economy. Rebbie’s son-in-law, Rex Salas, is a music producer.

Not everyone in the Jackson family is being supported by Michael Jackson or Janet Jackson. One June 9, 2005 I interviewed Jermaine’s first wife, Margaret Maldonado. Here’s what I wrote:

Meet Margaret Maldonado, the ex-common-law wife of Jermaine Jackson and mother of two of his sons, Jeremy (18) and Jourdynn (16). Note: this was seven years ago. Margaret’s business is still going strong at www.margaretmaldonado.com

Margaret, who’s 40, has an incredibly successful business representing photographers and stylists in Hollywood. Her Web site — www.margaretmaldonado.com — speaks for itself.

At last, someone in the family has gotten up off the couch and done something with her life. Margaret’s followed the playbook invented by Jackie Onassis for her kids, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., and raised them away from the glare of their famous family.

I spoke to Margaret recently about her son Jeremy’s interview last December with Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies. The investigators were following up on rumors that something inappropriate had happened between Michael and Jeremy.

Margaret says nothing could be further from the truth.

“We were shocked,” she told me. “They waited until he turned 18 and was home alone. They knocked on the door one afternoon. We couldn’t believe it.”

Maldonado says she raised her two kids completely separated from the Jacksons. She was never married to Jermaine, but they were together for seven years. She says she’s never received a penny of child support, even though she has a court order for it.

“I just said, ‘Forget it.’ It wasn’t worth going to court and fighting with him. I knew I could make it on my own.”

She does not use the Jackson name, and until I called, had never made her association with the family public.

“All I ever got from them was groceries from Costco,” she said. “It was a long time ago.”

Maldonado laughs at rumors that her Range Rover and a recent family trip to Hawaii were gifts from Michael.

“I really resent that,” she said. “It [ticks] me off that people don’t think a woman can do this on her own. We take two family trips a year. My son goes to private school. That’s my Range Rover.”

Maldonado does concede that Jeremy has finished high school via home schooling. That was a result, she said, of the bad publicity following the Nov. 2002 incident when Michael dangled his baby, Blanket, over the balcony of a German hotel.

“Kids can be cruel,” she says. “He was having a bad time.”

As for Michael, Maldonado says she’s close enough to her two sons to know that nothing happened between them and Michael that she needs to worry about.

“He was always just the eccentric uncle,” she said. “The kids used to follow him around like ducks. But there’s nothing else.”

Do Randy, Jermaine and Janet Jackson have a lawyer to help them pull off their palace coup? Maybe not. A representative for Baker Hostetler in Washington DC has just called to say they do not represent the Jackson siblings and have not been engaged by them. In the letter signed by Randy, Jermaine and Janet sent to the Michael Jackson estate, Baker Hostetler’s name was invoked as possibly giving the signees advice. Sources tell me that BH partner John Manson was approached and did look into the matter. When I asked the rep who called about Manson’s participation, or if he’d given anyone advice, she simply kept reading the same two lines over and over. Then she added, “For anything else you’ll have to ask Randy Jackson.” And didn’t mean the judge from “American Idol.”

I knew this story yesterday, and held off at the request of some insiders. But I can tell you that Michael Jackson’s estate lawyers, Katherine Jackson’s lawyers and the Jackson kids’ guardian ad litem are going to go to Judge Beckloff at Los Angeles Superior Court. With Katherine Jackson unreachable and out of town, the group will present a temporary guardian to watch Prince, Paris and Blanket and be repsonsible for them. The fight is on. Who the guardian will be is still unknown, but Tito Jackson’s adult sons have been with the kids the most, and have a great rapport with them.

Confirmed: As guardian, Mrs. Jackson has already legally appointed one of the three T’s–Tito Jackson’s sons–as her replacement guardian. When the lawyers go to court, one of the T’s–Terrell, TJ or Taj– will be named if Mrs. Jackson doesn’t appear in court.

MORE…

The picture taken of Katherine Jackson and “family” and then sold to X17online.com by Randy Jackson– the people in the picture are Rebbie Jackson, her grandson, Katherine Jackson, Janet Jackson’s security guard, and a woman named Janice Smith. Smith is Mrs. Jackson’s personal assistant, who works for her in the Hayvenhurst Avenue house in Encino. According to sources, it was Janice Smith who helped engineer Mrs. Jackson’s trip to Arizona. I’m told that Mrs. Jackson has no idea that Janice Smith has been in cahoots with several of the Jackson children in order to effect this “palace coup.”  More to come…

Paris Jackson just sent out a new Tweet. She had her siblings have now been removed from their home to keep them safe from Michael’s siblings. This is quite crazy. Sources tell me that footage this morning “Good Morning America” was ‘licensed’– ie. sold–to them by Randy Jackson. Oy vey. Also, GMA mis-identified TJ Jackson’s Tweet to Paris as coming from Trent Jackson, a cousin. TJ is Tito’s son. Paris has also the makings of a great war journalist. She’s faithfully reporting the action from her own Hanoi Hilton in Calabasas.

Here are some of our current Jackson postings:

http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/07/24/debbie-rowe-very-concerned-about-katherine-jackson-kids

http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/07/24/katherine-jacksons-lawyers-plan-in-place-for-three-years-to-remove-her-from-her-home-and-grandchildren

http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/07/23/lapd-sheriff-two-jackson-family-members-in-minor-scuffle-at-home

http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/07/23/janet-jackson-tries-to-take-michaels-kids-has-she-lost-her-mind

EXCLUSIVE Katherine Jackson’s lawyers have sent me a statement about what went on yesterday in Calabasas. All of it was witnessed by the attorneys. Here it is, exclusively:

“Yesterday afternoon certain Jackson family members ambushed Katherine Jackson’s home after their vehicle tore through security gates on the tails of the SUV containing Michael Jackson’s children.  After exiting their vehicles, Jackson family members ran up to Michael’s children as they yelled and began to aggressively grab at the cell phones in their hands. Out of concern for the well being of Prince, Paris, and Blanket Jackson, the children were forced to temporarily leave their home and taken to a safe location.  An altercation ensued shortly thereafter and law enforcement arrived at the scene.

“Following the incident, it was learned that one of the family members who was part of the ambush admitted that a plan has been in place for the last three years to remove Katherine Jackson from her home and her beloved grandchildren.  Prince, Paris, and Blanket Jackson have not heard from their grandmother since she left their home nine days ago to attend a series of her sons’ concerts on their Unity Tour. She never made the shows. Despite efforts to interview Katherine Jackson at her current location in Arizona yesterday, Los Angeles County Sheriffs confirmed that they were denied access to Mrs. Jackson by security for one of her children. “