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FILE - In this Friday Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson smiles after leaving a guardianship hearing for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles.
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TMZ.com reported Friday that it has obtained a request for a restraining order filed last week against Joe Jackson and his son Randy Jackson in San Francisco County Superior Court.

In the documents, Ronnie Newt claims he was threatened by Joe's henchmen after he approached Joe with information he said proved Michael fathered a 12-year-old boy named Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson. In the past, Newt told TMZ that Joe denied the child was Michael's.

Seems someone could write a song about this. Let's see: "But the kid is not my "..." Never mind. It'll never work.

Documents say Newt claims "I was told to stay out of the M.J. love child story. That someone could get killed for that kind of

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Newt also warns that if he turns up dead in the near future, authorities should suspect foul play. He's demanding the Jacksons and their associates stay 50 yards away from him at all times. Which, really, is something we all want from Joe Jackson.

Jackson told TMZ the allegations are completely bogus and added, "I haven't even seen this guy since the '80s."

WORLDS COLLIDE: Jon Gosselin's girlfriend Hailey Glassman and his friend Michael Lohan are among the witnesses TLC plans to subpoena in a breach of contract lawsuit filed against the reality star, reports People.com, citing new court papers.

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Montgomery County granted motions filed by the network's lawyers to depose Glassman, 22, Lindsay Lohan's dad Michael, 49, and Gosselin's lawyer Mark Heller, manager Michael Heller, bodyguard Thomas Meinelt and his talent rep Matthew Kirschner.

TLC sued Gosselin on Oct. 8 for breach of contract, accusing the "Jon & Kate Plus 8" star of making paid and unpaid television appearances without TLC's permission. At the time, Mark Heller called the action "baseless" and said the network "exploited, manipulated and abused the Gosselins' vulnerability and financial hardship." Jon and Kate Gosselin are in the process of divorcing. Michael Lohan has said that he and Gosselin wanted to make a reality show together about divorced dads.

FERGIE STANDS BY HER MAN: An Atlanta stripper claims actor Josh Duhamel cheated on his new wife Fergie with her during a one-night stand in Atlanta, but Fergie's not buying it, says Us Weekly.

"These allegations are nonsense," Fergie says in a statement.

Still, an attorney for the exotic dancer told Us Weekly that his client, Nicole Forrester, a 34-year-old mother of two, has passed a lie-detector test and is in possession of racy texts from Duhamel that corroborate the affair.

Forrester previously said in an interview with an Atlanta radio station that she and Duhamel "had lots of sex" at the $830-a-night St. Regis hotel after he came into the Tattletale club where she works in Atlanta. Duhamel is in the city shooting the comedy, "Life As We Know It."

Although Forrester admits she was paid $20,000 to tell her story to the National Enquirer, her lawyer says she did not go out shopping the story. The attorney says the Enquirer came to her after "Josh bragged about what happened on the set of his movie."

LATIN GRAMMYS: Berkeley composer Gabriela Lena Frank won the Grammy for best classical contemporary composition at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas Thursday, for "Inca Dances," a work scored for guitar and string quartet. Meanwhile, Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 won all five awards it was nominated for, including two of the top awards of the night and honors in both urban and alternative categories.

Calle 13 won album of the year for its innovative collaborations and politically charged reggaeton. Left with little time to accept the golden gramophone for the top honor, lead singer Rene Perez, who raps as "Residente," dedicated the award to Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, who died in October at age 74.

Residente and his half brother Eduardo Cabra, who goes by "Visitante," also won recording of the year for "No Hay Nadie Como Tu," their collaboration with Mexican rockers Cafe Tacuba, aka Cafe Tacvba. Their album "Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo" also won best album in the urban category.

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2009. There are 54 days left in the year.
  • 1893: The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
  • 1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
  • 1917: Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
  • 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
  • 1962: Richard Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, held what he called his "last press conference," telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
  • 1972: President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
  • 1989: L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected black governor in U.S. history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first black mayor.
  • 2008: In his first news conference since being elected president, Barack Obama called on Congress to extend unemployment benefits and pass a stimulus bill.
    BIRTHDAYS
    Evangelist Billy Graham (91), opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland (83), actor Barry Newman (71), singer Johnny Rivers (67), singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell (66), the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, (57), actor Christopher Knight (52), rock musician Tommy Thayer of KISS (49), rock musician Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne (41), actors Jason and Jeremy London (37), actress Yunjin Kim (36),
    -- Associated Press