While speaking to NewsOne, Joe Jackson dropped a bombshell: Omer Bhatti is Michael Jackson’s child! It has been suspected and speculated since the early 1990s that Bhatti might be the natural-born child of Jackson, and now Joe has confirmed the gossip.

However highly unlikely it may seem that Bhatti could be Jackson’s child.

Anyway, Joe Jackson blithely responded, “Yes, I knew he had another son,” during his interview. “He looks like a Jackson, he acts like a Jackson, he can dance like a Jackson,” Joe continued, extolling Bhatti’s virtues.

Jermaine Jackson, reportedly, is open to the idea. “I can’t clearly say if he is Michael’s but I saw this kid around him,” he stated, adding, “If Omer’s his son, he’s his son. We won’t deny it.” Reportedly, Bhatti is attempting to get a DNA test to prove his claim.

Several of Michael Jackson’s associates, however, have denied the possibility that Bhatti is Jackson’s biological child. Most agree that Jackson first met the boy in the mid 1990s.