Paris Jackson's mother Debbie Rowe is engaged to Frederick Marc Schaffel despite her earlier denial on the status of their relationship. Michael Jackson's childhood friend, meanwhile, claimed the planned marriage is a sham meant to get custody of the children.

"We haven't set a date. I'm happy with just how things are. We'll take it a little bit at a time," Debbie Rowe told TMZ.

Paris Jackson's mother claimed that she had to wait for the results of the biopsy following her cancer scare before accepting his marriage proposal. So when she heard the news from her doctor telling her "you're good, you're good to go," she immediately went to see Marc Schaeffer.

"I drove up to the house and I said, 'OK, I'm here and I'm gonna be here for awhile, so I'm gonna marry you," Debbie Rowe said, recounting the events.

She also said that her children, Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson, knew her fiance since they were little and "they like him a lot."

However, Mark Lester-who claimed to be the biological father of Paris Jackson-said that Debbie Rowe's planned marriage to Marc Schaeffer is nothing more than a ruse to get money from the King of Pop's estate.

"There's little doubt that this marriage is not just about them trying to take over Michael's children, but it's another way in which I'm being blocked from Paris," Mark Lester told Radar Online.

He also said that when the King of Pop was still alive, Paris Jackson's mother was never invited to any of the family gatherings.

"Debbie Rowe wasn't included in that, never was. It was just us. Just family," Lester said, adding that Paris Jackson's mother never did try to reach out to the kids during all that time.

It was reported earlier that Debbie Rowe will file documents for guardianship of Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson as their legal guardian is already too old to do anything,TMZ said.