Jackson denies babies on way

Pop star Michael Jackson flatly denied a magazine report that he is about to become a father to quadruplets by way of a surrogate mother.

“This is not true, and we are not going to further comment on stories of this nature,” publicist Raymone Bain said about the report in Us Weekly magazine.

A spokeswoman for Us Weekly said the magazine stood by its story, which cited unnamed sources close to Jackson as saying he recently spent time in Florida with an unidentified woman who was pregnant with quadruplets she was to bear for the singer.