LOS ANGELES – A judge on Friday ordered an investigation into the well-being of Michael Jackson’s children and a lawyer for the family matriarch said she will move to share guardianship of the children with the adult son of Tito Jackson.

Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff told a court investigator to interview the three children independently and provide a report for review only by the judge, not attorneys involved in the case.

The order does not spell out a reason for the investigation, but it is likely intended to give the judge another perspective on how Jackson’s children are coping after a week of family turmoil that included the absence of their grandmother and a dispute in the driveway of their home amid a feud over the estate of the pop superstar.

The court investigator was ordered to interview the children at school at a time to remain undisclosed. Beckloff received a similar report a few weeks after Jackson’s death in 2009 and its contents remain sealed.

Beckloff said during a hearing this week that there were no indications that Katherine Jackson had done anything wrong.

Under the proposed guardianship change, Jackson, 82, would share oversight of the children with Tito Jackson’s son in a deal that would relieve her of some of the day-to-day stresses of managing a famous family, her attorney Perry Sanders Jr. said.

The decision was made after a meeting between Katherine Jackson and Sanders on Thursday. He said Michael Jackson’s eldest son has told attorneys he approves of the arrangement.

A formal filing for co-guardianship is expected next week. If approved, it would make Tito Joe “TJ” Jackson a co-guardian of the children — Prince, Paris and Blanket — who range in ages from 10 to 15.

TJ Jackson’s attorneys suggest the co-guardianship arrangement in a filing Friday. It states that if either adult guardian dies or is unable to serve, the other will act alone in raising the children.

Willard admits arrest was ‘very embarrassing’

LOS ANGELES – Fred Willard said his recent lewd conduct arrest at an adult movie theater was “very embarrassing” but insisted he did nothing wrong.

“It’s the last time I’m going to listen to my wife when she says, ‘Why don’t you go and see a movie?”‘ Willard said during an appearance Thursday on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC show “Late Night.”

The 72-year-old actor and Fallon cracked racy jokes about possible titles for the movie that might have been playing when Willard was arrested July 18 during a routine check by police at the Hollywood-area theater.

Madonna gets booed after brief Paris gig

PARIS – A small Madonna concert that the pop star said was intended to celebrate France’s tolerance instead tested it, drawing boos and cries of “refund!” when she left the stage after just 45 minutes.

The show Thursday, billed as an intimate event at Paris’ noted Olympia club, was streamed live on YouTube. By Friday morning, the channel that showed the event had to disable comments and had rung up more than 12,000 dislikes compared with 10,000 likes.

Madonna’s press agent, Liz Rosenberg, said in a statement that the star’s occasional club shows in the past “were never more than 45 minutes.”

The show cost Madonna nearly $1 million to produce, the statement said, and keeping the prices at $100 involved a “tremendous effort.”

– From news service reports