Questions remain over the fate of Michael Jackson's assets and the care of his children, and legal battles are expected. Bill Whitaker reports.
>> Bill Whitaker: Let the battles begin.
>> Debbie Rowe: Do not touch me.
>> Nobody touched you here.
>> Debbie Rowe: You just did. Don't!
>> Bill Whitaker: The most contentious? Custody of Michael Jackson's three young children. With Debbie Rowe, his former wife, hinting she might try to take her children with Jackson -- the older two -- away from the singer's mother, Katherine: a firestorm.
>> Are you ready to fight for your children?
>> Debbie Rowe: Are you ready to get your butt kicked? Don't expletive.
>> Bill Whitaker: Meanwhile in an L.A. court, another battle: attorneys duking it out over who controls Jackson's fame and fortune. The judge tapped two business associates, John McClain and John Branca, named in Jackson's 2002 will, but they must keep Jackson's mother, Katherine, in the loop.
>> This is not going to be a media fight. This is not gonna be a nasty fight. But it's gonna be in the best interests of the legacy of Mr. Jackson.
>> Bill Whitaker: A mega-legacy growing bigger by the day. Since his death, fans have downloaded 2.6 million songs. There's that music catalog, with Beatles songs worth hundreds of millions of dollars even after his debts are paid. All that pales before future earnings.
>> Michael Jackson's base signature sequined glove, which evokes Michael Jackson, all that stuff can be used for commercial purposes.
>> Bill Whitaker: Now, even in death, that could mean 50 million dollars or more a year going into Michael Jackson's estate. Now in his will, he said he wants his, he wants 80 percent of his estate split evenly between his mother and his three children, who are here at the family compound. The rest, he says, should go to charity. Katie?
>> Katie Couric: Bill Whitaker. Bill, thank you so much.
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