LOS ANGELES , California ( CNN ) -- No deal has been reached between Michael Jackson 's mother and his ex-wife over the custody of the late singer 's children , according to a lawyer in the case . Debbie Rowe is the biological mother of Paris ( left ) and Prince Michael Jackson . Eric George , who represents Debbie Rowe , the biological mother of Jackson 's two oldest children , demanded Tuesday that the New York Post retract its report that Rowe had agreed to take $ 4 million not to challenge Katherine Jackson for custody . In a letter sent Tuesday afternoon to the newspaper 's editor , George said the report `` can only have been concocted with reckless disregard for the truth . '' `` There has been no agreement reached between Ms. Rowe and the Jacksons , '' George said . `` The Post stands by its story , '' New York Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan told CNN . While George said Rowe still has not decided if she will ask the court for custody or visitation , he said she will not try to get money from the Jackson family . `` Ms. Rowe has not accepted -- and will not accept -- any additional financial consideration beyond the spousal support she and Michael Jackson personally agreed to several years ago , '' George said . The couple divorced in 1999 with Rowe giving Jackson full custody while she got a $ 8.5 million settlement , according to court documents . Jackson later agreed to additional support . Jackson 's lawyer has not responded to requests for comment Tuesday . The Jackson family lawyer said last week that they were working to `` privately and amicably resolve '' the matter . A child custody court hearing , which had been set for this week , was delayed until next Monday at the request of lawyers for Jackson and Rowe , a court official said . Katherine Jackson gained temporary guardianship of the children soon after her son 's death last month . The New York Post , quoting an unidentified Jackson family source , reported Rowe had agreed to drop any custody challenge for a $ 4 million payment . Watch a discussion of the legal issues of the case » . `` Among the several contenders for overzealous and inaccurate sensationalism , the New York Post has now seized top honors , '' George wrote to the paper . `` It would be easier to identify those few background facts that are accurate than to catalog the number of blatant falsehoods in your story . '' Jackson and Rowe married in 1996 and their first child -- Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. -- was born in February 1997 . A daughter -- Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -- was born the next year . The two met when Rowe was working as a nursing assistant in the Beverly Hills office of Jackson 's dermatologist , Dr. Arnold Klein . Rowe said in a 2003 interview , later obtained by ABC News , that she became close to Jackson in 1996 when she consoled him after his brief marriage to Lisa Marie Presley ended . `` He was upset because he really wanted to be a dad , '' Rowe said . `` I said , 'So , be a dad . ' He looked at me puzzled . That is when I looked at him and said . 'Let me do this . I want to do this . You have been so good to me . You are such a great friend . Please let me do this . You need to be a dad , and I want you to be . ' `` She told the interviewer they married only to `` prevent some of the taboo of a child out of wedlock . '' She gave up parental rights to Jackson in 2001 , but she changed her mind more than two years later and sought temporary custody of the children . A California appeals court later ruled her rights were improperly terminated , opening the door to a possible custody battle . Rowe claimed in the 2003 interview that she still had `` some influence '' over how Jackson raised the children , citing his practice of covering their faces in public as her idea . `` That was my request , not his , '' she said . `` I am the one who 's terrified . I am the one who 's seen the notes that someone 's going to take his children , '' she said . She said the children do n't call her `` mom '' because she did not want them to . `` It 's not that they 're not my children , but I had them because I wanted him to be a father , '' she said . Rowe , 50 , lives on a horse farm in Palmdale , California , about 60 miles north of Los Angeles . CNN 's Kay Jones contributed to this report .
NEW : ' Rowe 's lawyer asks New York Times to retract report . Lawyer : Report that ' agreed to agree to drop custody claim is ` ` false '' Rowe is mother of Michael Jackson 's two oldest children . Custody hearing scheduled for Monday .