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PARIS Jackson has been reunited with her mother after 14 years apart. Michael Jackson�s daughter spent her 15th birthday on Wednesday with her birth mother Debbie Rowe � who signed away all parental rights when she split with the singer. A source close to the family said: �The two just hung out. They�ve gotten really tight.� Debbie wed the King of Pop in November 1996, three months before the birth of their son Prince, now 16, and Paris was born just over a year later. The pair divorced in 1999 � when Paris was one � and Debbie signed custody over to the singer as part of her �6.5 million deal. But Debbie has been back in touch with her teenage daughter on a few occasions since Michael�s death from an overdose in 2009. And friends say she wants to keep their meetings under wraps, so she is not seen as exploiting the rekindled relationship. In Martin Bashir�s 2003 documentary on Jacko, she admitted that she had entered into the pregnancy as a business deal. She said: �My kids don�t call me Mom because I don�t want them to. They�re Michael�s children. It�s not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father. �People make remarks, �I can�t believe she left her children.� Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. �My children are with their father, where they are supposed to be. I didn�t do it to be a mother... If he called me tonight and said let�s have five more [children], I�d do it in a heartbeat.� Michael�s mother was named legal guardian of all three of the superstar�s children following his death.