Despite rumors that have spread more quickly than the California wildfires, Michael Jackson denies that he is about to become father to quadruplets by way of a surrogate mother.

The quad-buzz surfaced Tuesday via a report from Us Weekly Magazine. However, Jackson’s people flatly deny the claim. “This is not true, and we are not going to further comment on stories of this nature,” said Raymone Bain, spokeswoman for Jackson. “We do not respond to these kinds of stories.”

Yet, Us Weekly stands firmly by its discovery, which they say is supported by unnamed sources close to Jackson. The magazine supports its statements with news that Jackson recently spent time at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach with the mother-to-be.

The 45-year-old performer already has three children - Prince Michael I and daughter Paris Michael both with his former wife, Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael II (aka “Blanket”), who made headlines when Jackson dangled him from the balcony of a Berlin hotel in November 2002.

The most recent claims are not the first of Jackson’s conception with a near-stranger. In the infamous “Living with Michael Jackson” television documentary, Jackson revealed that Prince Michael II had been born to a woman with whom he was not intimately involved. “I used a surrogate mother and my own sperm cells. She doesn’t know me,' Jackson told British interviewer Martin Bashir in February 2003. In addition to Jackson’s paternity explanation, the documentary also holds key evidence in the child molestation claims which have fueled Jackson’s recent legal woes.