Twilight's Robert Pattinson lied that his dad was Michael Jackson in school Twilight star Robert Pattinson "got in trouble at school" for saying his dad, Richard, was Michael Jackson. 21 March 2026 Robert Pattinson got in trouble for lying that his dad was Michael Jackson. The Drama star Robert Pattinston As a schoolboy, the star played a song by the late King of Pop - who died in June 2009 aged 50 - during show and tell, and Robert fibbed to his classmates that it was his dad Richard singing because he had "been taking this medicine called ginkgo biloba".