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The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - After three years of marriage and two children, Michael Jackson and his second wife filed for divorce today, a spokesman said. The couple ``mutually agreed to end their marriage,'' Howard J. Rubenstein said. ``Michael and Debbie remain friends, and they ask that the public respect their desire not to further comment or speculate upon the reasons for their decision.'' He declined to provide other details. Neither Jackson, 41, nor his wife, Debbie Rowe Jackson, would be making any statements, he said. Divorce papers were filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Jackson married his wife, who was a nurse for one of his doctors, in November 1996, the same year he and Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, ended their two-year marriage. Mrs. Jackson was seven months pregnant when they wed. At the time, Jackson said: ``Debbie and I love each other for all the things you'll never see on stage or in pictures. ... I fell for the beautiful, unpretentious, giving person that she is, and she fell for me just being me.'' The couple have two children: Paris Michael Katherine, born in April 1998, and Prince, born in February 1997. AP-NY-10-08-99 1307EDT Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press.