It was the sort of scene -- carried live on cable TV -- that would be relished by many who followed the life and death of the small-town Texas girl.
April 12, 2007 (Press Release) --
NASSAU, Bahamas -- In a soap opera ending to the latest chapter of the Anna Nicole Smith drama, two of her baby's would-be fathers -- one jubilant, the other grim -- emerged from a pink Bahamas courthouse to hundreds of fans and paparazzi photographers.
It was the sort of scene -- carried live on cable TV -- that would be relished by many who followed the life and death of the small-town Texas girl who became famous for being famous, first as a Playboy Playmate and later as the star of her own reality TV series.
Photographer Larry Birkhead, Smith's former boyfriend, was the center of attention Tuesday, pumping his fist and proclaiming ''I hate to be the one who told you this, but I told you so: I'm the father!''
DNA tests on blood samples taken from the baby girl and Birkhead proved it, confirmed the court's expert, Dr. Michael Baird, as the cameras whirred and clicked.
Just seven months old, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern stands to inherit a fortune from the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. The former model had been fighting the Texas oil tycoon's family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995, and that battle remains unresolved.
Birkhead, who broke up with Smith before she moved to the Bahamas in July, had been seeking custody of the girl for months, but first he had to get past Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer-turned-companion. Stern was listed on the birth certificate as the father of Dannielynn and had been taking care of the child at the gated, oceanfront mansion the couple shared in the Bahamas.
''I'm obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed,'' Stern said outside the courthouse, where the two men shook hands and embraced before the cameras.
Stern said he would support Birkhead in the next round of the custody dispute, which comes Friday as a Bahamas judge considers the claim of Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur. ''I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody,'' Stern said.
Stern also said Birkhead would be welcome to come over to the mansion as soon as he wanted, and for as long as he wanted, to see Dannielynn.
Arthur said she wants to be present in her granddaughter's life, but seemed appeased by the DNA results.
''I'm happy that Dannielynn will know who her real father is,'' she said.
Source: http://www.msn.com
Posted by Jessica Robertson
It was the sort of scene -- carried live on cable TV -- that would be relished by many who followed the life and death of the small-town Texas girl who became famous for being famous, first as a Playboy Playmate and later as the star of her own reality TV series.
Photographer Larry Birkhead, Smith's former boyfriend, was the center of attention Tuesday, pumping his fist and proclaiming ''I hate to be the one who told you this, but I told you so: I'm the father!''
DNA tests on blood samples taken from the baby girl and Birkhead proved it, confirmed the court's expert, Dr. Michael Baird, as the cameras whirred and clicked.
Just seven months old, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern stands to inherit a fortune from the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. The former model had been fighting the Texas oil tycoon's family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995, and that battle remains unresolved.
Birkhead, who broke up with Smith before she moved to the Bahamas in July, had been seeking custody of the girl for months, but first he had to get past Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer-turned-companion. Stern was listed on the birth certificate as the father of Dannielynn and had been taking care of the child at the gated, oceanfront mansion the couple shared in the Bahamas.
''I'm obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed,'' Stern said outside the courthouse, where the two men shook hands and embraced before the cameras.
Stern said he would support Birkhead in the next round of the custody dispute, which comes Friday as a Bahamas judge considers the claim of Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur. ''I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody,'' Stern said.
Stern also said Birkhead would be welcome to come over to the mansion as soon as he wanted, and for as long as he wanted, to see Dannielynn.
Arthur said she wants to be present in her granddaughter's life, but seemed appeased by the DNA results.
''I'm happy that Dannielynn will know who her real father is,'' she said.
Source: http://www.msn.com
Posted by Jessica Robertson
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