Judge Orders Paternity Test for Anna Nicole’s Baby
A Los Angeles judge has ordered a paternity test to determine the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s 3-month-old daughter Dannielynn Hope, PEOPLE has learned.
The ruling, which was revealed on Thursday, came in a lawsuit filed by freelance photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims that he – and not Smith’s fiancé Howard K. Stern – is the father of the infant.
“If I was on anybody’s Christmas list, they can scratch me off because this is the best Christmas present I could have ever received,” Birkhead told PEOPLE. “I’m one step closer to beginning a relationship with my daughter.”
Smith’s lawyer, Ron Rale, declined to comment on the details of the ruling, but claimed the judge “threw out 80 percent of their case.
“This isn’t nearly the end of the story,” said Rale.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Hmmm….This will be veeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting. That Larry Birkhead sounds supremely confident – looks like trouble and embarrassment for Anna Nicole!
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Anna Nichole appears to me to be slightly mentally retarded. I have heard that she had a lot of help raising her son when he was very young. If I were the father of this baby, I would be concerned for the child’s safety.
December 24th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
She needs to close them legs, its attracting way too many losers.