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Paternity Suit Filed Against Anna Nicole

The Anna Nicole baby drama just got legal as Larry Birkhead filed a paternity suit against Anna Nicole Smith, his lawyer said Monday. The suit is requesting a judge to order Anna Nicole return her daughter Dannie Lynn to California, submit to a paternity test and have mother and child tested for drugs.


In a statement released tonight by Birkhead's high-powered attorney Debra Opri, Birkhead is asking for legal and physical custody of the little girl, born September 7th.

According to the statement, Birkhead is "a first time father and he is responding to allegations made by attorney Howard K. Stern on behalf of Anna Nicole Smith" and "believes beyond any doubt that he is the father." Smith's lawyer Howard K. Stern announced last week on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was the father of the child and that he and Anna Nicole had been in a relationship for some time.

Birkhead appeared live on with Rita Cosby on MSNBC tonight and declared, once again, that he is the father of the little girl. He told Cosby that he is "outraged and angry" and claims that Anna Nicole deliberately fled to the Bahamas to avoid custody and visitation discussions. Cosby also asked Birkhead about unsubstantiated claims that Anna Nicole was pregnant once before with a child of Birkhead's but then miscarried, but Birkhead refused to comment.



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46.
I agree with number 33 "True", Anna is the mother of her child and her motherhood should be respected, rather than his man appointing himself father of the century because he may have gotten Anna pregnant. Of course there will be drugs in Anna's system as the doctors have said they had to drug her before she'd even leave her son's body. I think its heartless of this other man from California, to demand a paternity test and possible of a child Anna just gave birth to. He obviously doesn't care about Anna or her baby but just himself. Mothers aren't exchangeable, the baby knows the difference. I'm sure he wants Anna and the cash she is expecting from the lawsuit regarding her ex-husband's estate and is using her baby to twist her arm. Whether the blond is the father or not, he's real scum.

Posted at 11:24AM on Oct 4th 2006 by Lucille

47. To #15 - I am a counselor, LCSW and have been for 30 years. I know crazy when I see crazy. What are you... like 12?

Posted at 1:32PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by grandmother

48. This is to Grandmother:

I am sure glad your not my grandmother. I would have put you in a retirment home long ago and only visited you once a month. As you said you are a self proclaimed councillor, if indeed you were, would it not be smart to wait for more concrete evidence before pointing fingers at people (ANS and HKS)? They are a little weird but that doesn't make them bad parents or people. Your snap judgments on people make me wonder if you are in the proper field of work, your job is to council not to put lables on people you don't even know. Is this how you treat all your clients? Maybe you could just knitt sweaters and watch Wheel of Fortune, oops I just made the assumption that because your old thats all you like to do.

Posted at 2:23PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by Nikki

49. Honk if you're ANS babydaddy!!

Posted at 2:35PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by ROFLMAO

50. VERYYYYYYY INTERESTING HOW DANIEL DIED FROM AN OVERDOSE OF METHADONE..... WHERE DID HE GET IT? I HEAR THAT OL LAWYER BOY WAS SUPPLYING THIS TO ANNA AND HER SON. SO IF HE OD'D ON METHADONE, AND HOWARD K STERN SUPPLIED IT, THENNNNNNNNNNNN
RUSH TO MARRY ANNA NICOLE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO TESTIFY AGAINST EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOWARD MOST LIKELY ADVISED ANNA THAT THEY NEEDED TO GET MARRIED TO PROTECT EACH OTHER!!!

Posted at 2:43PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by Debbie

51. I have lost all compassion for Anna Nicole and her entourage. They aren't living in reality.

Larry Birkhead isn't looking for 15 minutes of fame. He just wants to know the truth about the baby who might be his daughter. Mr. Birkhead has an impossible task up against an insidious pair. It's time for Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern to lose themselves in the Bermuda triangle along with all their money.

The ultimate revenge is for Mr. Birkhead to write a book on his time with Anna Nicole. Does he have a video tape?

Posted at 2:57PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by Caren

52. Grandmother,
Your claim to be a Councelor (LCSW) is quite a joke. With your comments on here, I would not be too surprised if your license had been "revoked" and you spend your time on here making assessments on people you have not even counceled (ANNA OR HOWARD OR LARRY) to feel good about yourself. I have never known of a councelor who passed such judgment on people they do not even know. LCSW? Does that mean, "Loser Crazy Stupid Woman?

Posted at 3:06PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by Laughing at all of YOU

53. Anna is still probably shocked with her sons death and this idiot wants to take her daughter away now?

What an a**hole, thats why god chose women to grow life and not men, their such manipulating nitwits!

Posted at 3:23PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by 4 real

54. What a pickle these folks are in!

Posted at 3:39PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by Claire

55. Right on #42 I'm a parent as well & I've made mistake myself that I wish like hell I could change. No one is perfect.

Posted at 5:13PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by What the???

56. Hollywood — Just days after a pink bikini-clad Anna Nicole Smith exchanged vows with her lawyer Howard K. Stern aboard a luxury boat in the Bahamas, the buxom blonde’s baby has begged to be adopted by anyone, “even Tom Cruise or Whitney Houston.” The infant relayed the information using baby sign language, according to hospital officials.

“We’ve been using baby sign language for years, but most babies can only communicate a few basic ideas like ‘hungry’ or ‘dirty diaper,’” said Dr. David Tarquson. “But I’ve never seen a baby communicate such complex ideas at such a young age before. Anna Nicole’s daughter was obviously desperate to get across this idea.”

Dr. Tarquson said Anna Nicole’s baby, Danilynne Hope, used hand gestures that made it perfectly clear she was pleading with him to be adopted.

“At first the baby was making signs that said ‘help me,’” explained Dr. Tarquson. “As I continued the conversation, she made other gestures that suggested that she thought that she not only wanted out of the Bahamas, but also wanted out of her family. From what I could tell, she was saying ‘I’ll take anyone. Just get me the hell out of here before I’m permanently f*cked up.’”

Posted at 5:42PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by ROFLMAO

57. pssst.... there's an "s" in counselor

Posted at 6:01PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by bullwinkle

58. POLL
Who Fathered Anna Nicole Smith's Child?

Anna Nicole Smith
Who Fathered Anna Nicole Smith's Child

Howard Stern
Larry Birkhead
Larry King
Howard K Smith
I did

Current Results TRIMSPA BABY

Posted at 6:50PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by ROFLMAO

59. "Cyril Wecht, the forensic pathologist who did the private autopsy on Daniel Smith, said Tuesday that his toxicology tests also detected trace amounts of a third antidepressant, Amitryptiline. But he said that did not affect his conclusion that Daniel died accidentally from the interaction of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro in his system. Smith had a prescription for Lexapro; his mother and her attorneys were trying to determine how he obtained the other drugs."

Gets more mysterious by the day.

Posted at 7:14PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by moving right along

60. "It has all the features of a salacious Hollywood biopic: a famously endowed pin-up queen weds an elderly multimillionaire and spends years fighting his family for a portion of his estate, loses her beloved son mysteriously just days after giving birth to a new baby, then exchanges non-legal vows with her longtime lawyer and alleged father of the infant girl while still in mourning.

If that isn't enough drama, now allegations of drug addiction have been thrown into the mix - not surprising given some of Smith's more infamous public appearances over the past few years.

Photojournalist Larry Birkhead, an ex-boyfriend of Smith's who claims he fathered the newborn Dannie Lynn Hope, has filed suit in a Los Angeles court demanding Smith return to the United States and submit the baby to a paternity test.

Smith was served with court papers Monday in the Bahamas, Birkhead's lawyer, Debra Opri, told The Associated Press.

The lawsuit contains allegations, untested in a court of law, that Smith is a methadone addict and that her lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, has been enabling her habit.

Methadone was one of three drugs in the bloodstream of Smith's late son, Daniel, 20, who died of a heart attack in his mother's Bahamian hospital room on Sept. 10, three days after Dannie Lynn's birth. Three people were reportedly in the room when he died: Smith, her baby, and Stern."

Ooops. GOTCHA!

Posted at 7:18PM on Oct 3rd 2006 by moving right along

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