Birkhead's Ticket to Paternity

Posted Feb 13th 2007 2:50PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has obtained a traffic ticket Larry Birkhead got while Anna Nicole Smith was pregnant, and it could be powerful proof that he's the daddy.

"I got a call from my pregnant wife, she's sick."

Rewind to April 15, 2006. Sources tell TMZ a pregnant Anna had just gotten into a fight with Howard K. Stern, who was expressing extreme jealousy over the fact that Birkhead was the father of the baby. Sources say Stern gave Anna an ultimatum -- him or me.

We're told an extremely emotional Anna, who was barefoot and four months pregnant, called Birkhead and asked him to meet her in the parking lot of the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, Calif. near her house. A concerned Birkhead jumped in his car and sped over, only to be stopped by a Burbank cop.

The officer who issued the speeding ticket quoted Birkhead -- "I got a call from my pregnant wife, she's sick."

The ticket is significant because Birkhead's statement was a spontaneous reaction to the event and not in the context of a paternity battle. Debra Opri, Birkhead's lawyer, tells TMZ Birkhead referred to Anna as his "girlfriend" but the cop wrote "wife."

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1. I don't understand how that makes it significant. He probably ALWAYS thought he was the father. And so do I.

Posted at 2:15PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Jackie

2. Yeah! Now maybe Larry can get the tests that he needs to get his child out of the "care" of a man who has had two adults die under his wing. How many people out there would want Howard as their babysitter?!

Posted at 2:17PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Peace

3. How many times have people said the same type (I have an emergency, the school called, my child is ill etc..) of crap in order to get out of a ticket? Not proof of paternity as far as I am concerned.

Posted at 2:19PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Lee

4. How does that prove hes the father..

Posted at 2:20PM on Feb 13th 2007 by phyllis

5. I just hope Debra Opri pushes this very quickly thru the court system before Howard T. Stern really loses it and does something even more drastic than he has already participated in. I totally believe that Larry Birkhead is the Father and from the way he presents himself would make a wonderful Father to Dannilynn. Howard T. Stern belongs in jail!!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:22PM on Feb 13th 2007 by KAT

6. Proof enough for me! He wins the baby!!

Posted at 2:23PM on Feb 13th 2007 by pete

7. I feel in my heart that Larry is the father. Anna kept saying she would let the baby take a paternity test, but never did after 5 months. Anna said it was because she didnt want to be forced to do it. BULL!!! She knew the baby was not Sterns. That fake ceremony on the ship was for publicity only and to make people think they were committed. Stern is a weasel. I dont trust him. He didnt even help Anna who was clearly an addict. If he loved her, why didnt he help her? He was there when Daniel died and there when Anna died..Hmmmm

Posted at 2:24PM on Feb 13th 2007 by MIchelle

8. YOU'RE SO BUSTED -- HOWARD K. STERN

ANNA WASN'T YOUR WIFE NOR YOUR GIRLFRIEND AND NOW SHE'S NOT EVEN YOUR FRIEND.

HOWARD ONCE THE DNA COMES BACK YOU'LL BE USELESS TO EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY YOURSELF.

HOWARD GO ROOMMATE WITH THE OTHER GUY WHO KILLED 2 PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU -- OJ

Posted at 2:24PM on Feb 13th 2007 by sagittarius

9. And what exactly does this prove?? That he thought he was all along? Duh!!

Posted at 2:26PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Harleymom

10. OHHH PLEASE LET THIS CHILD BE LARRY'S! I HOPE THEY CAN GET HER AWAY FROM THAT CREEPY CREEPY GUY!!!!!

Posted at 2:30PM on Feb 13th 2007 by MT

11. Well Anna wasn't his wife, so what makes this so compelling??? HE LIED TO THE COP TO GET OF OUT A TRAFFIC TICKET. Doesn't look like much proof to me.

Just shows me hes a liar.

Posted at 2:31PM on Feb 13th 2007 by richard

12. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT.........Only in AMERICA can this be so..............Nice.....Rock on world, we rule.........

Posted at 2:32PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Beth

13. Proves nothing! I don't think the baby is even his! I think Zza's hubby is the father, but we'll all have to wait and see.

Posted at 2:34PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Carol

14. Why doesn't social service have this baby in Bahamas custody right now.

I think if Howard is forced to give up Dannilynn once the DNA comes back, that he may harm or even KILL little Dannilynn. There's NO WAY Howard's giving up his meal ticket -- without a GRAND FINALE.

Some, please rescue Dannilynn BEFORE IT'S 2 LATE.

That would be 3 down.

Posted at 2:34PM on Feb 13th 2007 by the other Brittany

15. When is Kitson going to make TEAM LARRY and TEAM HOWARD t-shirts! I will totally buy the TEAM LARRY!!! Go Larry! Get your baby away from murderer Stern before it's too late!!!!

Posted at 2:37PM on Feb 13th 2007 by Neela

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