Celebrity Justice
Birkhead's Ticket to Paternity

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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256. One more Thing ANS has been known to lie for what she wants.
ANS she has lead the whole Country to believe she had such a horrible up bringing being raped etc.
How much of that is true her mother was on TV saying it was all a lie and she did it for the publicity.
Well nothing surprises me anymore. She got more fame from making those kind of statements about her life.
Her mother seems very concerned for her grandaughters safety.

As for the money if anyone knew anything about the law you would all know that the money that ANS's may recieve from her dead husband.
Would more than likely go right to Daniellynne as a trust she more than likely won't be able to touch it till she is in her 20's.
So who ever took care of her would benefit then and only then not anytime soon.

She may have some property to divide but it sounds like most of it is rented so whoever takes over the baby's custody may be in for paying off her debts.

Posted at 11:34AM on Feb 15th 2007 by jen

257. A sperm match does not make a DADDY, just a biological connection! A daddy is someone who is with you when you were born and raises you, tucks you into bed at night, changes your diapers, feeds you etc. I am sick of everyone blaming H. Stern for all of Anna's problems. Don't any of you know people who do drugs and NOTHING will make them stop except themeselves.. EVER watch INTERVENTION on A&E? I think he's a good father and should be left alone in peace to grieve over someone who was ALWAYS there for her. All this media attention makes me sick. All the stupid lawyers and this stupid website just love controversy and make a misery of other peoples lives.. Anna was a human being and her body should be respected. She has said herself she hated her mother. Where was her mother the last 5 months since the baby was born? Exactly NO WHERE. Now she jumps on the Anna Nicole Smith Bandwagon to get her 2 seconds of fame... To rip a baby from the only parents she has ever known is wrong. Babies recoginize their parents and additional pain of not seeing her mother anymore is not needed. Stern's family seems decent unlike L Birkhead who no one know's a thing about except to claims he's the father. He could be the biggest drug pusher on the planet for all we know. He's a papparazzi, not exactly a decent human being who's out to make money on celebrities....People just shut up about this..

Posted at 6:50PM on Feb 15th 2007 by A Gilles

258. They need to get the DNA done NOW! Get this over with and get that baby with the rightfull father. It makes me sick when they talk about how Anna was estranged from her mother. So that was her problem, she is still her Mother! Anna had way to many problems to know right from wrong. She was one messed up girl. Who needed help and Howard surely did not help her. He is a poor excuse of a friend! They need to get that little girl away from him. NOW!

Posted at 4:19PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Mary Wuescher

259. HOWARD STERN SHOULD BE THE FATHER OF THAT CHILD. HE HAS TAKEN CARE OF ANNNA NICOLE FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND HE SURE IS NOT AFTER HER MONEY... birkhead has nothing.. what can he do for the baby? he needs help. At least HOWARD STERN HAS HIS HEAD ON HIS SHOULDERS AND WOULD BE A HELL OF A GOOD FATHER . LET DANIELLE AND HIS MOTHER BE BURIED IN NASSAU SINCE HOWARD STERN KNOWS SO MUCH WAHT SHE WANTED.. THE MOTHER NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE STATES. SHE IS JUST AFTER THE MONEY. WHERE ARE THE TAPES THAT HER MOTHER WOULD ** NEVER ** SEE HER CHILD.. THAT NEEDS TO BE PRESENTED TO THE COURT/

Posted at 9:17PM on Feb 15th 2007 by shirley mcguire

260. What proof has Howard came up with to prove that he was the father?...none except that he TIMED placing himself in the delivery room with camera's snapping pictures that he SOLD because he knew that they would be Daniels last photo's and he TIMED a ceremony on a boat with camera's rolling. Howard is a snake and so is his "FAMILY" they all see dollar signs. He behaved no different than an abusive lover. He kept her on drugs and away from her family and potential male friends....under his total control. Now he's controlling the baby. I can't wait to hear the results of the paternity test and see Dannilynn taken away from him.

Posted at 1:14AM on Feb 16th 2007 by chris

261. As a mother who was in a similar situation, WHY hasn't anyone addressed the fact that DANIEL could be moved HOME to Texas with ANNA? Instead of a foreign country where she WILL be forgotten, especially after the money is distributed, it's best for her to be in TEXAS where she has cousins, mother, father & other relatives, & a community who knew and most cared about her.
In addition, Houston friends who mourn her can travel to Mexia. Poor Anna would get fewer (if any) visitors in the Bahamas.
As for Howard, his provision of drugs clearly held her hostage and her judgment was definitely impaired re: her relationships (ex: Larry), her "choice" of burial & attempted care of the baby. He KEPT showing her after having the baby, gaining publicity & MONEY. All he misses is his MEAL TICKET! Larry wanted the baby BEFORE she died; I believe they would have reconnected in spite of Howard, had Anna lived. Had she NOT been isolated with Howard in the Bahamas, others could have intervened --which is why HOWARD isolated her, including ESTRANGING her from her family. That's the first thing a "captor" or MANIPULATOR does--take away anyone she's close to who would help or intervene on her behalf. Howard is MOURNING THE MONEY AND SUPPORT he will eventually lose; he KNOWS he is not the father.

Posted at 8:38PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Susie

262. GREAT JOB THE JUDGE OF FLORIDA... I LIKE A MAN WHO CROSS' HIS "T"S AND DOT HIS "I". GREAT JOB. DON'T LET THE LAWYER OF THE THIS CASE PUT ONE OVER YOU. HOWARD STERN , ATTORNEY IN COURT YESTERDAY DID HER DAMMENDIEST TO MAKE NICHOLE SMITH LOOK BAD. WHAT COURT ACCUSE NICHOLES MOTHER OF ABUSE. WHAT ANN NICHOLS SAID PRIOR TO HER DEATH ABOUT HER MOTHER IS " HEAR SAY". DISPLINE ISN'T CHILD ABUSE. AND FROM WHAT WE ARE ALL HEARING IT SOUND' LIKE NICHOLE NEEDED DISPLINE.

I HOPE THE COURTS TAKE BABY DANNIEL LYNN FROM HOWARD STERN . OH HE CHANGES DIAPERS.. OH GIVE HIM A BROWN BOTTON.. WHEN YOU CAN GET $88MILLION.. ANYONE CAN CHANGE A DIAPER AND PLAY WITH A BABY. WHERE WAS HOWARD WHEN DANNIEL WAS TAKING DRUGS AND ANN NICHOL.. OUT BUY A BOAT. IF SHE HAD A FEVER OF 105 AND HAD A NURSE. WHY WASN'T SHE TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL. LOVE MEANS TO PROTECT HER... NOT LET HER DIE.

Posted at 5:09PM on Feb 25th 2007 by TINA

263. 3 Quetions. #1 If Howards parents have supported him since 1995. Are they paying these huge attorney's fees.
#2 If the baby is Mr. Birkheads. Could he then procute all those involved in the kidnapping of his child?
#3.What happens should Stern kill himself and the baby? I only say this because it seems so evident! Though I hate to think of it...
Mr. Birkhead, I'll be praying that you and your little girl will be reunited!

Posted at 9:30PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Eliza

264. After reading the Will of ANS today I truly pray that someone else is around Howard K.(killer) $tern and Dannielynn. This man is what we call a "SLYTER". Sometime people are so smart that they do stupid things. He plotted to control her life, separate her more from her family and friends and planned the perfect murder for the love of murder. This one man has the world waiting to see what his next move is, (like a game of chess) and he's plotting to conquer the QUEEN (Dannielynn,Money). One thing for sure is $tern, "YOU CAN FOUL SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME.

Now the question is? How long is the Officials going to let him continue to play this Chess game at the expense of this Baby's life. Believe me, ANS might of being a lot of things but I bet you her spirit is there to help her Baby. She was a good mother regardless of what many might say. One could see the relationship that she had with her children.

The Will that $tern presented today whether he realizes it told a lot about his today. HE'S IN IT FOR THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What attorney would draw up such a stupid will. This Murder reminds me the Foster Parents in Cincinnati Ohio who murder little Marcus. The Foster Mother got on TV pleading with the public to help find her Foster Child and quess what? The Husband, Wife and Girlfriend kill the Foster and burn the baby's body. People are sick and this man $tern fits the profile of a PSYCOPATH wanted FAME.

I'll tell what his next move is going to be! Once he see that there is no way he can manever the money to him without any questions been asked he is going to disappear so that he can't be charge with Daniel or Anna's MURDER!!!!!!! ?

Posted at 12:03AM on Feb 18th 2007 by shamar

265. I think of it this way........this is another way of california showing how sue happy they are.......Face it Anna was a big girl drugged or not she had her own mind, Stern knew this she knew this, she got as far away from everyone that was sue happy as she could, so who cars if Stern is the DAD she could of not had his name on birth certificate maybe just maybe this CIRCUS is jus too out of hand, her kid was 20 yrs old how many 20yr old you know or read about that are on drugs, He just was able to Obtain the good one due to who he was........DUH ...ie Don't we remember RIver Pheonix.......Died in front of a Hollywood night club......Now I think those pictures were staged to show methadone in fridge....for example if your gonna do the stuff and drop dead belive me whoever was staying at the house would of dumped it so the MEDIA CIRCUS wouldn't find it , come on people think about it.........and let this poor poor woman rest in peace.......face it her family is a bunch of 6toed imbred hillbillies just waiting to cash in and have their claws into her money they want the child ect.......HECK if i was her i'd of probally of been on drugs to knowing my own mother looked like a troll who lived under a bridge , her so called friends now come out of woodwork saying stuff about Howard K Stern.........SCREW them and how dare them, so what she could of sent him off packing long ago just like all the rest......if you watch any telivised interviews you'll hear from her own mouth that he was 1 of her closest friends........WHY MIND YOU.......probally cause deep inside he cared for who she was like how she cared for that PRUNE of a deceased husband J HOWARD MARSHALL. maybe he was in it for the long haul...... I just think we all should just wait and see.........so he won't give DNA........GOOD FOR HIM she wouldn't either........probally to keep Birkhead Guessing and waste his money on more MONEY GRUBBING CALIFORINA lawyers.......I know i wouldn't just to tick a bunch of em off too bad she died before all this was over but if you think about it the only loser is ANNA sum it up Stern isn't to Blame ...........start looking in the mirror VERGIE, Larry, and other money grubbing Probate Lawyers........you guys drove that poor poor woman to drugs to forget about the IDIOTS in her life..........AREN'T YOU HAPPY NOW

Posted at 11:36PM on Feb 19th 2007 by mark

266. well i've read who should be the father, not once did anyone ask
what if there was no money involed, would anyone of these wonderful so called men want this poor inocent child...
she is the one everyone should think about I don't think any one of them deserve her, for sure not that woman that nichole wanted
anything to do with. take away the money and they all would
run the other way
alice

Posted at 7:37PM on Feb 18th 2007 by alice antonucci

267. As i sit back and watch the news i almost laugh at this media circus i see unraveling. the poor woman is dead due to an overdose of her own demise, now don't blame Howard for this , she was a big girl in control of what she did, true he could of stopped her , and further more her son is a 20 yr old boy raised in the media and public lifestyle.........how many famous peoples children have substance problems.......hmmm shall i start naming.......and for Vergie YOUR a fat troll if you really wanted to see your daughter you'd of done so yrs ago got your FAT ASS on a JUMBO JET and gone to see her and not waited till she dropped dead to start flapping your FAT MOUTH.....face it your a 6 toed redneck hillbillie. and yor just as bad as the rest of the finger pointing IDIOTS in the world...Don't you think Anna moved to Bahamas to get away from all you IDIOTS , ie........Birkhead ,Hatton ,her mother and all the other white trash sue happy media whores who have tried to milk off her money that she was trying to get from J Howard Marshall.......think about it people, really think about it, if Anna was getting drugs from Stern wouldn't of someone of said somthing in the last few yrs...I truthfully think her and Stern didn't want to get DNA test for baby due to they were holding out to highest media bidder to help jump start her career........it just backfired when her son died and drove her into an spiral of depression that she couldn't recover from.........truthfully if Anna hadlast word to her mother it would say..........want my ass buried in TEXAS you can have it after you KISS IT......don't blame Stern, I think he truly cared for her he's stuck around all this time and if she wanted him gone she'd of fired him on kicked him to curb like all the other men and family in her life who's wanted a cash handout from her..............He now has the fight to prove he's the father, Hopefully he is and all the people who's thought bad of him well, he's never been arrested nor has been convicted of drugs or has any mental problems.........lets look at Birkhead.....he had to lie to a police officer and say his fiance was sick and the cop wrote wife..........now how do we know he didn't lie and say wife to cop.......sociapath in the making.....I bet he's got a beverly hills shrink on the payroll.........just look at him.......this is all i gotta say...........truthfully who really cares.........the people who do are like the same type who GAWK at a massive car wreck to see the yellow blankets and markers to show where the body parts landed...........shame on us all i GUESS

Posted at 11:30PM on Feb 19th 2007 by mark

268. Well, I think that Howard K. Stern is a scumbag. Either he doesnt want the paternity test because he knows something so bizzarre that he doesnt want anybody to know, or he just knows flat out that hes not the father.

Did anyone ever come to think that Her son Daniel is the father of the baby? Because they were extremely close, and maybe that is what the scumbag is hiding. But all in all, besides that, Larry birkhead is the father...that is why hes so eager to take the paternity test.

Posted at 7:35PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Barbara

269. TMZyour the big winner in this case.Your all over this whole fiasco called a trial.Great job keep it up.

Posted at 4:40PM on Feb 22nd 2007 by joe

270. TMZyour the big winner in this case.Your all over this whole fiasco called a trial.Great job keep it up.

Posted at 1:25PM on Feb 22nd 2007 by joe

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