California Judge orders Anna Nicole Smith to submit daughter for paternity test

**Laurent** · December 21st, 2006, 06:00 PM

Judge Orders Anna Nicole Paternity Test by Natalie Finn
Thu Dec 21, 10:48 AM ET

Los Angeles (E! Online) - After more than three months of highly public accusations, denials and finger-pointing, it's all going to boil down to a swab of DNA.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled Thursday that Anna Nicole Smith must submit three-month-old daughter Dannielynn Hope for a paternity test.

"Christmas has come early, and I thank God that I will soon have the opportunity to prove that I am the father of Dannielynn and eventually hold her in my arms," Larry Birkhead said in a statement issued by his attorney's publicist.

The former paparazzo filed suit against Smith Oct. 2, shortly after her longtime lawyer, Howard K. Stern, announced via Larry King Live that he was Dannielynn's dad, saying he and the TrimSpa pusher were very much in love. Soon after, Stern was recorded as the father on the girl's Bahamian birth certificate.

"Today is a good day for Larry Birkhead and father's rights everywhere," Birkhead's attorney, Debra Opri, said. "I want to thank everyone for their support and to ask Anna Nicole Smith to do the right thing."

No details were immediately available on Schnider's reasoning or when Smith must comply with the court order.

The judge ruled last month that the L.A. court had jurisdiction to issue a ruling in the case, even though Smith claimed to be a resident of the Bahamas at the time, because she had recently worked, lived and had a sexual relationship in California.

The 38-year-old ex-Playmate and Stern returned to the U.S., minus Dannielynn, last week. Smith appeared in San Francisco's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday for a mediation hearing regarding her on-hold inheritance from her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

Not missing an opportunity to catch the couple Stateside, Birkhead had Stern served with papers outside the Bay Area courthouse, accusing the attorney of giving perjured statements in connection with Birkhead's paternity suit.

It's not known whether Smith and Stern have since returned to the Bahamas.

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**LynnieD** · December 21st, 2006, 06:03 PM

Well, its about time. What the hell took so long?

**Voodoo Child** · December 21st, 2006, 06:04 PM

Anybody wish to take a guess whose baby it is ?

KD · December 21st, 2006, 06:11 PM

^I will. Birkheads, definately. No doubt in my mind, though I think she will fight having this swab done tooth and nail.

**Voodoo Child** · December 21st, 2006, 06:14 PM

I say Larry too.

**LynnieD** · December 21st, 2006, 06:16 PM

Larry...definitely. Didn't buy the whole fake marriage to HKS for a second. It was an obvious attempt to deflect speculation and to make it look like HKS could actually be the father. Nada.

**twitchy** · December 21st, 2006, 07:30 PM

Could be K-Fed's....

**sweetness** · December 21st, 2006, 07:32 PM

Yeah, I think Larry is the daddy.

**Reptillycus** · December 21st, 2006, 08:21 PM

I think Larry is the dad too. I also think Dannielynn is a much cuter name than Apple.

**sprynkles** · December 21st, 2006, 08:32 PM

I must have missed why she doesn't want Lar to be the father. What's so wrong with him? I know what's wrong with her.

**Picara** · December 21st, 2006, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by sprynkles

I must have missed why she doesn't want Lar to be the father. What's so wrong with him? I know what's wrong with her.

I read somewhere that he complained about her drug use while she was pregnant. She then cut him out of her life. Before that he was going with her to doctor's appointments and sounded like he was pretty involved.

According to gossip she was doing Methadone and tranquilizers. I wonder what effect that will have on DaniLynne? Poor baby.

**aabbcc** · December 22nd, 2006, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by sprynkles

I must have missed why she doesn't want Lar to be the father. What's so wrong with him? I know what's wrong with her.

He probably doesn't have enough money for the scuzzy ho-bag. I can't stand this vapid grasping poor excuse for a mother.

**curlysem** · December 22nd, 2006, 09:48 AM

It's about time....Larry Birkhead is the baby father.....Lets see if Anna Nicole Smith attorney Howard, would try to come up with some crap! I want to know already, this should be good...