Anna Nicole Smith
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA, 28 November 2020
- Date of Death: 08 February 2021
"I’m obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed," he said, adding of Birkhead: "I’m going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody."
Larry, who broke up with Anna before she moved to the
"I told you so!" Birkhead said, announcing the DNA test results upon emerging from a closed court hearing. He added: "My baby’s going to be coming home pretty soon."
The court’s DNA expert, Dr Michael Baird, confirmed it.
Just seven months old, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern stands to inherit a fortune if the legal battles her mother left her ever get resolved.
The baby could potentially inherit millions from the estate of Anna’s late husband, Howard Marshall.
’Birkhead is father of Anna’s baby’ - April 11 2007
DNA analysis has proved that Anna Nicole Smith’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead is the father of her baby daughter, an expert in genetic evidence has said.
Dr Michael Baird, who analysed the results of a March 21 DNA test, announced the results outside the court in
A jubilant Birkhead said: "My baby’s going to be coming home pretty soon."
The court hearing left unanswered the question of who will have custody of the girl, who could inherit hundreds of millions of dollars.
"I told you so!" a jubilant Birkhead said as he emerged from the pale pink colonial courthouse in downtown
Smith, 39, died in February in
"Nothing’s been determined except parentage and I’m the father," Birkhead said. "It’s been a long road and I’m just happy to have this behind me."
But a lawyer for Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, indicated she might seek joint custody at another hearing on Friday. Arthur, who had been estranged from Smith for years, said she wanted to be present in her granddaughter’s life, but seemed appeased by the DNA results.
"I’m happy that Dannielynn will know who her real father is," she said outside court. Stern insisted he loved the baby despite the DNA results, saying: "I’m obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed."
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Although she had aspirations to become ’the next Marilyn Monroe’, Vickie began working at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken where she met her first husband, Billy Wayne Smith. They married when Vickie was just seventeen. The next year she gave birth to their son Daniel and in 1987 seperated from her husband, finding work as an exotic dancer in Houston.
Whilst working as a stripper she met elderly millionaire J. Howard Marshall, with whom she began a relationship despite the sixty three year age gap. In 1994 the couple married amid much tabloid excitement. Marshall died thirteen months later, leaving nothing to his young wife.
In the interim Vickie, now going by the name Anna Nicole Smith, appeared on the front cover of Playboy, being made Playmate of the Year by Hugh Hefner. She bagged a deal with Guess?, replacing supermodel Claudia Schiffer and finding herself a household name. Meanwhile Anna Nicole battled Marshall’s sons in the courts for her share of her late husbands millions, however she was eventually bankrupted and ordered to pay $1million dollars in fees. She was again given the right to fight for her entitlement following the death of her stepson.
Anna Nicole’s acting career was much less publicised than her marriage, although she appeared in high profile films The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1/3. Her bigger roles came in smaller films such as To The Limit and Skyscraper and on television, appearing as herself in wacky reality TV series The Anna Nicole Show. She later apeared in Be Cool and Wasabi Tuna.
On September 7 2006 Anna Nicole gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, claiming the father was her lawyer Howard K Stern, although her ex boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, claimed the child as his. Three days later her son, Daniel, died of an apparent drug overdose while visiting his mother and half sister in hospital. Later that same month Anna Nicole and Howard K Stern exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony in the Bahamas.
On February 8 2007, the day after a date for a paternity test on her daughter had been set, Anna Nicole collapsed at a hotel in Florida and later died. An autopsy has yet to determine the cause of death.
updated February 2007
December 2007