Dannie Lynn's Story
The saga of Anna Nicole Smith continues to live on as the very public battle began over custody of her baby girl, Dannielynn, after her untimely death. It took a court ordered paternity test to finally solve the puzzle – DNA proved that Larry Birkhead is the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby born in September 2006. Paternity had been settled once and for all.
But it was a windy road to get to the bottom of the paternity question. Anna Nicole Smith herself publicly claimed the father was Howard Stern, her lawyer and companion. Howard Stern publicly claimed paternity on the Larry King show.
Oh, and then there was Anna Nicole’s earlier statement that Gaither Ben Thompson was the father. Thompson, a wealthy real estate developer claimed that could not be true since he had had a vasectomy. There are rumors that Anna Nicole herself then told Thompson that she thought Larry Birkhead was the father.
The paternity question didn’t stop there though. Remember the bodyguard, Alex Denk? He claimed paternity too. Another suggestion came from Anna Nicole’s mother who thought that paternity might be traced through frozen donated sperm from Anna Nicole’s dead 89 year old husband, J. Howard Marshall. There were others who thought they could be the father of the child. No wonder it took DNA to settle the paternity puzzle.
The winner of the paternity contest is Larry Birkhead who now has custody of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern Birkhead and her small (?) fortune.
