Larry Birkhead

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name = Larry Birkhead
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birth_date = birth date and age|1973|1|22
birth_place = Jefferson County, Kentucky, U.S.
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website = [http://www.larrybirkhead.net/ LarryBirkhead.net]
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children = Dannielynn Marshall

Larry E. Birkhead (born 22 January 1973) [Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&=&=1%2C+&=&=1%2C+&gsfn=Larry+E&gsln=Birkhead&=&gsby=1973&gsb2co=2%2CUnited+States+&gsb2pl=20%2CKentucky&gsdy=&gsd2co=1%2CAll+Countries&gsd2pl=1%2C+&=&=1%2C+&=&=1%2C+&sbo=0&ufr=0&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=allgs&gss=ansmp&so=3 database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.] was a romantic partner of Anna Nicole Smith and the father of her daughter, Dannielynn. He was in a custody battle for his daughter until DNA results proved his paternity.

Birkhead, son of Larry L. Birkhead and Nancy Birkhead, is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Birkhead has a twin brother, Lewis, as well as a sister, Angela Johnson, and a half-sister, Judy Birkhead. He graduated in 1991 from Louisville's Doss High School [cite news | title=Little Known About Louisville Native Larry Birkhead | url=http://www.wlky.com/news/11618738/detail.html | publisher=WLKY | date=2007-04-11 | accessdate=2007-04-13] . He currently resides in Burbank, California.

Birkhead appeared on "MADtv" in a parody of "Family Feud". Birkhead and Smith initially met in May 2004 at the Trish Barnstable Brown Gala,cite news |first=Angie |last=Fenton |title=Larry's last words to Anna |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070210/COLUMNISTS18/702100305 |publisher=The Courier-Journal |date=2007-02-10 |accessdate=2007-02-12] one of the major Louisville-area Kentucky Derby parties that attracts many celebrities.

On April 10 2007, a Bahamian court ruled that DNA testing proved that Larry Birkhead is the father of Dannielynn, the daughter of Anna Nicole Smith. [cite news | url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1536410_20033495,00.html | title= DNA Test: Birkhead Is Dannielynn's Father | publisher=People |date=2007-04-10 |accessdate=2007-04-10]

Claim of paternity

Amongst several men making paternity claims, including Howard K. Stern, Mark Hatten, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt and Smith's former bodyguard Alexander Denk, Birkhead was proven, by a DNA test provided by Michael L. Baird, to be the father of Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. [cite news | title=Birkhead: 'I Told You So' | url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3027497&page=1 | publisher=ABC News | date=2007-04-10 | accessdate=2007-04-13] Smith claimed that her attorney and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, was the father. [cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/26/smith.baby/index.html |title=Attorney: I'm Anna Nicole's baby's father |publisher=CNN |date=2006-09-27 |accessdate=2007-02-17]

When Anna Nicole Smith died on February 8 2007, Birkhead filed an emergency order to get custody of the child. [cite news | url=http://www.actressarchives.com/news.php?id=5074 | title=Larry Birkhead headed for big payday |publisher=UGO |date=2007-04-13 |accessdate=2007-04-13] Larry Birkhead had the support of Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, in his claim that he was the biological father of Smith's five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Anna Nicole Smith and her companion Howard K. Stern initially absconded to the Bahamas to avoid paternity testing, but after Smith's death in February 2007 paternity testing became necessary to resolve several pending court cases.

In April 2007 paternity was established for Larry and a Bahamian court authorized custody transfer of Dannielynn from Howard K. Stern to Larry Birkhead. Larry was also granted permission to have the birth certificate of his daughter changed so that the name Birkhead was added and the name Stern was removed. His daughter's legal name is now Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead.

exuality

On April 18, 2007, male model Kerrick Ross claimed in "The National Enquirer" that he and Birkhead had an affair for about two months in 2000. Ross claimed that Birkhead has never come out of the closet. [cite news|url=http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63844|title=Larry Birkhead's secret gay lover tells all!"|publisher=The National Enquirer|date=2007-04-18] Birkhead hired lawyer Marty Singer to sue the tabloids for defamation, which he claimed was in retaliation for providing "OK!" magazine with the first exclusive photos of him and his daughter. [cite news|url=http://thebosh.com/archives/2007/04/kerrick_ross_i_was_larry_birkheads_secret_gay_lover.php|title=Kerrick Ross: I was Larry Birkhead's secret gay lover!"|publisher=The Bosh|date=2007-04-18]

On September 3 2007, the book "Blonde Ambition" by journalist Rita Cosby alleged that Smith's nannies revealed a sex tape existed of Birkhead and Howard K. Stern. Cosby has claimed to have never seen the tape, nor has the tape been made public. She claimed that she has plans to back her sources who claim they walked in on Stern and Birkhead. A lawyer for the nannies threatened to file suit against the book and said the nannies never spoke about such an encounter between Stern and Birkhead. [cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/10/09/2007-10-09_anna_nicole_nannies_sue_rita_cosby_over_.html|title=Anna Nicole nannies sue Rita Cosby over sex tape scandal|publisher=New York Daily News|date=2007-10-09] After Stern filed a $60 million libel suit against Cosby and her publisher in October 2007, [cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299104,00.html|title=Howard K. Stern Sues Rita Cosby for $60M Over Birkhead Gay Sex Claim|publisher=Fox News|date=2007-10-03] a spokesperson for the nannies claimed that Cosby offered bribes in an unsuccessful attempt to contact the nannies. [cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301383,00.html|title=Spokesman for Anna Nicole's Nannies Goes 'On the Record'|author=Greta Van Susteren|publisher=Fox News|date=2007-10-12]

In February 2008, Smith's bodyguard Moe Brighthaupt, known professionally as "Big Moe", stated in an interview that Smith believed Birkhead was gay and that she essentially and intentionally used him only as a sperm donor. Big Moe also stated in the same interview that he had no doubts of Birkhead's genuine love for his daughter. [cite news|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/8361/anna-nicoles-bodyguard-big-moe-takes-aim-at-larry-birkhead/|title=Anna Nicole's Bodyguard Big Moe Takes Aim At Larry Birkhead|publisher=Access Hollywood|date=2008-02-11] Brighthaupt had previously been the target of allegations that he had stolen and distributed photos from the estate of Anna Nicole Smith. [cite news|url=http://www.etonline.com/news/2007/10/54556/index.html|title=Anna Nicole Smith Photo Scandal|publisher=Entertainment Tonight|date=2007-10-03]

References

External links

*imdb name|id=2627280|name=Larry Birkhead
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/117/000159637/ Larry Birkhead] at the Notable Names Database