| Larry Birkhead | |
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| Born | January 22, 1973 Jefferson County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Children | Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead |
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| LarryBirkhead.net | |
Larry E. Birkhead (born January 22, 1973)[1] was a partner of Anna Nicole Smith and is the father of her daughter, Dannielynn. He was in a child custody battle for his daughter until DNA results proved his paternity.
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Birkhead, the 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 Heuser, and a half-sister, Judy Birkhead. He graduated in 1991 from Louisville's Doss High School.[2] He currently resides in Burbank, California.
Birkhead and Smith initially met in May 2004 at the Trish Barnstable Brown Gala,[3] 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.[4]
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 who then had the name Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.[5] Smith had claimed that her attorney and partner Stern was the father.[6]
When Anna Nicole Smith died on February 8, 2007, Birkhead filed an emergency order to get custody of the child. He had the support of Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, in his claim that he was the biological father of Smith's then five-month-old daughter. However, once paternity was established, Larry refused to allow Virgie Arthur or any of Anna Nicole's family around Dannielynn.
In April 2007 paternity was established for Birkhead, and a Bahamian court authorized custody transfer of Dannielynn from Howard K. Stern to her biological father. Birkhead 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.
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