Anna Nicole Smith not planning baby test
(AP)
Updated: 2006-10-21 15:17 An attorney for Anna Nicole
Smith said Friday the reality TV star has no intention of submitting her
6-week-old daughter for paternity testing as demanded by an ex-boyfriend.
A lawsuit filed by photographer Larry Birkhead seeks a court order for Smith
to bring the girl to California for a DNA test. A birth certificate lists her
current companion, Howard K. Stern, as the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall
Stern.
"Why should she accommodate him at all?" asked Bahamian attorney Wayne Munroe
in an interview with The Associated Press. "I don't think she's going to run her
life according to his wishes."
An attorney for Birkhead, Debra Opri, said she is traveling to the Bahamas
this weekend to take depositions from Smith and Stern on Monday. She said Smith
has been served with multiple notices of her request for a meeting.
"We're going to get that paternity test," Opri said in an interview from Los
Angeles. "It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but I'm not going away."
On Thursday, Smith buried her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died while visiting
her in a Nassau hospital three days after the baby was born on Sept. 7.
A private examiner said Daniel Smith died of an accidental lethal combination
of methadone and two antidepressants. The results of official toxicology tests
and a police investigation have not been publicly released.
Bahamas Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said authorities would likely decide
next week whether a jury inquest into the death is necessary.
A hearing on Birkhead's lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court has been
scheduled for Oct. 26. If he is confirmed to be the father, he could receive
visitation or custody rights and possibly a large amount of child support.
Anna Nicole Smith, who moved to the Bahamas while pregnant with her daughter
and obtained permanent residency, plans to stay indefinitely, Munroe said.
"What has happened with her son has only made her more inclined to seek
tranquility and peace," he said.
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