Last night in an interview on “Larry King Live,” Howard K. Stern claimed to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s newborn baby. I don’t think he’s telling the truth and here’s why:
If this is true, why did Anna Nicole initially tell Larry Birkhead that he was the father? Birkhead insists that he’s the biological father, and his actions and statements seem to show that he genuinely believes this. The timing of his announcement right after the death of Anna’s son is incredibly inconsiderate, but that doesn’t make his message any less valid. Birkhead told Larry King in a statement:
And Stern insisted that he’s the real father, due to timing:
STERN: Well, I’m going to tell you that right now. Anna and I have been in a relationship and we love each other and it’s been going on for a very long time and because of my relationship as her lawyer, we felt that it was best to keep everything hidden. And we’ve actually done a pretty good job of that.
KING: Sure have. So, you are the father?
STERN: Yes, sir.
KING: By the way, have there been an DNA tests taken?
STERN: Proud father.
KING: What?
STERN: I said proud father.
KING: Were DNA tests taken?
STERN: Well, based on the timing of when the baby was born there really is no doubt in either of our minds.
KING: Did Daniel know that you were the father?
STERN: He did. He did.
Anna Nicole gave birth by cesearian section, making it more difficult to tell the baby’s age. It is possible to estimate the conception date in the early stages of the pregnancy through a sonogram, but this is not a precise method.
He focused on bashing Birkhead for selling his story, and used the weak argument that if Birkhead were the real father he would claim paternity legally. Stern is a lawyer, Birkhead is not. Birkhead has repeatedly asked for a DNA test, even if he doesn’t have the means or wherewithal to file suit to get one. If Stern is indeed Danilynne’s father, wouldn’t he want to clear that up with a DNA test right away?
STERN: Yes. I mean, at this point if he was able to file a lawsuit and do it, I don’t know why he hasn’t done it through legal means. I don’t understand, you know, why he would choose to go through the media to do what he’s done.
But at this point I’m not going to do him any favors. I think the lawsuits down the line will probably be coming, is going to be coming from us.
KING: But if it had come to that — if it came to that you would take the test because you’re convinced you’re the father, why not?
STERN: Well, if legally compelled to do so, I will. But I’m not going to do any favors for him right now. It’s unforgivable to me the way that he — when everything that we’re going through right now, that he would go to the media and not wait until Daniel has been put to rest.
I just for the life of me, I can’t understand that. And if he truly felt that he were the father, I just think he would have handled it very differently.
Now why would Stern be doing Birkhead a favor by getting a DNA test if it proves that Stern’s the father? Doesn’t it seem like there’s no favor involved if he’s the true father of the baby?
This is the most suspicious part of all. These two took up premanent residence in the Bahamas shortly before Anna Nicole Smith’s baby was due. Why would they do that? Birkhead claims that it is more difficult to establish paternity in the Bahamas. I’m not a legal expert, but he seems to be right. It seems to be the case that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible for the father to register paternity in the Bahamas without the mother’s consent
(Source is a Word Document from a lecture given at UNICEF, “The rights of the Child and the Caribbean” If you have a more reliable source or a legal background and would like to provide additional information, please comment with it.)
Now why would Howard K. Stern refuse to voluntarily take a DNA test and then move with Anna to the Bahamas – where establishing paternity is notoriously difficult – if he was the real father of her baby?
I have no respect for Stern or Nicole Smith. I wish they would just go away and leave the planet a better place without their presence. They give new meaning to the phrase “low-life.”
Stern is Anna’a puppet. Always has been….Always will be….I do not believe he is the father..She put him up to this interview and told him to claim paternity….A child needs their father and what Anna is doing is morally and ethically wrong. Shame on her!
This is all getting so weird and odd.. I have no idea what to believe – we don’t know exactly the cause of Daniel’s death, the relationship between Anna and her lawyer, or the father of her baby.. It’s just so weird and mysterious!
Stern seemes stoned in the interview. I can’t say drunk because he was making coherent (if not arguable) statements. “wanting to keep our relationship a secret”. OK, but with the speculation of paternity present before the birth, why would you not have claimed it then? It all sounds like a bunch of hooey to me. Its kind fo funny, Anna makes a verbal fool of her self at the MTV movie awards last year and then this guy sounds like a total tard.
It’s nobody’s business. And a child certainly does not “need” a father. Something isn’t always better than nothing.
Her son died. If anything say a prayer for them.
MAEVE…..Who are you to say that a child doesnt need its father…..Are you kidding??? You show me one adult child that wasnt somehow scarred from not having a father in their life. Puhleeze….Unless the father would be a bad influenece (so far thats not the case in this matter)a child DOES NEED a father in their life. You are clueless sweetie!!
Celeste……I am the one “adult child” you were looking for who does not NEED a father. I grew up the last 26 years without & I am ok. I still respect men, have a fiance, am close with my brother, etc… It has not scarred me at all. It was his loss. But if my mom would have went out & just “picked” one just to have one, it would have been a different story. That is why people believe they NEED or HAVE to have someone or something all the time. It’s just not true.
I have a 6 year old daughter without a ‘father’. her father is a jerk, and she doesn’t need him in her life! she’s perfectly happy, normal, intelligent and sweet. Just because she doesn’t have a father, she is not going to grow up ‘scarred’. that’s an insensitive and ignorant thing to say, especially in a day and age when there are SO MANY single parents.
By scarred I did not mean that they would grow up and not be happy functioning people in society…What I meant was that a part of their heart, however big or little, would be effected by not having or knowing their father or mother for that fact. Children or adults that grew up without a mother or a father can grow up to be happy people leading happy lives, you both mistook what I said. I grew up without a father and I am a happily married woman with three kids but to say that didnt have some sort of impact on my life would be a lie. And for you Brandi….if you can sit there and say that growing up not knowing who your father is has never effected you in any way shape or form you would be lying. To you Dana, if you wouldnt of assumed what I meant by scarred maybe than you wouldnt be looking ignorant right now. You cant determine how your daughters father not being in her life is going to effect her. It may bother her it may not but at the age of 6 you can not say.
My eldest daughters father is also a jerk and hasnt been in her life for 10 years. My daughter is now 15 and she has had a wonderful kind loving step father in her life for the past 10 years but I know that it bothers her from time to time that she has no relationship with him.
So, for you two to get SO DEFENSIVE speaks volumes on the matter of not knowing or having a father. You both assumed scarred meant that their lives would be worthless without both parents and thats an issue that you need to deal with cuz those are not the words I used. You chose to read into the word scarred the way that you did.
Good luck to you both and your children.
Celeste
well, this post was in regard to anna nicole smith’s child, and you said A child NEEDS a father. I was disagreeing with you, because as i said before, my daughter does not NEED her father. she is perfectly fine. and furthermore, MY OWN father passed away at a young age, and thank God, my mother never attempted to ‘replace’ him so I would have a father. As much as i missed my father, I didn’t feel that I was raised any differently than the kids i knew WITH fathers. Nor do i feel any differently toward men now. I’m not scarred from my father’s absence in my adolescent years.
You are just using society’s “definition” of children that grow up without fathers. It’s the same reason talk shows, like Jerry Springer and Maury Povich stay on the air. People bring their screwed up, badly behaving daughters on TV to show the country that them NOT having a father in their life makes them a juvenile delinquent. When in reality, its the poor parenting that screws these kids up. NOT having a father does not turn you into a promiscuous whore, bad upbringing does. Look at Paris Hilton! she comes from a wealthy, spoiled family, and if you read this website often, you know she’s constantly whoring around!
You wrote back to Maeve stating that she would not be able to show you one adult child that is not scarred. (PUH-LEEZE!)
if you’d like to come and visit me in NJ, i can introduce you to quite a few people that I know that grew up without father’s and could care less either way. Even now, if they had the oppurtunity to develop a relationship with their father, they do not have an interest in it! If they were so scarred by it, wouldn’t they want answers as to WHY he wasn’t around?!
come on, are you trying to tell me that no matter how I raise my little girl, she is going to feel some type of emptiness because her father is not a staple in her life? Do you, by any chance, have a degree in Psychology? I still have to disagree. I think I’m a damn good parent, and I know I’m going to have a wonderful ‘adult child’ one day!
Ok Dana…..If you read my post you would of seen where I said that a child needs a father UNLESS the father is a bad influenece. There is a big difference between not having a father in your life because he passed away and not having a father in your life because your mother wouldnt allow it or the father just wasnt interested. You didnt have to go through life wondering why your dad never was around because he didnt CHOOSE to not be in your life. HUGE DIFFERENCE. You are spewing out your opinion on something that has absolutly NOTHING to do with the topic at hand.
And again, you say your child is perfectly fine….shes 6 darling, you have no clue how it will effect her as she grows, she is only 6. If you honestly believe that not knowing or seeing her father is in no way going to weigh on her heart, even for a second, then you are very naive.
You keep mentioning that your mother never “replaced” your father…again these are your issues and have nothing to do with the topic. You chose to say that a father should be replaced, those words never came out of my mouth.
I could keep commenting on your responses about you not being scarred but again your father passed away he didnt leave you by choice so again your situation bears no relevance to the topic.
And the following I will put in caps because obviously you are more ignorant than I had thought. I NEVER SAID THAT NOT HAVING A FATHER IN YOUR LIFE WOULD MEAN YOUR LIFE WILL TURN OUT POORLY. I SAID THAT IT DOES EFFECT A PERSON IN SMALL WAYS AND BIG WAYS BUT IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM DOES IT MEAN THAT THEY WILL HAVE NO FUTURE OR LIFE BECAUSE DADDY WASNT THERE FOR THEM. Those are your words.
I have made myself perfectly clear in both of my posts yet you seem to feel the need to ramble on about things that were never said. I think you have deeper issues and I am sorry but I cant help you with them.
If you feel the need to comment me back, please show some intellegence and address what I say, not what you assume me to be saying. I made myself very clear my definition of the word scarred, I made it very clear that I do not believe that fatherless children will grow up and be miserable losers. Those were your words, your interpretation. This is my second attempt to try to get you to understand but I think it is pointless. Your anger and your responses tell me that you indeed have issues, what it stems from only you know because for you to take my last explanation and turn it into what you turned it into is kinda scarey. I will say a prayer for you. I hope you learn how to read and comprehend when someone is explaining something to you and not to be so much on the defense, especially when what your ranting about is something that you are making up in your own head.
seems all too possible to me that the dear departed daniel could be the father.
After all, he ‘died in [anna’s] arms’ as they slept in the same bed. Birkhead’s request for DNA won’t help if it’s true, bec the test would be expected to turn up dna from either stern or birkhead. If it turns out to be a third party, who’s going to be able to press for further testing of, say, Daniel’s father who, bless his heart, probably can’t even spell DNA.
And, kids, work out your daddy problems in the privacy of a chat room. do you really want the world reading your personal stuff?
Who cares, crazy? This is how the Internet works now. People talk about their personal stuff. We don’t know much about them and their e-mail addresses aren’t even published, so if they want to talk about it more power to them.
In regards to this discussion I think that people can get messed up by their families all sorts of ways. I mean look at Lohan. It doesn’t take an absent or abusive parent to screw up a child’s life, and there are all sorts of functional and dysfunctional families in all genders, numbers, and situtations.
That Oedipal theory is creepy and I am surprised that someone even came up with it. I hope you’re not serious.
I actually am hoping that Birkhead is the father. I hate that Stern dude. He has always been so pathetically in love with her, even when she was fat.
Anyway, I am sooo hoping that Birkhead is the dad, so I did some detective work. I found this “open letter from Anna” on her website dated June 4th:
“…I haven’t said who the father is yet. I will when I’m ready. But one of the guys who claims to be might be in for a big suprise. I know a lot more than I did when I used to talk to him. And won’t the media feel foolish?…”
Blah blah all this other stuff about how Stern is her best friend and people are wrong about him… I think that Stern wrote it. Anna has proved she is not so bright and most likely not capable of forming a complete sentence.
So I guess my point is that as far back as June, it seems Stern was trying to manipulate Anna into finally winning her over for good. Writing good things about himself as her on her site and such.
I’m with the ones who beleve that you DO NOT need a father in your life!! My friend had a father who beat him constantly, drank, was on heroin and died in the bed of a prostitute. His mother stayed married to him due to her Catholic upbringing. I grew up with a single mom. My dad left when I was 12 for a younger woman, and I had very little contact with him until I was about 20. During that time, I really believe it was for the best because he was a drug addict, and I used to be so angry with my mom for keeping him from seeing us. She was just protecting us. I just thank God she didn’t follow him down the drug path, because we would’ve ended up in foster homes or worse. Personally, I’d much rather have 1 amazing parent than 2 messed up parents. Lots of single parents now. Like it or not, it’s now the norm. Same with gay parents raising children. It’s not about being defensive saying you don’t need a father, because you don’t, it’s more about being more open to what a “Parent” really is. I was in some serious therapy over mine, but in the end I’m grateful I didn’t have to watch my Dad in his rock-bottom phase either, cause that would have been an even bigger tragedy.
Kellie, I agree with you that even though Howard seemed very tired or maybe sedated, he was extremely coherent and expressed himself very well.
As for the argument re: Do kids need a father? I would have to say, Yes, they do need a father, but it should be a good father. It’s probably better to have an absent father, though, rather than one who is abusive, drug addicted or alcoholic and taking no steps to get help.
Still, I can’t believe people are saying that a father isn’t needed. If you look at the majority of crimes committed in this country or if you look at teens who are having babies, strung out on drugs or horribly, hopelessly depressed, guess what the common denominator is in most of the above? Absence of committed fathers!
I still contend it is better to have a mediocre father than no father in a person’s life as that person is growing up. I personally hope Howard K. is the father because Larry B. strikes me as the real opportunist here and someone who is terribly obsessed with Anna N. but not for the right reasons! 35,000 photos of her on his cellphone? C’mon!
I am impressed with the theory that Daniel is the father.
I also thought that Celebitchy’s explanation as to why Stern could not be the father was more than conceivable.
By the way – It’s a huge turn off to listen to people argue. I came on here to read celebrity sleaze, not analyze modern family dynamics. On that note, kudos to “call me crazy†for saying take it to a “chat roomâ€.
Howard K Sternis not the father of the child, nor is he and Anna Nicole in any romantic relationship. They have been like brother and sister for years now. She never expressed an interest in him what so ever. This is all too perfectly timed. They should be embarrassed, and of course the truth will come out soon enough. The real father (who had a disagreement with Anna Nicole shortly before the child’s birth) will not let this go. Howard is the LAST person Anna Nicole would be interested in. They’re pals.
the only thing ANYONE “NEEDS” is PEACE! What we DON’T NEED is people pointing, blaming, judging, criticizing, knocking us down…just down right spreading poison. Does writing things about people we don’t even know make us feel better? I will admit, I am not too convinced that Howard K Stern was a positive force or had her best interests on his priority list, but really people, let it rest….let HER REST!
I DONT THINK HE IS THAT BABIES FATHER IT
REALLY LOOK AT THE BABY FACE IT LOOKS LIKE LARRY BIRKHEAD I THINK HOWARD K STERN REALLY KNOWS THE CHILD IS NOT HIS THAT WHY HE WONT TAKE THE TEST HE JUST WANTS ANNA’S MONEY SHE LEFT FOR HER DAUGHTER TAKE THE TEST AND PROVE ME WRONG
The judge goofed. Since Dannielynn is the heir, and he picked somebody to be the heir’s representative, the representative should have been his father … so, therefore, a paternity test should have been done, instead of appointing someone as her guardian “ad whatever”. Stern is a danger to society; he’s a crook, a manipulator, a sneek, etc. – a menace to anyone weak and down on one’s luck – like a drug addict that Anna Nicole (Vicky Lynn) was. He manipulated and used her, and she wasn’t in her right mind. Give Dannielynn’s DNA, asshole! You scum! Give it up! We all hate you!
No, I hated the Anna Nicole Smith show, but now I see what it was all about — the drugs, the manipulation, the exploitation … etc.! It’s sick!
Anyway, Larry’s probably the father, Stern’s an ass and knows he’s not the father and that’s why they moved to the Bahamas to have the baby … and it’s all Stern’s doing!
I’m a spiritual person so I hope he gets his karmically.
It is so obvious that Howard K. Stern is not the father! All of this would be over if he would just submit to a test. He is getting his lawyers involved and advoiding the test because he knows he is not the father of this blonde haired blue eyed baby. Everything that has happened seems to have been carefully choreographed by Howard’s greedy ass. It hasn’t been about the money for Larry, he wanted a test before Anna passed away.