By Sarah Smithon Wednesday, 11 Apr 2007 Photographer Larry Birkhead has been proved to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter.
Two other men including the former Playboy model's partner Howard Stern had also claimed paternity over seven-month-old Danielynn.
However, DNA tests proved that Mr Birkhead had fathered the baby with Ms Smith, who died earlier this year aged 39 after accidentally overdosing on sleeping pills.
Speaking to reporters, he said: "I hate to be the one to tell you this but - I told you.
"Nothing's really determined except parentage and I'm the father."
However, a custody battle is now set to ensue between her father and Ms Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur.
Ms Smith's family is also involved in a legal battle to secure the estate of the model's late husband, oil billionaire J Howard Marshall.
The couple married in 1994 when he was aged 89 and she was 26, although he died a year later.
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