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As reported by People Magazine:

Paternity test winner Larry Birkhead (35) is moving out of Los Angeles. The father of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s 21-month-old daughter Dannielynn has bought a 10,000 square foot six-bedroom home in Louisville, Kentucky, his former hometown.

Larry Birkhead, who was confirmed by a DNA Paternity test to be the father of baby Dannielynn after a heated paternity debate between him and Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer and companion Howard Stern, spoke to People Magazine about the purchase of the house, telling the magazine that the house is still very much a work in progress, a fact that doesn’t deter him at all.

According to Larry Birkhead, the house, which has never been fully restored has 40-foot ceilings and is
modeled after a Sicilian church. Larry told People that the house, “Looks like a haunted house.” We’re
sure that haunted house feeling is just what Dannielynn needs to feel cozy in her new digs!
Larry Birkhead continued, “When I walked in, I said to myself, ‘This is our home.’”

Larry is hoping that the new house is a fresh start for himself and his young daughter, as the old house
in Los Angeles is filled with memories of Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel, both whose lives were
cut tragically short in drug related deaths.

Said Birkhead of the LA home, “At first, I couldn’t imagine parting with it. Then I realized I was
probably holding on to it for the wrong reasons, thinking to myself that would ease the pain of losing
Anna and Daniel. I have always thought that it would be great for Dannielynn to grow up in her
mother’s home; however, there is no yard as it is over a canyon.”

Birkhead concluded, “There also isn’t any little friends for her to run around with – which makes the
idea of Kentucky even more inviting.” We like the idea of Dannielynn having plenty of little friends to
run around with. Hopefully she will enjoy her new home and stay very far away from the sorts of drama
that surrounded the beginning of her life.

As reported by The Associated Press

Although the results of the court-ordered test have not been released, an attorney for the 6-year-old son of a woman who claimed to be James Brown’s wife when he died, says an independent DNA test confirms the soul singer fathered the child.

Peter Shahid, an attorney for James Brown II’s guardian, told the Associated Press on Friday that the boy was tested in April before a South Carolina judge ordered a paternity test.

Brown II is the son of Tomi Rae Hynie, a former backup singer for the Godfather of Soul.

Trustees handling Brown’s estate have suggested Hynie was not legally married to Brown and her boy is not his son. They were not mentioned in Brown’s will.

A call to a spokesman for Hynie and a message left for Brown’s trustees were not immediately returned.

The story was first reported by Art Harris, whose blog “The Bald Truth” is at http://www.artharris.com.

Brown died in Atlanta on Christmas Day 2006.

As Published in the Salt Lake Tribune by Christopher Smart

EL DORADO, Texas — A 32-year-old Nevada man arrived at the courthouse here today to provide a DNA sample to Texas authorities determining paternity of children seized from the FLDS polygamous sect earlier this month.
David J. Williams said he is a former member of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints and has three sons currently held in state custody in San Angelo. The boys — Parley, 9; Jacob, 7; and Teral, 5 — were among the 437 children rounded up when Texas law officers raided the sect’s YFZ Ranch.
Williams, who left the FLDS three and a half years ago for reasons he would not discuss, called the raid — triggered by claims of sexual abuse and under-age marriages on West Texas compound — “an injustice” perpetrated by “unhonorable bastards.”
Asked why he had driven 1,200 miles from his Nevada home — he would not provide a specific town — Williams countered: “What honorable father and parent would not give his all to protect the innocence of their children and family.”
He insisted there is no abuse of children on the ranch. “These children are very much loved and cared for,” Williams said, adding that he thought much of the reason for the raid was bias against the beliefs of the sect.
He brought with him a photo album of his children and wife, but he was noncommittal when asked if he intended to see custody
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of his boys.
“I call upon America to aid me in this effort for justice,” Williams said.
Texas authorities this week have launched an effort to conduct DNA screenings of children, mothers and fathers to determine family ties. Parents who do not provide DNA samples risk being held in contempt of court, authorities say.
The samples will be processed by the Laboratory Corp. of America at a cost to the state of Texas of more than $50,000. It is estimated results will not be available for at least 30 says.
— Tribune reporter Brooke Adams contributed to this story

As reported by NBC, Augusta;

By Danielle Johnson djohnson@nbcaugusta.com

Story Published: Mar 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM EDT

Story Updated: Mar 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM EDT

She wasn’t in court Friday, but the woman who claims to be James Brown’s widow wants a judge to order paternity tests for the six children the Godfather of Soul named in his will as heirs if here son has to be tested.

An affidavit signed by Tomi Rae Brown singled out three of Brown’s adult children Darryl, Yamma and Larry Brown.

Louis Levenson, who represents five of the six names heirs and their children, is objecting to the DNA testing. He calls it an unnecessary and costly expense.

There was also some revealing testimony concerning Brown’s former trustees.

For the first time it came out that former trustee Buddy Dallas hired another trustee to replace David Cannon after Cannon stepped down in August. It was also revealed that Dallas moved Brown’s trust from South Carolina to Georgia without letting anyone know.

But when Judge Jack Early asked why he failed to tell the court, Dallas said he was scared the judge would be angry with him and turning over 24 years of documents has been hell on earth. But Judge Early was furious, saying with all due respect it’s hell you’ve created.

Former Trustee David Cannon is looking to hire new attorneys. Both his lawyers asked the judge to remove them from the case. The judge granted their request.

According to KoloTV; A Reno, NV middle school counselor has been fired, for fathering the child of one of his students.

Daniel Bryant, an O’Brien Middle School counselor was fired Monday for getting one of his former students pregnant. The Washoe County School District delivered 38-year-old Daniel Bryant a formal letter of termination, demanding that he never work in our public school system again.

19-year-old Cassi Chambers now attends Hug High School while she takes care of her five-month-old baby, Paige.

When she met Dan Bryant, she was just 16. Cassi was at attending Vaughn Middle School at that time, and Bryant was supposed to be her guidance counselor.

Cassi gave birth to her daughter, Paige late last year. A paternity test has proven that her former middle school counselor, Dan Bryant is the father.

According to Cassi, the relationship with Bryant began three years ago. She says, after being sexually assaulted by a family member for over a year, she turned to Bryant for help, saying she had no one else. Several months later, they began a sexual relationship.

“He knew everything that happened to me. He knew the grisly details of what this man had done to me. It was brutal. He knew that and used it to take advantage of me. The first chance he got, he took it,” said Cassi.

Bryant took legal guardianship of Cassi after hearing about her difficult life at home. She says he gave her alcohol, consoled her, and told her he loved her.

“He’s kind of like the snake that got Eve to eat the apple. He is conniving and manipulative and he’ll say anything or do anything to make you think he cares about you,” said Cassi.

Bryant later transferred to O’Brien Middle School, where he had one-on-one contact with students weekly. The Washoe County School District got wind of the affair and the pregnant student in late November.

Superintendent Paul Dugan says he placed Bryant on administrative leave while an investigation took place. Once the paternity test was conclusive, Dugan says he made the decision to fire Bryant for good.

“We ask parents to put their children under our responsibility. 99 % of the time, we do a great job. This individual made a major mistake, one that is inexcusable and indefensible,” said Dugan

Dugan says the decision was easy, and Bryant has possibly tainted the role of a middle school school counselor.

“I feel angry this individual ever worked with Washoe County School District for even one day,” he added.

Cassi plans to graduate this year. She says her daughter, Paige won’t have contact with her father, but she is hoping for child support. She says the district’s decision to fire Bryant was the right one.

“I’m afraid that if he continues to have contact with students in the school district, he’s going to find another vulnerable girl like me and that he’s going to get one of them too,” she said.

Dugan says if he has anything to do with it, Bryant will never work in the Washoe County School District again. The district is also asking the state to pull Bryant’s Nevada teaching license, meaning he can’t get a job in any of our state schools.

Bryant can appeal either of these decisions with an outside arbitrator, but Dugan says the chances of overturning the termination is unlikely.

The school police forwarded the case onto the Washoe County District Attorney. Once reviewed, the DA will have to decide whether or not to press charges.

We placed three calls to Mr. Bryant, but he has not returned our messages, thus far.

As Reported in Chicago Business News Feb 1, 2008:

(Crain’s) — Michael Jordan is suing a Pennsylvania woman who says she was his mistress, asking a court to stop the woman from what he alleges is harassment.

In a complaint filed Wednesday in Pennsylvania’s Crawford County civil court, Mr. Jordan says that in June 2004, Lisa Miceli filed a complaint against Mr. Jordan to establish his paternity to her son, Dante Michael Miceli, and to require the basketball star to provide child support.

“Knowing that there was no basis whatsoever for Miceli’s allegation of paternity, Jordan immediately agreed to genetic testing,” the complaint says.

Tests proved Mr. Jordan is not the father, but Ms. Miceli pursued another genetic test, according to the lawsuit. She and Mr. Jordan then came to an agreement that if the new test confirmed he was not the father, she would drop the case and end any contact with him, the complaint says.

The second test also proved Mr. Jordan did not father the child. The case was withdrawn in July 2005, but court papers say Ms. Miceli violated the agreement by sending nearly 400 e-mails and notes to Mr. Jordan and his representatives, he alleges.

The content of her e-mails, notes and telephone calls “clearly demonstrates that she is seriously disturbed,” says the complaint.

Ms. Miceli publishes a blog in which she writes about what she says was her relationship with Mr. Jordan, detailing phone conversations and lashing out at his representatives.

Neither Mr. Jordan’s attorneys nor Ms. Miceli returned calls.

This isn’t the first time Mr. Jordan has been in court dealing with paternity issues.

An Indianapolis woman in 2003 alleged that Mr. Jordan made financial promises to her when she was pregnant with a child she alleged was his. Paternity tests showed he wasn’t the father.

In December, the Appellate Court of Illinois supported a lower court’s decision that the woman had no grounds to sue Mr. Jordan for money.

As reported by SFGate:Daily Dish from the World Entertainment News Network:

Tom Cruise is furious that a new unauthorized biography of him suggests his daughter Suri was fathered by late Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Andrew Morton’s book “Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography” makes a number of controversial claims about the actor’s personal life and his relationship with the Church of Scientology.

He alleges Scientology bosses urged him to end his marriage to Nicole Kidman, and one chapter includes the passage, “Some sect members believed that Katie Holmes was carrying the baby who would be the vessel for L. Ron Hubbard’s spirit when he returned around the galaxy.”

Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields says, “He’s very angry. It’s so bizarre and grotesque to imply that Suri is fathered by the frozen sperm of L. Ron Hubbard. You just look at Suri, and you see Tom and Katie.”

As reported in the Associated Press, Penielle “Penie” White has been added to the list of women who say the leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch sexually abused them or coerced them to have sex.

Archbishop Earl Paulk, 80, co-founder of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church, is alleged to have touched Ms White inappropriately when she was about 8 years old. She said she made the allegations in a sworn deposition a few months ago as part of a lawsuit against Paulk, who is accused by a former church member of coercing her into a sexual relationship.

Paulk has been hit by multiple lawsuits, but does not face criminal charges.

“He started out playful, tickling and sort of fondling,” White said in a phone interview. “But as a child, you don’t know that’s what he’s doing.”

White said she also was present when her grandfather fondled Jessica Battle, another young member of the church, who later sued Paulk in 2001 for molestation and rape. That case was settled out of court two years later.

Matt Wilkins, one of Paulk’s attorneys, denied White’s allegations.

“They surprised him,” Wilkins said of the on-air interviews given by White and her mother - Paulk’s daughter, Beth Bonner. “He spent Thanksgiving at Beth Bonner’s house, and Penie was there. They had a loving family Thanksgiving.”

Bonner, however, said the family had a meal together on the Saturday following Thanksgiving so that they could be with Paulk’s wife, Norma, who refuses to go anywhere without her husband.

“They make it like we were all in family unity, and we weren’t,” said Bonner, who left her father’s church in 1992.

White’s assertion marks only one in a long string of sexual allegations to plague the Paulks. At least three women have sued Earl Paulk and his brother, Don Paulk, over alleged sexual misconduct.

In October, the results of a court-ordered DNA paternity test revealed that Paulk is the biological father of his brother’s son, D.E. Paulk, who is now head pastor at the family’s church. A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.

As part of Brewer’s lawsuit, eight women have given sworn depositions that they were coerced into sexual relationships with Earl Paulk.

So far no criminal charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. GBI spokesman John Bankhead referred questions to Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head, who did not return a call for comment on Monday, December 17.

The church began in 1960 with just a few dozen members. At its peak in the early 1990s, it claimed about 10,000 members and 24 pastors and was a media powerhouse. By soliciting tithes of 10 percent from each member’s income, the church was able to build a Bible college, two schools, a worldwide TV ministry and a $12 million sanctuary the size of a fortress.

Today, though, membership is down to about 1,500 - a downturn blamed largely on complaints about the alleged sexual scandals.

As reported by the Associated Press, a clinic in southwestern Germany said it has found the real parents of two infant girls who were mixed up and sent home with the wrong couples.

The St. Elisabeth clinic in Saarlouis, Germany plans to have the two babies returned to their biological parents within days.

The girls probably were mixed up this summer, while they were being bathed, and remained with the wrong parents for about half a year, the clinic said.

The mix-up came to light when one of the fathers took a DNA paternity test. His wife did the same, and both tests determined they were not the real parents of one of the girls.

A local councilwoman, Monika Bachmann, said psychologists would be offered to help the families deal with the clinic’s mistake.