Larry Birkhead holds up his hands as a sign of victory after a DNA test found that he is the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn in Nassau, Bahamas April 10, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

    BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Entertainment photographer Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter, Dannielynn, a Bahamas court ruled after releasing DNA test results Tuesday.

    "I hate to be the one who told you this -- but I told you so!" Birkhead told media and onlookers triumphantly as he smiled and threw his hands into the air. "My baby's going to be coming home."

    When asked what's next, he said, "I'm going to the toy store."

    Michael Baird, the doctor who performed the DNA test, said the results had shown Birkhead was "99.9999 percent" likely to be the father.

    The ruling wiped out rival paternity claims by Smith's long-time companion, Howard Stern, and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Frederic van Anhalt who had filed a separate lawsuit claiming he had fathered Dannielynn.

    Dannielynn could one day be worth a fortune if Smith's estate wins a decade-long battle to inherit from former oil tycoon husband J. Howard Marshall. Stern hugged Birkhead and said he was not going to fight him for custody.

    "I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure that he gets sole custody," Stern said.

    Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, who fought to have Smith buried in her native Texas, said she was relieved that her granddaughter "will now know who her father is."
Birkhead launched his paternity suit almost as soon as Dannielynn was born in the Bahamas last September.

    Three days after the baby sister was born, Smith's son Daniel, 20, died from a lethal cocktail of prescription medications and methadone. Smith died of an similar accidental drug overdose Feb. 8, 2007.

    (Agencies)

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