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First picture of Anna Nicole's baby with her real dad

(Daily Mail)
2007-04-18 20:03

After a bitter paternity battle, Larry Birkhead has finally been given custody of his daughter to Anna Nicole Smith.

After a long wait, the proud father posed happily with his 7-month-old baby Dannielynn, telling the U.S. edition of OK!: "Anna Nicole would be so happy for us".

Larry is enjoying his new role as a doting dad

"I'm looking forward to giving Dannielynn everything that she needs and all the love and support," he has said.

DNA tests revealed Birkhead was the biological dad in early April.

Smith's companion, Howard K Stern, among others, claimed to be the father.

"I hate to be the one who told you this, but: I told you so," Birkhead said at the time.

Smith, a former Playboy pin-up, died in February from an accidental drug overdose while she was in the thick of a legal battle over the estate of her late husband J. Howard Marshall II, a Texan oil baron who died in 1995.

It has left the future uncertain for baby Dannielynn - it is unclear if she will inherit millions from the estate.