‘I told you so’: DNA shows Birkhead is Smith baby’s dad

Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, is the biological father of the late Playboy Playmate’s 7-month-old daughter, it was announced Tuesday.

The revealing of the DNA test results, carried out under the authority of courts in the Bahamas, is the latest step in the saga of Smith, the former model and cable television star who died Feb. 8 in a Florida hotel at 39.

Before she died, Smith had been fighting for a share of the estate of her husband, Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995. That case is pending in federal court in California. Smith’s estate could reach hundreds of millions of dollars, which would go to her daughter.

“I told you so,” Birkhead said after a hearing to determine who is the father of Dannielynn, born Sept. 7 in the Bahamas.

Howard K. Stern, Smith’s last companion and the person identified as the father on Dannielynn’s birth certificate, was gracious after the results were released.

“I’m not going to fight on custody,” Stern said during a nationally televised news conference. And he pledged to “do everything I can to make sure Larry gets sole custody.”