Anna Nicole Smith?s longtime companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, has challenged the tragic model's ex-boyfriend over claims he's her daughter's biological father, insisting his dates don't add up. Filing an appeal in the Bahamas-based DNA battle for paternity of baby Dannielynn, Stern claims his love rival, Larry Birkhead, can't be the father. In his affidavit, the lawyer reveals Birkhead and Smith's romance ended "well before the preceding 280th day (pregnancy period) from the birth of Dannielynn Howard Marshall Stern." Stern, who is named as the baby's father on her birth certificate, also insists that, despite claims to the contrary, his late girlfriend never "resided" with Birkhead at his California home. Stern's appeal will be presented in court on Monday. http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/31/anna_nicole_smith_s_companion_still_insi Then if he is so positive about this, why is he fighting the DNA test? ************************************ eeggaaadss! Kitt, I was listening to MSNBC this morning and they had Krista Bartha, Howard's attorney was on. can this attorney answer a question when she is asked why Howard refuses to take the DNA? nope, she goes tangent about the subject. when asked who is taking care of the baby right now she stated Howard's sister and his parent's plus Mrs. Gibson and another nanny who had been with Anna before she died. poor child!