USA: Husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor latest to claim he is father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter

Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband filed court papers in Santa Monica on on Thursday(February 15), seeking to establish paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter. Frederic von Anhalt said he had sexual relations with the former Playmate in January 2006, when her baby was likely conceived, and that he would take responsibility for the 5-month-old girl if testing shows that he is the father. "The child will be in good hands. Believe me. It will be in very very good hands. Very good hands. Anna Nicole Smith will be very happy if the child goes in our direction," Von Anhalt told a group of reporters outside a Santa Monica courthouse. In his petition, von Anhalt is asking the court for legal and physical custody of the baby. He also said he will likely consolidate his case with that of Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, Smith's former boyfriend, who has gone to court to force DNA testing to determine if he is the father. Smith's attorney and longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, also claims he is the child's father, and his name is on the birth certificate issued in the Bahamas, where Dannielynn Hope was born on Sept. 7. Von Anhalt conceded Gabor was "mad" to learn about what he said was his longtime affair with Smith, who was 39 when she collapsed and died in Florida on Feb. 8. But said he and his wife will care for the child if he is found to be the father. And despite filing to establish paternity, von Anhalt stressed he is not certain he fathered the child. "I am not sure. It could be me, it could be another three, could be another 10 (men)," he said. "When I have an affair with somebody, I don't ask 'what did you do yesterday?''" The German-born von Anhalt, who uses the title of "prince," claims he had a decade-long affair with Smith, whom he met in New York. He said they did not become intimate until after the 1995 death of her husband, billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married the year before, when he was 89. The last time von Anhalt and Smith were intimate was January 2006, he says. He spoke with her seven weeks before her death, but the two never discussed Dannielynn, von Anhalt said. "There was no need to talk about it," he said. "It was an affair. We didn't talk about it." Von Anhalt said he did not love Smith, and does not particularly miss her. "What is love? You always talk about love. Love has to grow," he said. "I don't miss very much (that) she's gone. That's all, she's not here any more ... she was a childish woman and men loved her."

ITN Source | February 22, 2007

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