Name	Larry Birkhead
Height	5' 9"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	22 January 1973
Place of Birth	Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Famous for

This well-presented young man led a reasonably obscure lifestyle, until he was recently reluctantly catapulted into the media spotlight following the sudden death of his former girlfriend Anna Nicole Smith in February of 2007.

Larry Birkhead was born on January 22, 1973, in Louisville, Kentucky as a twin to another male child, Louis. As well as a twin brother Larry also has two sisters. Larry graduated from Doss High School in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1991. Prior to that, he attended Iroquois Middle school in Louisville.

Although Larry is a photojournalist and associates with celebrities, he became a more recognized name after he became involved with model and actress Anna Nicole Smith, who was famous for her appearances in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine and for her marriage to J Howard Marshall, the oil tycoon.

Anna and Larry initially met in May 2004 at the Barnstable Brown Gala, one of the major Louisville-area Kentucky Derby parties which are known to attract numerous celebrities.

On June 1, 2006, Anna Nicole Smith announced that she was five months pregnant and it was rumored that the father was Larry Birkhead. Smith gave birth to a baby girl, named Dannielynn Hope, on September 7, 2006, in a hospital in the Bahamas. Only three days later, Smith's twenty-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly while visiting his mother at the hospital.

Although Larry maintained that he was the father of Dannielynn Hope, Anna Nicole claimed that her lawyer and partner, Howard K Stern, was the biological father. Anna actually had Howard K Stern listed as the father on the baby’s birth certificate.

Anna Nicole Smith died on February 8, 2007, and Birkhead filed an emergency order to get custody of the child. Birkhead’s attorney Debra Opri said he has the support of Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, in his claim that he is the biological father of Smith's five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. Larry Birkhead appeared before Judge Larry Seidlin to give testimony in the case of the remains of Anna Nicole Smith, and was compelled to provide information about himself, including his income.

He revealed that a year before the conception of Dannielynn, Smith had been pregnant with his baby and miscarried during the first few weeks of pregnancy. It was hoped that a court battle over the parentage of the baby, Dannielynn, will eventually reveal the true biological father of the child.

During the litigation period Birkhead terminated his relationship with his attorney Debra Opri and was consequently hit with a massive charge for her services to date. Through it all, the one thing that remained constant is that Vergie Arthur, Anna Nicole’s estranged mother, is the blood related grandmother of the child.

In 2006 Larry appeared on an episode of Entourage, with a cameo in the episode titled "Three’s Company,"

Finally on April 10, 2007, a court in the Bahamas ruled that Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, Dannielyn. After the ruling Larry appeared in front of the cameras and microphones, waving the court papers, to a huge cheer from a large group of supporters who had been waiting to hear, and share his good news.

In Dannielyn's first television appearance, June 12, 2007, she and her daddy appeared together on the Larry King Show when Birkhead was asked several unanswered questions relating to his, Stern's, and Vergie's relationships with Anna Nicole