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Larry Birkhead, the photographer who has had sex with Anna Nicole Smith on multiple occasions and is seemingly OK with the world knowing this, has won a major legal victory: An LA Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of subjecting mama's little miracle, baby Dannielynn, to DNA testing in order to determine who is the child's natural father. From the AP report:

"Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled today that Anna Nicole Smith and 3-month-old baby daughter Dannielynn are ordered to submit to paternity testing," read the statement from Luck Media & Marketing Inc. [...]

Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, would not deny or confirm the ruling. [...]

"I believe there is not an issue about Anna's willingness or unwillingness to submit to testing," Rale said. "Any kind of allegation that she's blatantly refusing DNA tests is off the mark and not an accurate depiction of the legal process at this time."

It truly is a mystery where the common misconception originated that Anna Nicole hasn't been compliant with Birkhead's wishes—perhaps the ugly rumor snowballed from that afternoon she stood on her (now repossessed) Bahamian mansion balcony and screamed at another suitor, "You ain't never gonna see the baby again! You did a declaration for that fuckhead Larry Birkhead!" With Smith on American soil now for the first time since the entire birth/death/eviction cycle started (she attended a Dec. 15 hearing in San Francisco over her rightful share of the billions she earned sitting in J. Howard Marshall's lap until his 90-year-old heart could take it no longer), we imagine a quick hop down to L.A. for a blood test shouldn't be too much of a hassle, and will finally settle Birkhead's—and the world's—nagging doubts that despite the fact that all of Dannielynn's baby clothes have the words "Genetic Property of Howard K. Stern, World's #1 Daddy!" stenciled on them, the fair-haired infant is probably the fruit of the blond photographer's loins.