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  • An Atlanta woman has withdrawn a lawsuit saying basketball Hall of Famer and Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is the father of her teenage son. But Jordan isn't the only celeb who has had to face a paternity lawsuit or allegations. Click on to find out who else has had to deal with baby daddy drama.
  • Teens (and tweens) everywhere were shocked when Mariah Yeater claimed pop star Justin Bieber fathered her infant son – when she was 19 and he was just 16. A paternity suit was filed, but Yeater withdrew the claim as her story started to collapse and Bieber took a paternity test.
  • Back in 2011, several gossip magazines reported that Laura Bellizzi was pregnant with Mel Gibson's child. Bellizzi told TMZ that the reports were
  • A DNA test in 2009 proved that British actor Jude Law is the baby daddy of model Samantha Burke's daughter, Sophia.
  • A blood test proved that Eddie Murphy is the baby daddy of Mel B's daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown.
  • Ah, the Governator. According to AP reports, Schwarzenegger managed to keep an big secret from the public and his wife, former TV journalist Maria Shriver: He fathered a child with a woman on his household staff.
  • In 2002, movie producer Steve Bing agreed to pay child support for the son he fathered with actress Elizabeth Hurley. Bing's statement said he was making the ''generous provision'' – a total of 1.8 million British pounds – to support Damian Charles Hurley until the child turned 18.
  • In 2004, a paternity test revealed that Gavin Rossdale of Bush is the biological father of his goddaughter, Daisy Lowe.
  • A 1999 paternity lawsuit showed that rocker Mick Jagger is the father of model Luciana Morad's son.
  • Porn star Devon James claimed that Tiger Woods was the father of her son, but DNA tests proved otherwise.
  • It didn't become public knowledge that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler was Liv Tyler's father until 1991.
  • Autumn Jackson (left) was released from prison in June 1999 after a court overturned her conviction in the attempted extortion of $40 million from entertainer Bill Cosby. She had threatened to tell tabloids that she was his illegitimate daughter. Jackson was driven away from a minimum-security women's prison by her mother, Shawn Upshaw, who had an affair with the comedian in the 1970s. A DNA test showed that Cosby was not her father.
  • John Edwards fathered a baby by mistress Rielle Hunter while he was running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. His once-trusted aide Andrew Young initially pretended to be her lover and the father of the baby.
  • A West German woman claimed that former Beatle Paul McCartney faked a paternity test in the '60s and was the father of her child. The allegations were later dropped. ''I knew it all along because she had said we knew each other intimately for two years, but I couldn't remember her first name. My memory's not that bad,' McCartney was quoted as saying in an interview in Britain's TV Times weekly magazine.
  • A 2007 DNA test proved that Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's million-dollar baby, Dannielynn. After the results of the test were announced, Birkhead, a California photographer, hugged his rival, Howard K. Stern (pictured), who had been caring for the baby since Smith died.
 
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