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As I mentioned earlier, Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer BFF Howard K. Stern dropped the bomb/nonbomb that he is the father of Anna Nicole's baby girl. During a Larry King exclusive last night, the exhausted and pale looking Howard – who has been helping Anna Nicole cope with the death of her son, Daniel – announced that he is the "proud father" of Dannie Lynn Hope. This is a shocking twist because photographer Larry Birkhead told Entertainment Tonight just last week that he is Anna Nicole's baby daddy. Some women can't get one guy to claim responsibility for fathering their kid. Anna Nicole's got two guys fighting about it! Howard also revealed… Daniel will be buried in California in the near future. The arrangements won't be made public. About a month prior to his death, Daniel was hospitalized for a week to treat his depression and back pain. He was depressed over a breakup. They are still waiting for the cause of death. "We also now have an indication that there may have been other prescriptive medication in his system," Howard revealed. Anna Nicole's been doing as well as can be expected and he asked people to pray for her. "It's been very rough," he said. "She said that she didn't want to trade out children, meaning she didn't want one to be born and another to die." As far as their relationship, he said: "We love each other and it's been going on for a very long time and because of my relationship as her lawyer, we felt it was best to keep everything hidden. And we've done a pretty good job of that." He said that of course he would take a paternity test if it came down to it, but he's not going to do Larry Birkhead any favors – so expect it to be court mandated. Anna Nicole and Howard will get hitched at some point. "We will. Right now we have to somehow get through what we're going through." Do you think Howard is really the baby's dad? Or is he just claiming he is because Anna Nicole's relationship with Larry Birkhead is such a disaster? Talk back about this real-life soap opera.