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janelle · 06-21-2002, 02:28 AM

Hurley's Daddy Drama Resolved

Liz Hurley's baby has a daddy--officially.
Steven Bing, the sometime movie producer and real-estate heir who caddishly suggested he might not have been Hurley's up-close-and-personal sperm donor, confirmed Wednesday that he is indeed the father of her son, Damian Charles, born April 4.

"Recently conducted tests have shown that Steve Bing is the biological father of Elizabeth Hurley's son," a spokeswoman for the Big Apple millionaire said in a statement.

The DNA evidence was presented as attorneys for Bing and Hurley met in a London court to discuss the matter of baby Damian's paternity. Neither parent was present for the hearing. Hurley reportedly has been holed up at Elton John's England estate; Bing was said to be Stateside and not in a talking mood.

Previously, Bing, 37, blabbed that he and Hurley, who dated for 18 months from 2000-2001, were "not in an exclusive relationship." That came as news to his ex.

"I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me," Hurley, also 37, said in a statement during her tabloid-friendly pregnancy last December.

Three weeks after Damian's birth, Bing went to court to officially challenge the paternity claim. So clouded was the issue that by the time a birth certificate was filed in late April, the British magazine Hello claims that the line identifying Damian's father was left blank.

As late as this weekend, there were gossip reports out of New York that Hurley was backing down on pressing Bing on the daddy issue. But Hurley's rep insisted Damian's DNA was ready to go, and be tested.

At the time he brought the matter to court, Bing said he was prepared to live up to his obligations as a father--if he was proved to be the father.

"I will be an extremely involved and responsible parent," he has said.

As of mid-April, Bing and Hurley had not spoken to each other since the child's birth. Hurley's camp said he made no attempt to contact her; Bing's said he just couldn't contact her.

The son of a New York real-estate magnate, Bing's biggest Hollywood credit is as a producer on the 2000 Sylvester Stallone flick, Get Carter. He is currently embroiled in another paternity battle, this one involving billionaire MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian.

Kerkorian's ex, onetime tennis pro Lisa Bonder, had asked Kerkorian to pay $320,000 a month in child support for her four-year-old daughter. But Kerkorian refuses, claiming Bing fathered the child (Bonder has since admitted the child is not Kerkorian's but has yet to identify the biological father).

In May, Bing filed a $1 billion invasion-of-privacy suit against Kerkorian, claiming the mogul had his lackeys go through Bing's trash to find dental floss that they could use for a DNA test to establish Bing's purported paternity.

Hurley, probably most celebrated for being Hugh Grant's long-time love, will next be seen in the comedy Serving Sara with Matthew Perry, oft-rumored (erroneously, as it turned out) to be the father of Hurley's baby himself.

Okiechick · 06-21-2002, 02:31 AM

OH GEEZ!!!! ONLY $320,000 a month in child support? YIKES lol

flute · 06-21-2002, 02:36 AM

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Originally posted by Okiechick
OH GEEZ!!!! ONLY $320,000 a month in child support? YIKES lol

wtf? Can that even happen? WHO on EARTH would need THAT MUCH????????
rich sons of mPO*^)(^&)Y^_%^T_(^. Yup still in bad mood

janelle · 06-21-2002, 02:56 AM

Poor baby, it all becomes about money. What baby needs that to live on? and the courts don't care how the money is spent. Of course the mother will live in a mansion and use it on herself. they don't even have to save some of it for college or put it in a trust fund for the child when she is grown.

coupongal · 06-21-2002, 03:15 AM

Yeah...just by going on your Subject of beautiful women picking losers...Well, just look at Elizabeth Taylor...there's another one(and there are a LOT more like her!) I think just because they have money (and lots of it) doesn't help them always get past their demons and help them make good decisions when it comes to life partners! sad...sad...--Sad for them, SADDER for their kids...

janelle · 06-21-2002, 03:25 AM

But you have to admit Elizabeth Taylor never picked a guy who was caught with a prositute in a car nor had a baby with a guy who said he may not even be the father. Yuck, spit, spit. How bad can it get?

denisemm · 06-21-2002, 06:10 AM

OMG, $320,000 a month?! Sh!t! Just give me $320,000 one time, and I would be a happy woman, with a house & 2 new cars. That is just ridiculous! It makes me so angry that they make SO much money. More than anybody and their family need to live comfortable for the rest of their lives. And my husband works hard every day & we barely make enough to get by. Oh, I think I might just be sick over this! That the man makes enough money to pay $320,000 a month for 18 years and still live comfortably. And she does not even need it, she makes plenty herself. I could just scream! I don't mean they don't deserve to be paid well, but there should be some limit.

CARROLIN · 06-21-2002, 06:57 AM

I BELIEVE ALL THAT MONEY SHOULD BE PUT INTO

A TRUST FUND FOR THE CHILD.

EVEN WITH FOUR CHILDREN, AND MY HUSBAND GONE OVERSEAS (MILITARY)

WHILE THEY WERE GROWING...I STILL WORKED AND PAYED ALL THE BILLS.

I ONLY REQUESTED $800.00 A MONTH FROM HIM.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, WHEN LIL' RANDY TURNED 18 LAST MONTH,

HE WAS SHOCKED WHEN I HANDED OVER HIS BANK ACCOUNT...

I PUT $200 OF THE $800 INTO EACH OF THEIR ACCOUNTS EVERY

MONTH. (OVER 18 YR. SPAN)

ASKED LIL' RANDY WHAT HE WAS GONNA DO WITH IT???

WITH TEARS,

HE SAID HE WAS GONNA BUY ME A FUR COAT!!!

OF COURSE I DECLINED, AND HE WILL USE THAT MONEY FOR COLLEGE,

OR HIS FUTURE.

SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'M ONE OF THE LUCKIEST MOTHERS AROUND!

MY HUBBY IN THE BACKGROUND SAYING...TAKE IT!! TAKE IT!!!

LMBO.

SMILES.

janelle · 06-21-2002, 01:01 PM

CARROLIN--I think you did a beautiful thing. My hubby's ex spent all the child support money on paying lawyers to harras my hubby. You'd think when a woman runs to lawyers over every little complaint the judge would see a pattern and know she doesn't need an increase in support.

And the boys don't have any of the money when they reached 18. Oh they have mega clothes. You know, hand the kid a hundred dollars each time the support is increased as a token they are benefitting from it. And then add that new deck to your house that wasn't needed. It was added to her current husband's house so when she divorced him he was the one to benefit.

I'm sure Elizabeth Hurley's ex, Huge Grant, is breathing a sigh of releaf since she can't sue him over palamony since she has another man giving her so much money but then maybe she could. These things get so crazy and then they add a child? Scarey!!!