LOS ANGELES: Formonths, Larry Birkhead was the mysterious other man, the little known LosAngeles photographer who emerged to tell anyone who would listen that he wasreally the father of Anna Nicole Smith'sbaby.

By Tuesday, when hefinally proved his claim through a DNA paternity test, it quickly became evidentthat little was known about the 34-year-old Kentucky native with the surfer-dudegood looks.

He has a websitethat says nothing about his personal life and his profile on the networking site MySpace.com is private. Public records show he was born in Kentucky in January 1973. He isreported to have a twin brother, but a publicist for his former attorney, DebraOpri, declined to confirm that on Tuesday or say how many brothers and sistersBirkhead has. Publicist James Levesque did say Birkhead has no other children.

Although fatherhood will be anew role for Birkhead, he has said it is one he is prepared for. "Mostdefinitely. I'm capable of it. I have nieces and nephews," he told CNN's Larry King in January, adding his siblings have named him as the guardian whowould care for their children if anything happened tothem.

Birkhead has said he metSmith, a former Playboy Playmate ofthe Year , at a Kentucky Derby party in2003 but that they didn't start dating until he saw her at the same event thefollowing year. She had lost weight, was much friendlier than she had been theyear before and invited him to accompany her to other events to take photos "andone thing led to another," he told Fox's Greta Van Susteren inJanuary.

He said he and Smithremained together until May 2006 when she was five months pregnant withDannielynn. Howard K Stern, Smith's former attorney and companion at the time ofher death in February, is listed on Dannielynn's birth certificate as herfather.

Birkhead has saidStern was jealous of his relationship with Smith and deliberately broke them up.Smith, 39, was found unresponsive on February 8 in a Hollywood, Florida hotelroom, and was pronounced dead shortly afterward.

For months, Birkhead hasappeared before the TV cameras as the friendly, often exuberant figure in thepaternity case, reiterating again and again that he would eventually prevail inhis efforts to prove he was Dannielynn'sfather.

Before his Myspace profile was set to private he would sometimes post a smiley face next tomessages on his blog that said he was remaining upbeat.

On Tuesday in the Bahamas, heappeared nervous in front of the cameras, but not so much that he couldn'tresort to another moment of playfulness.

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