Larry Birkhead father of Anna Nicole Smith's child

Ending months of feverish speculations and paternity battle over the child who could inherit a fortune, a Bahamas court ruled that Larry Birkhead, the former boyfriend of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, was the father of her baby daughter.

Larry Birkhead, 34, emerged triumphantly onto the steps of a Bahamas courthouse to declare that paternity tests had revealed he was '99.9999' per cent certain to be the biological father of seven-month old Dannielynn.

"I hate to be the one who told you this - but I told you so!" Birkhead told media and cheering onlookers. "My baby's going to be coming home."