
A lawyer for Mariah Yeater denied TMZ’s claims that she had withdrawn her paternity suit against Justin Bieber last week, claiming negotiations to obtain a confidential DNA test were still taking place. The Daily Mail says:
Chicago based paternity lawyer Jeffrey Leving confirmed he is still very much on board [with Yeater] and negotiations with teen star Justin Bieber’s legal team are still active.
In a telephone interview with a Chicago news station today he confirmed: ‘I did not step down… it’s a new legal team. In light of death threats against my client, strategies have been reviewed.
Negotiations are going on right now with Bieber’s council and we’re trying to negotiate a private, secure DNA test with the same safe guards that would exist if there were a court order, but without a court order.
My goal is that when the DNA test is completed is to keep everything confidential.”
Which points to Yeater’s legal team pushing for a financial settlement regardless of paternity — basically paying her to go away. However, Yeater’s lawyers have not addressed how this is gonna work exactly now that she’s been busted asking friends to delete old text messages from her in which she indicates another man is actually the father of her bastard child. Awkward! TMZ says:
Justin Bieber’s alleged baby mama sent a text Wednesday to a friend, begging him to erase an incriminating text in which her mom says someone OTHER than Justin Bieber is the baby daddy, and then promising to give him a cut of the action when she scores a payday.
In the text, Yeater pleads “ERASE ALL MESSAGES from my mom.” The text goes on to say that her mom sent messages in the past stating that baby Tristyn was fathered by Robbie — an ex-boyfriend.
She then goes on to talk about giving [him] money if he cooperates: “Ill kick u when we get paid.”
In [another] text, Mariah writes, “Would you please stress to Robbie how important it is for him to be in his son’s life?” Apparently, Mariah forgot about this text, because she didn’t ask him to erase it.
Howard Weitzman, Justin Bieber’s lawyer said: “This information proves Mariah Yeater fabricated the story. Our independent investigation indicates Ms. Yeater never met Justin, she has consistently identified another man as the child’s father, and Ms. Yeater and her co-conspirators hatched this scheme in order to extort money from him and to sell her story to the media.”
Weitzman adds, “There have been no settlement discussions and there never will be.”
Once I was pretty sure I had “Bieber fever,” too, but it turned out it was just chlamydia. Fortunately, they make a pill for that nowadays.