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Legal
Bieber accuser stands by her story
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 21 December 2011
The lawyer now representing the woman who claims Justin Bieber fathered her baby during a brief backstage liaison in LA last year has said it is the pop star’s people who are delaying things, so that the paternity of the child is still to be confirmed.
As much previously reported, Mariah Yeater claims she had sex with Bieber at the Staples Center in LA last year, and that she became pregnant shortly afterwards. The singer denies any such liaison took place, adding that he has never met Yeater. She then filed a paternity lawsuit that aimed to force the teen popster to take a paternity test, but before that could reach court Bieber’s people said the star would voluntarily provide a DNA sample to prove Yeater was lying. It was also suggested that Bieber’s lawyers would then launch a defamation lawsuit.
Yeater then switched legal teams, her paternity lawsuit was dropped, and Bieber took the DNA test. And then things went quiet, amid rumours Yeater’s lawyers were disputing the credibility of any paternity test conducted without one of their representatives present. Various reports then circulated about Yeater’s private life, and an ex-boyfriend not only claimed he was the father of her child, but told reporters how a broke Yeater had made a plan to get thousands of dollars out of a tabloid magazine by making up the Bieber shag story.
There was a rumour Yeater would hand over her son for a DNA test earlier this month, but that didn’t come to pass. And now the Chicago Sun-Times has caught up with both Yeater and her lawyer Jeffery Leving, who are standing by their claims that the Bieber DNA test is not sufficient, and that he must submit another sample in the presence of one of their representatives.
Talks with the Bieber camp are ongoing they add, but little progress is being made and Yeater’s paternity lawsuit may as yet be reinstated.
Leving: “Although the legal proceedings have been dismissed, we have the ability and the legal right to re-file at any time. Bieber’s counsel has not provided me documentation supporting that the DNA test occurred. Bieber’s counsel hasn’t told me where Bieber’s alleged DNA is secured nor has provided information substantiating the chain of custody and protocol utilised in the claimed DNA collection and testing. If negotiations with Bieber’s counsel does not result in DNA testing of everyone under mutually agreeable and controlled conditions, then the legal proceedings will likely need to be re-filed”.
Meanwhile Yeater restated her claims that she believes Bieber to be the father of her son, adding “I had sex with him on 25 Oct 2010 in a bathroom at the Staples Center in LA”. Asked about the recent claims made by her incarcerated ex-boyfriend Robert Powell, she continued: “I know him. He is not the father and he’s locked up and out of the picture”.
So, this story is not dead quite yet. Leving also revealed to the Chicago newspaper that he is working on this case pro bono, adding that his daughter is a big Bieber fan “which is making my case not popular at home”.
