Famous Baby Daddies With Paternity Scandals [Photos]

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Two celebrities procreating should be a joyous occasion. At worst, it means some baby pictures to sell to a tabloid magazine. At best, the A-list progeny can carry on the family name, inherit some serious cash and be no worse than a D-list reality star.

But all of that goes out the window can potentially go out the window of the paternity of the child is in question. Few things are as ratchet as a real life episode of Maury playing out for all to see, but it happens. Check out documented cases of famous baby daddies with paternity scandals.

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Eddie Murphy has a lot of famous quotes, but the one that probably sticks out in former Spice Girl Melanie Brown’s mind is when he told Dutch TV show RTL Boulevard, “I don’t know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test.” A 2007 blood test confirmed Murphy was the biological father of Angel Iris Murphy Brown.

The October 21 post from Omarion’s Instagram account says it all. “I told Megaa…Son, they think someone else is your dad. He said {LOL} Maury said YOU ARE THE FATHER,” the former B2K singer wrote.

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Model and actress Samantha Burke willingly took a DNA test to prove actor Jude Law was the father of their daughter Sophia, who was born in 2009..

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In 2011, after decades of marriage to Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed to the press via a written statement that he’d fathered a child with household staff member Mildred Patricia Baena over a decade ago.

50 Cent’s Instagram profile looked different this summer as he posed with what is believed to be his youngest son, Sire Jackson. While 50 Cent is not listed on the birth certificate as of a July 2014 story by TMZ, the L.A. City Attorney’s Office stated 50 and model Daphne Joy had a “child in common” during a 2013 domestic violence hearing.

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After reportedly spending years under the assumption Gavin Rossdale was her godfather, model Daisy Lowe learned she was the lovechild of Rossdale and Pearl Lowe in 2003.

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Actress and singer Marsha Hunt agreed to a DNA test that proved Rolling Stone Mick Jagger was the biological father of her daughter Karis after filing two separate paternity suits against Jagger.

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TMZ broke the story of Flo Rida potentially fathering a child Natasha Georgette Williams in September of 2014. According to TMZ, legal documents stated there was a 99.9% chance Flo Rida was the father of Georgette’s child.

While his longtime girlfriend Kim Porter was pregnant with twins, Sean Combs’ sidepiece Sarah Chapman was also pregnant with a daughter. In 2007, Combs told the New York Post he was awaiting a DNA test to prove he was the father before taking further action.

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After slapping Busta Rhymes with a paternity suit in 1999, Jill Miskelly and her legal team were able to provide documentation that there was a 99.9964 percent chance the rapper was the biological father of her daughter Mariah Elizabeth Miskelly.

Anyone who regularly watched season four of Love & Hip Hop: New York probably saw rapper Saigon subject Erica Jean to a paternity test and check the results of said test on air during his birthday.

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Beyonce’s father, Mathew Knowles went through a messy public split with his ex-wife Tina after being hit with a paternity suit by Alexsandra Wright in 2009. Knowles acknowledged fathering a child with Wright and paid child support.

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According to Diana Ross, her daughter Rhonda Ross Kendrick reportedly didn’t know Motown founder Berry Gordy was her biological father until the age of 13.

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DMX once claimed Monique Wayne raped him. Ultimately, Wayne won a 2008 paternity suit and child support in addition to $518,400 for compensatory damages and $1 million for punitive damages after suing the multiplatinum rapper for defamation of character.

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Real estate heir and Hollywood producer Steve Bing found himself on the wrong end of paternity suits with actress Elizabeth Hurley and former pro tennis player Bonder. Paternity tests proved Bing was the biological father in both cases.

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In December of 2013, rapper and actor Ludacris legally acknowledged paternity of a baby girl named Cai Bella Bridges, whom he fathered with Tamika Fuller.

Roughly six weeks before proposing to longtime girlfriend Gabrielle Union, Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade became father to Xavier Zechariah Wade.