Daddy Dearest: Paternity Scandals in Music
Managers and artists caught up in baby daddy drama.
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Daddy Dearest: Paternity Scandals in Music - Flo Rida just got hit with a special kind of child support lawsuit. Video model Natasha Georgette Williams is claiming that Flo is the father of her soon-to-be-born child, and because of his financial standing, she's in need of a bountiful check that covers her medical insurance, prenatal care, daycare — once the baby is born, of course — and other things that little humans of "good fortune" require.Such things happen, especially in the world of mo' money, mo' problems. Read on to see other prominent artists and managers who've been pointed out in paternity scandals.(Photo by Brad Barket/PictureGroup). (Photo: John Ricard/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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Chief Keef - Barely not a baby himself, Sosa was ordered this year to pay out more than $45,000 in back child support to two different mothers, who took him to court on separate occasions, each seeking those past-due payments plus a monthly deposit.(Photo: 247PapsTV / Splash News)
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Juvenile - A warrant for Juvenile's arrest was issued in 2011, claiming the rapper owed $160,000 in unpaid child support to Dionne Williams, the mother of his then 1-year-old son. Reports were that Juve hadn't paid his child's mother anything since December 2006.(Photo by Brad Barket/PictureGroup)
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Rick Ross - In 2012, Rick Ross publicly denied accusations that he fathered a child with a 36-year-old Florida woman. A test was done. Ross ain't lie.(Photo: Joe Kohen/Getty Images)
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Justin Bieber - In November 2011, we reported that Justin Bieber was hit with a lawsuit by a 20-year-old fan who claims that he fathered her 3-month-old baby. Although the claims immediately proved false, the accusation alone was enough to get the Internet and news media buzzing for days about the woman Bieber categorically denied knowing. (Photo: Kevin Winter/NBCUniversal/Getty Images)
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Jay Z - Rumors that Jay Z has a secret love child with a Trinidadian model named Shenelle Scott have been floating around for years.(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage)
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Diddy - In 2007, after a year of denials, Diddy finally confirmed that he had fathered a daugther, Chance, with Atlanta beauty Sarah Chapman. (Photo: Phil McCarten/PictureGroup)
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Mathew Knowles - After Mathew Knowles was slapped with a lawsuit in 2009, a paternity test proved that Beyoncé's former dad-ager had fathered a love-child after an affair with Alexsandra Wright. (Photo: Claire Greenway/Getty Images)
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Berry Gordy and Diana Ross - In a shocking footnote to one of music's most storied love affairs, Motown founder Berry Gordy discovered in 1984 that Diana Ross' oldest daughter, Rhonda Suzanne, then 13 years old, was his child. (Photo: SGranitz/WireImage)
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Lil Wayne - Weezy already had four kids with four different woman when he was sued by a Missouri woman in 2009 while he was serving an eight-month sentence for weapon possession. The suit claimed that Wayne had fathered the woman's granddaughter back in 2002. (Photo: Gary Miller/FilmMagic)
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