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Larry Birkhead: NBC's Million Dollar Baby?
Monday April 30, 2007


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NBC paid Larry Birkhead a cool $1 million dollars for all the scoops he’s been giving the network during the Dannielynn custody saga, Page Six reports.

An insider tells the New York Post gossip column that the network's parent company, NBC Universal, made a deal with Dannielynn’s biological father shortly after Anna Nicole Smith's funeral, and that's why the photographer has been giving exclusives to the network's Today show and Access Hollywood programs and its Bravo channel.

A rep for Bravo confirmed to Page Six: "NBC Universal has an exclusive contract with Larry Birkhead and we don't discuss the terms of our deals."

Last month, Birkhead revealed a tattoo he has of the late blond bombshell on Access Hollywood. "I have a tattoo on my back so I carry that around," he gushed to the show. "It's a picture of Anna so wherever I go, she goes."

Likewise, when Birkhead, 34, and his lawyer, Debra Opri, parted ways, "Access Hollywood" was the first to report it.

After the Bahamian court ruled that Birkhead was the biological father of Smith’s baby, he immediately went on the Today show to describe his joy, gushing, "Yesterday was just a great day for me and Dannielynn."

The source tells Page Six that the Birkhead deal is almost up, but that one final scoop is in the works, and that Birkhead and Dannielynn are flying from the Bahamas to Los Angeles today, courtesy of the network.

"They'll be on board a Bravo-funded plane along with Howard K. Stern and the network is planning some kind of big interview," the insider says.

Talk to Us: Was it wrong of Larry to take the money in exchange for exclusives about Dannielynn?

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