Justin Bieber Speaks Out on Baby Drama, Accuser
EmailThe paternity lawsuit is gone, but the baby drama surrounding Justin Bieber continues to swirl.
Bieber’s team has confirmed the 17-year-old singer will still take a DNA test to disprove paternity charges thrown against him by 20-year-old Mariah Yeater, who this week both abruptly withdrew her paternity suit against Bieber and was dropped by her own attorneys.
Yeater has since hired new legal representation and reportedly wants to settle out of court.
Yeater’s lawsuit against Bieber claimed a minutes-long tryst between the two in a backstage bathroom at the Staples Center in Los Angeles following a concert in October 2010, when she was 19 and he was 16, resulted in the birth of her son Tristyn Anthony Markhouse Yeater this July.
Bieber denied the allegations from the start, claiming the story was “completely made up” and that he had never even met Yeater.
His team says the pop star has no intentions of reaching a settlement with Yeater, whose case may fall apart yet again thanks to a new set of text messages released by the celebrity website TMZ.
“Pleeease ERASE ALL MESSAGES from my mom where she says Tristyn is Robbie’s Son,” reads a message allegedly sent from Yeater to a friend on Wednesday. “I’ll kick u when we get paid. I’m trusting you pleeease.”
In another text, Yeater allegedly writes: “Would you please stress to Robbie how important it is for him to be in his son’s life?”
Robbie is the ex-boyfriend whom Yeater earlier accused of fathering baby Tristyn, whom she now claims is Bieber’s.
Yeater also faces a bench trial next month on a misdemeanor battery charge filed against her last December claiming she slapped 18-year-old Robbie during a dispute.
Yeater’s new attorney, Jeffrey Leving, said he is investigating whether the texts obtained by TMZ are authentic, while Bieber’s team says they are more evidence that Yeater’s claims are just a classic celebrity shakedown.
“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,” Bieber’s attorney, Howard Weitzman told E! News in a statement Thursday. “There have been no settlement discussions and there never will be.”
Bieber’s publicist told E! News the singer still plans to take DNA test, which Leving says Yeater also wants, to hold “those involved with bringing this suit accountable for their actions.”
With the threat of a lawsuit behind him, Bieber is now speaking out, and even joking, about the controversy.
“If it was up to me, it would have been a better story, like, ‘Justin Bieber went off to like South America with this 27-year-old supermodel,’” he said in a radio interview Thursday on the “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.” “That would have been an awesome rumor.”
Turning more serious, Bieber continued, “As far as the whole baby situation, it’s unfortunate that it had to happen like that. That people make false accusations, but things happen in this industry and you just have to keep your head high and be positive and that’s all I really have to say.”
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I hope, for what ever it is worth, that Justin Bieber pursues this to the end. People, like this woman need to know that they cannot continue to make false allegations – it can potentially destroy a whole life. Today people may think it goes away, but it all come back if you settle lies like this, just to save money. don’t let attorneys talk you into settling – look what happened to Cain. It will cost you more than money in the long run, if you choose to ignore these types of allegations. So please Justin – make sure she is charged accordingly!!!!
Posted by: venicementor | November 18, 2011, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
love ya justin
Posted by: glad | November 18, 2011, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
I don’t even like Justin Bieber. I’m not a fan. But this Yeater character sounds even worse. So I’m rooting for Bieber to shut this rumour thing down.
Posted by: asdf | November 18, 2011, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
Justin, hang tough like you are.. Hanging tough sets and example, and you’re doing a great job of that.
Posted by: rnevelle | November 18, 2011, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
I think Justin Bieber is a spoiled brat who’s singing is crap, his songs are crap and his attitude at times is crap, but I dont believe a word this freak is saying about him and I hope he takes her to the cleaners..
Posted by: Top of the world | November 18, 2011, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
So when is she going to be arrested for child molestation?
Posted by: MPA | November 18, 2011, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Using the word “like” is just more proof of how poorly educated today’s youth are.
Posted by: Louis Jacinto | November 18, 2011, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
I’m not a fan of him but I think that he should prove that he didn’t have a kid and sew that girl
Posted by: Dean | November 18, 2011, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
Gruge baby, someone had it in for him.
Posted by: Adam | November 18, 2011, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
I want to know why the authorities are not arresting her for having sex with a minor that is considered staturoy rape even if they say they both consented to it.Also that would put her on the sex offenders list. I have herd that happening to a few people.
Posted by: Jillian | November 18, 2011, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
For those of you wondering when this woman is going to get charged as a sex offender for having sex with a minor, you need to realize that in order for that to happen she has to have had sex with him. Which she didn’t. Therefore the only crime here is extortion, for which she should be put through the ringer. I realize she’s already broke and that you can’t get blood from a stone, but you can put her through enough trouble that she’ll never bother trying this again with anyone else.
Posted by: SuzanneC | November 18, 2011, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
I’ve read just about every article surrounding this, and it all begs the question: why not IMMEDIATELY take a DNA test in Europe and kill the controversy once and for all??? Why put it off for over TWO WEEKS?
European DNA-testing laboratories are just as if not better than U.S. ones. A DNA test only requires a swab of the inside of the cheek.
As crazy and vindictive as she is, threatening to countersue Yeater — a fatherless (her and her baby), desperate, broke, and single mother — was absolutely idiotic. Bieber needs to bounce out whoever made that call.
With a fatherless baby out there surviving on public benefits, no matter what the outcome here will be, there will be no winners.
Am I out of line here?
Posted by: Robert MacLean | November 18, 2011, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
They are hardly suing her for money. They want her to make a public apology for her lies.
Posted by: Raja | November 18, 2011, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm
“RAJA”:
If the DNA test turns out to be negative, no apology is needed. Yeater will be mercilessly torn apart if it turns out she trumped up all charges.
No reason to delay the DNA test. So why the delay?
Don’t forget, she claims to have “hard evidence.” Think of the “blue dress” in the Monica Lewinsky / President Bill Clinton drama. Just saying…
Posted by: Robert MacLean | November 18, 2011, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
I am no fan of Justin Beiber. In fact I can’t stand him. But, even as I dislike Justin Beiber, this Yeater woman needs to be fried for this. First she claims it is her boyfriends then she claims that it is Justins. I hope that the DNA tests prove that the child is not Biebers and I am sure that the child isn’t… The Bieber “camp” after getting that test finished and the results should sue this woman for Extortion and Slander.
Posted by: Davros | November 19, 2011, 12:55 am 12:55 am
Justin Bieber is being victimized by a mentally unstable fan who is greedy and wants attention and money. Once it is determined this woman is a liar, she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Justin Bieber should sue her for defamation of character and making the false accusations.
This woman needs a psychiatrist and her child should be placed with someone else who is mentally capable of raising it. I think her actions show she is unstable and unfit to raise this child whose father is unknown so far.
Posted by: asdjfhuweyhjfh | November 19, 2011, 10:30 am 10:30 am
!st of all why is justin waiting so long to get the DNA testing? it makes me think he might b lagging for a reason so what if it is his kid? no 1 knows untill the results come back. And for the person that said Europeans DNA is the same or could even be better then the US dont know much cause if the do the DNA through blood its alot more Affective then a SWAB test. But i do believe she is lieing kuz im Prego with his kid… lol nah but on the reals no 1 should judge either side untill the test comes back and who knows with this messed up economy Bieber can pay off a DR just to say its not his kis. in this day and age its hard to believe any 1 anymore.
Posted by: Harley | November 19, 2011, 11:44 am 11:44 am
16 is the legal age of consent, so she wouldn’t be charged with statutory rape even if they had actually had sex.
Posted by: stephanie | November 19, 2011, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
If it turns out this woman lied…they need to shut her down. Paternity is serious and too many men are paying for kids they didn’t bring into the world because a tramp used his name to get tax payers to support her kid(s) and then a judge decides IT’S BEST FOR THE CHILD to have the man pay up until the kid is 18. Judges need their asses kicked for that kind of stupid justice….but these women scamming the system need to do hard time.
Posted by: JVB | November 19, 2011, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm
Why Bieber’s team cannot say we have been protecting this minor. We know he had no sex with Ms Yeater. Does Justin have sex with women after his show in the rest room? There is not sex crime if they had sex. He is the one with the power and the poor woman was the victim. He may be under age but he is a big time celebrity and was not seduced, or so, he would be the one proposing the sex.
Posted by: studenlawyer | November 20, 2011, 10:12 am 10:12 am
Look at the woman really?..justin took thatt back stage..or she had passes and if she did have a back stage pass the have a list of who was allowed back theree pretty sure he wasn’t wondering around staple center he would get mauled by fans….she just want money…not for her child to have a father..now she wants to “settle out of court” that mean settle for a lump sum and she will go away…and there postponing the dna test so that way there won’t be any allegations that the test were tampered with..its sad something seriously wrong with her
Posted by: dee | November 20, 2011, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm
The DNA test could have been taken and the results available by now. Think of all the free publicity for Mr. B., so they keep the ball in the air for now.
Posted by: Kathryn | November 20, 2011, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
Has anyone considered the possibility that this story is just a PLANT? This boy wants to change his image, so……
Posted by: Lily Bell | November 21, 2011, 7:47 am 7:47 am
Everybody’s sure its not Justin! So Justin Never Say Never! Just finish the rumor ASAP plz!!
Posted by: aida | November 25, 2011, 11:58 am 11:58 am
I kinda think Justin is the father because all teenage boys want is sex so as well as he couldn’t be the father he coud be the father. So until the tests come back nobody will ever know execpt Justin and that other chick because he knows if he did it and she knows if he did it and all about the sex offender unless you’re under 16 it is not charged as rape. People need to shut-up about that crap and read a book sometime and you would learn something about rape charges and stuff like that.
Posted by: Hayley | November 27, 2011, 5:55 am 5:55 am
listen, Justin bieber’s image denies all of this, now the fact that she charged her boyfriend of this TOO makes me wonder… she most likely wants money, taking that she is willing to just take money and drop the charges………and we all know there is NO way she is mentally capable of taking care of that baby…. but we can NEVER know until the results come in, so we should drop it until the results c anyone with me?
Posted by: lawyers-daughter | November 30, 2011, 12:27 am 12:27 am
Just think about how this poor baby is going to be treated when he is older because of what his crazy mother did when he was too young to even understand what was going on… That poor kid.
Posted by: Meg | December 11, 2011, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Shewas 19 and he was 16……isn’t this statutory rape?
Posted by: Michael | December 17, 2011, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
I think that no matter what if the baby is his or not his grandma does not love him
Posted by: lindsey | December 17, 2011, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm
I do not see any ‘proof’ that she is lying about this baby possibly being Justin’s.
These texts prove nothing of the sort. How many single mom’s go after the father of the baby for financial support and not see it as a ‘pay day’? If you are man enough to have sex and sire a child should the man not take responsibility just because they may happen to have sired a child fooling around with a groupie? Every day babies are conceived during foolish and thoughtless trysts.
How many celebrities are addicted to their own fame and visage and act it out with an endless line of willing participants known as groupies? LOL. Even with all the ‘free’ sex, many celebrities still indulge by paying sex workers! It is indeed a part of the celebrity culture. I have seen it up close and personal myself.
Why would she even entertain that there would be a payday? Surely she is trusting that the DNA evidence will vindicate her. That is, unless someone pays the right someone to get the right results. Think it is out of the realm of possibilities?
Why is this article (coming out of the same media machine that Justin Bieber is married to) not asking the questions I am presenting here?
Maybe she has an actual relationship with this other guy and wanted to raise Justin’s baby with him as the father. After all, it is highly doubtful Justin would want to do it even if it is proven he is indeed the sperm donor now isn’t it?
No one in their right mind would falsely accuse a very rich celebrity of such a thing unless they were truly mentally ill. Which perhaps she is, but I am also aware that this can go away because she is a poor nobody and there are quite a few powerful people who depend on the millions and millions which Justin brings in.
It does not add up.
It’s easy for a marketing team such as that which Justin employs- one that has full access to the media and its many outlets, to tear apart this young girl (I would hardly think of her as a woman) and her claims through a propaganda campaign via the Internet.
Get real people.
They did it in the stadium bathroom according to this girl. She was pulled from the audience by Justin handlers. Allegedly he had his little bit of fun (I laugh he probably used the ‘this is my first time’ line often).
Do I seem cynical? Perhaps I do. I just see the writing on the wall folks.
This kid is a sexualized product that makes a lot of dough for a corporate machine.
Ms. David is going up against monster Goliath and I don’t think she has a chance in hell based on this article which is clearly propaganda in itself. She will be absolutely lucky if she gets out of this alive.
Justin is quite confident isn’t he? Yes he is. But I don’t think it is because he knows he didn’t sire a baby. I just think he knows he has every advantage possible and has probably been assured that this will go away- hell it may even help him!! (that is how sick this media driven culture has become).
OPEN YOUR EYES.
Posted by: Elle | December 18, 2011, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
Omg enough already just leave it alone keep quiet and let them do what they need to do
Posted by: Tjcimmarrusti | December 23, 2011, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
this is a lie . but i still hate jb
Posted by: topping | January 5, 2012, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
why is this woman not in jail? if this would’ve been a 19-year-old man getting a 16-year-old girl pregnant he would be in jail for rape regardless if the sex was consensual. i tell you about double standards.
Posted by: cena | January 13, 2012, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm