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Prince Albert II
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From Wire Reports The Spokesman-Review

Monaco’s Prince Albert II has acknowledged he is the father of a 14-year-old California girl, his second known out-of-wedlock child.

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi is welcome in Monaco but she cannot take the throne, and the royal family does not recognize her use of the Grimaldi name, the prince’s lawyer said.

Albert initially had planned to keep it a secret until his daughter reached adulthood, the attorney added, but “the situation had become untenable for her” in recent weeks amid increasing speculation about her father.

French media reports have said Albert, 48, had a brief affair with the girl’s mother in 1991 when she vacationed on the Cote d’Azur.

Albert, who has never married, acknowledged last July that he had fathered a child out of wedlock with a former flight attendant from Togo, a country in West Africa. The boy, Alexandre, is now 3 years old.

At the time, he acknowledged that other women had made similar claims, but said: “I don’t know of any others that could be true.”

Hey, Anna, you know Al?

Anna Nicole Smith has confirmed that she’s pregnant in a video clip posted on her Web site.

“I’m happy, I’m very very happy about it. Everything’s goin’ really, really good, and I’ll be checking in and out periodically on the Web, and I’ll let you see me as I’m growing,” says the former reality TV star and Playboy playmate.

Smith has a 20-year-old son, Daniel, from her first marriage. She later married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89; he died the following year, and she has been feuding with his family over her share of his estate.

Offspring she can’t refuse

Also expecting: film director Sofia Coppola, who says she’s due this winter.

The father is Coppola’s boyfriend, Thomas Mars, a singer for the French band Phoenix.

Coppola, 35, the daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola, won a best screenplay Oscar for “Lost in Translation,” which she also directed.

Married, for real

Reality TV star Adrianne Curry, 23, and former “Brady Bunch” boy Christopher Knight, 48, married on Monday, capping a courtship that spanned three VH1 reality shows.

Curry, who was UPN’s “America’s Next Top Model,” met Knight (who played Peter Brady) in 2004 when they co-starred in VH1’s “The Surreal Life.” Their courtship last year was packaged as VH1’s “My Fair Brady.”

Their wedding – attended by “Brady” stars Barry Williams (Greg), Susan Olsen (Cindy) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) – will air in July as “My Fair Brady Wedding Special.”

False ring to it?

Lark Voorhies, who played Lisa Turtle in TV’s “Saved by the Bell,” has sued The National Enquirer for libel over an article that said she had a drug problem.

The suit says Voorhies lost several acting jobs after the tabloid falsely claimed that she had been hospitalized for a cocaine addiction.

The birthday bunch

Actor Stacy Keach is 65. Drummer Charlie Watts (the Rolling Stones) is 65. Composer Marvin Hamlisch is 62. Actor Jerry Mathers (“Leave It To Beaver”) is 58. Actor Dennis Haysbert (“24”) is 52. Comedian Dana Carvey is 51. Comedian Wayne Brady is 34. Actress Nikki Cox (“Las Vegas”) is 28.