Spokesman says Bieber will take a paternity test
ATLANTA — Justin Bieber will take a paternity test, and then he plans to sue the woman who has filed a paternity lawsuit against him, a representative for the teen pop star said Monday.
Matthew Hiltzik said the 17-year-old singer will take a paternity test when he returns to the United States within the next two weeks. He also said Bieber’s team plans to “vigorously pursue all available legal remedies to protect Justin.”
The paternity lawsuit was filed last week in San Diego Superior Court by Mariah Yeater. She said she had just turned 19 when she and Bieber, then 16, had a brief sexual encounter after one of the singer’s concerts last fall in a backstage bathroom at Los Angeles’ Staples Center.
Yeater attended school in Las Vegas before withdrawing from 10th grade in 2008.
Bieber has said he has never met Yeater and has denied allegations that he fathered Yeater’s 3-month-old child.
The singer was in London on Monday, where Bieber fever raged from the west end to the east, as the pop star switched on the Christmas lights at the city’s two biggest shopping malls.
The star, who won two prizes at Sunday’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast, told fans that his favorite thing about London was “all the girls.”
Bieber, dressed in a gray woolen hat and black leather jacket, said backstage Monday that despite the ups and downs, he was grateful for his fans.
