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Ex-boyfriend of Bieber baby accuser speaks
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 14 December 2011
In the latest twist in the Bieber Baby story, a US website called RumorFix has interviewed a former boyfriend of Justin Bieber’s accuser Mariah Yeater, who claims she made the wild allegations that the teen star fathered her young son in a desperate bid to make money from a tabloid magazine.
Robert Powell is the boyfriend who has previously claimed that he is the father of Yeater’s young son, and it turns out he is in jail on burglary and drug charges. RumorFix interviewed him in prison, where he said he and Yeater were broke, and his former girlfriend concocted a plan to get $50,000 out of a tabloid magazine by claiming Bieber fathered her child.
America’s Star magazine broke Yeater’s story, in which she claimed to have had a very brief sexual liaison with Bieber backstage at a concert in LA during which he refused to wear a condom, resulting in her pregnancy. The mag seemed convinced by Yeater’s unlikely story because she had engaged a legal team and filed a paternity lawsuit. Though, despite initially claiming there was “credible evidence” to back up Yeater’s claims, said legal team subsequently dropped the case, and the paternity lawsuit was withdrawn, possibly because Bieber’s team said the star would gladly take a paternity test to prove Yeater was lying, and then sue her for libel.
Speaking to RumorFix, Powell claimed: “She lied. We were both homeless and living in Oceanside [California] and Mariah was trying to make some quick money. She picked [Bieber], because she thought he was famous and all, and thought she could get a lot of money by telling the magazine Justin was the father. She just saw him as an opportunity to make a lot of money”.
Although initially staying quiet on the alleged scam, it was subsequently rumoured Powell had gone public with his claims he was in fact the father of Yeater’s child.
In the RumorFix interview he continued: “She said she was doing it for us … for our family and son. She made it seem like it was all for us, but she’s greedy. I don’t know; I still love her though. All I want is to be with my son, that’s all I care about. She can take all her money, I just want my son. And man, on the real, I feel sorry for Justin Bieber. He’s just a little kid, man. He don’t need to be going through all this drama. He’s got a career and shit to focus on. I feel sorry for the dude”.
Yeater’s new legal reps have since told RumorFix that Powell’s claims are “all wrong”. It’s still not clear if and when Yeater will make her son available for a DNA test in order to confirm once and for all whether there is any truth in her claims about Bieber. Of course the delay from the Yeater side on this suggests said DNA test will confirm what always seemed most likely, that there is no truth at all.
