According to TMZ, the single mother of a four-month-old boy quietly withdrew her request for a paternity test and child support on Sunday (Nov. 13). News first broke of Yeater's claims and legal actions against Bieber at the start of this month (November). At the time, Bieber and his team quickly and vehemently denied the charges that he impregnated the then 19-year-old concert-goer backstage at one of his shows last year.
"I'd just like to say basically that none of those allegations are true. I know that I'm going to be a target, but I'm never going to be a victim," the accused announced on NBC's 'Today' on Nov. 4, addressing the baby mama drama. "Never met the woman," he added.
To prove his innocence, Bieber agreed to submit to a DNA test, while his lawyers threatened to take legal action against Yeater. Perhaps it was this threat that prompted the supposed baby mama to renege her own suit almost as quickly as she filed it.
Update: Yeater's lawyer, Jeffrey Leving, announced that the suit was dropped due to the barrage of death threats his client had received from Bieber's fans, and that they will continue to pursue a DNA test from Bieber outside of court. Leving issued the following statement: "I did not step down and there is a legal team. It's a new legal team. In light of death threats against my client, strategies have been reviewed. She believes Justin Bieber is the father. Right now there are no more interviews for Mariah Yeater, I'm not going to allow that. Secondly, negotiations are going on right now with Bieber's council and we're trying to negotiate a private, secure DNA test with the same safe guards that would exist if there were a court order, but without a court order. The case is completely out of control and I don't want something terrible to happen to my client, or her child. My goal is that when the DNA test is completed, which I believe it will be, to keep everything confidential so the results will remain confidential."
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