Sam Kinison's secret love child: DNA test allegedly prove a friend's daughter was fathered by the late comic

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 9:32 PM on 18th February 2011

Kinison's brother: 'She looks like she'd be Sam's daughter'
DNA: 0% chance legal father Carl La Bove is biological father

A longtime friend of Sam Kinison says he recently obtained DNA testing that shows the late comedian fathered a daughter with his ex-wife.

Comic Carl La Boye hopes the revelation will free him from years of unpaid child support penalties.

Kinison was killed in 1992 aged 38 in a California car accident when his vehicle was hit by a drunk driver. He has no other known children.

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Sam Kinison, seen here in 1991, may have fathered a daughter by his friend's then-wife in 1990. Kinison died in 1992

La Bove filed a petition Thursday to try to invalidate a nearly 13-year-old agreement requiring him to make payments for the girl, who is now 21 years old.

As of 2009, La Bove owed nearly $188,000 in back child support, according to a statement filed with his petition.

The debt has left La Bove without a driver's license, a passport and shoddy credit, he said.

Carl LaBove says DNA proves a daughter, 21, is not his

But he said any animosity he felt toward Kinison for sleeping with his now ex-wife during Kinison's hard-charging heyday in the late 1980s is gone.

'I learned to forgive him for his actions,' La Bove said outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse Thursday.

A comedian who opened for Kinison for years and was with him when he died, La Bove is hoping that the release of child support obligations will allow him to drive himself to gigs from now on.

Success is not guaranteed, said Michael McCormick, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers & Children, which is aiding La Bove in his case.

The 52-year-old comic will have to show that he was coerced into signing the 1998 agreement.

In his court filings, he claims he was not fully informed of his rights before signing the agreement.

In an interview, he said that his divorce from his ex-wife took six years and that his attorney never suggested he challenge the paternity of the child, even though his then-wife had told him that Kinison was the girl's dad.

Kinison's brother, Bill, took a DNA test that showed the likelihood that his famous brother was the young woman's father.

He said Thursday evening that while he had never met her, he noticed resemblances to his famous brother.

'She looks like she'd be Sam's daughter,' Bill Kinison said.

He noted that his brother and La Bove both had lifestyles akin to rock stars during his lifetime.

'Sam and Carl lived a lifestyle that was pretty promiscuous,' Bill Kinison said.

He also acknowledged large hurdles that La Bove will face in trying to get his name cleared, although he said he understood why he was doing it.

'I'd want to get that off me too,' he said.

The posthumous Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh? came out in 1998 and featured reflections about the comic from fellow comedians including Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield and Jay Leno

McCormick said La Bove's fight should be aided by a 2004 California appellate court ruling that states the government should correct mistakes in child support actions and 'minimize the harm and correct any injustice to that person.'

Despite all that, La Bove's prospects for success are unclear, McCormick said. 'He's really in legal limbo.'

A hearing on La Bove's petition is scheduled for March 29.

La Bove said he has a good relationship with the young woman who is likely Kinison's daughter. He said it wasn't until she showed up at one of his performances three years ago that he had an opportunity to try to set the record straight on who her father was.

'She wants me to have my life back,' La Bove said. 'She is my best friend's daughter.'

DNA testing submitted to the court Thursday shows La Bove has a zero percent probability of being her father.

Additional tests done using samples from Kinison's two brothers, one of whom is now dead, show a 99.8 percent chance that she is related to them.

La Bove said he hopes that the woman, who declined comment Thursday, will one day be able to benefit from the late comic's estate.

It is controlled by Bill Kinison, who La Bove accused Thursday of forging estate planning documents and providing him with an attorney who coerced him into signing a 1998 agreement requiring him to make child support payments.

Bill Kinison denied La Bove's accusations. 'There's no validity to that,' he said.

'Why would I get him an attorney period, if I was going to keep anything hidden?' he said, also asking why he would take a DNA test years later.

La Bove said DNA testing was never considered during his divorce, even though for years he said he had been told that Kinison was the girl's father, not him.

The revelation, along with the loss of Kinison, sent La Bove spiraling for several years, he said. He attempted suicide, and he drank heavily.

'Alcohol was the only way to get through my shows,' he said.

Bill Kinison said La Bove refused DNA testing at the time and other measures recommended by the attorney.

He also said his late brother died a million dollars in debt and the estate makes only modest earnings now. 'We barely keep it solvent,' Bill Kinison said.

He said a biopic on Sam Kinison has been contemplated for more than a decade, but he doesn't know if it will ever be made.

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