LA, Feb 13: Lawyers for salsa star Marc Anthony say a paternity test has cleared their client of claims that he fathered a two-month-old son by a Miami waitress but the woman's attorney says Anthony may have cheated on the test. The paternity claims raised by Elizabeth Leyva prompted Anthony's wife, former Miss Universe Dayonara Torres, to file for divorce last month and demand alimony and child support for the couple's two young sons.

But a lawyer for Anthony said that a Jan. 29 paternity test shows that Anthony, best known for the pop hit "I Need to Know," is not the infant's father.

Through his lawyer, Anthony, 35, demanded that 21-year-old Leyva stop claiming that he fathered the infant, named Anthony Louis, and threatened her with legal action.

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But Leyva's lawyer disputed the results, saying Anthony did not follow agreed-upon protocols for submitting the DNA sample.
"There was DNA submitted on his behalf but he didn't go to the lab to have it drawn," Gentile said. "We feel under greater supervision and greater control, the result will be different. Our client is 100 percent confident that he is the father."

Anthony and Leyva met at a Miami Beach hot spot named Mango's and became romantically involved with her in 2002, Gentile said. But he added that Anthony cut off contact with Leyva after she became pregnant in March 2003.

"This isn't a vendetta against Marc Anthony," Gentile said. "Her only interest is having the father of her child recognize that's his baby." Bureau Report