FILE - In this June 10, 1988 file photo, comedian Sam Kinison, known for his bellowed outbursts, poses at New York's Hard Rock Cafe where he was...
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FILE - In this June 10, 1988 file photo, comedian Sam Kinison, known for his bellowed outbursts, poses at New York's Hard Rock Cafe where he was filming a promo for MTV. Carl La Bove, a longtime friend of Sam Kinison says recently-obtained DNA testing shows the late comedian fathered a daughter that he has been ordered to pay child support on for years.
LOS ANGELES — A longtime friend of Sam Kinison said Thursday that he recently obtained DNA testing that shows the late comedian fathered a daughter with his ex-wife and that he hopes the revelation will free him from years of unpaid child support penalties.
Comic Carl 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.
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 in a car accident in California in 1992, 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, there were indications that the brash comic was her father.
"She looks like she'd be Sam's daughter," Bill Kinison said.

HE SLEPT WITH HIS FRIEND'S WIFE AND SHE HAS HIS BABY. NEXT THE WIFE SAYS YOUR THE FATHER. PLEASE PEOPLE WHEN YOU SLEEP WITH TRASH YOU NEED TO HAVE DNA TESTING. JUST SAYING................