Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston Embroiled In Heated Custody Battle

Bristol Palin Seeks Full Custody Of 1-year-old Tripp She Had With Levi Johnston


Bristol Palin is demanding full custody of her son and even wants child support from beefcake baby daddy Levi Johnston.

The daughter of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accuses her former high school sweetheart of exercising only "sporadic visitation rights" for 1-year-old Tripp, court papers revealed Monday.

Bristol Palin, 18, asked an Alaska judge last month to keep her petition for custody and support secret.

The judge denied that request in a ruling dated Christmas Eve.

Johnston, 19, a hunky one-time high school hockey star, denies in court documents that he has avoided his responsibilities as a father.

He is seeking shared custody of the boy and argued against keeping the proceedings closed.

"I do not feel protected against Sarah Palin in a closed proceeding," Johnston said in an affidavit. "I hope that if it is open she will stay out of it."

Bristol Palin is also asking the judge to bar Johnston's mother from having unsupervised visits with the infant. Sherry Johnston is on home arrest on drug charges.

She also suggests Levi Johnston may have used marijuana, citing a Twitter posting. He denies the reports of drug use and says the Twitter account is a fake one.

Bristol is the eldest daughter of Sarah Palin, who resigned as Alaska governor in July.

Johnston has raised hackles with his catty accounts of life with the Palins.

He posed for a sexy spread in Playgirl, and Sarah Palin dissed him as an "aspiring porn" star.




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Palin Oprah Interview (Preview) Videos..."Levi Is Loved"

On Thanksgiving with Levi


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Sarah Palin promotes her new book "Going Rogue".

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Palin Oprah VIDEO: "Levi Is Loved"


On Wednesday night, Oprah tweeted out a short video previewing her upcoming, much anticipated, interview with Sarah Palin. Oprah wouldn't go into much detail, but she said that she and the former governor of Alaska talked about "everything." Today, CBS has two choice segments from their conversation, set to air Monday, November 16th.

"One final question about Levi," Oprah asks in the first clip: "will he be invited to Thanksgiving dinner?"

Palin laughs. "You know, that's a great question." It's also a question that Palin doesn't seem to want to answer. "It's lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing," she says. "Because, of course, you want -- he is a part of the family and you want to bring him in the fold and kind of under your wing. And he needs that, too, Oprah. I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good. It really can." She then segues into a mishmash of statements on how the Palins are "not really into the drama."

Oprah presses on: "Does that mean yes he is coming or no he's not?"

In the second clip, Oprah suggests they talk about Palin's interview with Katie Couric -- a series of disastrous segments including an exchange where Couric asked Palin which newspapers she read and Palin responded: "Um, all of them, any of them." Palin tells Oprah she didn't think it was a defining moment, and neither did her campaign, though she acknowledged it was a "bad interview".



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Levi Johnston's Sexy Pistachio Ad...Shelling Sex??

(Is Levi Johnston pitching Pistachio nuts with Sex appeal?)



(Poor Levi. Will he ever get it together? Somehow I think he really misses the Palin family. Especially Bristol and his baby.)

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Levi Johnston Talks More Trash About The Palin Family...Vanity Fair Interview

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(Levi Johntson behind scenes at Vanity Fair. The father of Bristol Palin's child, keeps on talking about the Palins as if he misses them.



Vanity Fair has posted behind-the-scenes video from their photo shoot with Levi Johnston to accompany their October 2009 story "Me and Mrs. Palin." In the beginning, Johnston's handler Tank Jones teases Levi about his transformation from "Wasilla wear" to "Vanity Fair wear." Johnston then poses in designer clothes on the ledge of a building and in the back of a limo holding Sarah Palin masks.

The best exchange comes 3:29 minutes in, when Tank asks Levi if he's thought about doing Playgirl. Levi, wearing aviator sunglasses and sitting in the backseat of an SUV, says "I'd do it...if it would get me out of there." Tank then lectures Levi on what it takes to be in the nude magazine: "You've gotta have some johnson. You can can't come in there lacking in the johnson area. You've gotta unfold some things....[A ]dude posed for the magazine and they had to add an extra leaf to fold out for him...[so] I'm saying, do you need extra magazine or do you don't [sic] need that?"

"You're just gonna have to see, Tank," Levi answers.


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Bristol Palin Joins Fight Against Teen Pregnancy

On the "Today Show" this morning 18-year-old Bristol Palin (daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin) shared the harsh realities of being a Teen Mother.

Hopefully someone was listening.

Especially the DSS Officials in North Carolina, where Teen Pregnancies cost Tax Payers more than $300 Million dollars each year.

Bristol just happens to come from a Wealthy family but for most young girls who end up pregnant, its the Welfare system that provides for their babies.

In the words of actress Jane Fonda, "Adolescent Pregnancy must become a priority for all Americans".

Check out some of Bristol's statements and the interview with show host Matt Lauer below.

"My baby is not a mistake, he's a blessing but it's been really hard."

"If your going to have Sex, you should have Safe Sex."

"Teens should learn from my example, and that abstinence is the only way to ensure you don't get pregnant."



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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is Now a Grandmother!

That's right! Alaska Governor and former Republican V.P. Candidate Sarah Palin is now a grandmother.

People magazine reports that Palin's daughter Bristol (18), gave birth to a 7 lb. 4 oz. baby boy Sunday at a hospital in Palmer, Alaska.

The child was named Tripp Easton Mitchell Jones.

Bristol is studying for her High School Diploma via correspondence courses and the child's father Levi Johnston, is studying to become an Electrician.

Congrats!

Sources: Huffington Post, People Magazine, Anchorage Daily News, Scotthedot