The custody battle between Padma Lakshmi and entrepreneur Adam Dell has gotten ugly with Dell claiming that the Indian-origin model told him that she desperately hoped her other lover, IMG boss Ted Forstmann, was the biological father of her child.
Adam Dell, the brother of Dell computer firm founder Michael Dell, is battling the Top Chef beauty for full custody of their 11-month-old daughter Krishna Thea.
Dell, 40, claims that Lakshmi launched a cruel attack on him during a phone call in September 2009, calling him an “unambitious” man with an “uninteresting” career and “unmemorable” friends, reported New York Post online.
He says he then dropped another bombshell, telling him she was pregnant and she desperately hoped it was not his child.
Dell’s court papers say that Lakshmi told him she was at the same time dating billionaire, 70-year-old Forstmann, and that she hoped Dell was nothing to do with the pregnancy.
“Lakshmi made clear to Dell her hope that Forstmann was the child’s biological father,” according to the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.