02:21 PM EDT 11/11/2009
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Levi Johnston: My All-Out Fight for Tripp
Originally posted 11/10/2009 06:55PM
In his custody fight for son Tripp, Levi Johnston says he's up against a powerful foe: Sarah Palin.
Johnston, 19, claims the former vice presidential candidate has been part of an effort to keep Tripp away from Johnston by exerting influence on 19-year-old daughter Bristol, who is Tripp's mother.
"She has a big impact on what Bristol does and thinks," Johnston tells Entertainment Tonight. "Bristol looks up to Sarah. I don't know why they just don't want me in his life."
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Levi Johnston to Sue for Joint Custody of Son Tripp
Originally posted 11/09/2009 01:10PM
The man who was almost Sarah Palin's son-in-law will pursue legal action to gain joint custody of his son with Bristol Palin, according to reports.
Levi Johnston, 19, is the father of 10-month-old Tripp with his ex-girlfriend Bristol, the daughter of the former Alaska governor. The two were engaged to be married, but broke off their relationship in March.
Johnston is seeking joint custody at the end of the month because the Palin family is allegedly making it difficult for him to see his son, he told The Insider.
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Levi Johnston Hunts Stardom in Los Angeles
Originally posted 06/18/2009 10:15AM
Levi Johnston is now officially an aspiring actor and model. And according to his new manager Tank Jones, he is getting closer to a clinching a deal that will help him support the baby son he fathered with his former girlfriend, Bristol Palin.
"There's offers on the table for a little bit of everything – sitcom appearances, a reality show, some modeling," Jones tells PEOPLE. "We haven't signed anything, but there's offers." Jones declined to give specific details.
Johnston's interest in a show business represents one of the few viable careers open to him, Jones adds. A high-school dropout passionate about hunting and hockey, Johnston, 19, "is going to go and take the test and finish school and enroll in some college courses," his manager says. "[But] it's not like he can go and get a normal job now. Because of all the publicity. The whole interviewing thing, and red carpet and paparazzi – he still hasn't gotten comfortable with it, but what else does he have? Can he go work at McDonald's? ... He wants to take care of his son financially."
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PHOTO: Levi Johnston Strips Down for GQ
Originally posted 05/29/2009 06:35PM
In a new interview, Levi Johnston gets a few things off his chest – starting with his shirt.
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Bristol Palin: I Know Levi Loves Our Baby
Originally posted 05/22/2009 12:55PM
After a very public war of words, Bristol Palin and her family say they are trying to work with her former fiancé Levi Johnston for the sake of their 5-month-old son Tripp.
"I know Levi will be a part of Tripp's life," Bristol, 18, says in an interview in the lastest issue of PEOPLE. "I know he loves him"
Bristol's warmer tone in discussing her ex comes after a round of TV interviews in which 19-year-old Levi – and sometimes his mother and sister – harshly criticized the Palin family for trying to restrict them from seeing Tripp. At the time, a Palin family spokeswoman lashed back at the Johnstons. But now the Palins seem intent on making peace.
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Bristol Palin Exposes Her Sometimes Isolated Life
Originally posted 05/20/2009 08:30AM
Bristol Palin's pretty, lightly freckled face was nowhere to be seen on the overhead screen as images from her high-school senior slideshow – photos from the prom and a Class of 2009 portrait set against the Alaska snow – played during May 14's Wasilla High commencement ceremony.
Did it make her sad to have missed out on so much senior-year fun – to be spending graduation night not with a gang of friends but at home, giving her 5-month-old son a bottle while her extended family plays "Eskimo bingo"?
Bristol, the eldest daughter of Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin's five children, answers with a multitasking mom's whiff of impatience: "I have other things to worry about."
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Felony Drug Trial of Levi Johnston's Mother Postponed
Originally posted 05/16/2009 10:00AM
Sherry Johnston, the troubled mother of Levi Johnston, the ex-fiancé of Bristol Palin, has been granted a short reprieve to consider her options.
An Alaskan judge Friday postponed her May 18 jury trial on
felony charges for allegedly selling OxyContin. Instead, the judge, Eric Smith, scheduled a May 21 hearing
at which Johnston, 42, will have the opportunity to discuss her case with a
prosecutor and judge and consider changing her plea.
Johnston had previously pleaded not
guilty to charges resulting from a December 2008 arrest for allegedly
pedalling the prescription drug in a Wasilla shopping center parking lot.
Johnston later told PEOPLE she became addicted to the painkiller after
taking it years ago to treat pain from a hysterectomy and
several subsequent surgeries.
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Bristol Palin Graduates from High School
Originally posted 05/15/2009 08:45AM
Looking like a lot of her classmates – giddy and irreverent, wearing a silly necklace of Blow-Pop lollipops strung together with curly gift ribbon – Bristol Palin stepped toward the stage in Wasilla Sports Complex Thursday night to receive her high school diploma, more a worried mom than a jubilant teen.
"Where's my baby?" Bristol mouthed, searching the two front rows where her family sat until she finally spotted son Tripp near the backstage door, where Bristol's Aunt Heather was feeding the infant a bottle. With a wave to the little one she alternately calls "Handsome" and "My Guy," Bristol crossed the stage – and crossed "graduate high school" off her to-do list.
"I knew it would be hard work, but I knew I was going to do it," Bristol, 18, tells PEOPLE.
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Levi Johnston's Mom Says Families Not at War
Originally posted 05/14/2009 07:45AM
With a May 18 trial date looming for her facing charges of selling OxyContin, the mother of Levi Johnston says there's a thaw in relations between her family and that of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and she reports she gets to see her grandson Tripp at her own home.
"When Bristol came to pick up Tripp this week, she said if we want him more often, all I have to do is call. She said if I want to come to their house, I can come over and see him all the time," Sherry Johnston, 42, tells Momlogic.com. "I am hopeful we'll be able to work together to raise Tripp."
Johnston, who spent Mother's Day with son Levi, 18, and daughter Mercede, said she sent a text message to Tripp's mom, Bristol Palin, 18, on May 10 wishing her a happy Mother's Day. But despite signs of easing of the tension between the families, Johnston says she still would like to see her grandson more often.
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Bristol Palin Wants Levi Johnston in Son's Life
Originally posted 05/06/2009 09:10AM
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Bristol Palin promoted sexual abstinence for her fellow teens in dual appearances Wednesday on ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today – prompting her interviewers on both shows to question how she can preach something she obviously didn't practice.
While declining to discuss what methods of birth control she might have used, Palin, 18, told GMA's Christopher Cuomo, "Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only ... 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy." She also acknowledged that abstinence is "difficult."
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