Attorney: Nowitzki's Ex Not Pregnant

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Dirk Nowitzki's former fiancée Cristal Taylor is not pregnant, according to prison medical records released Thursday to Nowitzki's attorney, Robert Hart.

Hart said he received written confirmation from the correctional medical services department in Vandalia, Mo.

"As we suspected, we did not believe her story," Hart said. "We received written confirmation that she is not pregnant from the department of corrections medical accountability records system."

Taylor, 38, is incarcerated in St. Charles, Mo., where last week she was sentenced to five years for violating probation in a decade-old forgery and theft case.

On July 24, Dallas family court Associate judge Randall Grubbs had ordered pregnancy and DNA testing in the Taylor-Nowitzki case, saying "We know the first one has to happen. The other one may be moot."

Hart said the medical record he received on Thursday showed that Taylor tested "HCG negative" on Aug. 31. HCG is the medical term for pregnancy.

Dirk Nowitzki's Ex Sentenced

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Cristal Taylor, former fiancée of Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki ((both picture,d thanks KDFW-TV)), was sentenced to prison on Monday, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch .

Taylor received five years in prison for violating probation in a 12-year-old forgery and theft case, the paper reported.

The 38-year-old St. Louis-area native admitted that she failed to check in with her probation officer and that she was arrested twice in Texas in 2000 for misdemeanors, it reported.

Taylor had planned to marry Nowitzki and has said she is pregnant with his child.

Nowitzki has said he would file for custody if DNA tests prove the baby is his.

Taylor was arrested at his home on May 6 and was accused of failing to pay for expensive cosmetic dental work in Texas in 2006.

Here's Nowitzki discussing Taylor- and it ain't nice...

Judge Orders DNA Testing In Nowitzki Case

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A Dallas family court judge on Friday ordered pregnancy and DNA testing in the case involving Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki and his ex-girlfriend Cristal Taylor.

"We know the first one has to happen," said Associate Judge Randall Grubbs during a brief hearing in a state district court in Dallas County. "The other one may be moot."

Medical records show Taylor, who is now being held in a Missouri jail awaiting a parole-violation hearing, was pregnant, but the judge said he wanted his own test.

Grubbs then ordered the proceedings sealed, and attorneys said they could not comment.

In a petition filed last month, Nowitzki is seeking sole custody of Taylor's yet-to-be-born child if tests prove he is the father.

Taylor, 38, has said the Mavericks star, 31, is the father and that she seeks no monetary gain from their relationship.

Taylor was arrested May 6 at Nowitzki's Preston Hollow home. She was taken to Dallas County jail and later transferred to Beaumont to face a 2006 felony theft charge. In late June, she posted bail and was extradited to Missouri to face a 2001 probation violation on felony forgery and stealing.

Nowitzki's custody petition seeks "to establish the parent-child relationship between Petitioner and the child ... in the event that it is determined that Petitioner is the biological father of the child."

It continues: “Petitioner [Nowitzki] requests that genetic testing be ordered in accordance with chapter 160 of the Texas family code upon birth of the child.”

Later, it states: "In the event that it is determined that Petitioner is the biological father of the child, the best interest of the child ... will be served by the appointment of the Petitioner as sole managing conservator."

Taylor told the Dallas Morning News in late May that she was "very pregnant, about maybe four to 4 1/2 weeks." But a day later, told reporters that she was closer to seven weeks pregnant.

Nowitzki Suing For Custody, FBI Investigating Taylor

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Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki wants sole custody of his former girlfriend's unborn child -- if genetic testing proves he's the father -- according to a court petition.

Nowitzki seeks to be the sole managing conservator of the child due to be born to Crystal Taylor ((pictured, thanks MyFoxDFW)), who was arrested at the player's Dallas home May 6 and is now an inmate in the Jefferson County jail in Beaumont.

The document, a petition to adjudicate parentage, was filed in state district court in Dallas on June 12. It was sealed Friday, shortly after its details were reported by the Beaumont Enterprise.

Neither Nowitzki nor Taylor is specifically named in the petition. However, the petitioner is identified as "D.N." and the respondent as "C.T." The document also outlines circumstances similar to those made public by Taylor, who has said repeatedly that Nowitzki is the father.

Taylor's attorney, Scott Renick, told the Beaumont newspaper that his client knew the documents had been filed but he didn't comment on them. Renick did not immediately respond to a phone message from The Associated Press.

Nowitzki's attorney in the matter, Katherine Kinser, was unavailable Friday, according to a woman who answered the phone at her office.

Taylor is being held in the Jefferson County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. She is accused of paying for almost $11,000 in dental work with a credit card she didn't have permission to use. She also faces a probation violation charge in Missouri.

Taylor was administered a pregnancy test when she was booked into the Dallas County jail after her arrest last month, and the test came back positive, she told reporters.

The petition notes that the petitioner has been repeatedly cited as the father of the child by the respondent. It requests that genetic testing be ordered.

The document also contains a request from the petitioner that records in the case be sealed, but that wasn't done until midmorning Friday.

MyFoxDFW's Natalie Solis sits in a studio and gives us details...

But wait, it gets better...

ESPN's John Barr moves this story along a little bit...

Apparently, the FBI is looking in to allegedly threatening phone calls Taylor made to Nowitzki's attorney.

"Taylor's prison phone calls allegedly contained threats as well as demands for money from Nowitzki, whom she has referred to in numerous media interviews as her former fiancé, and many of Taylor's phone calls were made to the offices of Nowitzki's Dallas-based attorney, the sources said."

The Dallas Morning News goes a little deeper into the Taylor saga.

Cristal Taylor, in an article by Brad Townsend, has given birth to three other children- none of whom she has raised. A former roommate spoke to the DMN- pretty good stuff...

Let's all rub our hands together on this one and twist our collective mustaches awaiting the Taylor proceedings in late July...