Daddy Bills, Flav-Style

Flavor Flav’s third televised quest (telequest?) for a lady, “Flavor of Love,” is underway on VH1 (VIA). While the 48 year-old golden-grilled rapper’s search for a wife drags on, in the meantime he is going to need a midwife. That is because Flav, aka William Drayton Jr., who already has seven children and two grandchildren, has another baby on the way. “It's true he's on his eighth child but, as he’s said in the past, he’d like 10,” said a VH1 spokesperson. “So, there are two more to go.” Neither season one winner Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander, nor season two winner London “Deelishis” Charles, is the mother of Flav’s offspring, future or past. Instead, the mother is a new love to whom Flav is rumored to be engaged, even though he’s still looking for love on cable TV.

As Flav can attest, being a father being a father isn’t cheap. Before launching a second career in reality television, Flav was reportedly broke. No wonder. According to Charles Abut, a family law attorney based in New Jersey, child support can run $25,000 a year and “depending on the kind of family, that’s conservative.” The rapper’s seven children are with at least three women.With at least five kiddies still eligible for support, that would mean a total childcare tab of at least $125,000 a year for the former Public Enemy hype man—and counting!

 For men about to become fathers out of wedlock, the first thing you should do is hire a lawyer. “The number one issue is that there is going to be a child,” says Abut. “Support obligation for this unborn child will last anywhere from 18 to 25 years. We have cases that extend to paying for graduate school.”