Update: Yeater Paternity Suit Against Justin Bieber Sealed at Courthouse

Updated at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday

Breaking: The South County Courthouse file containing a paternity suit against singer Justin Bieber has been sealed, a court official said Wednesday afternoon, responding to a Patch request to see the file. The suit, filed Oct. 31 in the Family Law Division of the Chula Vista court by an East County woman, was dropped Thursday, according to TMZ.com.

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A 98-word report on TMZ may disappoint La Mesa fans of Justin Bieber. The celebrity website says he’s no longer being accused of fathering a child born at Sharp Grossmont Hospital.

Mariah “Baby Mama” Yeater, as she was called in a thousand blogs, has dismissed her paternity suit against the teen idol, TMZ said early Wednesday. This reportedly came less than three weeks after being filed in South Bay Superior Court.

“The suit was quietly dismissed late last week,” said the celebrity website.  “What’s more, Mariah Yeater’s lawyers, Lance Rogers and Matt Pare, have quit her—withdrawn from the case.”

No documentation was provided or lawyer quoted in the TMZ report. But its “exclusive” was immediately echoed around the Internet, even on mainstream media websites such as the Washington Post and CBS news.

“As we first reported,” TMZ said, “Justin not only planned to take a DNA test when he returned to the U.S., he was going to sue Yeater and her lawyers for making a bogus claim.  And, as we reported, Justin’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, called the attorneys and informed them a suit was looming. Apparently, they got the message.”

Later Wednesday, however, TMZ added a report that Bieber's legal team may still follow through on a threat to sue Yeater. Studio City Patch, covering the Los Angeles County town where Bieber lives, said and a paternity suit is still possible.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that its own sources confirmed the suit had been dropped and said: “The suit was filed Oct. 31, in the South Bay Division of Superior Court. Superior Court spokeswoman Karen Dalton said Wednesday a Dec. 15 court hearing in this case has been taken off the calendar, or essentially canceled. There are no further court dates scheduled on this case.”

The U-T earlier reported that Yeater and her mother had been evicted from a Lakeside apartment complex, and Las Vegas police released a booking photo of Year in a battery case—she was accused of hitting her former boyfriend, also earlier accused of fathering the child.

But if the TMZ report holds up, Tristyn Anthony Markhouse Yeate—born July 6—will have a great story to tell when he grows up.  But he won’t be able to call Justin Bieber “Dad.”