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Palin’s daughter, fiancé break up Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2009 | 1:32 AM ET Comments82Recommend27 The Associated Press
Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, the teenaged daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have broken off their engagement, he said Wednesday, about 2½ months after the couple had a baby.
Johnston, 19, said he and 18-year-old Bristol Palin mutually decided “a while ago” to end their relationship. He declined to elaborate as he stood outside his family’s home in Wasilla, about 65 kilometres north of Anchorage.
He also said some details of the breakup, rumours of which had been swirling on the internet, were inaccurate.
Bristol Palin said in a statement that she was devastated about a report on Star magazine’s website that quoted Levi’s sister, Mercede, as saying Bristol “makes it nearly impossible” to visit the teenagers’ infant son, Tripp. The baby was born Dec. 27.
“Unfortunately, my family has seen many people say and do many things to ‘cash in’ on the Palin name,” said the statement, which was issued through the governor’s political action committee.
“Sometimes that greed clouds good judgment and the truth.”
Meghan Stapleton, a spokesperson for the political action committee, did not immediately respond to calls seeking further information. The governor’s spokesman, Bill McAllister, declined comment.
Sarah Palin revealed her daughter’s pregnancy just days after being named Arizona Senator John McCain’s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket for last fall’s U.S. elections.
She had said in December that her daughter and Johnston “are committed to accomplish what millions of other young parents have accomplished, to provide a loving and secure environment for their child.”
In an interview that aired on Fox News last month, Bristol Palin said her fiancé saw the baby every day and described him as a “hands-on” dad.
Johnston and Palin had said they were considering a summer wedding.
“We both love each other,” he told the AP in October. “We both want to marry each other. And that’s what we are going to do.”