Last week, Jude Law’s spokesperson released one of the most cryptic impending-baby announcements ever, in the history of public relations. Jude announced that he was expecting a baby this fall with an unnamed woman, whom he no longer had a romantic/sexual relationship with. We got to play the guessing game for more than a day before TMZ finally figured out the baby-mama was some random actress/model named Samantha Burke. Burke’s lawyer released a confirmation, and since then, people have been trying to figure out exactly how this happened. But late Friday, Samantha and her lawyers held a press conference on her parents’ front lawn in Florida to discuss the situation, and Samantha claims that Jude has been “nothing but responsive and supportive”:

Samantha Burke, the 24-year-old actress-model from Florida expecting Jude Law’s baby in October after a brief relationship, held a press conference at her mother’s home, along with her lawyers, to ask for her privacy.

Waving to the gathered photographers as she exited the home, she introduced herself to the world with, “Hi, I’m Samantha Burke.”

Burke’s statement [through her lawyer]: “Ms. Burke can confirm that she did in fact have a relationship with Mr. Law and that she has informed Mr. Law that she is expecting his child later this fall,” the statement reads. “Since informing Mr. Law of the pregnancy, he has been nothing but responsive and supportive of Ms. Burke and the pregnancy. Mr. Law and Ms. Burke are committed to the health, safety and well-being of this child throughout the pregnancy and after the child is born.”

After one of the lawyers spoke Samantha said, “I would just really appreciate if everyone would respect my privacy… it’s a hard time.”

[From Huffington Post]

Of course, that’s not going to be the end of it. I hope that the paparazzi do leave Samantha alone, but I can’t help but find the stories interesting. OK! has a some insider stuff about Samantha via her “friends”. They basically claim it’s a joke to call what Jude and Samantha were doing a “relationship”. Apparently, they basically only met “a couple” of times:

Jude Law’s baby mama is happy to raise their child without the actor being around, OK! Magazine has learned. But, then again, it’s not like Samantha Burke ever exactly got used to his company in the first place, reveals our source.

While Samantha’s lawyers claim she and Jude “had a relationship”, a source close to the 24-year-old says it was really more like, “just a couple of meetings”.

According to the mole, the divorced actor — who already has three children — picked her up while she was an aspiring actress working as a cocktail waitress in New York. And although the first-time mom is said to be excited about the pregnancy, she is planning to raise the child as a single mother and share a room with the baby at her parents’ home.

Samantha graduated from a high school in Pensacola, Fla., in 2003 and landed a few modeling jobs for local magazines before moving to New York in the summer of 2007 to take acting classes. Samantha paid her way with a job serving cocktails at an exclusive nightclub where she regularly mingled with celebrities.

It was there, according to our source, that she met Jude around Christmas 2008, while he was in the city filming Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes alongside Robert Downey Jr.. “There wasn’t a relationship like [her lawyers are] making it out to be,” said the source. “I think it was a couple of meetings and that was it.”

The source says that the unplanned turn of events quickly put an end to Samantha’s dreams of becoming an actress, and she headed straight back to Florida to move back in with her parents.

“She’s really excited [about becoming a mom],” said the source. “And she’s anxious. It’s a sad situation because she’s a very motivated person and she moved out there to pursue her dream career and then the situation happened. But I do think she’s very excited about it and she has a lot of support from her friends and family.”

“There’s no relationship whatsoever,” said the source. “I think she knows this is going to be a single parent thing. She’s never been the kind of person who’d want to be with someone just for a child.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I think it’s weird that Samantha’s dreams of being an actress are now “over” because she’s pregnant. She could still work and live in New York as a single mother – it’s not unheard of, for goodness sake. Oh, well. I’m sure she’s happier being with her family.

There are a couple of other little pieces of news about the whole baby-mama drama. Radar is reporting that Jude has promised Samantha that he’ll be present when she gives birth, and that he wants to be involved in the child’s life. Radar also says that all communication between them is going through the lawyers. Yikes. But I totally believe that. Also, the Daily Express is reporting that Samantha father read Jude “the riot act” about getting his daughter pregnant. Apparently, he feels that Jude “took advantage” of Samantha, and when Dad went to yell at Jude, Jude wouldn’t return any of the phone calls. Dad wants Jude to “be a man about this”. I’m not sure how much I believe this story, though. I think Jude and Samantha both are kind of dealing with it the best way they can, and Jude seems to be stepping up now that he’s sure the baby is his.