Who Owns Your Sperm?

June, 2001

When Boris Becker dropped by a London restaurant in 1999, he had no idea his bill would be so enormous: £2 million, or nearly $3 million. That's the sum the German tennis star paid to settle a paternity claim brought by a Russian Algerian waitress named Angela Ermakowa, who claimed she had a single sexual encounter that night with Becker.The German newspaper Bild had a field day with the story. It reported that Becker insisted he and Ermakowa only had oral sex, and that his lawyers suggested the...