Dude You're Getting a Lakshmi

By Alex Vallis 03/18/10 at 10:34AM

Adam Dell Revealed as Padma Lakshmi's Baby Daddy

Confirming earlier rumors, New York-based venture capitalist Adam Dell is, indeed, food world siren Padma Lakshmi's baby daddy.  Dell, the younger brother of Dell, Inc. founder Micahel Dell, is a minor fixture on the New York social scene, and host of a fairly well-known annual July 4th clam bake at the beach front house he rents in the very tony Flying Point area of Bridgehampton, NY.  The two reportedly met through mutual friends.  Though Lakshmi has already said Dell would act as a father figure to her baby girl, Krishna, he now wants additional visitation rights, E! Online reports.  "It's all in negotiations. They are trying to work it out. They are trying to avoid anything messy," another source reveals to People.