Well, actually, this time it's the men who have Amber trouble.

More than four years after Frey swore that a 29-year-old Fresno, Calif., man fathered her first child, and she nailed him for child support, a DNA test says it isn't so.

Hairstylist Anthony Flores is off the hook for $175-a-month in kiddie maintenance after a genetic test showed a local nightclub owner is actually the 4-year-old girl's daddy.

Neither Frey nor real papa Christopher Funch, who owns Porky's in Fresno, could be reached for comment yesterday.

An employee at the bar said, "He's got no comment. He's trying to stay away from you guys."

Frey, a massage therapist from Fresno, was Peterson's mistress when he killed his pregnant wife, Laci, in December 2003. Her testimony later helped prosecutors put the fertilizer salesman on Death Row.

But in a Madera County, Calif., paternity suit, Frey fingered the wrong man.

"Amber Frey belongs on one of those Maury Povich 'Who's my baby's daddy?' shows," Flores' lawyer Glenn Wilson said yesterday. Flores said he feels "foolish" and "betrayed."

"She was very convincing when she told me I was the only person who could be the father. ... I want an apology."

Court Commissioner Nancy Staggs ordered the county to stop collecting support from Flores. He'll receive a refund of money paid since Funch passed the paternity test in late June.

Wilson alleged that Frey deliberately lied in a bid "to get him [Flores] to marry her" after he dumped her.

Flores told Frey he was "not ready to be a father" and gave her $450 to pay for an abortion, Wilson says.

But in her recent tell-all book, "Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution of Scott Peterson," Frey said she never considered terminating the pregnancy.

"Well, she took the money," says Wilson. "It says a lot about her credibility."

Wilson said he thinks Frey "had to have known" all along that she had slept with Funch around the time her daughter Ayanna was conceived.

Still, Frey took Flores to court for support and when he fell behind at times, the state took away his driver's license. Frey also called him "a deadbeat dad" in interviews.

Flores, who still calls the child "my daughter," fought for visitation with the child. When Frey refused, Wilson says he notified the court he planned to seek a paternity test. Soon, Wilson was notified that, "lo and behold," Funch was the daddy.

"Anthony is hurt and stunned by this," Wilson says. "He still refers to the child as 'my daughter.' And his mother thought she had a grandchild. They were lied to."

Originally published on September 20, 2005