Ronn Owen in the eye of a paternity fraud storm.
Bay Area radio icon Ronn Owen’s family has found itself in the headlines again after his daughter, Laura Owens, faced a grand jury indictment in Arizona on seven felony counts tied to a high-profile paternity dispute. In 2023, Owens filed suit alleging former reality-TV lead Clayton Echard had impregnated her, seeking child support and asserting she was carrying his twins.
Echard, the star of Season 26 of The Bachelor, denied any intimate encounter that could have led to pregnancy and challenged the suit in court. Owens later claimed a miscarriage, but inconsistencies in her testimony and documents—including allegedly doctored ultrasound images and a staged pregnancy video—prompted a judge to dismiss the civil case and forward evidence to prosecutors.
As Laura Owens confronts potential prison time, her father battles Parkinson’s, cancer, and spiraling medical bills—a struggle that has prompted a community-backed fundraising effort to cover his care.
In early May 2025, a Maricopa County grand jury handed down a seven-count indictment against Laura Owens, charging her with one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, one count of forgery, four counts of perjury, and one count of tampering with physical evidence. Prosecutors allege that between May 2023 and June 2024, Owens intentionally fabricated key documents and statements to support her claim that Clayton...
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