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Larry Birkhead Buys Anna Nicole Smith's Old Lingerie for Dannielynn

Alissa R — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:20:45 -0400

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"It's not something I can show [her] today, but... down the road," he says

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Larry Birkhead paid nearly $3,000 at an auction Saturday for lingerie worn by late ex Anna Nicole Smith in a Playboy shoot.

Birkhead explained he paid $1,800 for a pink bustier and $1,000 for a white negligee because he wanted to give their 1-year-old daughter Dannielynn a keepsake of her mother.

"I have a lot of history I have to put together that she doesn't really know about," he told the Associated Press. "Playboy was such a big part of Anna's career.

"You know, it's not something I can show today, but something down the road," he added. "It's not going to be in any bedtime stories anytime soon."

Birkhead was given sole custody of Dannielynn after Smith's drug-induced death in February 2007. Dannielynn was named the sole heir to Smith's estate.

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The auction was held at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

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Larry Birkhead and Dannielynn Smith arrive at the Launch celebration party for The Simpson's Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood on May 17, 2008 in Universal City, California.

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Rachel Paula Abrahamson — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:56:28 -0400

Larry Birkhead: Anna Nicole Smith's Son Stole Her Methadone

Alissa R — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:31:05 -0400

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Daniel Smith was once hospitalized for taking too much Valium, Birkhead testifies

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Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel stole some of her Methadone months before his death, Larry Birkhead testified at an inquest into the boy's death in the Bahamas today.

Birkhead said he reviewed surveillance tapes after some of Anna Nicole's Methadone went missing in April 2006. Footage showed Daniel and his friends stealing it, he testified, according to TMZ.com.

Birkhead claimed he noticed a drastic change in Daniel's personality between January and May 2006. On one occasion, Birkhead testified, Daniel threw a television set through a window.

He also claimed that Daniel was hospitalized for taking too much Valium in July 2006.

Daniel died at the age of 20 in September 2006 from an accidental overdose of Methadone and the anti-depressants Zoloft and Lexapro.

Anna Nicole died of an accidental overdose about five months later.

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Dannielynn Named Sole Heir to Anna Nicole Smith's Estate

Mandi Illuzzi — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:45:36 -0500

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A judge also established a trust in the 18-month-old's name

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Dannielynn has been named the sole heir to Anna Nicole Smith's estate, a Los Angeles judge declared today.

Last October, Smith's attorney and companion Howard K. Stern (the executor of her estate) filed papers seeking to clarify intentions in Smith's 2001 will, which was drafted five years before her daughter's birth.

"Anna Nicole never intended to disinherit her daughter," a lawyer for Stern said after today's ruling, the Associated Press reports. "I'm pleased to say this chapter in the saga is closed."

A judge also established a trust on the 18-month-old's behalf, with Stern and Dannielynn's father, Larry Birkhead, acting as co-trustees.

Dannielynn — who recently underwent eye surgery — could still inherit millions of dollars from the estate of Smith's second husband, billionaire J. Howard Marshall. That case is currently in litigation in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Larry Birkhead Dresses Dannielynn in a “Who’s Your Daddy?” T-Shirt

Lindsay Powers — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:20:28 -0500

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The father-daughter team hit up Beverly Hills

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Larry Birkhead is poking fun at the past hoopla over who fathered Dannielynn, Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter.

Birkhead — whose DNA tests results in April proved that he, not Howard K. Stern, was the child’s dad — dressed his 14-month-old in a T-shirt (bought at West Hollywood boutique Kitson) that read “Who’s Your Daddy?” during a shopping spree on Robertson Boulevard in L.A. Sunday.

The tot may have more to get off her chest.

While in the Beverly Hills boutique Lisa Kline Kids, they scoped out two other tops that read, “My Mom Is Little Miss Bossy” and “I Love Mommy.”

Between picking up message T’s, Birkhead put a giggling and cheerful Dannielynn on his shoulders and showered her with kisses.

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Anna Nicole's Producer Found, Explains Disturbing Clown Tape

Allison Corneau — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:06:13 -0400

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Usmagazine.com has exclusively learned the identity of “Mark,” the mystery man Howard K. Stern repeatedly refers to in the shocking new Anna Nicole Smith video.

Mark Schey, the president and CEO of creative agency 22Digital, which created the “TRIMSPA, Baby!” slogan, tells Us that through his “good, professional relationship” with Smith he often helped her post fan videos on her personal website “as a courtesy kind of thing.” He claims he was not paid, however, and that he wasn't present at the Bahamas video shoot.

“It could have been something [Stern] intended to put on [her website]. He would give me instructions, ‘edit this, don’t do this,’” Schey tells Us, adding, “I’ve never seen that video, and had nothing to do with the filming of it. I never even got this tape.”

Schey is “not sure” who was the man behind the camera, but says it “could” have been Stern.

“I help put videos online – I had nothing to do with the production of them, and was not there when she filmed any of them,” Schey explains.

Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for TRIMSPA, tells Us: “Mark Schey is not an employee of TRIMSPA. He owns his own company and TRIMSPA has contracted Mark on occasion for TRIMSPA-related events. The video is not a TRIMSPA event, nor is it related to TRIMSPA in any way.”

The disturbing footage of an apparently drugged-up, eight-months-pregnant Smith — which was seen on Geraldo Rivera ’s show Geraldo at Large this week — shows an incoherent Smith in clown makeup, pushing a baby doll in a stroller at her then-home in the Bahamas. Smith acts as if she thinks the doll is alive and does not realize she is pregnant; she appears to thinks she is just bloated from gas, the tape shows.

Her partner Howard K. Stern can be overheard asking Smith if she is on a "mushroom trip" and giving direction to a colleague he calls "Mark."

At one point, Stern says, "This footage is worth money," and instructs Smith to cover her right breast, which had popped out of her caftan. He then says, "You can’t show that, Mark."

On the tape, Stern and Smith are joined by the nine-year-old daughter of Smith’s former friend, Ford Shelley — whose father-in-law, G. Ben Thompson, owns the home where Smith was staying at the time — who was at the house for a playdate when the tape was shot. The child is overheard urging Stern to "Cut the tape off and help..." Later she pleads, "I think we need the hospital... Howard, seriously, please help!"

Stern has claimed the tape, a small portion of which was broadcast earlier this year on Fox News Channel, was stolen.

But last night on Geraldo, Shelley — who admitted he took the tape — shot back: "It’s funny to me that he said I stole something ... I had a key to the house."

Shelley added that his daughter was "emotionally not good" after the incident.

So why release it? "I want the truth to come out," he told Rivera.

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Anna Nicole Smith’s Nannies Deny Interviewing with Rita Cosby

Alissa R — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:18 -0400

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A lawyer for two nannies who worked for Anna Nicole Smith say that Rita Cosby falsely used them as a source in her book for a claim that Howard K. Stern had a videotaped sexual encounter with Larry Birkhead.

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A lawyer for two nannies who worked for Anna Nicole Smith say that Rita Cosby falsely used them as a source in her book for a claim that Howard K. Stern had a videotaped sexual encounter with Larry Birkhead.

Quethlie Alexis and Nadine Alexie, who worked as nannies for Smith in the Bahamas, never spoke to the author of the book, former MSNBC host Rita Cosby, attorney Elizabeth Thompson said. Furthermore, they never spoke about a sexual encounter between Smith’s former lover, Stern, and Birkhead, the father of her child.

"They don't know one way or another if it happened," Thompson told the Associated Press.

Cosby's book, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, states that the nannies, accompanied by a lawyer, told a private investigator that Smith liked to sit in bed and watch a videotape of Birkhead and Stern having a sexual encounter.

Cosby admits that she never spoke to the nannies but stands by her book, which also attributes the claim of a sexual encounter to a friend of Smith's.

"We have a number of sources," she said. "We have it attributed directly to a private investigator who specifically said that."

Stern has called the claim "ridiculous," and last week filed a $60 million libel lawsuit against Cosby and her publisher.. An attorney for Birkhead has said he also plans to file a lawsuit.

Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in Florida in February at age 39.

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Pics: Rita Cosby’s Reaction to Being Served With Lawsuit at Book Party

Noelle Hancock — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:08:21 -0400

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The author couldn't contain her shock while walking into a Manhattan book signing.

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Rita Cosby, TV journalist and author of Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, was walking into a Manhattan book signing Wednesday night when she was officially served the documents in Howard K. Stern's libel case against her. (See video on The Insider.)

"It's all PR and spin,” Cosby, 42, told Usmagazine.com after being served while Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, looked on. “So I'm not surprised that they used this opportunity. This is par for the course for these characters."

Stern, former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, filed the $60 million libel suit against Cosby and her publisher for alleging in Blonde Ambition that Stern, 38, and Larry Birkhead engaged in homosexual acts. The book also alleges that Stern and Birkhead struck a deal whereby Birkhead would get custody of Dannielynn in exchange for Stern being named executor of Smith's estate.

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Rita Cosby Served With Lawsuit

Megan Lynn — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:55:26 -0400

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The author is handed legal papers at her NY book signing.

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Just minutes after being served, Cosby, 42, told Usmagazine.com, "What crossed my mind...they knew I was walking into a big book party. It just shows you that with these guys it's all just smoke and mirrors. It's all PR and spin. And that's what I write about in my book. So I'm not surprised that they used this opportunity. This is par for the course for these characters."

Stern, former Anna Nicole Smith lawyer and lover, filed the $60 million libel suit against Rita Cosby and her publisher on Tuesday. In Blonde Ambition, Cosby alleges that Stern, 38, and Larry Birkhead, Smith's former lover and the father of her daughter, Dannielynn, engaged in homosexual acts. The books also alleges that Stern and Birkhead struck a deal whereby Birkhead would get custody of Dannielynn in exchange for Stern being named executor of Smith's estate.

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Howard K. Stern Sues Author Rita Cosby For Libel

Megan Lynn — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:40:07 -0400

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Stern claims allegations in Cosby's Anna Nicole Smith book are false.

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Usmagazine.com confirms that former Anna Nicole Smith lawyer Howard K. Stern has sued journalist Rita Cosby for libel. Stern's lawyer Lin Wood tells Us, "The libel lawsuit was filed this afternoon in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Rita Cosby and her publisher, Hachette Book Group USA."

The lawsuit, which was first reported by CelebTV.com, asks for $60 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.

Former MSNBC anchor Cosby is the author of Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death. In the book, she writes that Stern, 38, and Larry Birkhead, Smith's former lover and the father of her daughter, Dannielynn, engaged in homosexual acts, which were caught on tape. Further, the book alleges that Stern and Birkhead struck a deal -- Birkhead would get custody of Dannielynn in exchange for Stern being named executor of Smith's estate.

Before the book's release, Birkhead, 34, told Us of Cosby's claims, "If this book is not sitting next to Harry Potter on the fiction shelf, then Rita Cosby is going to be wrapped in one of the most expensive lawsuits ever."

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