Anna Nicole Slapped With Fraud Suit

Larry BirkheadOne of the men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's newborn daughter is mounting a legal attack in the Bahamas.

In a statement made outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse today, Larry Birkhead's attorney, Debra Opri, said that Birkhead has filed a claim, alleging fraud and conspiracy against Anna Nicole, her lawyer-lover, Howard K. Stern, and the Registrar who certified the baby girl's birth certificate.

In court documents filed today, Birkhead alleges that Stern, with Smith's permission, fraudulently represented that he was the father by signing the birth certificate. Opri says Anna and Howard have 14 days to respond to her client's claim.

This newest development opens the door to force a paternity test in the Bahamas. Birkhead has already filed legal papers in Los Angeles asking a judge to force the issue.



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1621. The other article at Bahamas B2B.com was posted 5 days ago. It is number 6 on their site and the title is "Rate of Coroner's Inquests Has Not Increased."
The video on You Tube with Anna's cousin was revolting. Does anyone know when it was taken. Haven"t heard anything recent about ANS and Howie. What I saw on Nancy Grace seemed to just be a repeat. Are they back in Bahamas now?Any word re. the mediation hearing results?

Posted at 1:38PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Walter Barbera

1622. New TMZ Anna Nicole article - "Anna Nicole Paternity Test -- Deadline Set".

Is everybody moving over to that COMMENT board???

Posted at 4:47PM on Jan 2nd 2007 by INQUIRING MIND

1623. Keep your waist high wading boots on tonight when you watch ANS's attorney Ron Rale, on ET/The Insider!!! And listen with a COMMON SENSE FILTER to what he says, and more importantly to what he does NOT say. What does he leave out????

It looks like it is gonna be damage control and total SPIN!!!!!!
They realize that they cannot avoid the DNA test forever .... so, they are throwing out anything negative at all that they can conjure up to say about LB.

The important thing, which R.R. will most likely skirt around, is getting the DNA test DONE! This is what the public cares about (not the other technicalities and legal games being played in the court system).

I'm sure a judge will address the other secondary issues of "custody" and "drug testing" AFTER the DNA test is DONE and LB is proven to be the true daddy. R.R. is saying these portions of LB's case were "thrown out" ..... but he does not say that they will be addressed at a later date.

Ron Rale cannot keep saying, with a straight face, that ANS has not refused to take the DNA test, when she clearly HAS REFUSED! The public can see that she has continued to refuse. There is no logical reason for her to delay and refuse unless she has something to hide, or to try to make LB run out of money in the legal battle. The DNA test is the whole basis of LB's lawsuit! She HAS refused to take it. Period.

It is common practice in all lawsuits for the party bringing the lawsuit to ask the judge to make the other side pay for their legal fees. This is reasonable. If the party being sued had not done the wrongful things they did, which caused the lawsuit in the first place, no money on legal fees would have been spent.

ANS has known all along that LB is the baby's true daddy, and she cooked up a scam to try to prevent the public from learning this truth because it did not suit her agenda. ANS should have to pay for what she has done to LB. It's only right.

ET's slanted, biased "reporting" of the ANS news is totally DISGUSTING and transparent. Why don't they have LB on there? Or Debra Opri? Why do they let ANS' camp make statements of half truths and lies without pressing them further with hard hitting questions?

Why doesn't ET broadcast a video of Anna and Dannielynn having their mouths swabbed for the DNA test? That's what we want to see!

Ron Rale said that Anna "WILL COMPLY WITH THE ORDER".
Let's hold him to that.


Posted at 4:00PM on Jan 4th 2007 by INQUIRING MIND

1624. Well, the ET "interview" with ANS's attorney, Ron Rale, was a slanted biased pile of doo doo, just as I suspected it would be!

The only thing that matters and that the public wants to hear about, is Anna getting the DNA testing DONE.

We are not impressed with slick Ron playing word games and trying everything in the shady, slick, slimey attorney handbook to DELAY and avoid the DNA testing for as long as possible.

Instead of answering in an open, upfront manner that ANS WILL comply with the order to have the DNA testing done by Jan. 23rd, R.R. has to talk about side issues of custody and LB's legal bills, which are matters to be dealt with AFTER the DNA test is completed.

It was obvious that ET structured their "questions" to R.R. in a way to allow him to broadcast only the rehearsed, scripted statements that he wanted to air.

Instead of Mark Steines asking R.R. if the California judge can FORCE the DNA test, and if the local authorities in the Bahamas can MAKE her take the test .... why didn't ET ask WHY isn't Anna voluntarily taking the test to comply with the court order without being FORCED to do it?

ET and R.R. intentionally clouded the issues and made it sound like it has to be taken before a Bahamian judge. The issue of the DNA test has already been decided and ruled on by the California judge. He said he DOES have jurisdiction, and he said the DNA test WILL BE DONE.

ANS and HKS thought LB would never file a paternity lawsuit .... and if he did ... that he would never get an ORDER from a judge to have the DNA test done.
They were wrong, and they underestimated LB.

ANS will submit to the DNA testing because she cannot risk having a CONTEMPT of court warrant issued on her, so she can come back to the states to grab some Marshall money. The courts in the Marshall money case would frown on ANS having a contempt of court ruling against her.

She will finally take the DNA testing only because it suits her agenda on other matters. She will play the "oops mistake thot Howie was the daddy" card, and the "feel sorry for me cuz I lost my son" card, and hope she gets some JURORS on her cases that buy her act.

Posted at 9:54PM on Jan 4th 2007 by INQUIRING MIND

1625. Watch FOX new "Lineup" - Larry Birkhead , Saturday night 10:30pm ET

Posted at 10:14PM on Jan 6th 2007 by INQUIRING MIND

1626.
Larry Birkhead and his attorney, Debra Opri on FOX NEWS the "LINEUP", Saturday 1/6/07.

FOX's Kimberly Guilfoyle said that the paternity of Dannielynn will be determined soon because of a court order stating it must be done by Jan. 23rd.. She said the facts of the case were that Laurie Payne filed a sworn declaration stating that ANS told her that Larry Birkhead is the baby's father, and that ANS was taking Xanax and Methadone while pregnant.

Debra Opri said the DNA test WILL happen and that the judge allowed LB to use his lab in California, and ANS will use the Bahamas lab. D.O. said they will make SURE that there is no switching of babies, such as HKS's niece being used for the testing, and they will make SURE it is Dannielynn that is DNA tested. (I think it would be good if they video taped the DNA testing)

R.R. was on the phone and said he just came from LeggoLand -- and LB said maybe his time would be better spent at LeggoLand because he is making a lot of inaccurate statements.

Debra Opri also said that everything R.R. said on the phone was inaccurate.
She said the issues that R.R. brought up will be heard at a later time. They have not been heard yet (they were NOT DENIED as R.R. tries to say).

Debra Opri said that LB must have a standing as the father before he proceeds with custody and visitation motions. D.O. said the motions will be heard, and ANS will have another REALITY CHECK!

Ron Rale tried to get his same old tired, lame blah blah blah in there about other issues that will be handled at a later time, and keeps saying that LB will have to go to the Bahamas to assert custodial rights. Then, Kimberly (FOX woman) told R.R. "yeah, I bet he (LB) WILL go to the Bahamas to do that. And LB said of course he will go to the Bahamas and do whatever he has to do.

FOX's Kimberly said that the baby does NOT look anything like Howard, and that evidence speaks for itself!

Kimberly asked LB if he still talks to Anna and LB said again how he sent Christmas gifts for HIS baby, and Anna called him to say thanks and that they were pretty. He said he maintains communication but she cannot talk when Howard is in the room, she has to go. LB said that one time he called and Howard answered the phone, and thats when Howard figured out what they were doing. LB said that HKS is trying to get attorney Ron Rale to press harassment charges against LB, but that is not accurate.

LB said that he knows, and Anna knows that he is the father. He went to all the doctor appointments with her up to about the 5th month of pregnancy and went through all the motions of planning to be a daddy.

FOX's Kimberly said she knows this is frustrating for LB, and that if he is the daddy, he deserves to have those rights instated.

It was a really GOOD show! I'm glad that Larry and his attorney had a chance to refute the crappola that Ron Rale said on Entertainment Tonight.

For some reason ..... Anna is in Hollywood, Florida at a WBC heavyweight bout between Samuel Peter and James Toney on Saturday night ???? Interesting how she can get out and do something stupid like this ..... but couldn't manage to get herself to California for DNA testing! I guess a boxing match is of more interest to her than her daughter's paternity or an INQUEST into her son's death? I guess she had to have hair and makeup for this public outing too? It really looks like she wants to be "left alone while she is grieving" (NOT!)

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070107/482/flwl10101070248

Posted at 1:26AM on Jan 7th 2007 by INQUIRING MIND

1627. Ughhhhh, I missed that. I wish I would have seen it. Time is ticking for Howard - ANS better watch herself, I have said all along I have a bad, bad feeling about the end of this. I would HATE (and I mean that) for Howard to do something terrible to ANS or the baby because "the plan" went up in flames.

Posted at 7:19PM on Jan 7th 2007 by Patty

1628. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16441603/
Hands off Anna Nicole Smith's assets
10 hrs ago | MSNBC

Anna Nicole Smith wants to make sure no one gets their hands on her assets. The former Playmate - who for years has been involved in a messy dispute over her late husband's fortune - is looking to set up a ...

By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 1:50 a.m. CT Jan 8, 2007

Anna Nicole Smith wants to make sure no one gets their hands on her assets.
The former Playmate — who for years has been involved in a messy dispute over her late husband’s fortune — is looking to set up a dummy corporation so that the man who says he’s the father of her daughter can’t get any of the money she might inherit.

“Now that a judge has ordered a paternity suit so that Larry Birkhead can determine if he is, indeed the father, Anna’s scared,” says a source. “Anna’s no legal eagle, but the idea of a dummy or shell corporation is something she learned in her fight over [her late husband] J. Howard Marshall’s estate. And, of course her lawyer [Howard K. Stern, the man Smith says is the baby’s father] explained it to her.”

The insider says that Smith is “still waiting for that money from Marshall’s estate to come through, and she shouldn’t hold her breath.”

Even though her biggest nemesis, Marshall’s son, has died, the estate is prepared to fight it, says the source, adding, “She’s looking to protect assets that she doesn’t really have and from what I hear, isn’t likely to get.”

Posted at 2:12PM on Jan 8th 2007 by INQUIRING MIND

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