Report: Howard K. Stern Executor of Anna's Will

ET is reporting that Anna Nicole Smith did, in fact, have a will. According to the show, it was written before the death of her son Daniel and the birth of daughter Dannielynn -- and names Howard K. Stern as the executor.

The document reportedly named Daniel as her sole heir, but now that she had a daughter, Dannielynn is, as of now, Anna's closest next of kin.

A family law expert tells TMZ that disposition will get sticky depending on what happens with the paternity suit and whether or not Anna and Howard's Bahamian commitment ceremony is deemed legally binding by a probate court. One complex issue is that Howard cannot legally be the executor and a beneficiary of the will.

Anna's complicated legal woes have followed her to the morgue.

Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith


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1. OMG! this is crazy!

Posted at 7:21PM on Feb 9th 2007 by Coop

2.

You can't make this shit up !!!!!

Let the Jerry Springer show begin LOL !!!!!!!

Again ! the stupid judge needs to demand a DNA test A.S.A.P !!!!!!

Posted at 7:24PM on Feb 9th 2007 by Stop talentless hacks !

3. Yeah, Like we didn't see that one coming! HKS must be the worst "Lawyer "in history! Everyone knows that you cannot legally be the beneficiary as well as the executor of a will. Nice try fuck-wit...We're you high when you thought that one up?

I guess he wanted it all and sat quietly by watching his "beloved" slowly kill herself with his drugs. That's love and proves how much he truly cared about her when she had a 105 degree fever and sat her in a icebath instead of bringing her to a hospital! Everyone knows that a fever that high for an adult is BEYOND dangerous. Yep! He loved her alright.

Posted at 7:25PM on Feb 9th 2007 by SCUMBAG

4. that should shut everyone up that have been persecuting stern. he knew he couldn't be heir as executor. he wasn't after her money. birkhead on the other hand...

Posted at 7:26PM on Feb 9th 2007 by aneurysm

5. Now that it's looking less likely that she OD'd, are any of the news programs going to have the balls to look into TRIMSPA and EPHEDRA as a possible cause of death? They've speculated on everything else but are likely afraid of a lawsuit.

The TrimSpa woman's attitude on LKL was outrageous, considering the herbal crap she peddles to people, knowing it's unsafe. ANS was taking the ephedra version, known to cause permanent heart damage, seizures and other fun stuff until it was banned in 2004. Since it's been reported that she was vomiting and having seizures the day she died, and had some kind of infection with a 105 degree fever days before she died, I wish people would stop with the drug angle and focus on something else.

Posted at 7:29PM on Feb 9th 2007 by TrimSpa SUCKS

6. And this is a shocking story??? Whatever!! Everyone that wanted any part of ANS or now Dani is only after her money. My prayers are with Dani right now and Dani only!!!

Posted at 7:33PM on Feb 9th 2007 by Trish

7. Howard being the executor and eliminated as beneficiary to ANS estate should be indication enough that he isn't after the $$$$.

Posted at 7:38PM on Feb 9th 2007 by so sad

8. call me nuts, but what if her son daniel was the father of the baby and that's why she was fighting the DNA tests. hey, stranger things have happened.

Posted at 7:43PM on Feb 9th 2007 by sue

9. The man is gay. All he wants is the money. He cares nothing about the baby. And her Mother is only after the money. What about ZAZA Gabors husband saying hes the father.

Posted at 7:44PM on Feb 9th 2007 by tattoo

10. Says whom, that he can't be both executor and heir of Anna's will? Bahamanian law? Because I've previously been both executor and heir -- why can't Howard?

Posted at 7:46PM on Feb 9th 2007 by Gigi

11. People, lets get REAL..This crap smells bad from the get go!! Howard K. Stern has enabled this entire situation from the beginning. The Judge who did not have enough legal BALLS to order a paternity test should be dis-barred..lol There are enough dead beat dads out there and here is one trying to claim what right he has to his daughter..If he is the dad, HKS..then he should have no problem swiping his mouth. He purposely led Anna to the Bahamas knowing full well what his LEGAL intentions were. There is no reason that Judge should have ordered that Pat test given the unfortunately death of Annie.. This stinks sooo bad and this whole ordeal has Howard K.Stern all over it. Of course Anna had a will and I am sure he made certain of what was on that will. And for Annie's Lawyer to call Larry Birkhead dispectable, well this entire ordeal is salty if Howard K. Stern can't provide and be a man and show the world if he is indeed The BABY'S DADDY..

Pray for the Baby

Posted at 7:51PM on Feb 9th 2007 by MochaP

12. Stern had nothing to do with either death. He was so whipped over this woman that he ruined his career and reputation to be with her. He is not after any money.....he has stuck with her all these years because he desparately wanted her to return his affections. I bet she never even had sex with him and he said all that shit about their relationship cause she made him.

I have a feeling that he was just too big of a pussy to ever say no to any of her crazy requests and always gave in. The baby is not his and he knows it. However, I think that he is the only person on earth who was truly in love with Anna and cared about her. He would not take advantage of kid, if he got custody.....that is if he doesnt kill himself first cause I doubt he can live without Anna.

Posted at 8:01PM on Feb 9th 2007 by sarah

13. someone mistakenly said:

"Howard being the executor and eliminated as beneficiary to ANS estate should be indication enough that he isn't after the $$$$."

Oh really?

He claimed paternity of Darilynn remember. Officially. Then the court case for DNA test. Days later, while she was with Stern, ANS is murdered by him to stop the DNA test finding out the truth. Next, Stern and his lawyer have denied access to ANS body for the test, despite emergency order from court.

Stern seems to be a killer attempting to hold together his little 1 billion dollar theft.

Surely, another heir being dead only days after in the same damn hospital room, her 20 year old son?! Process of elimination. The trolls are out in force--to defend that ghoul above! Sheesh.

On behalf of the recently established Colombo Society of Reading Between the Lines, paternity and 1 billion dollars can lead to murder... Where's Peter Falk? What an episode:

From CNN:

The tumult surrounding Smith's life now intensifies in death. Plunged into turmoil are

[1] [ongoing] efforts to determine her baby daughter's paternity [potential heir]

[2] and the question of who will inherit her late husband's estate, estimated at more than $1 billion.

[3] Clearing the heirs? Smith dies only five months after her 20-year-old son [heir], Daniel, died in his mother's Bahamas hospital room. [wha?]

[4] Clearing the heirs, though one left: Daniel's death [conveniently] came just three days AFTER Smith gave birth to [novel heir] daughter Dannielynn Hope. The paternity of this child is unestablished though claimed officially by Stern, who married her only 90 days ago.

[5] Where's the billion dollar child? "Dannielynn was not with her mother and Stern at the hotel, sources say, but was being "cared for" in the Bahamas [where the other heir died...] by the mother of Shane Gibson, a high-ranking Bahamian official who is a close friend of Smith's.

[6] another potential heir: Stern, with whom she exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony on Sept. 28 [just about 90 days ago], "is just devastated," [lawyer] Rale [claims]. "He can't speak."

[7] Anna Nicole "suddenly dies" days after court orders DNA test to find out whos child it really was, and i..e, who's billion dollars it was] "On Wednesday, a Los Angeles judge had ordered Smith and Dannielynn to submit to a DNA test by Feb. 21. Then she's dead. The test is tied to a paternity lawsuit filed by photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims he is Dannielynn's father. Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, is listed [as if he is the billion dollar largesse heir] as the infant's father on her birth certificate [instead].

[8] After the news of Smith's death, an emergency hearing was scheduled to occur in Los Angeles on Friday regarding the paternity of Dannielynn, PEOPLE reports. Seems Birkhead's lawyer is desperate to get DNA sample from Anna Nicole Smith before she rots away as dead mere days after court ordered DNA test to determine the eventual fate of 1 billion dollars.

[9] When Smith arrived at the hotel, a witness tells PEOPLE, "she seemed a little woozy. She was walking straight but was being held up by Stern."...

[10] Smith's death occurs only days after the court order for the DNA paternity test. Hard to test a dead body....

[11] An emergency hearing was scheduled to occur in Los Angeles on Friday regarding the paternity of Dannielynn, PEOPLE reports. Birkhead's attorney, Deborah Opri, wants to take a DNA swab from Smith's corpse, which Anna Nicole Smith lawyer strangely is hot to avoid: Rale calls "the lowest form of behavior I've ever heard of." For a lawyer to opine about low behavior when his own connection to 1 billion dollars is threated by the test, is rather sick.

If the child is Sterns' great for him. He has officially claimed it. If he's lying on the official birth certificate and that was about to be found out, hmm. Motive for murder of his recent wife to stop the DNA test confirmation/denial. He only 'married' her 90 days go, rushed into it only three weeks after the daughter heir was born, which he subsequently claimed as well. Photographer Birkhead on the other hand (as well as Stern really) would have motivation to kill previous heir 20 year old son of Smith mere days after this child his born. Either way Stern or Birkhead have motives for murder in a realistic world...some of them twice over.

[12] Why does Stern run down to establish that he is publicly frantic, instead of simply calling for an ambulance from the room where Nicole is? Does he just leave her alone there? Surely a husband would stay by her side particularly after calling the ambulance. "A few minutes later [Stern] ran out of the elevator [to the front desk.] He was frantic." Then strangely after this little display, Stern went back upstairs, the witness said – and minutes later, paramedics arrived. They returned and brought Smith out the front door. "There was a paramedic straddling her on the gurney pumping her chest," says the witness.

[13] Inside Anna Nicole's Surprise Ceremony THURSDAY OCTOBER 05, 2006 09:00 AM EDT In the early morning hours of Sept. 28 Anna Nicole Smith, ***her lawyer and confidant Howard K. Stern and a nanny clutching Smith's 3-week-old daughter*** Dannielynn Hope slipped aboard the 41-ft. catamaran Margaritaville and pushed out to sea off the coast of the Bahamas' Paradise Island. [This was just three weeks after the daughter heir born, and two and a half weeks after her other 20 year old son heir is dead. Stern officially claims paternity, though that is being held up by Smith's recent death--mere days after court ordered paternity test for Birkhead's simultaneous claim.] But this was no ordinary pleasure cruise. [It was a billion dollar marriage deal.] Later that day a Baptist minister and some of the couple's close friends were ferried to a nearby island called Sandy Cay, where they met up with Smith, 38, and Stern, 37, before setting sail again on the catamaran. At around 3 p.m., Stern, in a black dress suit and white shirt, and Smith, holding a bouquet of red roses, exchanged vows and Bible verses – as well as temporary rings, because the real ones weren't yet ready. [Made a fast decision, when, immediately after daughter was born?...] After the ceremony "we all cheered and Anna wanted to jump into the ocean," says John James, Smith's friend and the former Dynasty actor. "But there were sharks out there, so we sped back to (Sandy Cay), and then Anna and Howard jumped in."

Perhaps the shark was on the boat. Perhaps she married one of those sharks.

Stern or Smith's lawyer doesn't seem to want to go through with that court ordered paternity test....and a pattern is starting to develop of quick deaths of heirs--one heir dead within days after the birth of alternative heir Dannielynn Hope, and another death mere days after the court ordered paternity test of the young daughter (death of Nicole herself). A third quick decision is the recent marriage of Stern to Nicole only 90 days ago, rushed into existence (no rings, no time) only three weeks after Dannielynn heir was born, where he is claiming officially that he is father.


Filling in for Colombo, I think he would say "Help me clear a few things up here. There's something I don't understand, perhaps it's just me..."

Posted at 8:03PM on Feb 9th 2007 by filling in for Colombo

14. #8 Nuts? how about one sickassed human being. You ASSHOLES every heard the expression "not to speak ill of the dead" Im already so sick of this crap. This poor woman was in massive pain over her son, she never got a chance to enjoy her little girl. This jerk Larry, if he was the father, should have respected her enough to let her grieve, instead he went on shows babbling a bunch of bullshit. Now then Anna Nicole's horrid mother has finally found her way into the middle of it all even though Anna Nicole made it clear to the whole world she wanted no part of that woman...how tragic! And now some of you stupidassed people are saying shit like Howard K Stern was trying to get the money (Id like to know what money) and then we got this moron up above saying Anna Nicole was screwing her own son. Twisted ASSHOLE! Poor Anna Nicole, yes she wasnt acting right .Her beloved son died a few days after her baby was born.....i dont think it takes a rocket scientist to realize she wasnt on point. But some of the things you people are typing are just asinine

Posted at 8:04PM on Feb 9th 2007 by What a crock of shit!

15. Colombo.....would it not be easier to kill birkhead and get rid of the competition....as far as all of this DNA crap, they have her DNA already as part of the autopsy. the judge just denied an additional sample specifically for the paternity test. And what does it matter how long she is dead for anyway???? they can get DNA out of a mummy, so Birkheads emergency request was in poor taste.

Posted at 8:19PM on Feb 9th 2007 by sarah

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