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.

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166. I was just wondering, when the tests come out and show BIRKHEAD to be the father, who is incharge of the money then ? HK$ ??? - that will make it hard for birkhead to raise his little girl with HK$ always around....IMO only........also one more crazy question..I heard on one of the MANY news stories about ANS that Daniel was "getting over a girl" while he was visiting the bahamas and when she had the baby,......what if THAT "GIRL" showed her face now with her own baby bump.......therefore showing another heir.....anyway again IMO

Posted at 1:12AM on Feb 17th 2007 by Trixie

167. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, smells like a duck, guess what folks, it is a duck. Get the DNA tests over with and stop the nonsense and media hype. Get to the point and let that poor baby know her real father and begin a stable life.

Posted at 11:24PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Cassie

168. LEAVE HOWARD ALONE. HER MOTHER IS THE WHITE TRASH WHO DIDNT LOVE HER DAUGHTER. SHE LIED ON THE WITNESS STAND

Posted at 6:26PM on Feb 21st 2007 by RAMONA

169. In my opinion and expressing my 1st Amendment RIght, it is so obvious to me at least that HKS murdered both Daniel Smith and Anna Nicole Smith TO GET TO THE MONEY. He orchestrated this whole Bahama residence thing because he went to the exact place that the biological father, most likely Larry Birkhead , has no legal rights -- the Bahamas. HKS got his name put on the birth certificate as the father, which I don't believe for a nanosecond that he is, all to get Dannnielynn and the money atttached to her through the ongoing court battle over her late husband's money. He went to ET over and over again and used his video footage of the birth to his own end. What a coincidence that Daniel had methadone in his system, something that was all over Anna Nicole's house. HKS probably slipped it in something or lied about what is was and gave it to Daniel to get him out of the picture of inheritin any money then he got rid of Anna Nicole in Fla. because that would have been too obvious to do the same thing to her in the Bahamas. How convenient. A 21 year old kid doesn't show up to see his half sister and wind up dead in hospital chair 2 or 3 days later. HKS made his move right then and there to get rid of him. Anna Nicole was too trusting of this snake and too doped up to realize what he was really up to. I'm sure he kept her on drugs so she wa too stoned to see what he was doing. He made $12,000.00 last year and I think his parents were supporting him and sold his phony baloney interview to ET for a cool million and is shedding is crocodile tears. Why would he want to make a million bucks off her death if he really loved her? OPPORTUNIST. BLOOD MONEY. Just waiting to see him in the orange jumpsuit and handcuffs in court. IMO,hHe is nothing but a manipulative, conniving murderer who I hope is arrested soon in this double murder and brought to justice.

Posted at 10:52PM on Feb 25th 2007 by MJ

170. Oh, and I just saw the video of Anna Nicole in the weird clown makeup pushing Dannielynn in the stroller in the Bahamas and HKS quckly grabbing his ever preent video camera and telling her to look up into the camera and asking her if she was "on another mushroom trip" and her too stoned to even comprehend what he was saying. Then telling her on the video "This is worth money" and her asking "What's worth money" and him telling her "this footage" and she's again too stoned to understand and asking "what footage" so he asks her "what are you looking into" and she says "a camera". Bingo. What a two headed snake. I just hope great detectives and cops move in on him fast and arrest him and put his despicable butt in jail for the rest of his life for murdering her and her son to get all that MONEY.

Posted at 11:14PM on Feb 25th 2007 by MJ

171. In my opinion, I wouldn't be surprised if HKS was slipping Anna Nicole contaminated food or something to make her so sick before she died so he could cover up his murder of her. He was conveniently NOT around when she was found dead. He is SO transparent. I just hope great detectives and cops are put on this case to arrest him for the murder of her son and her and put his sorry butt in jail for the rest of his life. Gets himself made executor of her Will, puts his name on the birth certificate, he's no way the father, moves to the Bahamas where the biological father has no rights, i.e. Larry Birkhead. HKS used ET for his own end and then sold them an interview for a million bucks and shed his crocodile tears. And I agree with the person who said he kept covering his face probably to keep from laughing. HKS is and was a complete svengali to her, used her as his meal ticket, made NO money of his own, lived off of her, salivated over the money he stands to inherit by getting both her and her son out of the picture, kept her stoned all the time to have more power and manipulating power over her, videotapes her stoned and in clown makeup and actually says on the tape, "this is worth a LOT of money", collects all of his drinking cups in court so no one can test his DNA via saliva because he KNOWS he is NOT the father of this baby. He must have stayed up countless nights planning out this whole thing. He planned, plotted and carried out both murders. I just hope he is arrested, tried, found guilty and put in jail for the rest of his life. He's a lawyer, so he knows exactly how to play the game and put all of his ducks in a row, but he will be found out. Otherwise, he'll just go down in the annals of time along with OJ, Robert Blake and William Shatner. who all got away with murdering their wives.

Posted at 11:29AM on Feb 26th 2007 by MJ

172. First Amendment rights have nothing to do with this. And we don't "express our First Amendment rights," our actions are protected by the First Amendment. But I digress. I find it horrifying when the "tragedy" identified here is that a beautiful woman's body is rotting in a morgue. Of all the issues, isn't this really the least? WAY below an infant who lost her mother, several people who have lost a loved one, and the list goes on. It's also a shame that some people don't give the woman credit for having any brain of her own.

Posted at 8:50AM on Feb 28th 2007 by trover petro

173. Well, even FOX NEWS is trashing ET's interviews with Howard & Anna! And Stern Pressures Larry TODAY to sign a deal!!

Howard K. Stern Plays Hardball With Larry Birkhead
Friday, March 02, 2007

By Roger Friedman

AP

Anna Nicole: Stern Pressures Larry to Sign Deal

Anna Nicole Smith's two baby daddies (I don't know what else to call them) continue to be in a tug-of-war this morning, even as their beloved cash cow is readied for burial.

Overnight, attorney Howard K. Stern — whose hold on the situation is starting to slip — has been strong-arming photographer Larry Birkhead to do a couple of things: keep Birkhead's legal reps out of Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas funeral, sign a contract deal with "Entertainment Tonight" and acquiesce even further regarding the future of baby Danniellynn.

Stern, as I told you the other day, has already had one secret meeting with Birkhead in which he cut out the photographer's lawyers.

I'm told that Stern has kept up the pressure on Birkhead, actually presenting him with contracts, sources say, in which Birkhead would join Stern for more exclusive interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider."

"Howard wanted Larry to sign so that it looked like everyone was in agreement, and that it wasn't just Howard benefiting from these deals," my source said. "Larry said the baby's guardian should sign the papers for him and the baby, but he wouldn't. So then Larry wouldn't."

At the same time, Stern is trying to negotiate separately with Birkhead, away from his attorneys, to sign a deal by which Stern would continue to be in baby Danniellyn's life and oversee her finances.

Stern, my sources say, is working as quickly as he can to effect these agreements before he has to turn over the baby to Birkhead, her biological father.

Sources say that Birkhead's representatives are considering taking legal action against Stern's side to prevent further communication between the two sides as soon as today.

The problem, sources also say, is that Birkhead — a novice in these games — continues to be intimidated by Stern.

"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," both owned by CBS Paramount Television, have denied paying for interviews. But I'm told their method – it's semantics — is to "license" footage either directly from Stern or through a third party.

Recently, "ET" used Solana Productions of Southern California in such a deal. Neither Solana or anyone from CBS Paramount answered calls yesterday.

Anna Nicole: Dead, and For Sale

Today, Anna Nicole Smith — a ridiculous person who accomplished just about nothing in her life — will be buried in the Bahamas.

There are several wars taking place all over the world, not to mention famines; artists are hard at work, movies are opening, buildings are going up, diseases are being investigated. But hey: Anna Nicole is being buried, and "Entertainment Tonight" will be there for every cheesy second of it.

That's because "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," two half-hour shows syndicated by CBS's Paramount TV, have paid a high price for this honor.

Real insiders (not the kind you have to pay for info) tell me that Paramount TV cut the deal with Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole's lawyer and Svengali, right after her son Daniel died of a methadone overdose in her Bahamian hospital room last September.

Paramount TV has denied this, somewhat passively, so far. But my sources say it they paid Stern around $3 million initially, and that this was renegotiated right after Anna Nicole herself died on February 8th of this year.

Of course, we could believe that Stern — who in court told clueless Florida probate judge Larry Seidlin that he was living off his parents — just loves "ET." Anything's possible.

But the reality is that Anna Nicole's death has proven to be a ratings-sweep godsend.

Linda Bell Blue, the show's executive producer, previously helmed Paramount's ugly tabloid show, "Hard Copy." For years she's had to sit through Mary Hart's tedious, publicist-arranged interviews with low-level TV stars, just waiting for this moment: a huge celebrity death, in a sweeps month, and already contracted for!

As recently as last night, "ET" correspondent Mark Steines was reporting "from inside" Anna Nicole's Bahamas mansion — no mention of the fact that it didn't belong to her, and that the landlord is kicking everyone out.

Steines had "the inside scoop" about the B-list country singer who would serenade Anna Nicole into the next life, the color of her burial gown ("pink!") and what would be inside the coffin (with any luck, Anna Nicole).

Steines performs these interviews — as he has since last Nov. 1, when he had his first "exclusive" after Smith's son, Daniel, died — with a reasonably straight face.

He either knows he's skating on very thin ice and doesn't care, or doesn't get it and is happy to accept the money. In either case, he loses.

As far back as last November, the show's viewers were writing into "ET" forums on the Web asking how much the show had paid for the interviews, and begging them to stop.

On the topix.net forum for the show, a woman named Lana from Andrews, Texas, wrote on Nov. 6: "ET needs to rename their show The Anna Nichole (sic) Show. Every night it is about her. I wonder if there are any viewers that care to hear about her."

On Nov. 6, Dianne from Madison, Wis., wrote: "I think they might have finally driven me away from the show with all this Anna Nicole crap. How much is she paying them?"

The viewers were smarter than the show thought. That didn't stop Blue, Steines and friends.

Nancy from Richardson, Texas, posted this before Smith died on Feb. 8: "Get over her ... I am tired of all of the interviews they are doing with her. She sounds like she is either drunk or high. I have no respect for her and am getting tired of seeing her and all the interviews. She can't even talk without sounding like she is a drunken slut!"

Patti Horton from Altoona, Pa., posted this on Feb. 9: "I can't believe someone from E[T] hasn't questioned Anna Nicole about her drug use. Every night that she is being interviewed it is quite obvious that she is somewhere in la la land. I think they should of (sic) been more persistent in following that path than her new house. Some of the interviews it was all she coud (sic) do to talk. Was this a safe environment for this baby???"

Steines, of course, has a blog on the "ET" Web site. It's a hoot.

On Feb. 9, the day after Smith died, he posted: "When the news broke of Anna's death ... I immediately boarded a plane to Florida along with Khristine Eroshevich, Anna's close confidant…"

Steines acts like Eroshevich is just a pal, maybe another Playboy model. In fact, she was the model's psychiatrist, and someone who has yet to be heard from.

Eroshevich's few comments — including that she oversaw an ice bath for a dying Smith — have been limited to ... Steines, who despite his "inside" sources has not been able to secure Eroshevich for a real interview about these people and their drug use.

I doubt that will happen until Stern's usefulness has passed and his agreements with "ET" have expired.

Steines must feel a long way away from the two Emmys he received years ago in local news at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.


Posted at 2:05PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Briggs

174. HOWARD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT IS NOT ON THE NEWS EVERYDAY WITH A NEW STORY.. THE POOR MAN HAS NOT HAD TIME TO MORN THE LOSS OF ANNA , AND FOR ANNA'S MOTHER ANNA MADE IT CLEAR SHE DID NOT WANT HER AROUND, BUT IT SEEMS ALL THE LAWYERS HAVE NOT READ ANNA'S WILL , IF ANNA WAS HERE I DONT THINK HER MOTHER WOULD HAVE BEEN ALOUD TO SEE THE BABY..... WHAT'S WITH HER MOTHER IS SHE A CONTROL FREAK ALL THE STUFF SHE HAS SAID ABOUT HER DAUGHTER ON TV THAT IS NOT IN THE BABYS BEST INTEREST I FEEL HOWARD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS LIKE THAT, I PRAY HOWARD IS THE FATHER, AND THEN HE WILL PROTECT THIS BABY FROM ALL THIS AND GET THAT BABY AWAY FROM THAT MONEY GRUBBING ANNAS MOTHER LIVEING OFF HER DEAD DAUGHTERS MONEY PROFITING FROM HER DEAD DAUGHTER HOW SICK IS SHE AND SHE TALKS ABOUT HER DAUGHTER SHE FAILED WITH ANNA, PUT THE BABY UP FOR ADOPTION BUT NEVER GIVE IT TO THAT SICK BITCH

Posted at 9:58AM on Mar 6th 2007 by TRACY

175. What kind of a man not only lies to public but also in court-Stern is a Crook a con-man-and if he was worth a shit would of had a legal practice and not moached off a woman.Stern and his whole system of Lawyers-should be ashamed of yourself.Justice will get you eventually.I believe that those lawyers that fraudelently did wills and lied should be at very least disbarred.Lawyer representing Anna lied she had 7 insurance policies-nobody has that many who you think people are stupid -you and your lawyers said yopu had no income-your day is coming this month in court.

Posted at 9:54PM on Mar 5th 2007 by Faye Mitchell

176. has anyone thought marshall family might have slipped them both somthing??? i think howard was whipped and i do be live he loved her, she was trying to get away from birkmen the gold digger
that why she had to lie and howard just like on her show did exactly what she wanted anyone that watch it it was annas way or the highway
howard god bless

Posted at 12:21PM on Mar 20th 2007 by tammy

177. HOWARD K STERN - Motive For Killing Anna - How A bout 6% of $ 475,000,000 There's Your Motive

Posted at 6:11PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Jon Smith

178. HOW MUCH MONEY DID HOW K STERN PAY FOR SUPPORT (HIS OWN MONEY) NOT ANNIE"S DID HE EVERY BY THE BABY ANYTHING WITH HIS OWN MONEY - HOWARD K STERN IS A FREE LOADER NOW HE HAS TO LIVE OFF HIS MOMMY & DADDY - HIS MOTICE WAS 6% of $ 475,000,000 THERE"S YOUR MOTICE FOR KILLING HERE - WHAT A DEAD BEAT - JERK - ASS HOLD - FREE LOADER - MAYBE NOW HE WILL HAVE TO WORK TO PAY FOR HIS HIGH PRICE LAWYER SINCE HIS MOMMY & DADDY MAYBE PAYING THAT BILL TOO -

Posted at 8:58PM on Mar 26th 2007 by BOOTS

179. HOWARD K STERN IS NOTHING BUT A FREE LOADER - LAZY - LIVES OFFS HIS MOMMY'S DADDY'S MONEY - DONT WORK - DONT PAY FOR NOTHING - NOTHING BUT A FREE LOADER - LIVES OFF OF ANA NICOLE SMITH'S MONEY - MAYBE NOW HE WILL WORK BEFORE HE GOES TO JAIL WHERE HE BELONGS

Posted at 8:05AM on Mar 27th 2007 by frisky

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