Birkhead's Ticket to Paternity

271. Howard K Stern is a lying, asshole bastard! I haven't once thought that he was anything other than a "puppet-master." I noticed it when Anna had her show on E. He was constantly there one step behind her "controlling" ever move she made. He said jump and Anna had to ask how high. I wouldn't doubt if he even controlled when she took a shit. Larry is the father, all someone has to do is look at the pics of him and then at Dannielyn's (current issue of People has excellent photogs of the baby and her daddy) The facial features are strikingly similiar, Dannielyn has Larry's pucker, his facial bone structure around the jaw too is just like Larry's. I am ready for Larry to pull out his baby pictures for a magazine. Everybody knows that when a child is born the parents always compare their own baby pics to that of their baby's.
Someone needs to act in the best interest of that little girl because she is in danger, Howard will harm her just like he did Daniel and Anna.

I am so on TEAM LARRY!

Posted at 12:23AM on Feb 25th 2007 by Lanna

272. 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 2:06PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Briggs

273. I definitely believe the baby belongs to Birkhead. The baby looks far more like him than it does like Howard Stern. Look at the noses of both the baby and Birkhead. They are so much alike.

Posted at 5:53PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by B.Morris

274. I think the BIGGEST SCUMBAG is her mother......hmmm lets step back on this one.......SPLASH paid for her flights and what not.......for what a story holding up a funeral so she could bury her enstranged daughter in TEXAS.........and wants to Exume her grandsons body too......i bet her idea of a family plot is the 15x15 tomatoe garden out behind their trailer....because looking at her you know darn well a 3 chinned 6 toed hillbilly don't own a house.........I just think she'd exploit the child for her own personal gain then when she got the royalties from a book the kid would be tossed aside and become another casualty of how Anna (Vicky Lynn) was brought up and that hoe bags like over 60.......who'd raise her after she dropped dead from clogged arteries...i say give the kid to Stern and Birkhead........make her live the life of a real me and my 2 ding bat dads..........and for a closing NOTE: Virgie your a money grubbing self exploiting sow.....give it up........if you want some kind of publicity.........be the next person for TRIMSPA.........maybe by having your fat flabbing jaws wired shut and sucking down some slimfast maybe you won't be such a JABBA THE HUT in the medias eye............

Posted at 9:29PM on Mar 4th 2007 by mark

275. I can't believe some of the stuff you people say, A TRAFFIC ticket DOES NOT PROVE he is the father, the only thing that proves is that He was with Anna, not that he is the father, the only way to prove a DADDY is PATERNITY get on with it already..

Posted at 10:52PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Mattie

276. ----------------------------------------------
Your comments: I can't believe some of the stuff you people say, A TRAFFIC ticket
DOES NOT PROVE he is the father, the only thing that proves is that
He was with Anna, not that he is the father, the only way to prove a
DADDY is PATERNITY get on with it already..

Posted at 10:54PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Mattie

277. Larry is the daddy.
Larry is the daddy.
Larry is the daddy.
Larry is the daddy.
Larry is the daddy.

Posted at 12:26PM on Mar 13th 2007 by sick and tired

278. #58 I agree with what you have to say but we all know none of them will stop. they all need the money.the ticket means nothing but that he may have lied to get out of a ticket funny how now there is an explaination for this ticket now that it was found.Also I have read some post about insider being pro Stern,I would say TMS is pro birkhead and Virgie has her own news network paying her way also So none are better than the other

Posted at 5:30PM on Mar 16th 2007 by trouble

279. #88 # 82 How do you think you would look if someone you cared about had just passed away Not good I would think.I know it was months and months and even after 30 years it is hard to think about someone I lost.Who took the pictures and why is the question of pictures with birkhead and not stern

Posted at 5:57PM on Mar 16th 2007 by trouble

280. the way I understood it Stern was the only attorney wo would continue with her fight for what she believed was hers.

Posted at 5:56PM on Mar 16th 2007 by trouble

281. Some one posted hat Birkhead made no money off what is going on !!!!!what about the phone recordings he sold. the pictures he sold and is sti selling?

Posted at 5:53PM on Mar 16th 2007 by trouble

282. I don't know who's a worse care-giver: Howard K. Stern or that nanny in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. I guess Howard K. Stern wins that one since two people died in his care and nobody died in the nanny's care... Too many unanswered questions, and his equal evasiveness when addressed with these questions about his relationship, are what makes us all believe this guy has something to hide. He's deemed to be guilty of something by his own actions... Maybe it's just me?

Posted at 12:01PM on Apr 5th 2007 by Tina