Stern: I Didn't Want to Be Known as Gold-Digger

121. I've never heard of such a thing happening in all my born days. Usually, when people die, they bury them. The end! Not these people, they have to decompose first, argue, DNA tests, courts. What they should do first is find out who the father is #1, then take it from there. Then decide where she should be buried, and exhume the body of Danniel, if TX is the answer. If neither Birkhead nor Stern is the father then what? If ANS hated her mother so much then why was she good enough to leave her son with, while she stripped, posed for Play Boy, etc... Dannielynn might not even end up in the Bahamas. Why can't friends and family be able to visit their graves without leaving the country? You mean to tell me she didn't like no family members or friends? Elvis is in his home town. James Dean is in his home town. Elvis's mother lost a child at birth, didn't kill herself. (Well who knows, what happened to ANS) Why the Bahamas? Who's deciding all of this? Ringling Bros Barnham and Bailey?

Posted at 3:15AM on Feb 21st 2007 by PC

122. Howard would have married her along time ago, she was not at the time looking for money she was looking for sexual attraction which she found in Larry
Howard hung on like a leech which he was as for the parents of his they should really be ashamed of this man with a law degree and disgracing them like this he gave his career up to just wait on her and act as her goofer.

These poor people should really feel bad that there son had to chase her like he did and then to top it off she asked other people to put there name on the birth certificate and they would not and when she asked him he could not wait.

Have the daughter take the DNA test and get this nonsense over with.

Posted at 5:14PM on Feb 21st 2007 by maryjo

123. Okay,let's see. This guy has not worked for over 10 years, has carried Anna's purse for over 10 years( look at every pix and behind her there is Howard carrying her purse) , he has fraudulently taken a child, stolen a home in the Bahamas, ( by the way, why didn't he get his permanent residence status in the Bahamas when Anna did), destroyed peoples lives in a beautiful country for his filthy gain, pimped Anna to E.T. in her lowest of lows AND EVEN IN HER DEATH, coincidently with both young people before they died and oh how amazing now that these 2 healthy people are dead he gets the money he has worked so hard for carrying her purse and watching her love on men as he stood and dreamed about it( people she would have married him at the ridiculous ceremony but she obviously did not want to, and now he says he does not want a dime of the estate, MARK MY WORDS! HE WILL BILL THE ESTATE FOR MILLIONS IN ATTORNEY FEES FOR FORCING HIMSELF UP HER REAR END FOR THE PAST DECADE. HIS FRIENDSHIP WAS NOT CHEAP. TWO LIVES( A THIRD IF THEY DO NOT RESUE THIS BABY) AND HER MILLIONS WHICH IS ALL HE EVER WANTED. BUDDY, IF YOU LOOK UP GOLDDIGGER IN THE DICTIONARY, HOWARDN STERNS FACE WILL SURELY BE THERE.MY OPINIONS!

Posted at 3:49AM on Feb 21st 2007 by Cheryl D.

124. I think this is so sad..who ever took the vidoe tape of ann nicole smith when she had all the clown make up on should be taken to court for murder...how could anyone that was suposed to care for her let alone love her , not see how sick she was, she needed help...and no one got her any.

Posted at 6:15PM on Feb 21st 2007 by barbara

125. Do not see my comments that I sent in yeserday. Is it because I was talking nice about Howard Stern. You cannot tell me that you guys are all anti Howard only. Am avery disappointed in TMZ. For God's sake put in people's opinion and not only the negative. Am watching the proceedings on TV right now and her big fat white trash mother sickens me to my stomach. If she loved her daughter like she claims, let her be buried next to her son that she loved.

Posted at 10:50AM on Feb 21st 2007 by gloria

126. Way to go Gloria

Posted at 4:45PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Heather

127. Harold, you ARE a goldigger. Truth hurts doesn't it?

Posted at 5:00PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Jackie

128. why is larry so damm nervoies for this is just for her body
what tell the real trail comes when they get him for MURDER 2 counts
he is just like scott petrson

i hope he gets DEATH ROW TWICE he is a murder and it is all over his face
all for the MONEY for him 2 for the road for anna

Posted at 7:43PM on Feb 21st 2007 by tammi

129. tammi- what the hell are you on!?

Posted at 8:28PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Lynda

130. I think Howard Stern is innocent of anything but loving Anna Nicole, He did everything for her for, he watched over her. She was a player, and slept around with everyone, but he loved her enough to put up with it. She died because,of her own bad decisions, she was a drug addict, for heaven sakes. Larry
Berkhold testimony today about Howard putting drugs in her I.V is hear say, also I know of many people, that have loved someone and will give in to their pain, how does that make him guilty of anything, but giving in to her pain. She needs to be buried in the Bahamma's and Howard knew what she wanted.

Posted at 6:33PM on Mar 1st 2007 by cloee

131. sorry howard, don't believe you at all after hearing you on the stand today
2-21-07, your statements have gold digger written all over it!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:29PM on Feb 21st 2007 by lisa

132. Anna had problems caused by her WHITE TRASH MOTHER and family who abused her. Anna abused drugs to cope with her life and unfortuately she manipulated Howard and everyone else in her life to support her habits. No matter who you believe, one thing is for sure, Anna only had unconditional love for her son Daniel. (any mother knows that kind of love) It is plain and simple, she deserves to be buried next to him!!!

Posted at 12:37AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by Pam

133. ANNA WANTED HOWARD THERE, OR HE WOULDNT HAVE BEEN THERE. I HOPE THE BABY GOES TO THE FATHER WHOMEVER THAT MAY BE , I THINK HER MOTHER S THE ONE WITH THE AGENDA.

Posted at 10:49PM on Feb 22nd 2007 by AWO

134. 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 2:57PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Briggs