Celebrity Justice
Splash Mum on Anna's Mom

The paparazzi agency that Howard K. Stern's lawyers believe paid Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, more than $12,000 for pictures and video footage, won't confirm that a transaction took place, but they ain't exactly denyin' it.

In a statement to TMZ, the agency said, "Splash News and Picture Agency, in the great tradition of journalism, protects its sources and all financial matters are kept confidential. Splash has a reputation for breaking major news stories, and TV stations, newspapers and magazines around the globe license images and video footage to illustrate those stories."

Earlier today, Arthur was testifyin' that she ain't never had no deal with Splash.

Draw your own conclusions.

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226. I THINK SHE IS SICK MOM SHE WANTS TO DIG HER GRANDSON UPAND TAKE HIM TO BIG OLD TEXAS SO SHE CAN MAKE MONEY ON HIM AND IF SHE GETS ANNA TO SHE THINKING SHOW ME THE MONEY ALL HOWARD WANTS FOR ANNA TO BE WITH SON

Posted at 12:41PM on Feb 22nd 2007 by TINAPOWERS

227. Virgie is only Anna`s mom by giving birth to her , Virgie do you really know what it means to be a true mother ? Does`nt look like you do and you need to quit lying about receiving money on Anna and Daniels death . You was a deputy sheriff for how long ???? But yet you can get on the witness stand and tell lie after lie after lie > PERJURY < YOU ARE A LOW LIFE SCUM B**** . I hope you lose , I do not blame Anna for keeping you out of her life while she was living , I would`nt want a mommy dearest like you either. Go back to Texas where you belong and quit cashing in on your dead daughter and dead grandson, you wicked witch ( and thats putting it nicely ) I hope Howard K Stern is the real father !! After all he is the one who stuck by Anna all these years and so what if Anna and Howard made money from ET or who ever , that was there business , they sure didnt make it off of your fat nasty looking self .

Posted at 11:11PM on Feb 21st 2007 by RIP ANNA

228. Virgie, doesn't have a motherly bone in her body. All she cares about is herself, the money, and being right. I can't believe the media isn't coming down harder on her. What kind of mother accuses her daughter of killing her grandson and then declares how much she loves her and wants to take her body "home." I think Anna Nicole was smarter then most people give her credit. She could see (even as a young girl) what a sorry mother she was delt and did "everything" in her power to get and stay away from her.

Virgie doesn't give a crap about Anna Nicole's feelings. Anyone with common sense can see that she wanted to be laid to rest with her son.

Why don't you guys give Howard K. Stern a rest and do a little investigative reporting on how Anna Nicole was treated by her mother when she was a child.

Posted at 11:32PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Brooke

229. What more has to be said to prove that Anna wanted nothing to do with this woman? You can see from her testimony today she is a greedy, evil, liar! She thinks she is slick by changing the subject and then saying "please help us". She is a piece of work! I pray she doesn't get near that baby! What people can't seem to get is that yes, Anna may have had drug problems, but where was her mother when she needed her? Sounds like her mother turned her back on Anna. Now she wants the publicity, fame and money that Anna earned. She is a lousy actress, and needs to let Anna rest in peace and be laid to rest where she wanted, with her son in the Bahamas.

Posted at 11:34PM on Feb 21st 2007 by T. Thompson

230. Please sign the online petition and forward to everyone you know

http://www.petitiononline.com/DHMS1234/petition.html

Posted at 12:49AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by concerned

231. During Testimony, Virgie stated that she went to a Cemetery to visit her Grandson Daniel for his birthday. She was told that the Cemetery was requested not to divulge any information regarding Daniel, due to private request's. Eventually she was led to a Headstone with NO Name on it, which had a bouquet of Flower's from Larry Birkhead. Is Daniel ACTUALLY Buried there?
Is the Cemetery covering itself legally by having an Un-Marked Grave with no body in it? Why was Virgie, and Anna's Relatives not allowed to be at the Funeral? Daniel was not a Legal Citizen in the Bahama's, nor was his Mother, or Howard Stearn. They did not OWN Property valued over $500,000 as required. Howard probably knew that the Law in the Bahama's accept's whoever's name is written on a Birth Certificate to be Valid without a DNA Test.

Posted at 1:23AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by Daniel Smith

232. As a practicing attorney, this proceeding in Broward County is the singlemost bizarre hearing I have seen.
I cannot fathom any attorney behaving like Stern's attorney nor any attorney allowing this clown of a judge to call him "Texas".

As for Howard Stern, a California State Bar member, I sincerely hope that he is disbarred for his conduct which would include at the very least "undue influence" and at the worst, outright theft of his client. He should be in prison and I believe the State Bar will act.

Give the mother the body; order DNA tests YESTERDAY and end this spectacle.

Posted at 1:27AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by sarah belletto

233. Way to go Sarah Belletto! You said just right.
I'm sure investigator's are seriously observing Howard Stearn on
many Legal Matter's, including murder. His body language did not seem to show such an extreme, but time will tell.

Posted at 1:43AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by Daniel Smith

234. If you really think about, wouldn't you want to be buried where Family and Loved Ones could come visit your Gravesite without having to travel to the Bahamas'.
Anna & Daniel should be buried in the USA.

Posted at 1:58AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by Daniel Smith

235. Please sign the online petition SAVE DANNIELYNN and forward to everyone you know: http://www.petitiononline.com/DHMS1234/petition.html

I AM 100% FOR LARRY BIRKHEAD!

I just ran across this article which seems to be in HK$'s favor.
There is no justice if that bastard HK$ gets away w/ this mess.

Please read & I urge LB supporters to email the Royal Bahamas Police Force IMMEDIATELY as COURT DATE IS FEB 22, 2207 Thursday.
Royal Bahamas Police Force (Paul H. Farquharson) paul@rbpf.org

Hopefully strength in numbers will force the Bahamian government to request
a DNA test on DannieLynn.
And ultimately for Larry to get custody of his daughter.

Court Battle Set For Anna Nicole’s Baby
The custody battle over the late American celebrity Anna Nicole Smith’s five-month old daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is set for a Bahamian court on Thursday (Feb.22, 2007).
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=11637


Paternity Law May Work To Stern’s Advantage
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=11632

Posted at 2:17AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by Cat Kil

236. First of all, Anna and Howard were in the Bahamas illegally. Therefore, now that Anna is dead, Howard has no means of support and will be kicked off the islands before long.

Second, the house that Howard keeps saying was broken into is not his house. He's a squatter. In fact, it never was Anna's house. She never followed through on the purchase.

Third, Howard has not made millions. He was a very lousy attorney who saw a pontential meal ticket when he met Anna, a very naive Texas gal whom he could easily manipulate. You'll also remember he left his failing law practice when it looked like Anna was going to get millions from J. Howard Marshall's estate. Now that his meal ticket has suddenly and unexpectedly died his only hope is to be the child's father. So he researched it and learned the Bahamas was his best bet for being "declared" the father. Then he manipulated Anna and talked her into going there once he learned Anna's friend owned a home there worth the required $500,000 needed to establish residence. (And if anyone doesn't think he controlled Anna through drug use I've got a bridge to sell you.) I also don'[t believe for a minute that "will" is legitimate. That thing's as bogus as Howard Stern's law practice. But, if he can be executor and control Anna's baby the way he controlled her, he still has a shot at the millions the estate stands to gain from the Marshall family. However, I think he knows all the estate will get is half of whatever Mr. Marshall earned while they were married which is about a million dollars. And old Howard knows 6% of that ain't enough. So, if he controls Anna's likeness and her daughter, he stands to make out like a bandit. The guy is scum.

Finally, I believe Vergie tried to stay in contact with Anna and did until Howard started supplying her with drugs. If Vergie got some money for air fare, more power to her.

As for the baby, she'll end up with her real father as soon as Howard is kicked off the islands and heads back to California.

As for the judge, he's been trying to get his own TV show for several years and he's now found a way to "audition". And I'm afraid his ruling is going to be a joke, whatever it is. I think the body, by Florida law, should be turned over to the next of kin, which is Vergie since the Anna's daughter is under 18 years of age. Howard knows this and that's why he brought this legal action against Vergie. And isn't it interesting that as soon as he learned Anna was dead he took the baby and high tailed it back to the Bahamas.

Posted at 2:55AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by realist

237. As a mother of two, I cannot imagine selling any pictures/story to someplace like Splash that is showing the CPR ambulance video, nor could I imagine not letting my child be buried where they clearly wanted to be. The Baby is most likely not going to be able to claim any of the Marshall fortune and like Stern or not he is who Anna wanted to raise the child or she would have not put his name on the birth certificate in the first place. I am not sure Larry would be a better dad for this child either, after all, he earns his living selling celebrity pictures! Perfect position to get the max expoliotation cash out of this poor kid. As to the judge nicknaming "Texas" etc...why should this bother anyone when we have a President who nicknames the past head of Homeland Security "Brownie" and calls the White House chef "cookie"? Also, even IF Anna was not owner of house, it is still a theft. Being the owner of a property does not give you the right to bardge in and take even a "squatter's" possessions....legally it is still theft. Anna was so desperate as a teen to do whatever it took to get out of her circumstances...she was a self-made person and you have to respect that. It is sad to see her white trash birth mother coming out of the woodwork under what appears to be the influence of Larry and his gang like a vulture to pick her daughter's bones clean. Anna did not have a relationship with her for a reason...one that should now be clear to all.

Posted at 7:51AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by thestepfordwife

238. ET was on Larry King, the producer saying they did not pay Stern for the interviews.
Vergie needs to go back to Texas, she did not care about her daughter, if she did she would have tried to see her or her son before now, if she could make her way to the gravesite of her grandson with the media's help, she could of made her way to see him before he died, I don't think he wanted to see her.
She is in it for the money, and if Stern is in it for the money, maybe, but I do think he really did Love Anna

Posted at 9:41AM on Feb 22nd 2007 by SKM

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