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Virgie: I Didn't Pay for My Bahamas Flight

Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, just told the court that her round-trip airplane fare for a recent trip from Houston to the Bahamas was paid for by a third party. She traveled with sister-in-law Elaine Tabor, and someone she called "a close friend" of the family, David Leigh, identified as a journalist with Splash News.

She could not identify precisely where Leigh lived in Florida, and said he did not know Daniel Smith, even though he was present at a memorial service for him in the Bahamas in January.

Arthur revealed that she receives approximately $3500 per month in pension, and that her husband makes $600 per week, upon being asked by Judge Larry Seidlin.

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31. A friend who works in journalism who happens to know that the woman has a famous daughter who has been in the limelight half of her lifetime. Please, she is out for extra change on ANS.....no wonder ANS despied her and the family. I would have also......GO TO JAIL for PERJURY lady !! You just got caught !

Posted at 3:55PM on Feb 21st 2007 by mg

32. This should prove she has been a fat liar from the beginning.........listen now here it's coming out.......SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH PLOP

Posted at 3:55PM on Feb 21st 2007 by dawn2

33. She is so sick virgie SPLASH BABY,now she does not know anything she has to think she does not know anything.Her whole family are only in it for the money.Scumbags

Posted at 4:28PM on Feb 21st 2007 by lisa

34. UNBELIEVABLE what an embarassment to the Houston Sherrif's department and to this case! Virgie snorts snot like a pig! I can't believe what an idiotic moron this woman has turned out to be, what a lousy liar, and how can any law enforcment officer have a problem with dates? This lady has proven to be everything I expected and some. I can truely see how some parts of this ding bat lady ended up being a curse upon poor Anna Nicole.

Posted at 5:40PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Cathy

35. Who cares about where the money came from? Why did they even discuss where the money came from? Does it has anything to do with the circus at ALL?
Wonder why there's a lot of fuss about the mother. We don't know what happened behid the doors in their home or in ANS home for that matter. Maybe HK$ told her a lot of lies about her mother? The liar in the whole story, I believe, is HK$! He seems like asleezeball, and he probably have videos of when ANS was with her "boy friends" in bed. HK$ was probably sitting by the bed taking videos so he could cash in on them later on. These videos were probably among the so called stolen things from the home!!

Posted at 3:55PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Micke

36. The $$$ mother said that Lee from Splash is a family friend for two years, what's this texas ex cop friends with Lee for? ????? hasn't seen her daughter since 1995 but friend's with Splash. So sad that a mother would give up her daughter for money. sooooooooooo sad!

Posted at 4:37PM on Feb 21st 2007 by it's all so saddddd...

37. froglevel that was an accusation made by fergie, she is prob lying

i dont like stern, but he is working to have anna buried next to her son, and as a parent I am all for that

Posted at 3:59PM on Feb 21st 2007 by goldie

38. How, and WHY is this important? SHE NEEDS THE MONEY!! WHY has no one questioned the money Stern has raked in - JUST since the skankho died?

WTF is WRONG with people? Good GOD, this is just so unbelievable; I cannot believe you people are SO stupid/naive!!!

Posted at 3:56PM on Feb 21st 2007 by MyTwoCents

39. Barth is a fucking douchbag.. she's totally stumbling and knows she's beat

Posted at 3:56PM on Feb 21st 2007 by lala

40. I can only hope that these a-holes lawyer ASK the same questions when dickh**d Howard K. Stern gets back on the stand...

What's fair is fair, and I'd really love to hear ole Howie's answers and to see him try and squirm his way about the profiting off Anna's death.

I'm not saying that Virgie is innocent or to be believed...but doggone it, why is she the only one being hammered about this issue, when good ole Howie has sold his story to ET, sold pictures of Daniel's body, sold pictures of their so called committment ceremony and on and on and on....

C'mon, its time to ask these same questions of good ole Mr. Stern, because he truly is the one profitting from Anna's death.

Posted at 7:36PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Liz

41. liar liar you need to go back home and shut your mouth better yet keep talking you are letting us know how you really are.!!!snake

Posted at 4:24PM on Feb 21st 2007 by lisa

42. IF SHE MAKES $3500.00 A MONTH IN PENSION, SHE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT HER OWN DAMN PLANE TICKET, OR AT LEAST DRESS A LITTLE BETTER, WITH THAT KIND OF INCOME A MONTH IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, SHE SHOULD BE WEARING GUCCHI AND LIVING SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN A TRAILER PARK.

Posted at 3:57PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Cat

43. There will be a wrongful death suit and that tape will come in>>>>>>> Howie is slime

Posted at 3:57PM on Feb 21st 2007 by lier lier

44. dont forget... In this theft at Horizon's contracts were also taken
you can bet if Howard made big money on his little plane ride
back they will produce the contracts

Posted at 3:57PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Sue

45. come on already guys...what man, who supposedly was so in love with his girlfriend and is supposedly this little girls daddy, have a live camera (ET)videotape for national tv his coming home from Florida to tell their daughter "mommy is not coming home". Give me a break!!! what decent man would allow the public to see his "grief". HKS is disgusting.

Posted at 3:59PM on Feb 21st 2007 by olivias

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