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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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61. # 17 The owman just lost her child...

If I were a betting woman I'd say she just LOST her child by perjuring herself!

Clearly this woman (Vergie) was outta her life for a reason.
HKS is no winner either...
DO PATERNITY, GIVE THE BODY & THE BABY TO THE DADDY!!!

Posted at 4:07PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Suzanne

62. $1,000,000 still trumps $12,000.

Posted at 4:07PM on Feb 21st 2007 by froglevel

63. This is a mother who lost her child and grandchild under VERY suspicious circumstances. No one has bought her a home -- WHO has benefited as the sycophant over these past few years by feeding her drug needs? Howard K. Stern. Who will benefit? As executor of her will --to a cool $12million? Who buys his air fare? Has he paid for the yacht? The house? Anything? Yikes - a poor working mom in Texas gets some airfare and the vultures land. Why do people like him and OJ get off with murder? Our justice system is showing it's butt. Hopefully the law is upheld. Who's the daddy? Yikes. This soap opera is pathetic.....as were Anna Nicole's choices. Death is what happens. Her body isn't pretty anymore....I just pray her soul is saved for eternity.

Posted at 8:20PM on Feb 21st 2007 by sue

64. didn't she earlier say she didn't get anything from SPLASH! she is MONEY HUNGRY! and her daughter deserves to be with her son! Virf you just want to take this way from ANNA being with her SON! you dirty! COW!

Posted at 4:18PM on Feb 21st 2007 by twinks!

65. anna and stern both agreed to get paid for interviews and releasing photos, they were partners, Anna was not dumb

Posted at 4:09PM on Feb 21st 2007 by goldie

66. She was thinking about food on the way to see her daughter's body???????? Any sane woman knows, if you are going to view the body of your child you "love", food is definitely the last thing on your mind!!!!!

Posted at 4:11PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Kellie

67. hey not all of us can afford the luxury to travel at the drop of a dime to find our drugged out/dead relatives. that is why they were i n the bahamas in the first place. to get away.

and if that were my daughter or grandson, i would take the help as well.

Posted at 4:10PM on Feb 21st 2007 by anonymous

68. She bags $3500 a month on a pension and hasn't paid off her "Cracker" $60,000 house. What a loser!!

Posted at 1:25PM on Feb 22nd 2007 by HughE2030

69. VIRGIE splash baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 4:41PM on Feb 21st 2007 by lisa

70. Pls lysette, Family will screw u worse than anyone, what world do u live in?

let's keep it real here

Posted at 4:11PM on Feb 21st 2007 by goldie

71. Howard may have know and condoned methadone but it may be because it was a replacement for something that could have harmed the baby. Larry said they split over her taking drugs and he didn't stop her, right? At least Howard was there to see her through the pregnancy.
Plenty of people have problem children. A mother keeps in contact if only to reassure herself that the child is alive and well. They wait for the opening to influence their child to take a better path. If all else fails, they're there to catch them when they fall. Virgie is no mother. With this "close family friend" from Splash, one has to wonder how many other times she's already cashed in on her famous daughter.
Does nobody think it strange that dear old dad crawls out of the woodwork to have his say after 37 years?
Larry has a "bond" with the only person ANS publicly said she hated. The online email between him and ANS was anything but friendly.
The courts should toss the claim to Marshall's estate and let ANS's pay all the court costs and settlements from any suits and claims. The vultures will vanish and the real dad will support Dannielynn and not view her as a cash cow.

Posted at 9:41PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Dee

72. And, again, this is all pis*ing in the wind.

Even if Anna does happen to be initially buried in the Bahamas, the DNA-proven father, in conjunction with Virgie, will decide Anna's final resting place.

BTW, I'm curious -- are there any Stern supporters out there who actually believe he will be proven to be the biological father?

Please reply --

Posted at 4:10PM on Feb 21st 2007 by froglevel

73. VIRGIE SCREWED UP!!!! I am on her side because she is the mother of ANS, but SHE SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE TRUTH. She lied this morning, and told the truth this afternoon. She just dug her own grave and lost her case.

HWS just perjured himself - he's sold rights to ET for $1,000,000. Get real people he is the DOG here. MOM SCREWED UP!!!!!!!

kathy A

Posted at 4:12PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Kathy A

74. #34 Cathy i completly agree with you not only on the video but on ANS they all say she is drugged up but people this is a woman who at 26 married and 80 something year old man and then at HIS funeral wore her wedding dress? and sang a song of wind beneath my wings! She wasnt normal she did weird funny things u cant judge that video it clearly seems they are joking around and howard isnt saying that to mean he is making money off it for real. I say ANS needs to be buried by her SON a child she loved so much that when he was being put under ground lay herself on the casket and said if he was being buried she wanted to be with him! And people if HKS was sooooooo horrible anna wouldnt have been with him so many years in friendship or as boyfriend and girlfriend and trusted him with everything of hers and if he isnt the father certainly would not say he is if she didnt want him to care for her. when she was alive she found to keep him for larry and with howard those were her wishes people wether you agree with her wishes or not isnt the case they should be honered and thats that!

Posted at 4:12PM on Feb 21st 2007 by marrie

75. Virgie was not forthright with the truth which means she is hiding information... no... she is downright lying.... why? She has a lot to hide.... like the horrible abuse that went on in her home. Like Anna being physically abused...and raped by Virgie's husband.... this woman is shady as shady come.... not saying that Howard is any better...but DONT come out now pretending to care ... she should have cared when her husband was raping Anna as a child... no wonder Anna was so F***ed up....

Posted at 4:20PM on Feb 21st 2007 by VoodooQueen

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