Celebrity Justice
What It Will Take for Howard K. to Go Away

TMZ has learned the negotiations between Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead now have nothing to do with little Dannielynn. It's all about money.

Sources tell TMZ that Howard K. Stern has all but conceded that Larry Birkhead is the dad. Exhibit A: TMZ's story yesterday that Stern has already let Birkhead spend time with the baby. We're told Stern is willing to cooperate with paternity matters if the price is right. Specifically, sources say Stern has his eye on the Bahamian house Anna Nicole bought (not Horizons), and the boat she purchased just before her death. But that is not the end of Stern's financial wish list. Sources say he has set his sights on other assets as well.

Under the will and the laws of inheritance, Dannielynn would get all her mom's assets. Nonetheless, we're told the house, the boat and other assets are being discussed. It is unclear how Stern might lay claim to the items in question. Nonetheless, we're told that's precisely what he wants.

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith

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91. Howard ....Your NO Anna Nicole ...hahaha
Aint no body gonna give you nuttin ...hahahaha
Your Ugly and obviously a lousy lawyer...hahaha
You Need a J-O-B!

Talk about being dependent...geeze...

You should be grateful for the movie star life you lived for the pass 10 yrs.

HaHa @ you fool!

Posted at 12:01PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Laughing

92. #48 Sara you are a f***ing idiot! So Birkhead should just let someone kidnap his baby because drugged up Anna said so? What the hell is wrong with you?? Howard is a nasty, lying piece of crap and Larry Birkhead is ENTITLED to his child!! How would you feel if someone STOLE your baby? BITCH!!!

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Holly

93. I don't think HKS should get one red cent but if paying him off will get rid of him FOREVER, just do it. Let him have the stupid house in the Bahamas that is all torn apart and the boat and let him sail off into the sunset, but that's it! No future rights to anything!

Didn't HKS say on the witness stand, under oath, that he will give up being the executor and trustee for the estate! If he goes back on this someone should charge him with PURJURY (Sp). He shouldn't be allowed to use it as blackmail. CHALLENGE THAT WILL!

I don't know if legally they can get him off the Marshall case, If Larry gets DanniLynn and fights for it on her behalf if it's possible I would fire his and Ron Rale's a** (he's just as guilty in all this as far as I'm concerned, notice how you don't hear much from him and you didn't hear much from him in the courtroom either and he is supposed to be ANS lawyer, shouldn't he have been sticking up for her, he kept his mouth shut and he's keeping a low profile because he's in this as deep as HKS is), and fire all the other lawyers that were involved with the Marshall case too.

Paybacks are a b***ch aren't they!

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by tiny

94. Poor HKS, I feel terrible for him..all he did here was ALWAYS loved ANS and her son DS, and DLHS, their baby. If ANYONE here could listen to ANS's wishes...they were simply for HKS to raise DLHS, and make her happy and for her estate to be handled by him as well. It's more than obvious that HKS lived and would die for ANS! He was always right there, taking care of her, looking out for her, etc....handling her legal dealings, promotions, etc....there isn't anything he didn't do for ANS. It is unfortunate that he may have helped or assisted her in getting or taking the drugs she took but EVERYONE that knew ANS, KNOWS she would have gotten them or taken them w/ or w/o HKS's approval and that's that. To blame HKS for her and DS deaths is ABSURD! Get over it people and quit trying to have a part in this media circus this death has become. LB and VA need to stop already; they are the ones that should be accused here, all they both want is ANS's MONEY $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ which is a damn shame! Her mother wasn't even a part of her life for almost a decade and that was by ANS own choice! HKS had nothing to do with that, all he ever wanted was ANS to be happy, even now. I agree that he is the only one "truly" grieving and living with his sorrow and trying to get thru this terrible, terrible time! I am hoping he can work all this out to ANS liking and trust he won't give up til he does just that! Go HKS, we're behind you all the way! LB and VA need to buzz off like they were before all this $$$$$$$$$$$ was up for grabs.......Time will heal your wounds HKS, just stay strong!

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Caprice

95. Hey - isn't what he's doing considered extortion???

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by HKS SUCKS!!!

96. Oh c'mon! Birkhead and Stern are NOT thinking at all about the baby! Did anyone ever think about WHY virgie and Anna had a falling out?! Anna was a drugged up permiscious person! I believe Anna loved her son, but even that young man opted to STAY away from Stern! 37 hours out of the U.S. and he lay dead! 42 minutes after Stern left Anna, she had the same fate! Virgie, did what ANY real Mom would do, she dragged Anna out of the titty bars, and tried to keep that girl off drugs! Now here are at least 2 Tom Cats seeking to (CARE?) for the baby??? Give it UP guys,,, all of this business is playing out in front of the whole country! Dannilynn NEEDS to go with Grandma,,, the rest of the kids turned out good. Even if everyone thinks Grandma is out for the cash,, no one else will take better care of the kid!

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Teri

97. 18. The only one having dignity and really grieving is Howard K. Stern. Birkhead and Virgie are now doing media interviews, accepting limos and perks and are in in strictly for the money. Howard is grieving quietly and the only one who is showing discretion and concern for the baby. The mother, Virgie, is the worst scum and should never get the baby or custody of Anna's body.

Yeah, "grieving quietly" on Entertainment Tonight. What was the take? 160k? I guess you can cry a LOT of fake tears for that much.

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Narcissus

98. Howard K. Stern has been Anna's attorney for a decade. He has made entertainment arrangements for her like an agent and argued her case before the Supreme Court. Surely, he deserves something.

Some try to portray Anna Nicole as a helpless victim but I think she was a tough broad who knew how to get what she wanted.

It's very surprising that Howard would not have gotten her to update her will in almost six years. It would be even more shocking if he doesn't have a written agreement that provides him some compensation for his work. Has he been working on a contingency basis for potential earnings from the Marshall case?

Posted at 12:02PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Stein

99. The question you SHOULD be asking is - How much money to make Virgie walk away? She's the one who has ABSOLTELY no time invested in Anna Nicole, except to screw her up as a child with allowing incestuous rapes, thus causing her go go down a road of promiscuous sex and drugs. VIRGIE is the one that wants ALL the money - more specifically, JOHN O'QUINN wants the money,, and give some leftover to Virgie as a FINDER'S FEE. TMZ doesn't have the balls to write about this angle because Harvey Levin has to present this "United Front" with Larry Birkhead and Virgie...like we believe that for one minute. Harvey...nothing fair and balanced about your celeb reporting.

Posted at 12:03PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Bonnie

100. Posted at 11:42AM on Feb 27th 2007 by lisa.......................
"The only one having dignity and really grieving is Howard K. Stern"

but he's not too grief-stricken to stop playing "let's make a deal" for the baby.

Posted at 12:03PM on Feb 27th 2007 by travis

101. I agree with Suzie #9, the baby looks like Larry, no wonder he is confident she is his daughter. Strange, no one on the news has stated the similarities between Larry and Dannielynn??? I hope he raises the baby out of the lime light and take he to Kentucky with his family...

Posted at 12:04PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Las Vegas

102. Look at $tern's picture in this article: a real DEVIL... horns are missing. His profile is frightening. He is an evil. He should get NOT a cent since ANS was taking care of him all these years. WHo knows how much $$ he stole from her during his "tenure"? And how much he made on her pornographic pictures of group sex and who know what else? This Jew should check into a concentration camp and be burned.

Posted at 12:04PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Luci

103. SARA - GET A CLUE!
Let me guess... you are on the Howard K $tern payroll (that his PARENTS are paying I should say..) Leave Howard alone? Here is the deal. It is sad that Anna Nicole thought this guy was a decent guy with good intentions. I am not sure she was lucid enough to realize how he was trying to make a buck off of her every move. God knows he has cheated her out of millions and she probably never knew better. KUDOS to you Scumbag $tern for cheating a woman you doped up out of millions- that deserves an award. As for you Sara, listen to what this guy said in court, analyze the videos that have appeared on any website & you can clearly see that Howard is not worthy of anything other than jail. EVERYTHING he does is premeditated - he is a calculating weasel. He talks like a weasel, acts like a weasel - I guess that makes him a WEASEL!

Posted at 12:04PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Somethin smells about $tern

104. Interesting how you believe everything that TMZ says like it's gospel.

What a bunch of gullible people you are.

I think TMZ is biased and they make these sensational stories to manipulate you into taking one side. Theirs.

Posted at 12:04PM on Feb 27th 2007 by imitalian

105. Now I know why everyone is so interested in a piece of Anna and why her mother thought Howard Marshall was so great. He actually states on this tape, he leaves everything to Anna.http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid474544017?bctid=493175040

Posted at 12:04PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Paula J Countryman

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