How Anna's Mom Learned About Anna -- From Jailbird Ex

Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother may have been so desperate for information about her daughter, that she begged a criminal who is still in prison for making criminal threats against Anna, to fill in the blanks.
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TMZ has obtained a letter Virgie Arthur wrote to Mark Hatten, a man was acquitted of stalking Anna, asking him to share "memories" of Anna with her, as well as any information he may have had about their infamous mother-daughter rift.

In the letter, dated November 13, 2006, two months after the death of her grandson Daniel, Virgie asks Hatten to "tell [her] the story Vickie told you about what we are not speaking" (Vickie was Anna's birth name) and thanks Hatten for "all the information you did give me ... I WILL GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY MEMORIES THAT YOU COULD SHARE WITH ME." Virgie also asks for pictures and expresses her sorrow to Hatten -- who had a brief relationship with Smith -- for getting "tangled up [sic] the web."

In other correspondence that Hatten shared with TMZ, Hatten claims to have made a sex tape with Anna Nicole, a tape that he fears was stolen from the Bahamas house where Anna was living when she died. "It must be destroyed," says Hatten, who adds that Anna was "against pornography (hardcore)."


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1. If ANS was against Pornography (hardcore) then why would she make the tape in the first place..that makes no sense

Posted at 3:15PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Andy

2. The whole Hatten crew (especially his sister Jackie) are a bunch of wierdos..... they need to get a life!

Posted at 3:17PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Shelby

3. It appears this woman is trying to gather enough material to sell her daughter's story and steal her granddaughter's inheritance. She is disgusting.

Posted at 3:19PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Lynn

4. So...what information DID he give her about the rift?

I'm sorry, I think this is just a guy looking ofr attention. He and his sister are creepy.

Posted at 3:22PM on Mar 6th 2007 by StraightNotNarrow

5. Looks like Mommie Dearest is up to her old tricks!!

Posted at 3:25PM on Mar 6th 2007 by TELL IT LIKE IT IS

6. I agree - it looks like she was gathering as much material as possible to write a book. Most likely a plan she came up with after Daniels death - not expecting the big finish with Anna dying. What a wicked witch ----

Posted at 3:26PM on Mar 6th 2007 by L

7. "I got your letter."

He contacted her first.

"Thanks for the information you did give me. I'll do all that I can."

All that she can about what?

"Thank you for being here for me in the darkest hours I have ever known."

The man is in jail for stalking her daughter and he's thanking her for being there for him?

Is this letter actually supposed to help Virgie's case??

Posted at 3:28PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Christina

8. Virgie will do ANYTHING to get ANYTHING to make money off of Anna it is so sick that she would stoop and do the things she did....Further more Jackie and Mark Hatten are white trash just like Virgie.....Anna said that her and Jackie were NOT friends and that Mark was a stalker!

Posted at 3:28PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Wende

9. She looks peaceful....probably the only time she found peace was sleeping

Posted at 3:30PM on Mar 6th 2007 by MarryMeHKS

10. #3 Lynn is wrong. An autobiography or memoir that she is putting out is from her own thoughts. Her daughter was trifling, drug addicted, gold digging slut who had no dignity
in life. How does this make her mother the same? ANS did not care as much for her son
or daughter as some people claim, her son had to live in the shadow of her men as they
climbed into her bed one after the other. Her son travelled the country with her for years
while she did drugs, on a regular basis. Her mother wants to know about her grandson's
life after he left her. The baby was fed drugs all through her pregnancy. Howard looks high on a regular basis himself. Another reason he does not want to take dna, his hair follicles
will not be admitted, I can bet you that.
Virgie is not trying to blast ANS, she needs to know the circumstances surrounding where
Daniel lived. She had him for his first 7 years. Seems someone else always had him.
He did not live in the Bahamas.

Posted at 3:31PM on Mar 6th 2007 by sheila

11. My grandmother always told me

Never put anything in writing

I HOPE THIS BITES YOU IN THE ASS VERGIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:32PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Lucy

12. Here is a lesson for all you girls out there. Don't be a slut in life and your name will not be dragged through the mud in death.

Posted at 3:33PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Buster

13. GIVE ME A BREAK - LET HIS WOMAN REST IN PEACE! WHO CARES ABOUT HER EXTRA ACTIVITIES - THIS CRAP IS JUST NOT NEEDED!

Posted at 3:37PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Bilie

14. She slept around but if I had as shitty a childhood as she did , I may have too. Hello, Virgie cared so much about her she let ANS drop out at the 8th grade level. Nice mommying there. Plus with mom marrying and divorcing so much she never had a "daddy" so she sleeps with men to find love and acceptance even if it was fleeting. Just a theory.

Posted at 3:37PM on Mar 6th 2007 by MarryMeHKS

15. Virgie needs to just go away! People need to let anna rest in peace. It is a sin to talk ill of the dead.

Posted at 3:37PM on Mar 6th 2007 by Brienne

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