Stern Will Not Fight for Custody If Birkhead's the Dad

Howard K. Stern will not stand in Larry Birkhead's way if the DNA tests show Birkhead is Dannielynn's father, this according to unimpeachable sources.

Howard K. SternThese sources have issued the following statement to TMZ:

"If Larry Birkhead is confirmed to be Dannielynn's biological father, Howard will not challenge custody. His love for her will not change, irrespective of the results. Howard will act in Dannielynn's best interest, because he loves her and would want a smooth transition to protect her, as she is deeply bonded to those who have been with her since birth.

While Howard continues to believe and hope that he is Dannielynn's biological father, he wants to be involved in her life, regardless of paternity. He wants to share the memories of her mother as the person who knew Anna best and all she wanted for Dannielynn.

Howard will do whatever is necessary to assist Larry Birkhead to defeat any effort by Virgie Arthur to obtain custody of Dannielynn.

Howard was not part of the paternity lawsuit filed while Anna Nicole was alive. The first person to challenge Howard on custody was Virgie Arthur -- not Larry Birkhead. Howard is dedicated to Virgie Arthur not having custody of Dannielynn. He is well aware of how Anna Nicole felt about 'Mommy Dearest' and Anna's feelings were clear regarding Virgie Arthur being anywhere near Dannielynn.

Speculation that this is somehow about money for Howard is misguided and wrong. Howard has never made a TV or book deal even though he is the one who knew Anna Nicole best.

Howard wants Anna Nicole to be remembered as an icon like Marilyn Monroe, and he knows a lot of damage has been done to her image in the past two months. This restoration of Anna's image is important for Dannielynn and the views she will have of her mother as she grows up. He also wants to make sure that only Dannielynn profits from Anna Nicole's name, likeness and estate. As TMZ reported earlier, the money from Anna Nicole's funeral went to a trust set up for Dannielynn. Howard set up the trust but he does not, and will not, receive any money from it and is not the trustee."


Anna Nicole SmithTMZ has confirmed that DNA results will be revealed in court on Tuesday in the Bahamas. Stern and Birkhead will both be present. Arthur is also expected to be there.



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4906. Baby will be fine once she is back in the US with her father. The grandmother has a right to visit and get to know her grand daughter as well, along with the cousins and aunts and uncles from Anna's side of the family. She will be surrounded with love and never needs to have a relationship with Howard or his family. They have shown they are not trustworthy or sincere to the whole world.

Posted at 2:56PM on Apr 14th 2007 by It is Obvious

4907. Well, well, well.

Stern is suing Virgie for slander and is suing O'Quinn for--get this--invasion of privacy -- per Fox News. Seeking monetary damages.

I guess Stern thinks Virgie may end up being a co-executor of Dannielynn's Trust. He wants that money and he's gonna try to get it, even if it kills him. He's covering all the bases.

I HATE Stern.

Posted at 2:58PM on Apr 14th 2007 by Only people GETTING PAID would support HK$

4908.
Virgie wants guaranteed visits, a certain amount of time per year.

She also wants to be name as one of the Executors of Dannielynn's Estate.

Posted at 1:19PM on Apr 14th 2007 by Only people GETTING PAID would support HK$


Sorry that is insane - even if you believe it's to cut HKS notice it states she wants to be one of the executors. No way. This is a slap in Anna's face and why should Larry have to sign paper giving her a certain amount of time with the baby. That's BS he is the legal father. No other father has to do that. Why should he? She raised her children already. Leave Larry a lone poor guy has been through enough.

Vergie is up to no good! I'm beginning to believe Anna was right.

Posted at 3:41PM on Apr 14th 2007 by what?

4909. 2525. Can anyone tell me why none of Vergies children have come to her defense? And no it is not because they shun publicity. There has to be more to it than that. Look Larry.s family came out to support him and so did HKS's family. So where's Vergie's family? I have not seen one of her daughters or sons come out to defend her. Makes you wonder maybe Anna was right.

Posted at 4:08PM on Apr 14th 2007 by Just me

Posted at 4:10PM on Apr 14th 2007 by Just me

4910. for anyone thats interested the www.mrcontroversy.com site has new interviews of the nannys...omg...why is no one doing anything...????this is MUST SEE TV and not one single usa news station is reporting this...why?

Posted at 9:54PM on Apr 14th 2007 by hmmmmmmm

4911. Howard K. Stern, you're not the executor of Anna Nicole's will. That is yet to be determined. You are a person with a very dark soul. It is my prayer that the truth is revealed to shed light on the essence of who you really are!

Posted at 1:34AM on Apr 15th 2007 by PrettyIrishWoman

4912. Youve got to watch this video of the nannys -----------------> http://ourforum.whathappenedanna.com/User/Discussion.aspx?id=20641&p=-1&fps=1&anchor=a71188

Posted at 4:22AM on Apr 15th 2007 by NANNIES SPEAK AGAIN

4913. http://ourforum.whathappenedanna.com/User/Discussion.aspx?id=20641&p=-1&fps=1&anchor=a71188 nannys squeal on howie

Posted at 4:08AM on Apr 15th 2007 by NANNIES SPEAK AGAIN

4914. That video with the Nannies, contrived. The men were putting words in the womens mouths, and fishing for what they wanted. The women were fired after all. Where was this staged? It also looks amateurish, why isn't on courttv, or greta or nancy or any of the others?

Posted at 12:37PM on Apr 15th 2007 by Thats says it all

4915. Your comments: THIS is for LARRY BIRKHEAD and VERGIE..'''' LARRY DO
NOT SIGN ANY
PAPERS THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT''''....you could probably get this over
turned in the united states but this will just cost you more money
and cause a stress full time for you and little dannielynn..this
should be a time of joy and bonding and having a relationship with
your child..havent you been deprived enough from your relationship
with her.. now you dont need another legal battle in the bahamas or
the united states..havent they deprived you of your parental rights
long enough,,havent they caused you enough stress,,havent they kept
you from your child and all of the wonderful memories of her growing
up and all of her first times..from her birth told holding her the
fisrt time ect...i used to think of the bahamas as a nice place..but
now i have hard feelings against them for what they have done to you
and your child.. ''''1st /// of all thier laws need to be changed..a
woman should not be able to just put down any name on the birth
certificate and it not be the true father..in that way people are
legally committing fraud and the ''' BAHAMAS ARE SANCTIONING
IT..'''..''''WHICH SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.'''...it is a deflamtion of
character,,it is slanderous and should be considered liable..this
helps women who have falling out withs thier babys daddys and gives
THEM a place to RUN and HIDE behind another COUNTRYS LAWS..mean
while the true parents is stolen from..thier rights are taken from
them,,they are then made to do what larry birkhead has had to do to
challenge the fraudulent birth certificates and have to establish
true paternity..most people do not have these resources to do
so..''''' 2nd of all once paternity had been established it is un
reasonable for that father / parent to have to fight to get custody
of his very own biolodgical child..this is more money having to be
paid out,,more stress and more time being '''' STOLEN from the
biolodgical parent '''' '''YES THATS RIGHT I SAID STOLEN AND HERES
ANOTHER ROBBED''''' by THE BAHAMAS THIS COUNRTY THAT WE HAVE ALL
THOUGHT TO BE SO GRAND AND NICE,,WHERE WE SPEND MUCH MONEY TO TRAVEL
TO..'''' MAYBE THEY SHOULD BE BOYCOTTED'''' EVIDENTLY THEY HAVE NO
RESPECT FOR US AMERICANS AND THE MONEY WE BRING TO THIER SO CALLED
COUNTRY''''...3rd /now they have the audacity to try to FORCE LARRY
to settle with virgie on CUSTODY ISSUES surrounding
DANNIELYNN...''''WHAT REALM OF THE WORLD DO THESE PEOLPE HAIL FROM
THAT THEY FEEL THEY HAVE THIS MUCH OVER 2 UNITED STATES
CITIZENS'''???... '''' THATS RIGHT I SAID 2 UNITED STATES
CITIZENS..''''''...WHEN PATERNAITY HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED THEY SHOULD
HAVE SAID TO LARRY BIRKHEAD SIR YOU ARE FREE TO TAKE YOUR
BIOLODGICAL CHILD AND RETURN HOME TO THE STATES AS SOON AS YOU SEE
FIT...WE ARE SORRY THAT THEIR WAS A FORGERY OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE
AND WE ARE GOING TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION....PLEASE EXCEPT OUR
SINCEREST APOLOGIES... but NO they are keeping this going it seems to
look like '''NOT OUT OF THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD'''..BUT OUT OF
A TOURIST ATTRACTION SITE FOR THIER ENCONOMY.... ''' YES I SAID IT..
''...'''''THAT IS WHAT SO MANY OF US AMERICANS HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES ARE BEGINING TO BELIEVE'''''......WE SHOULD ALL BAN TOGETHER
AND STOP ALL VACTIONS AND MONIES FROM THE BAHAMAS UNTILL THEY CHANGE
THIER LAWS....IT IS VERY APPARENT WE HAVE NO RIGHTS IN THIER
COUNTRY... larry birhead has had an up hill battle to try to get his
child'' THATS RIGHT I SAID HIS CHILD'''..3rd / his paternity has been
established and yet he is having to be cohersred into signing
something in order to get his biolodgical child.. ''''''YES I SAID
BEING COHERSED INTO SIGNING SOMETHING IN ORDER TO GET HIS BIOLODICAL
CHILD THAT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES HE WOULD HAVE EVERY RIGHT
TOOOO.''''....HE IS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN AND SO IS HIS CHILD
DANNIELYNN THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN IN THIER COURT,,''''YES I SAID THIER
COURT..''' '''''SO WHY IS HIS CHILD NOT BEING RELEASED TO
HIM..'''....'''' IT SHOULD END THERE AND IF VIRGIE ARTHUR WANTS TO
PURSUE IT IN THE UNITED STATES THEN BY ALL MEANS LET HER TRY THIS
MESS OVER HERE..'''''..... '''' AGAIN THE BAHAMAS ARE STEALING,,
AND ROBBING,, LARRY BIRKHEAD OF HIS GOD GIVEN RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO
BE WITH HIS CHILD,,, TO WATCH HER GROW UP,, TO BOND WITH HER AND TO
SHOW HER LOVE AND CARE ON A DAILY BASIS...'''''... this matter should
have been taken care of when LARRY BIRKHEAD was deterimined by the
PATERNITY TEST and CONFIRMED ''' BY THIER COURT
SYSTEM..''''....MAYBE LARRY BIRKHEAD SHOULD SUE THE BAHAMAS
GOVERNMENT FOR AIDING AND A BETTING THE CRIME OF THE FRAUDULENT BIRTH
CERTIFICATE AND MOST OF ALL DEPRIVING HIM OF HIS GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO BE
DANNIELYNN FATHER..''' ''HIS PARENTAL RIGHT HAVE BEEN IGNORED AND
DISHONORED..HE HAS BEEN ROBBED AND STOLEN FROM BY THE BAHAMAS
GOVERNMENT....WHERE IS THIER DECENCY AS FELLOW HUMAN BEINGINGS,???I
AM SURE SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE THIER IN CHARGE OF THAT GOVERNMENT HAVE
CHILDREN OF THIER OWN,,HOW WOULD THEY FEEL IF IN LARRY BIRKHEADS
SHOES.??????? '''' WOULD THEY WANT TOTAL STRANGERS DECIDING THE
FATE OF THIER CHILD AND FAMILY..'''''??? '''' I THINK
NOT"""...!!!!!!!!....WOULD MEN WHO ARE IN A HIGHER POWER WANT THIER
CHILDS MOTHER TO COME IN AND TELL THEM HOW TO RAISE THAT
CHILD.????...'''I THINK NOT..'''...!!!!!.. OHHHHH,,LETS OPEN A NEW
CAN OF WORMS '''WHAT IF THE MEN OF GREAT POSITION IN THAT COUNTRY
LOST THIER WIVES ,,AND THESES MEAN LATER REMARRIED AN WAS LUCKY
ENOUGH TO FIND LOVE AND HAPPINESS AGAIN AND THIER EX MOTHER IN LAW
HAD JOINT CUSTODY AND THE RIGHT TO MEDDLE IN HIS LIFE AND THAT OF
HIS NEW WIFE FOR THE BETTER SAKE OF THE CHILD..??? WOULD IT STILL BE
RIGHT FOR HER TO INTERVENE AND INTRUDE..WHAT IF THOSE GENTLEMAN IN
HIGH PLACES WERE TRULY GOOD FATHERS BUT DO TO THE FACT THAT THEY WERE
FORCED TO INVOLVE THIER MOTHER IN LAW,,SHE NOW CHOSE TO DISAGREE WITH
HIS NEW WIFE AND THIER RAISING OF THE CHILD IN QUESTION...'' '' WOW
I WONDER WHAT MARITAL PROBLEMS THE OLD MOTHER IN LAW COULD
CAUSE..''' WHAT HELL COULD SHE CAUSE THEM IN THE FUTURE...''''????
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THESE POSSIBLITYS..'''????
SHOULD VERGIE ARTHUR GET SOME SORT OF VISITATION TO THE CHILD BY ALL
MEANS HAD SHE TREATED MR LARRY BIRKHEAD WITH RESPECT '''' BUT AS HE
SEE'S FIT ''''... ''''AFTER ALL THIS IS HIS CHILD AND NOW YOU EXPECT
HIM TO WORK THINGS OUT WITH HER AFTER SHE HAS FOUGHT
HIM'''???>>!!!..HE HAS BEEN ROBBED AND STOLEN FROM..HE HAS HAD TO BE
PUT OUT THE INCONVIENCE OF MANY,,MANY MONTHS OF BEING DEPRIVED OF HIS
CHILD..AND ALSO OF HIRING AN ATTOURNEY EXCUSE ME MANY ATTOURNEYS ONE
HELL OF AN EXPENSE BROUGHT ON TO HIM ,,BECAUSE OF BAHAMAS LAWS AND
THEM NOT TRYING TO MAKE IT RIGHT'''' ''''THATS RIGHT I SAID THEM
NOT TRYING TO MAKE IT RIGHT..'''.... '''''' SO WHERE IS THE JUSTICE
OF 2 OF OUR AMERICAN CITIZENS LARRY BIRKHEAD AND LITTLE
DANNIELYNN.'''.... [ '''IT APPEARS THERE IS NO JUSTICE FOR
THEM''''..].?????.''''' WHY IS SHE BEING HELD IN THE BAHAMAS COURT
SYSTEM FOR BASICALLY RANSOM...''''.?????...''''' WHY HAS THESE 2
AMERICAN CITIZENS NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO COME HOME FROM THE BAHAMAS.
????? ''''. '''['''TO THIER HOME IN THE UNITED
STATES.''''.]..!!!...NOW YOU THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT SIT IN JUDGEMENT
OF HIM..""" ...WHO THE HELL ARE YOU.''''..[ '' '.HERE IS A MAN WHO
HAS BEEN STOLEN AND ROBBED BY YOUR GOVERNMENT OF HIS PARENTAL RIGHTS
AS A FATHER..''']...[ .YOUR COUNTRY HAS BASICALLY RAPED HIM..''' YOU
HAVE VIOLATED HIM IN HIS HEART SOULS AND MIND ECT.'''] '''' YOU HAVE
MADE IT SO HARD FOR HIM TO HAVE HIS CHILD...'''... [ ''''YOU HAVE
MADE HIM BEG FOR THE RIGHTS OF HIS CHILD,,YOU ARE COSTING HIM ADDED
EXPENSES AND PUTTING FINACIAL HARDSHIPS UPON THIS MAN WHO CLEARLY
LOVES AND WANTS HIS CHILD..'''']...!!!!!... ''''[ '''WHERE IS
YOUR JUSTICE '']''' ???WHERE IS YOUR COMPASSION ''''????'' '''''
WHERE IS YOUR DECENCY.????.."""" IF YOU ARE DECENT IN ANY MANNER TELL
LARRY BIRKHEAD HE CAN TAKE HIS CHILD HOME...DO NOT TRY TO FORCE HIM
TO MAKE SETTLEMENT WITH VIRGIE ARTHUR OR ANYONE ELSE...[ ''''WASH
YOUR HANDS OF THE MATTER LET VERGIE ARTHUR FIGHT HER BATTLES IN THE
UNITED STATES YOU OWE LARRY BIRKHEAD THAT MUCH..'''']..AFTER YOUR
COUNTRY HELPED TO ROBB AND STEAL FROM HIM..YOU CAN MAKE THIS RIGHT IF
YOU ARE DECENT....I WILL GATHER SIGNATURES TO BOYCOTT YOUR COUNTRY AND
TO STOP MONIES FROM UNITED STATES CITIZENS LIKE MY SELF AND MANY
OTHERS....LARRY BIRKHEAD IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THIS COMMENT IN
ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORMED..I AM A UNITED STATES CITIZEN AS ARE SO MANY
OTHERS,,AND I AM VERY DISAPOINTED IN YOUR COUNTRY...
BY STEPHANIE
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Posted at 9:55AM on Apr 16th 2007 by stephanie

4916. The nannies know their truth, Howard knows his lies. The truth will come out, two people are dead at the hands of one.

Posted at 11:06AM on Apr 16th 2007 by It is Obvious

4917. PLEASE VIEW -- these nannies both gave statements to the police. And will testify at Daniel's inquest.

http://mrcontroversy.com/

Posted at 1:00AM on Apr 18th 2007 by AJ

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