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46. I think the son who was in jail for kidnapping was Donald Ray Hart, Jr, who was called "disabled" by Virgie in her testimony before Judge Seidlin.

Some people are confusing FBI agent, David Thacker, her first born when she was 14-15, with son, Donald Ray Hart. Jr.

I think Donald is the one who allegedly got shot by her service pistol and is "disabled." But evidently he is able enough to commit crimes.

Posted at 6:33PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Jenny Justice

47. Do the math.. if these dates of birth are correct.. Virgie was preggers at age 14.
Virgie Mae Tabers was born 12 Jul 1951
David Luther Tacker was born 19 Jan 1966

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Posted at 1:03PM on Apr 19th 2007 by QV

48. SO WHAT - THEY ARE NOT RELATED. TMZ, WILL GO TO ANY EXTREMES
TO DEFAME MRS. ARTHUR.

Posted at 1:04PM on Apr 19th 2007 by David

49. TMZ, how much is HKS, PR firm paying you to trash Virgie and her family?????? What a sorry ass bunch of people. The bible says He who is with out sin can cast the first stone! Ok there is a lot of you nuts who is going to play this up as far as you can.

I think that I have had anough of this web page. Only got on because of Daniel. There used to be a few very educated people on here that saw both sides to the story not just their twisted views. I do miss them! It seem like Howards pr firm has won the battle here. But educated people do not subside to trashy lies!

Wal Mart has this thing that if they move one product to another isle you will buy several items looking for what you wanted in the first place! It does not work for me! If I can not find that item that I knew at one time where it was then I do not buy it or nothing on the way unless it wa an item I needed. Any one with me? This is what TMZ and the PR firm is doing now. Trash Virgie and build up HKS and Larry as saints! WELL I DO NOT BUY IT! No one is perfect! You wait the truth will come out but not from this web site!

I do hope that Larry does get his beautiful daughter but Stern is jerking on Larry! Larry has to remember you can not make deals with the devil! So far the Bahama goverment has done the right thing so keep your faith that Larry will be able to get that beautiful little baby away from the evil one. Just remember that Virgie is Daniel's grandma so please show her some respect. If my grandson and daughter had died like they did I would be doing the same thing as Virgie to get the truth and hold people accountable.

God Bless You Daniel

Posted at 1:04PM on Apr 19th 2007 by CAW

50. that's sweet Kat, but.....

Virgie Mae Arthur was just over 14 years old when she became pregnant with her first child, David Tacker, Jr. The father of the boy was 17, and Virgie’s (non-blood related) stepbrother. Some reports say that Arthur and Tacker, Sr. married before their son was born; others list only Arthur’s five marriages afterwards.

Seventeen is the age of consent in Texas. Regardless of whether Arthur married her stepbrother while pregnant it is clear that, under law, she was the victim of statutory rape, a fact which is bolstered by the senior Tacker’s arrest record. In 1982, Tacker was arrested for the rape of a child, and convicted for incest. Other criminal charges include assault and domestic assault.

Arthur’s second husband, Donald Hogan, was a child predator who allegedly raped Arthur’s ten year-old niece, and who served time in a Kansas prison for sexual molestation. Donald Hogan fathered Arthur’s daughter, Vicki Lynn Hogan, better known as Anna Nicole Smith, born November 28, 1967. It is reported that while married to Hogan, Arthur was battered and abused. She divorced him when Anna was two years old, and he was ordered by the courts to stay away from the family.

Arthur then went on to marry Donald Ray Hart. They had a son, Donald Ray Hart, Jr. in 1972. Anna confided to several people that this stepfather molested and raped her while she was growing up. According to at least one source, the abuse by the stepfather started when Anna was around nine years old and did not cease until she left the Hart home six years later. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, a thirty-nine year old Anna referred to abuse perpetrated by her mother, stepfather and stepbrother, but did not get specific. In the book “Big Beautiful Doll,” Anna is reported as saying that her mother used to handcuff her to the bed as punishment for leaving the house.

Not much is known about the elder Hart, but the younger one later served six years in prison for assisting in the kidnap and planned murder of a paraplegic woman. People who have interviewed Donald Hart, Jr. say that he appears to have an extremely low IQ and may be borderline retarded.

One of Virgie’s sons, it is unclear which, was purportedly injured in a household accident involving a gun when he was three years old, and spent some time in an assisted living facility.

When Anna was 15, she was sent to live with her aunt Kay Beale’s family in Mexia, Texas. Beale is the mother of “cousin Shelley” who would later make an appearance on Anna Nicole Show. While there have been claims made of prescription drug abuse by Beale, and methamphetamine use by Shelley, these claims seem to lack any solid proof. What is not refuted is that the family was extremely poor. When interviewed by author Eric Redding, Kay Beale stated that she would give Anna five dollars of her food stamps in exchange for Anna cleaning the house.

One of Anna’s early boyfriends, Al Bolt, said that when Anna’s career began taking off, she invited the Beale family to live with her. Bolt said, “Her Aunt Kay was very large, very sloppy. Vickie invited her to come from Mexia to Houston to watch out for Daniel. So the whole family just moved in. They were all living there and none of them worked. Vicki was the only breadwinner.”

Anna dropped out of high school almost immediately after going to live with the Beale family. She had a history of learning difficulties and there are no reports to indicate that this was addressed in any way by her family or the school system. In later years, a judge would make note of her illiteracy in court papers, and the publication and broadcast of Anna’s private diaries and e-mails would open the door to sad and unfortunate public ridicule.

After leaving high school, Anna went to work for Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken. She married cook Billy Wayne Smith in April 1985, when she was seven months shy of her 18th year. Their son Daniel was born in January 1986, nine months later. The pair separated in 1987 and officially divorced in 1993. The father did not have a relationship with his son. Anna worked a variety of minimum wage jobs before becoming a stripper, and then embarking on a career as model, spokesperson and actress.

Reports vary as to the extent of mother Virgie Arthur’s role in Anna and Daniel’s life in pre-Playmate days. Virgie has made claims that she raised Daniel until he was six years old. Others dispute this, and say that Virgie is exaggerating, and that it was more like four years and that Anna was also present in the home for much of that time, and lived with her mother and son when she was not traveling. Anna’s diary excerpts show that Virgie and daughter “partied” together during this time, so it seems likely that contrary to other claims, Daniel was not abandoned solely to Virgie’s care except in short spurts.

The relationship between Virgie Arthur and her daughter seems to have ebbed and flowed between closeness and estrangement since Anna’s teens. While the last estrangement was the longest, it was not the first, as indicated by Anna’s testimony in the Marshall case.

While Anna’s half-sister Donna Hogan stated that she was “envious” of Anna’s early years, it is apparent that Hogan, who was never in Anna’s childhood home, had no basis for her belief that Anna had a good childhood. Hogan was never close to Anna as a child or as an adult. Her “tell-all” book is useless as a biography about Anna’s true life, but it does have value in exploring the paternal side of Anna’s Texas family.

Besides the criminal record of father Donald Hogan, previously mentioned, Hogan’s second wife, Wanda Atkinson, the mother of Donna, Amy and Donald, Jr., has spent time in and out of mental institutions. All three of her and Hogan’s children have a history of drug use. Donna Hogan, in a Cindy Adams interview, says, “Well, yeah, I’ve done drugs . . . we’ve both had a wild, crazy life . . . and like her, I worked in gentlemen’s clubs. There’s perverts who just want you to get drunk with them. So I’d sit and drink. You could make $2000 a night.” For Amy Hogan, drugs were more than a recreational habit. She lost custody of her three children due to gross neglect, and spent time homeless due to a pervasive methamphetamine addiction.

Donna Hogan claims in “Train Wreck” that she once tried to initiate an on-air reunion between Virgie Arthur and the estranged grandson she had not seen in several years. According to Hogan, Virgie was offered $20,000 by the network for her participation, but Virgie wanted more money and turned the opportunity down when her demands were not met. Her claim has not been verified or denied by the network in question.

As of this writing, Virgie Mae Arthur is in the Bahamas, seeking rights not normally bestowed upon a grandmother. She is seeking the right to sue for wrongful death on behalf of Anna’s estate, and joint control over Dannielynn Birkhead’s assets, as well as partial custody and/or court-ordered visitation rights. She is also asking that she be made sole custodian of Dannielynn in the event of Larry Birkhead’s death. To this end, she has hired infamous Texas attorney John O’Quinn, whose specialty is multi-million dollar lawsuits and class action cases, not family law. O’Quinn is no stranger to controversy. His firm hired the lead FBI agent that was supposed to be investigating O’Quinn’s possible malfeasance in a tobacco settlement. Presently, he is being taken to court for not paying out to victims the millions he won on their behalf in a judgement against a breast implant manufacturer.

Arthur posits herself as a stable personality. She points to her twenty-eight year career in law enforcement and middle-class status as proof of her ability to care for and nurture a child. It should be noted that Arthur had this same career and status while her own children were growing up, and that it saved none of them from what appears to be an intense, pervasive and long-term cycle of family abuse, marked by incest, pedophilia, domestic violence, and drug use. Arthur was clearly unable to break that cycle in her own life. Neither her career nor income status produced an ability to break free from the torments of familial victimization.

As a longtime advocate of children’s issues, I understand that Arthur was also once a victim. I have no desire to publicly admonish her for being unable to break a cycle of abuse. Many people in similar situations never find the tools to do so. It takes an enormous amount of strength, courage and will to end an habitually abusive family culture, especially when that is the only one structure a person has ever known. I do not, as some others do, find Virgie Arthur “evil.” However, given her history and her recent demands, I do not believe she is acting in the best interests of her granddaughter, or that her motives are purely well-intentioned. Instead, it appears to me that Arthur, whether conscious of it or not, is acting within a structure founded on the principles of abuse.

By demanding rights not normally afforded to a grandmother, she is seeking not only some control over her granddaughter’s destiny, but of Larry Birkhead’s as well. In seeking joint custody or court-ordered visitation, and labeling her own household and family as “good,” it is clear that Arthur has not come to terms with the extent of her own family’s torturous cycle. Left with unsupervised visits, there is no telling whose lap Dannielynn will fall into, and given the family’s history this should be a cause for great concern, if not outright alarm.

Lastly, as the father of Dannielynn, it is Birkhead’s decision whether to pursue legal claims on her behalf. By aligning herself with an attorney like O’Quinn and seeking to file a separate wrongful death claim of her own, Arthur is clearly acting for her own motives, without true regard for Dannielynn or the child’s father. A grandmother who once said that “all she wanted” was for Dannielynn to live with her biological father, and to be able to “be a grandma” has morphed into a woman seeking to no small amount of control over a granddaughter, a father, and a deceased daughter’s estate. One of the hallmarks of an abusive personality is the attempt to exercise inappropriate control over the lives of others. I believe that Arthur’s attempts to wrestle control from Birkhead, and those whom Anna trusted to oversee her affairs, show that Arthur has not recovered from her past, but is still actively perpetuating the cycle of abuse that has dominated her family for at least several decades.

Posted at 1:04PM on Apr 19th 2007 by trish

51. well i've heard everything now . i hope larry can just get that beautiful baby miles away from that sicko .everytime i see her face it makes me sick

Posted at 1:04PM on Apr 19th 2007 by judy

52. This is one sick family. How different is Larry's sister, etc. from Anna's family. Virgie with her platinum hair, Anna's sister with her platinum hair all out of a bottle. LOL. What a tribe!!! Trying to look like Anna. Why?? $$$$. They are so obvious.

Larry's family seems so normal. Something Anna never got to experience. She never was around normal people. Dannielynn needs to experience a normal childhood with NORMAL people around her. Have a decent life. If that is even possible given the circumstances in this case. I feel sorry for her.

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 19th 2007 by CalGal

53. And I would care about this because????????????

Posted at 1:04PM on Apr 19th 2007 by florida

54. TMZ - more details please! Creepy as it is regardless, it really does make a difference if they were raised together, lived together or distant step siblings who rarely saw each other. Still creepy, but a tad less creepy if they never lived in the same household!

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 19th 2007 by avery

55. Virgie Arthur has been married five times, I don't know how many kids she has but is David Luther Tacker Jr. the one who did time for attacking a parapalegic woman and brandishing a knife at her? Then he was arrested for cattle rustling? This is one classy family. I still remember the Bahamian woman Lawyer saying Virgie brought up Daniel and did a fine job, I think the courts should take a closer look at Virgie, this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. She gives the name Hillbilly new meaning. I can't wait for this to be over and Larry just get the hell out of Dodge with his baby. Dannilynne deserves better than Virgie and her tribe. Yuj that woman gives me the creeps. Virgie actually asked Larry to leave her custody in his will in case anything happened to him, if I were Larry I'd be very afraid.

Posted at 1:06PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Madeleine T

56. Wow ...Every since Howard threatened to sue the media and websites...TMZ has sung a new tune...You are bad mouthing Virgie and Larry at every turn...You haven't printed not one negative thing about Howard..How bout that...Maybe its Virgie's turned to start suing.....It amazes me..You've turned into ET ...They still like your site is still fix on the ANS story..We just at a tragedy in our country ..Give that more attention...Young innocent children who tried to do something good with their lives..Thats important not how many husbands Virgie has had and how many children and with whom she has had them with

Posted at 1:10PM on Apr 19th 2007 by JUSTICE

57. QV-SHUT UP.
Have any of you ever considered that this was not consensual? Ever heard of rape within families? The only disgusting thing about this story is Harvey Levin eagerness to put this story out in the public.

Posted at 1:07PM on Apr 19th 2007 by HKS

58. 34. Between Anna's mother and her father how did she keep up with who's who?? no wonder she stayed away from her family. She might have mistakenly married one of them and would of not know she was related to them

Posted at 12:58PM on Apr 19th 2007 by heres my two cents\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

LOL.

Posted at 1:07PM on Apr 19th 2007 by The story is over

59. Who are those wicked people passing judgement on Ms. Arthur ? What about your personal lives, are you gay, have you cheated on your mate, do you cheat on your income tax report, are you angels ? Shame on you, turn your attention to your own life, leave Ms. Arthur alone. Go for it Virgie, I'm glad you had all those men in your bed, am not jealous at all. Hope you had fun too.

Posted at 1:08PM on Apr 19th 2007 by beauty

60. . Poor, poor Anna, she had to deal with Vergie's disgusting ways and now she wants custody of the baby. Larry keep this pig of a woman away from your kid. Anna comments regarding Vergie to "ask my mother about the abuse and rape about her father and brother." Vergie should have been arrested for what she allowed to happend to Anna and Donna Hogan.

Posted at 2:51PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Vergie You Pig