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Larry to Network -- MSNBC You In Court

Larry BirkheadLarry Birkhead has told TMZ he is thinking of suing MSNBC over the Rita Cosby book, because she obtained information on the network's dime.

Birkhead says Cosby, who has since left MSNBC, befriended him in the Bahamas through his then lawyer, Debra Opri. Larry also says Opri would invite Cosby to dinners, where Cosby told him everything discussed was "off the record."

Birkhead claims the salacious allegations are lies.

A rep for MSNBC had no comment.



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166. Cosby, this yellow journalist, believes what Jackie Hatten told her?! She must be kidding! Hatten's a flake. That's the nicest thing I can say about that social climbing, ass kissing, habitual liar. She went on T.V. over and over again saying she was the godmother of Anna's children. Hatten was thrown off Anna's property four years before Dannielynn was born. Anna's son died at the age of twenty. Does that mean that after twenty years, Anna decided she was going to have her son, an adult man, baptized?! And her choice of a godmother was some hanger-on floozie? Hatten made umpteen calls to the lawyers begging them to let her go to Florida to testify at the hearing. None of her calls were returned. Even though they are lawyers, they were intelligent enough to see through this fake. She and Virgie Arthur are two of a kind and should be sent to mental hospitals. I'm serious.

Posted at 2:34PM on Sep 7th 2007 by Annie Mattis

167. Of course he should sue! If the author of that book is so concerned about Anna Nicole Simpson's daughter then why is she putting this kind of defamatory information about her father?

Posted at 9:54AM on Sep 5th 2007 by Derek Williams

168.

I HOPE THAT BIRKHEAD SUES AND IS FULLY VINDICATED. THERE WERE PLENTY
OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR COSBY AND OPRI TO "EXPOSE" BIRKHEAD AND STERN
BUT NO-THEY WAITED AND WROTE A BOOK. WAS OPRI PLANNING THIS WHILE SHE
REPRESENTED BIRKHEAD. THE COURT CASE WASNT THAT LONG AGO. AND WHERE IS VIRGIE ARTHUR IN ALL THIS MESS?? WAS SHE ONE OF COSB'Y's "SOURCES" FOR THESE SCANDULOUS CLAIMS.??? I USED TO SYMPATHIZE WITH HER, BUT NOW I WOULDNT PUT IT PAST HER BECAUSE SHE WANTS AND NEEDS MONEY.

LARRY BIRKHEAD HAS SHOWN SO FAR THAT HE HAS BEEN A GOOD FATHER TO
LITTLE DANIELLYN. SHE IS OBVIOUSLY WELL TAKEN CARE OF AND MORE IMPORTANTLY A VERY HAPPY CHILD. FOR COSBY, OPRI AND OTHER OF THEIR ILK TO TRY TO DISRUPT THIS POTENTIALLY STABLE RELATIONSHIP AND LIFE FOR
ALMOST AMOUNTS TO CHILD ABUSE. I HOPE BIRKHEAD CLEANS THEIR CLOCK.
BTW COSBY USED TO BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE REPORTERS. NOT ANYMORE.

Posted at 6:02PM on Sep 5th 2007 by EFFIE GRANGER

169.


C'MON FOLKS USE SOME COMMON SENSE!

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD JEOPARDIZE THEIR FUTURE AND THE FUTURE CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILD TO SAY NOTHING OF THEIR POTENTIAL FINANCIAL SECURITY BY PUTTING THEMSELVES IN A COMPROMISING SITUATION IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE WHAT COSBY/OPRI IS SAYING.

Posted at 6:24PM on Sep 5th 2007 by EFFIE GRANGER

170. What kind of grandmother would aid in the writing of this kind of book about her own daughter. Did she even think that the repercussions from this book will HAUNT Danilyn her entire life? Do you really call that a good Grandmother? She has lost all of my sympathy.

That baby needs her family, but this family from what we can see is pure evil S..t!

Posted at 12:18AM on Sep 6th 2007 by Ted

171. ANS was a train wreck waiting to happen...HK$ gave her the DRUGS! and threw Moe and his wife under the bus...now he is "entertaining" the "Shrink" who provided all the drugs WHICH HE PROCURED!!!.. Next you want me to believe that he had sex with Larry...I DON'T THINK SO... but WHAT WOULD IT MATTER IF HE DID?? ...Dr. Perper was in charge of the investigation...HE FAILED TO TEST ANS HAIR FOR DRUGS...as far as I am concerned HE HAS NO CREDIBILITY!!!. .....test the hair of HK$....the silly "bimbo" is getting her few minutes of fame....I have no doubt that HK$ provided the drugs that killed Daniel and ANS. Larry should be exonerated as he wasn't present, nor did he have any involvement.
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Posted at 1:47AM on Sep 6th 2007 by Jill from Western Australia

172. The plot thickens, Cosby was getting info and MSNBC was paying for it. Also, it's funny somehow I knew Opri had to be involved in this somewhere, and mentions of dinners between Cosby and Birkhead and Opri only brought one image to my head. That of 3 money-hungry people all probably scheming against each other while they make small talk or discuss things "off the record." Opri thinking about how she's going to fleece LB out of a huge sum with her legal bills, Cosby thinking about how she's going to publish this book with the most sensational allegations possible and LB thinking about all that Dannielynn $$$. What goes around comes around.

Posted at 10:22AM on Sep 6th 2007 by Agent Zero

173.

Could you possibly imagine the heartbreak anna suffered after daniel died?
COULD YOU IMAGINE BEING FORCED TO SIT BESIDE SOMEONE WHOM YOU JUST ACCUSED OF MURDERING YOUR SON, IN A STUDIO AND PRETEND TO BE HIS LOVER BECAUSE HE MADE SURE YOUR LITTLE GIRL STAYED HOME AND THREATENED YOU TO DO WHAT HE SAYS OR HE WILL HURT THE CHILD?

THIS WOMAN WAS BROKEN WITH NO WHERE TO TURN. IF SHE OPENED HER MOUTH, HER ONLY LIVING CHILD MIGHT MEET THE SAME FATE AS HER SON AND NOW SHE'S STUCK WITH THE MURDERER.

TALK ABOUT SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY................WHOA!

there was no doubt in annas mind that howard killed daniel...she told him as much on three occassoins that we know about...in alll likelihood she told him more times than that....no wonder he didnt want her talking to her mother.....who is it that you can trust when you cant trust anyone else? YOUR MOM!

Posted at 12:24AM on Sep 7th 2007 by sleeping with the enemy

174. If LB were serious about sueing chances are the book would not have even made it
onto the shelves in the first place. He seems very shady and contradicts himself. He
pimps his daughter out every chance he gets and is making big bucks off it! The whole
mess is scandalous and all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Posted at 6:28PM on Sep 8th 2007 by Choo Choo

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