Celebrity Justice
Anna's Lawyers Want Estate to Pay Up

A powerhouse law firm that also represents Britney Spears is seeking nearly $163,000 from Anna Nicole Smith's estate for legal services.
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In court documents obtained by TMZ, the firm of Trope and Trope says they provided services to the former Playmate beginning in October of 2006 -- to the tune of $281,000, and only $118,000 has been paid.

A copy of the document has also been sent to the executor of Anna's will, Howard K. Stern.

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91. Well what about anna'a so called mother? after all she has got money to keep going back and forth to there! I can really see why anna(what a beaty and wonderful girl) did not like at all her mom. Howard and Larry are working togeather and that is so great! but than you got Anna's mother who did not want any to do with Anna and her son Danny before. Mom just wants any money she can get-i am so glad i had the mother i had! That women see's dollar signs and lots of it-but she will not last with that money cause she can not hold on to it for the baby-the baby would have nothing if a judge gave this to her! with all my heart i hope and pray Anna's MOM gets what she deserves thank you for letting me say what i believe in. thanks again sandi

Posted at 10:56PM on Nov 9th 2007 by sandi

92. I hope Virgie Arthur wins her suit against Howard she just filed. GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO SUE HOWARD K. STERN. MAY HE PAY UP THEN ROT IN JAIL FOR FEEDING DRUGS T ANNA AND DANNY

Posted at 11:31PM on Nov 9th 2007 by Jan

93. #83
Howard made 14 million. Put your money where your mouth is and post the proof that Howard made that money,but of course we know that you can't post that you have no proof ,just another person posting pure garbage. I have no idea what virgie made but she took media to Daniel's grave and had to admit that in court and then she started stumbling pretending she didn't understand what the judge was asking her when he was questioning her about how much money she got and that was on TV for all to see, she caught ride with splash news to the morgue and that was on Tv for all to see, she said Rita's book that trashed her daughter was a great book and that was on TV for all to see. What kinda mother would stand up so proud on TV and say that about a book that trashed her daughter no matter if they got along or not. So come on post the proof about what you beak off about I'll be waiting to see your proof lol

Posted at 11:43PM on Nov 9th 2007 by tianna

94. IT APPEARS A LOT OF THESE CHARGES ARE BOGUS, WHERE ARE THE
DETAILS-BREAKDOWN OF THESE CHARGES?? WHAT PERSONAL LEGAL FEES??? DANIEL DIED IN SEPTENBER, IN
OCTOBER ANNA WAS SO DEVASTATED, SICK, DRUGGED UP, OUT OF IT. WHAT
LEGAL BILLS FROM OCTOBE 2006??.

PROBABLY THE DATES HAVE BEEN MODIFIED IN ORDER TO HAVE DEAD ANNA START PAYING STERN LEGAL BILLS. THAT IS MORE LIKE IT!!

TROPE AND TROPE IS THE FIRM RON RALE, STERn AND OTHER Stern lawyers ARE ASSOCIATED WITH. period!

Posted at 10:39AM on Nov 11th 2007 by STERN AND ROLES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH TROPE & TROPE FIRM......

95. isnt it funny how they dont come after money until after the person is dead. Maybe they should have came after her for money while she was alive. and as for stern...he is going straight to hell....I personally think he fed her the drugs. He was trying to kill her cause he though he was getting some money out of it....He also fed Daniel the drugs to get him out of the way first. Way to go for Larry for getting ur baby back stern couldnt produce a cute baby if hs life depended on it...

Posted at 12:23AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Marie

96. ** GOT HIS FROM MR CONTROVERSY SITE. IT LOOKS LIKE MR CONTROVERSY IS COOPERATING WITH STERN/ART HARRIS/LIN WOOD NOW. THE PAY MUST HAVE BEEN BIIIIG!....... BET DEAD ANNA WILL END UP PAYING STERN LEGAL BILL. THIS CREEP WILL DRAIN ANNA'S ESTATE.. Stern Will probably sell Horizon to pay himself and his mount of legal fees. PROBLEMS HE CAUSED! CRIMES HE COMMITED!...........
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Bald Truth Exclusive: Stern Libel Suit Win! Federal Judge OKs Expedited Discovery Request; Order Says He’s “Troubled” By Rita Cosby Actions
In a world wide web exclusive, The Bald Truth has learned a New York federal judge Tuesday granted Howard K. Stern’s request for expedited discovery in his $60 million libel suit against author Rita Cosby, who wrote he engaged in a gay tryst on tape with Larry Birklhead.

In his motion, obtained first (and posted below) by artharris.com and reported exclusively by ETonline, U.S. District Judge D. J. Chin writes that he ruled for Anna Nicole Smith’s executor after reviewing “substantial” and “troubling” evidence showing Cosby apparently tried to “improperly influence witnesses,” when she flew to the Bahamas and offered to pay two former Anna Nicole Smith nannies she’d never interviewed for the book to back gay sex charges in her bestseller, Blonde Ambition.

In the book, Cosby writes the nannies saw the late Playboy centerfold watching Stern and Larry Birkhead cavorting on a gay sex tape. Both have denied they are gay and ever had sex. No tape has yet to surface.

“Because Stern has presented substantial—indeed , troubling—evidence that Cosby has sought to improperly influence witnesses, the application is granted,” writes Judge Chin, siding with arguments made by Stern’s pitbull attorney, Lin Wood, and perhaps signaling legal hurdles ahead in his courtroom for Cosby and her publisher, Hachette.

www.artharris.com/2007/11/06/bald-truth-exclusive-stern-libel-suit-win-federal-judge-grants-expedited-discovery-says-hes-troubled-by-rita-cosby-actions/#more-581

Posted at 9:47PM on Nov 10th 2007 by MRCONTROVERSY,ART HARRIS &LIN WOOD TOGETHER NOW........

97. GOT HIS FROM MR CONTROVERSY SITE. IT LOOKS LIKE MR CONTROVERSY IS COOPERATING WITH STERN/ART HARRIS/LIN WOOD NOW. THE PAY MUST HAVE BEEN BIIIIG!....... BET DEAD ANNA WILL END UP PAYING STERN LEGAL BILL. THIS CREEP WILL DRAIN ANNA'S ESTATE.. Stern Will probably sell Horizon to pay himself and his mount of legal fees. PROBLEMS HE CAUSED! CRIMES HE COMMITED!...........
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Bald Truth Exclusive: Stern Libel Suit Win! Federal Judge OKs Expedited Discovery Request; Order Says He’s “Troubled” By Rita Cosby Actions
In a world wide web exclusive, The Bald Truth has learned a New York federal judge Tuesday granted Howard K. Stern’s request for expedited discovery in his $60 million libel suit against author Rita Cosby, who wrote he engaged in a gay tryst on tape with Larry Birklhead.

In his motion, obtained first (and posted below) by artharris.com and reported exclusively by ETonline, U.S. District Judge D. J. Chin writes that he ruled for Anna Nicole Smith’s executor after reviewing “substantial” and “troubling” evidence showing Cosby apparently tried to “improperly influence witnesses,” when she flew to the Bahamas and offered to pay two former Anna Nicole Smith nannies she’d never interviewed for the book to back gay sex charges in her bestseller, Blonde Ambition.

In the book, Cosby writes the nannies saw the late Playboy centerfold watching Stern and Larry Birkhead cavorting on a gay sex tape. Both have denied they are gay and ever had sex. No tape has yet to surface.

“Because Stern has presented substantial—indeed , troubling—evidence that Cosby has sought to improperly influence witnesses, the application is granted,” writes Judge Chin, siding with arguments made by Stern’s pitbull attorney, Lin Wood, and perhaps signaling legal hurdles ahead in his courtroom for Cosby and her publisher, Hachette.

www.artharris.com/2007/11/06/bald-truth-exclusive-stern-libel-suit-win-federal-judge-grants-expedited-discovery-says-hes-troubled-by-rita-cosby-actions/#more-581

Posted at 12:39AM on Nov 10th 2007 by MRCONTROVERSY,ART HARRIS &LIN WOOD TOGETHER NOW........

98. Only Swim in the Ocean is hereby on PERMANENT IGNORE.

I repeat: IGNORE ALL POSTS BY Only Swim in the Ocean.

Posted at 10:33PM on Nov 9th 2007 by Only swim in the Ocean:
"I am dismayed that some posters don't seem to know how America is set up and that States have their own Laws that govern the majority of people's lives on a day to day basis."

The Great Pompous one has gone too far. He has used up every one of his last chances. We will not be subjected to being called ignorant by a person who loves Stern. Swims is NOT judge and jury over everyone.

IGNORE ONLY SWIM IN THE OCEAN!

DO NOT REPLY TO HIS POSTS!

DO NOT READ HIS POSTS!

IGNORE ONLY SWIM IN THE OCEAN!

FROM HERE ON OUT, ONLY SWIM IN THE OCEAN NO LONGER EXISTS ON THESE BLOGS!

Posted at 1:30AM on Nov 10th 2007 by PERMANENTLY IGNORING Only Swim in the Ocean

99. 72.
Now what are those guys thinking? They know Howard K. Stern doesn't pay legal bills. They need to wake up and smell the roses. Oh, I forgot the roses are plastic.

Posted at 7:56PM on Nov 9th 2007 by Mrs. Marple


Wrong, Virgies flowers were plastic, and yellow. Who were they for again? Oh, right, they were left for the daughter she loved so much. Yellow plastic flowers when her daughter loved pink.
Howard left pink- real ones.
I guess after Splash paid for her trip down there they didn't have any money left to spring for decent flowers.

Posted at 1:43AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Observer

100. Now Mr Contoversy is being paid by Howard, how dumb is that statement??? Art Harris Lin wood and now this WTF has everyone gone nuts,

Posted at 1:52AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Some people are just plain stupid

101. I just want to know why HKS always comes out on top?
He is like the energizer bunny, he just keeps hopping along (maybe one day straight into hell). But so far....nothing has stopped his diabolical roll.

Posted at 1:56AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Aquadots can be GREAT for pompous bloggers!

102. 98. 72.
Now what are those guys thinking? They know Howard K. Stern doesn't pay legal bills. They need to wake up and smell the roses. Oh, I forgot the roses are plastic.

Posted at 7:56PM on Nov 9th 2007 by Mrs. Marple


Wrong, Virgies flowers were plastic, and yellow. Who were they for again? Oh, right, they were left for the daughter she loved so much. Yellow plastic flowers when her daughter loved pink.
Howard left pink- real ones.
I guess after Splash paid for her trip down there they didn't have any money left to spring for decent flowers.

Posted at 1:43AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Observer
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the yellow "plastic" flowers (i think it was silk) were for daniel, ya big ninny. she got some of Anna's favourite colour too.
howie poop maybe brought real ones that have long since rotted away. i think the ones virgie brought are still there. makes sense to me

Posted at 2:05AM on Nov 10th 2007 by comment

103. is this a post-mortem photo?

Posted at 2:39AM on Nov 10th 2007 by lee

104. 101. 98. 72.
Now what are those guys thinking? They know Howard K. Stern doesn't pay legal bills. They need to wake up and smell the roses. Oh, I forgot the roses are plastic.

Posted at 7:56PM on Nov 9th 2007 by Mrs. Marple


Wrong, Virgies flowers were plastic, and yellow. Who were they for again? Oh, right, they were left for the daughter she loved so much. Yellow plastic flowers when her daughter loved pink.
Howard left pink- real ones.
I guess after Splash paid for her trip down there they didn't have any money left to spring for decent flowers.

Posted at 1:43AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Observer
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the yellow "plastic" flowers (i think it was silk) were for daniel, ya big ninny. she got some of Anna's favourite colour too.
howie poop maybe brought real ones that have long since rotted away. i think the ones virgie brought are still there. makes sense to me

Posted at 2:05AM on Nov 10th 2007 by comment

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Anna Nicole Smith's mother VIRGIE ARTHUR made a pilgrimage to her daughter and grandson's graves in the Bahamas on Monday (10Sep07) to mark the anniversary of DANIEL's death


While Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, celebrated the first birthday of the couple's baby daughter Dannielynn with family and friends in Kentucky, grandma wasn't celebrating.


Instead she laid plastic flowers on her daughter and grandson's graves.


Arthur, who is still fighting for custody of baby Dannielynn following Anna Nicole's death in February (07), admits she was upset that she wasn't included in her granddaughter's birthday celebrations.


She says, "I was hoping that I would have been invited."


Birkhead insists grandma could have been part of the party - if she had agreed to stop fighting him for custody of his daughter.


"She could have been here. I gave her every opportunity to quit the fight... It didn't happen."


Meanwhile, Anna Nicole's longtime companion, Howard K. Stern also visited the Bahamas gravesites, and admits he was slightly upset by Arthur's plastic offering: "I visited Anna and Daniel under the cover of darkness because I did not want the media to capture my private moments with loved ones.


"In the early morning, I brought two baskets of flowers from Dannielynn, myself, and others. When I visited again late at night, I found plastic flowers drilled into the ground next to our flowers."

Read it, clearly state she laid flowers on both graves and she only had her picture made with the yellow ones, so where have yoy seen that she got some for Anna too? I have never seen that.

Yeah, Howards flowers may have dried up and her tacky plastic ones could be still there but I still say that if a magazine is going to fly you there and pay all of your bills the very least you could do is use some of your reported $3000.00 per month retirement money to buy some decent plastic flowers.

Sorry, just my opinion.

Posted at 3:47AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Observer

105.
Read it, clearly state she laid flowers on both graves and she only had her picture made with the yellow ones, so where have yoy seen that she got some for Anna too? I have never seen that.

Yeah, Howards flowers may have dried up and her tacky plastic ones could be still there but I still say that if a magazine is going to fly you there and pay all of your bills the very least you could do is use some of your reported $3000.00 per month retirement money to buy some decent plastic flowers.

Sorry, just my opinion.

Posted at 3:47AM on Nov 10th 2007 by Observer
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i didnt claim to see the flowers. i heard virgie say it in one of her interviews after the first anniversary of daniel's death. with all the money howierds made off anna youd think he could afford to pay his own rent. oh,i heard him say he didn't give anna drugs either. that must be true. moe saw howierd give anna drugs. oh but wait, moe is lying.
wish it was just my opinion but they also happen to be true. if you want proof, its all over the internet. try msn.com for one for the interview between tony potts and moe on oct 18 of this year.

Posted at 4:08AM on Nov 10th 2007 by comment

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