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Birkhead and Stern Reunite -- In Lawsuit

Larry Birkhead & Howard K SternHoward K. Stern and Larry Birkhead have just filed sworn declarations, expressing outrage at various accusations, including suggestions that Stern drugged Anna Nicole Smith.

Stern has sued Mark Speer, a former associate of Birkhead's former lawyer, Debra Opri. Stern claims Speer was funneling false info to Rita Cosby in her so-called tell-all book.

In Stern's declaration, he says Speer told a pack of lies.

- Item: Stern says he was not criminally involved in Daniel Smith's death.
- Item: Stern says he never drugged Anna Nicole
- Item: He says he never told Birkhead, "I will give you your baby, if you leave me as executor of Anna's estate."

Birkhead also filed a declaration in support of Stern, also taking issue with what Speer allegedly told Cosby.

- Item: Birkhead says he never told Bahamian cops Stern stole millions of bucks from Anna Nicole.
- Item: Birkhead denies he was on a "mission" to get Stern investigated for the death of Daniel.
- Item: Birkhead denies he and Stern horse-traded Dannielynn in return for Howard becoming executor.

BTW, in case you're wondering, the fight over J. Howard Marshall and who gets his money is still locked up in the courts, with no end in sight.
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16. Didn't Larry make the statement that STERN brought a dufflebag full of drugs into the hosptial when Anna was a patient? Hence, the start of the "dufflebag" jokes.

Posted at 4:10PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by These two are unbelievable

17. Way to go Howard it's about time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 4:26PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by the red couch

18. Stern suing someone, what a frigging surprise. Can't the guy get a job?

Howard, one little thing you might want to remember, THE DRUGS SHE DIED FROM WERE IN YOUR NAME!

Posted at 4:18PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by HKS is a scamcon artistgrifter

19. Just the start of good news.

Imagine the combined assault on the VA 'bloggers' lawsuit that is coming.

Posted at 4:21PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

20. I don't understand how these people should benefit from J. Howard Millionare? The baby did not belong to him and Anna is dead? What rights could they POSSIBLY have to the money????

Posted at 4:25PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Luly

21. 18. Just the start of good news.

Imagine the combined assault on the VA 'bloggers' lawsuit that is coming.

Posted at 4:21PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

Swims, problem is Larry has said a lot of things in his interviews that contradict what he's saying now.

Posted at 4:26PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by They're both jerks

22. Howard, you might want to ask your buddy Larry about this comment he made to People Magazine...

Birkhead also described visiting a pregnant Smith in the hospital in April 2006, when, he says, "she was trying to get off medications," and he says he witnessed Stern taking pills out of a duffle bag and giving them to Smith.

She was taking medication before and during her pregnancy," Birkhead testified. "I was very concerned...We had a couple of clashes in the hospital because she and Mr. Stern brought in a duffle bag...They would take [these drugs] on top of the drugs they gave her at the hospital."

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20012497,00.html

Posted at 4:30PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Ms. Kitty

23. This is not 'HKS just suing somebody else'. This is connected to the inter-related O'Q and Cosby defamation lawsuits and the Opri fraud, conversion and malpractice lawsuit.

Speer was a lying source for Cosby's book. Speer's defense is he was just one in a big crowd (a vortex) accusing HKS and LB of heinous crimes and immorality so he should not personally be held liable for defamation. Speer is an employee of nasty Opri, LB's former Lawyer, and Opri is Cosby's BFF. Media-whoring Opri, whose connection with LB was primarily to secure a cut of his and DL's media deals for herself in perpetuity, collaborated with Cosby and her book.

Opri snatched LB's first big check for a media deal that was to be a story about the paternity battle for DL. LB had already kicked Opri to the curb before gaining custody of DL. When dismissed, Opri sent LB a bill for her 'pro bono' services that was equal to the amount of the check that she had just snatched. That money is in a frozen account now as LB has sued Opri for conversion (taking his check), fraud (no expertise in Family Law) and Malpractice (insisting on filing paternity cases in all the wrong Courts in the USA instead of The Bahamas). Speer has submitted statements to the Court supporting Opri in her lawsuit from LB. The Judge in that case has determined Speer provided 'evidence' he could not possibly know to be true since records show he was never present at events about which he claimed to have first-hand information.

Speer is just one of a group of people who were all working together to smear HKS and LB in an effort to enrich themselves at the expense of an innocent child. HKS is also suing Jackie Hatten in an effort to flush her out. JH also deliberately provided false information to Cosby but has disappeared since the day Cosby's book was published.

Posted at 4:50PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

24. There's a copy of Larry Birkhead's sworn statement to the Bahamas police floating around out there. It contradicts everything he is saying now in order to support Stern. I don't know why you would want to spread your propaganda to get people to support Stern, but it reeks of nepotism. Your opinions only seem to be applauded by the choir you preach to.

Posted at 5:14PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Swims, didn't you know?

25. 21. 18. Just the start of good news.

Imagine the combined assault on the VA 'bloggers' lawsuit that is coming.

Posted at 4:21PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

Swims, problem is Larry has said a lot of things in his interviews that contradict what he's saying now.

Posted at 4:26PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by They're both jerks
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LB often expressed concern over 'what he had heard from others' or what 'might be true' during his interviews and Court testimony in Seidlin's Court. For example, he has since clearly disavowed everything Opri said on his behalf. LB has taken responsibility for any ill will he or his representatives may have engendered with HKS in the past and has stated in post-custody determination interviews that what had been said (or construed or inferred) in the heat of a paternity battle is behind him and HKS for the sake and benefit of DL.

Take for example also the 'duffel bag' story. LB said he and HKS and ANS had vocal disagreements over what was going on in the Hospital; administering 'drugs' outside of the Hospital treatment. But that story has been twisted into 'HKS drugging ANS' as if to suggest 'medically control her' and force her to do and say things she otherwise would not.

This story is about both men making their own sworn statements without others speaking for them or the media interpreting what they had to say.

Posted at 5:14PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

26. Swims, just to make sure you didn't miss it:

There's a copy of Larry Birkhead's sworn statement to the Bahamas police floating around out there. It contradicts everything he is saying now in order to support Stern. I don't know why you would want to spread your propaganda to get people to support Stern, but it reeks of nepotism. Your opinions only seem to be applauded by the choir you preach to.

Posted at 5:17PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Swims, didn't you know?

27. 18. I don't understand how these people should benefit from J. Howard Millionare? The baby did not belong to him and Anna is dead? What rights could they POSSIBLY have to the money????

Posted at 4:25PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Luly
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ANS was awarded a substantial amount of money during her life from the Estate of her late husband. It's tied up in Court and the money in question is in a segregated account earning interest. Neither the surviving Marshalls nor ANS's Estate possess the money. When a person dies, it doesn't mean legal claims vanish. DL is the sole heir to ANS's Estate.

Posted at 5:21PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

28. 26. Swims, just to make sure you didn't miss it:

There's a copy of Larry Birkhead's sworn statement to the Bahamas police floating around out there. It contradicts everything he is saying now in order to support Stern. I don't know why you would want to spread your propaganda to get people to support Stern, but it reeks of nepotism. Your opinions only seem to be applauded by the choir you preach to.

Posted at 5:17PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Swims, didn't you know?
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Not a chance that such a statement exists or is 'floating' around somewhere.

Posted at 5:24PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

29. It's like the O.J. situation......it may die down but the public never forgets what happened!!!!

Posted at 5:42PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by MsWaldo

30. 17. Just the start of good news.

Imagine the combined assault on the VA 'bloggers' lawsuit that is coming.

Posted at 4:21PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

R they going to sue the bloggers next?

Posted at 5:41PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by butterfly

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