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Settlement in Howard K. Stern Lawsuit

Posted Nov 21st 2009 11:09AM by TMZ Staff

Howard K. Stern has settled his $60 million defamation suit against Rita Cosby ... TMZ has learned.



A dismissal was filed late yesterday. We know the case settled and the terms of settlement are confidential.

Cosby -- in her book "Blonde Ambition" -- said, among many other things, Stern and Larry Birkhead had a sexual encounter that was caught on video. Both Birkhead and Stern said Cosby made it up.

Anna Nicole SmithBirkhead did not file suit.

Thus another chapter in the Anna Nicole Smith saga comes to an end.

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1. FIrst!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:13AM on Nov 21st 2009 by Simone

2. I think this guy needs to go away.....and let anna rest in piece

Posted at 11:18AM on Nov 21st 2009 by republican mensa

3. I can't stand either one but Rita is disgusting.

Posted at 11:20AM on Nov 21st 2009 by add my comment

4. Rita is a dumbass. I'm glad she lost and I hope she had to pay up all the royalties from her stupid book. Her career is over.

Posted at 11:25AM on Nov 21st 2009 by Rita sucks

5. Rita Cosby is a disgusting skank. It is hard to imagine that she is even creepier than Howard, larry, or anna. What a pig. And Simone, go on a diet, and move out of your mothers basement.

Posted at 11:27AM on Nov 21st 2009 by J.

6. Howard K. is total scum. First he was lived off Anna Nicole. He then had Anna go to the Bahamas with him to have her baby so he could claim she was his child. He was an enabler who supplied her drugs and thought it was funny when Anna was whacked out of her mind, video taping it and saying it was going to be worth millions. He was there when her boy and her died. He had to know something was going on. This scum is a piece of work. Too bad it wasn't him who overdosed.

Posted at 11:27AM on Nov 21st 2009 by Chris

7. Cosby settled just as the NYC Court was in final preparation to start trial. For over two years, she clung to her massive and destructive lies. Now the only people telling the ‘Cosby lies’ are the LA prosecutors in HKS’s criminal proceeding.

Posted at 11:27AM on Nov 21st 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

8. Good for Howard !! That's ONE down, now for the rest of the idiots giving him a bad time. Go HOWARD !!!!

Posted at 11:29AM on Nov 21st 2009 by cjs

9. WTF is a lawuit !?

Posted at 11:32AM on Nov 21st 2009 by modjoe

10. Good for Rita - she has been a respected journalist for a number of years and has nothing to gain by making up a story about Stern and Birkhead. Further, Stern never filed suit, so that should tell you something - that it's true. Stern is gay, everyone knows this...

Posted at 11:41AM on Nov 21st 2009 by In L.A.

11. No doubt Stern has destroyed the tape. He knew there was no evidence left so he sued. He never really worked, just lived off a drugged out Anna. I believe Stern and Birkhead were lovers and both just used Anna for her money.

Posted at 11:43AM on Nov 21st 2009 by Mikey

12. I wish I were Howards lover.

Posted at 11:44AM on Nov 21st 2009 by KOOKY HOMO

13. Now Howie can pay back his Mother and Father the Millions (cough) they have put out for Howie these past couple years..

Posted at 11:50AM on Nov 21st 2009 by MsTeal

14. I don't care, I still love his show! Baba-shmooey!!

Posted at 11:59AM on Nov 21st 2009 by koolsmoothbreeze

15. What ever happened to Rita Crosby? Did she take hers millions and retire? Just wondering. I feel bad for Howard he loved ana and just got taken for a ride. I dont think he did anything wrong.
looking forward to the live TMZ..love that show i want to see what his opinon is on this case settlement. Stern was an attorney i wonder if he knew him or if he was high powered ect.

Posted at 12:06PM on Nov 21st 2009 by ac

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