Broke-Back Birkhead & Stern?!

Sorry, I've got Brokeback Mountain on the brain since posting about the Heath Ledger-Michelle Williams split. I can't believe I'm posting a bit about Howard K. Stern (of Anna Nicole Smith fame) and Larry Birkhead sucking eachother. YES, in that way.

Apparently the NY Daily News obtained a copy of journalist Rita Cosby's soon-to-be-released book "Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death" and Birkhead and Stern don't come out looking so rosy.

Cosby alleges Anna Nicole and a friend caught Birkhead and Stern with their shirts off and their pants around their ankles. WTF?!

Jackie Hatten, described in the book as one of Anna Nicole's closest friends, said the men were engaged in oral sex.

"Their bodies were intermingled," Hatten says, according to a copy of the book obtained by the Daily News. "It was obvious what was happening."

Birkhead told the Daily News, "None of it is true. I'm gonna sue Rita Cosby for it."

..."She got fired and nobody wanted her."..."The last story she did was on Anna and now she is doing this book because no one will hire her."

For his part, the NYDN quotes Stern's lawyer as saying: "It appears that Ms. Cosby has joined the ranks of tabloid journalists who are willing to publish the print equivalent of sewerage to engage in character assassination for profit."

Dannielynn's Father is...

Larry Birkhead!

FINALLY! All interested parties were in a Bahamian court this afternoon to learn the DNA results which determine the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern (almost seven months old now).

A custody hearing is set for Friday but earlier this week, sources close to Howard K. Stern, listed as father on Dannielynn's birth certificate, told TMZ:

"If Larry Birkhead is confirmed to be Dannielynn's biological father, Howard will not challenge custody. His love for her will not change, irrespective of the results. Howard will act in Dannielynn's best interest, because he loves her and would want a smooth transition to protect her, as she is deeply bonded to those who have been with her since birth.

I still think Anna Nicole Smith would be alive today had she and Howard not been fighting paternity. She'd still be a mess but she wouldn't have expended all the time and energy necessary to battle this out in the courts and in the press.

Now, please get the child in the arms of her true father and in a settled home. He better not start parading her all around 'cause I'll kick his arse.

Anna Nicole Smith Business

Tuesday is believed to be the day the world will learn the identity of Dannielynn's father. More than six-months after her birth to mom Anna Nicole Smith.

Howard K. Stern (babydaddy on Bahamian birth certificate), Larry Birkhead (alleged babydaddy) & Virgie Arthur (reviled mother of ANS), are set to appear in court to hear the paternal DNA results in a Bahamian court sometime Tuesday. Dr. Michael Baird, the DNA expert from Ohio who oversaw the testing, is expected to be the specialist in court authenticating the findings. STAY TUNED!

In other Anna Nicole Smith news:

The Playboy model and perpetually drugged woman chronicled her battle with depression and her struggle with her weight in the early 1990s in two diaries that are now up for auction along with other Smith memorabilia. Here are some outtakes (the spelling/grammatical errors are hers):

"I've been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can't quit eating. I feel like a pig. Howard has been buying me som jewelry but he call me 15 or 20 times a day it drives me crazy. I love him but he aggravates me somtimes."

"Hes so very weak and fragile When I touch him Im afraid he might break," she wrote. "If Jesus desides to take him I dont no what I'll do. I love him so much it hurts me to site and watch him when hes hurting I just want to hold him touch him let him no how much I care."

About her time as a Guess model and the pressure to be thin. "I'm starving!! I've been starving myself," she confessed.

We Could Learn Who DannieLynn's Babydaddy Is This Week

According to the Associated Press, Howard K. Stern dropped his appeal to block the results of the DNA tests which will reveal the true identity of 6-month-old Dannielynn's father. He reportedly did so this morning upon learning the Courts would reject said appeal.

On March 20, the Bahamian Supreme Court ordered DNA testing to determine the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn. The necessary DNA swabs were taken the next day.

On top of the Courts denial of his appeal, Stern was sanctioned and ordered to pay $5,000 in attorney's fees to Registrar General and $5,000 to Larry Birkhead's Bahamian attorney. Based on my legal experiences, sanctions (or penalties) aren't usually assessed unless an appeal is deemed to be "without merit" (frivolous).

Tell you what, Stern wouldn't be fighting this so hard if he knew he was the father. Period. Shame on him.

Rx's In Howard's Name - Not Anna's

Of the eleven drugs found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room where she died - none were prescribed (Rx) to her.

Greta Van Susteren of FOX Spin News obtained documents from the coroner's office of Dr. Joshua Perper) which show eight were Rx'd to Howard K. Stern, two were Rx'd to Alex Katz (whom no one seems to know...yet) and one was prescribed to Anna's personal shrink,
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich. -- All eleven Rx's were written by the shrink.

According to TMZ, the chloral hydrate which was a major cause of Smith's death, was not found on a nightstand but in a duffel bag somewhere in the hotel room. Stern, Eroshevich and Smith's bodyguard deny giving her the drug.

Anna's Accidental Drug Overdose

Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County-FL Medical Examiner, announced this morning 39-yr-old Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose. Smith was taking methadone, anti-anxiety drugs and reportedly others.

Perper said Smith died of "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the major factor.

She had been taking a lengthy list of medications, including methadone for pain and valium, but those drugs were at therapeutic levels, he said. A bacterial infection from injecting medication in her buttocks and the flu contributed to her death, according to the report.

Chloral hydrate is a sedative used to treat insomnia and alcohol withdrawal, relieve anxiety and ease post-surgery pain.

-- Don't know about you guys but this is absolutely shocking news. Yeah right. Thanks for making us wait for this unsurprising news Perper.

Regarding Howard K. Stern: Chief Charlie Tiger of the Seminole Police Department, announced this morning there was no evidence of illegal drugs on the day Anna Nicole died and no evidence of foul play. -- HKS's computer was checked and there was no evidence of anything "untoward."

ADDITIONALLY: We learned over the weekend the Bahamian court hearing the 6-month-old Dannielynn paternity case - has granted Howard K. Stern's APPEAL on the DNA testing so we will not learn of the results this week - as we had hoped. The next hearing in the case is in April so we won't learn anything before then.

Today's "It's about damn time" News:DNA Taken from Dannielynn & Birkhead

MSNBC's Rita Cosby broke the news today that Larry Birkhead and 5-month old Dannielynn were both at a Bahamas doctor's office at 9 this morning and had samples taken. Howard K. Stern's DNA was not taken because by law there is a presumption that he's the father since he's listed as such on the birth certificate. ** YEAH, LAST TIME FOR THAT!

If Birkhead's DNA matches Dannielynn's - he can then challenge Stern to provide his own DNA to fight for custody.

The samples are being sent to a DNA lab in Ohio and should return to the Bahamas in four days.

ANS: Stern & Berkhead Negotiating?

BREAKING NEWS: Circuit Court Judge Larry Seidlin has rejected Virgie Arthur's (ANS's mother) Motion to Stay his 2/22 decision to award ANS's body to her daughter Dannielynn's court-appointed guardian (attorney).



TMZ is reporting Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead's camps are in settlement negotiations:

"There was a buzz at the courthouse after Krista Barth, Stern's lawyer, removed a styrofoam cup of water that rested on the witness stand as Birkhead testified in the Anna Nicole burial hearing. The cup went missing and there was speculation that Stern's reps used it for a DNA test, which could have provided the evidence proving Birkhead is the father Anna Nicole's daughter Dannielynn.

We're told a day after the cup incident, the parties started negotiating. TMZ spoke with Birkhead's lawyer Debra Opri Sunday in the Bahamas, who would not confirm a settlement. She did, however, say DNA testing must be completed and paternity established before any settlement could occur.

Sources say Stern could be amenable to giving Birkhead what he needs to establish custody. We're told that in return, Stern wants ongoing control of Anna's estate and, once the estate is probated, continued involvement by becoming trustee for Dannielynn."

This whole HKS business just pisses me off. A**hole should've settled the paternity issue a long time ago -- for the sake of Anna Nicole and Dannielynn. The ongoing paternity legal battle surely affected ANS. How could it not?

Howard K. Stern Testifying Right Now

Will post video later but Anna's murderer enabler is on the stand right now testifying in his case for Ana's money body.

So far he has said they were consistently intimate other than periodic Ross & Rachels and that "From the day that Daniel died - Anna honestly was never the same."



Why do these hearings go on forever? This Judge Seidlin is absolutely ridiculous. Blah blah blah blah...it took him hours to finally get to the f*cking proceedings! Now there is word that this foolio has had an idea for his own tv show for months and even taped a demo!