Anna Nicole Smith is dead

[baygirl_1]

Here's my suggestion of how to settle the money/paternity issue: The judge should state that all the money goes to a charity (perhaps one that helps those with substance abuse problems). Then we'll see who truly wants the baby, not the money.
As for Stern, he gives me the creeps! From what I've seen (and I'm trying to avoid watching too much because it is disturbing and sad), none of her friends and former managers, etc. have any kind words for that man. It'll be interesting to see the results of the full autopsy.

[Brent]

The funeral is on hold! Anna Nicole's mom is trying to STOP IT! This is absolutely insane.

[Lindaloo]

As a Mother, I would not do this to my child no matter what the circumstances are. She now looks greedy to me and has lost my support.

[Miss Mary]

As a Mother, I would not do this to my child no matter what the circumstances are. She now looks greedy to me and has lost my support.

Linda, I think Anna Nicole's mother is a very, very different type of mother than we'll ever be. And Thank God for that!

Mary

[vbhoutex]

Here's my suggestion of how to settle the money/paternity issue: The judge should state that all the money goes to a charity (perhaps one that helps those with substance abuse problems). Then we'll see who truly wants the baby, not the money.
As for Stern, he gives me the creeps! From what I've seen (and I'm trying to avoid watching too much because it is disturbing and sad), none of her friends and former managers, etc. have any kind words for that man. It'll be interesting to see the results of the full autopsy.

Looks like you are thinking like I have been re: the death and Mr. Stern and his involvement with this one and IMO, Danny's too.

Vergie is 10 days late and millions of dollars short!!!!! If indeed her intentions are honorable(which I doubt after all the shenanigans)she is dishonoring her daughter by trying to usurp her written wishes. She lost my respect just about the first time she opened her mouth. If she wanted to be a mom she should have been there 20 years ago!!!

[Pburgh]

I've never liked her. I've never seen a daughter hate her mother as much as Anna did. I would love to know what her childhood was really like and we probably never will. Very, very sad.

[MiamiensisWx]

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This mess is finally over! Her mother's request to halt the funeral and burial has been denied. Anna Nicole will now be buried in the Bahamas.

[GalvestonDuck]

Now, OJ claims he could be the father.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257441,00.html

[Miss Mary]

Maybe it was her middle name that attracted OJ? LOL

OMG! When I heard this on the radio the other day, I almost swerved while driving! What next in this bizarre death/story? You almost hate to ask......

That said, I have avoided this story in the media, changing channels (TV, radio), turning pages in print, skipping this topic. Until I heard the words above.....OJ?!!!!

Has the world gone mad? Don't answer......LOL

And sadly as in some tragedies like this one, a child is caught in the crossfire. She will never have a normal childhood.

[Brent]

Now, OJ claims he could be the father.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257441,00.html

[vbhoutex]

I am not chastising anyone here. But, I think this whole thing is WAY OUT OF CONTROL!!!! It is, IMO, SICK!!!! Let the poor woman rest in peace and let the family -PRIVATELY(I wish!!!)-work though everything!! I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THIS that I like Mary, try to avoic it if possible.

[Miss Mary]

David - even though many share your wish, I'm one, it will never happen. Not in this lifetime. Sad but true. I have avoided this story like the plague, until OJ's name popped up! On one news site I went to, Anna Nicole had her own category (or whatever is the Internet term, news, health, weather, sports, entertainment, then a separate one for just HER!).

So Brent, tell me - is OJ's involvement a joke or did he actually have a past relationship with Anna Nicole? Can't believe I'm actually asking such a question but I guess I would like to know if this was all a hoax....LOL!

[Brent]

David - even though many share your wish, I'm one, it will never happen. Not in this lifetime. Sad but true. I have avoided this story like the plague, until OJ's name popped up! On one news site I went to, Anna Nicole had her own category (or whatever is the Internet term, news, health, weather, sports, entertainment, then a separate one for just HER!).

So Brent, tell me - is OJ's involvement a joke or did he actually have a past relationship with Anna Nicole? Can't believe I'm actually asking such a question but I guess I would like to know if this was all a hoax....LOL!

I think he is just saying it to get attention(much like Zsa Zsa's wacked husband), but Anna Nicole did get around a lot, so it would not surprise me if they did have a relationship.

[Miss Mary]

but Anna Nicole did get around a lot, so it would not surprise me if they did have a relationship.

ROFLMAO!!!



Mary

[Lindaloo]

If I were OJ, I would keep my mouth shut. Like he needs anymore headlines. Maybe he is the one who murdered her.

[artist]

this is just so sick and indicative to me - (you can guess indicative of what)

Anna Nicole Smith's two baby daddies (I don't know what else to call them) continue to be in a tug-of-war this morning, even as their beloved cash cow is readied for burial.

Overnight, attorney Howard K. Stern — whose hold on the situation is starting to slip — has been strong-arming photographer Larry Birkhead to do a couple of things: keep Birkhead's legal reps out of Smith's Bahamas funeral, sign a contract deal with "Entertainment Tonight" and acquiesce even further regarding the future of baby Dannielynn.

Stern, as I told you the other day, has already had one secret meeting with Birkhead in which he cut out the photographer's lawyers.

I'm told that Stern has kept up the pressure on Birkhead, actually presenting him with contracts, sources say, in which Birkhead would join Stern for more exclusive interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider."

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"Howard wanted Larry to sign so that it looked like everyone was in agreement, and that it wasn't just Howard benefiting from these deals," my source said. "Larry said the baby's guardian should sign the papers for him and the baby, but he wouldn't. So then Larry wouldn't."

At the same time, Stern is trying to negotiate separately with Birkhead, away from his attorneys, to sign a deal by which Stern would continue to be in baby Dannielynn's life and oversee her finances.

Stern, my sources say, is working as quickly as he can to effect these agreements before he has to turn over the baby to Birkhead, her biological father.

Sources say that Birkhead's representatives are considering taking legal action against Stern to prevent further communication between the two sides as soon as today.

The problem, sources also say, is that Birkhead — a novice at these games — continues to be intimidated by Stern.

"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," both owned by CBS Paramount Television, have denied paying for interviews. But I'm told their method — it's semantics — is to "license" footage either directly from Stern or through a third party.

Recently, "ET" used Solana Productions of Southern California in such a deal. Neither Solana nor anyone from CBS Paramount answered calls yesterday.

Anna Nicole: Dead, and For Sale

Today, Anna Nicole Smith — a ridiculous person who accomplished just about nothing in her life — will be buried in the Bahamas.

There are several wars taking place all over the world, not to mention famines. Artists are hard at work, movies are opening, buildings are going up, diseases are being investigated. But, hey: Anna Nicole is being buried, and "Entertainment Tonight" will be there for every cheesy second of it.

That's because "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," two half-hour shows syndicated by CBS's Paramount TV, have paid a high price for this honor.

Real insiders (not the kind you have to pay for info) tell me that Paramount TV cut the deal with Howard K. Stern — Anna Nicole's lawyer and Svengali — right after her son Daniel died of a lethal combination of drugs in her Bahamian hospital room last September.

Paramount TV has denied this, somewhat passively, so far. But my sources say that Paramount paid Stern around $3 million initially, and that this was renegotiated right after Anna Nicole herself died on Feb. 8 of this year.

Of course, we could believe that Stern — who in court told clueless Florida probate judge Larry Seidlin that he was living off his parents — just loves "ET." Anything's possible.

But the reality is that Anna Nicole's death has proven to be a ratings-sweep godsend.

Linda Bell Blue, the show's executive producer, previously helmed Paramount's ugly tabloid show, "Hard Copy." For years, she's had to sit through Mary Hart's tedious, publicist-arranged interviews with low-level TV stars, just waiting for this moment: a huge celebrity death, in a sweeps month, and already contracted for!

As recently as last night, "ET" correspondent Mark Steines was reporting "from inside" Anna Nicole's Bahamas mansion — no mention of the fact that it apparently didn't belong to her, and that the landlord is kicking everyone out.

Steines had "the inside scoop" about the B-list country singer who would serenade Anna Nicole into the next life, the color of her burial gown ("pink!") and what would be inside the coffin (with any luck, Anna Nicole).

Steines performs these interviews — as he has since last Nov. 1, when he had his first "exclusive" after Smith's son, Daniel, died — with a reasonably straight face.

He either knows he's skating on very thin ice and doesn't care, or doesn't get it and is happy to accept the money. In either case, he loses.

As far back as last November, the show's viewers were writing into "ET" forums on the Web asking how much the show had paid for the interviews, and begging that they stop.

On the topix.net forum for the show, a woman named Lana from Andrews, Texas, wrote on Nov. 6: "ET needs to rename their show The Anna Nichole (sic) Show. Every night it is about her. I wonder if there are any viewers that care to hear about her."

On Nov. 6, Dianne from Madison, Wis., wrote: "I think they might have finally driven me away from the show with all this Anna Nicole crap. How much is she paying them?"

The viewers were smarter than the show thought. That didn't stop Blue, Steines and friends.

Nancy from Richardson, Texas, posted this before Smith died on Feb. 8: "Get over her ... I am tired of all of the interviews they are doing with her. She sounds like she is either drunk or high. I have no respect for her and am getting tired of seeing her and all the interviews. She can't even talk without sounding like she is a drunken sl—t!"

Steines, of course, has a blog on the "ET" Web site. It's a hoot.

On Feb. 9, the day after Smith died, he posted: "When the news broke of Anna's death ... I immediately boarded a plane to Florida along with Khristine Eroshevich, Anna's close confidant …"

Steines acts like Eroshevich is just a pal, maybe another Playboy model. In fact, she was the model's psychiatrist, and someone who has yet to be heard from in any detail.

Eroshevich's few comments — including one about how she oversaw an ice bath for a dying Smith — have been limited to ... Steines, who despite his "inside" sources has not been able to secure Eroshevich for a real interview about these people and their drug use.

I doubt that will happen until Stern's usefulness has passed and his agreements with "ET" have expired.

Steines must feel a long way away from the two Emmys he received years ago in local news at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256069,00.html

[HurricaneBill]

I know who the father is! It's David Crosby!

j/k

[Miss Mary]

I know who the father is! It's David Crosby!

j/k

LOL!!!

This story is so bizarre, anything is possible. I think you might have solved the mystery here.....course if DC was the father, that baby got all her looks from her mother (no offense to DC and CSY, but he's sorta craggy looking and that's before his liver failed!)

Anyway, back to "real" possibilities I guess....for those that care. And I said I didn't. Look at that Bill - your post prompted another reply from me! Sheesh....

Mary

[Lindaloo]

The only Father is Larry Birkhead. That baby looks just like him.

[CajunMama]

Autopsy report says she died of an accidental overdose.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/26/smith.autopsy/index.html

Officials: Smith's death caused by overdose
POSTED: 11:10 a.m. EDT, March 26, 2007

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- An accidental drug overdose killed former reality TV star and Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, Seminole tribal police Chief Charlie Tiger said Monday.

Tiger said there was no evidence of foul play.

"We are convinced, based on extensive review of the evidence, that this case is an accidental overdose with no other criminal element present," Tiger said Monday.

The medical examiner's office had said on March 7 that the cause of Smith's death had been determined, but it would not be announced for one to two weeks to give police time to finish the investigation.

Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper wanted to make sure none of the investigators' findings change any of his own findings, his office said then.

Perper said Monday that Smith was taking nine different kinds of medication in the days before her death, including a sleeping aid.

Tiger said Monday the case was now closed.

Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8 after being found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, Florida.

A preliminary autopsy in February indicated that Smith did not appear to be a victim of foul play.

Smith was buried March 2 in the Bahamas after a court battle over who would have custody of her body and where she would be buried. She was buried next to her son, Daniel, 20, who died in September of what one pathologist said was a lethal combination of methadone and antidepressants.

Since her death, controversy has swirled over the identity of the father of Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn. Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, and two other men have claimed paternity.

In 1994, Smith married 89-year-old Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall II. He died the next year, and until her death, Smith was involved in a legal battle over the inheritance that included a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.