I am still wondering if the story is true. It seems believable and again, nothing much Larry can say but “it’s fiction”. Hmmmm…
The new book is really revealing… who to believe - who to believe.. MONEY MONEY MONEY….
Watch the Larry King Live interview here..
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I am not sure what to believe - - whether he is happy that he’s the father or because of the money. I refuse to believe that it’s the money - - but how do we know?
NASSAU, Bahamas - DNA tests prove it: Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s million-dollar baby.
“I told you so!” the late Playboy Playmate’s former boyfriend said Tuesday upon emerging from a closed court hearing. He added: “My baby’s going to be coming home pretty soon.”
Birkhead, a 34-year-old California photographer, then hugged his rival, Howard K. Stern, who has been caring for baby Dannielynn since Smith’s sudden death in February.
The hearing was a pivotal moment in the battle over who gets custody of the girl, who could inherit a fortune from the estate of Smith’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Although Birkhead is the father, Stern’s name is on the birth certificate. Another custody hearing was scheduled for Friday.
Stern, who was Smith’s lawyer and later became her companion, said he wouldn’t fight for custody, but a lawyer for Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, indicated she might. The judge scheduled another hearing for Friday in the pink colonial courthouse to discuss who will raise the girl, who could inherit hundreds of millions of dollars.
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MIAMI (AFP) - A Bahamas court Tuesday ruled that Larry Birkhead, the former boyfriend of late Playboy model       Anna Nicole Smith, was the father of her baby daughter, ending months of feverish speculation.
The ruling wiped out rival paternity claims by Smith’s long-time companion, Howard Stern, and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Frederic van Anhalt who had filed a lawsuit claiming he had fathered Smith’s daughter Dannielynn.
“I hate to be the one who told you this — but I told you so!” a jubilant Birkhead told crowds of media and onlookers after emerging from the Nassau court-house. “My baby’s going to be coming home.”
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DANIA BEACH, Fla. - Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs, and she had recently had a bacterial infection from injecting drugs into her buttocks, authorities said Monday.
Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua 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, he said.
A bacterial infection from injecting medication in her buttocks and a viral infection contributed to her death, the autopsy report said.
Chloral hydrate is a sedative used to treat insomnia and alcohol withdrawal, relieve anxiety and ease post-surgery pain. Perper said Smith had been on several antidepressant and antianxiety drugs and had recently taken longevity medications, B12 and growth hormone. The detailed autopsy showed no evidence of disease.
“We found nothing to indicate any foul play,” said Chief Charlie Tiger of the Seminole police department.
Smith, 39, was found Feb. 8 in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, which is on one of the tribe’s reservations.
Dr. Chip Walls, a forensic toxicologist for the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, said chloral hydrate is rarely prescribed and is known to be fatal if combined with certain other drugs — including the sedative Lorazepam, which the autopsy showed she was taking.
“It’s very toxic if you mix it with any other central nervous system depressant drugs,” Walls said. “You could get profound sedation leading up to coma and respiratory arrest.”
Tiger said authorities examined laptop computers belonging to Smith and her lawyer-turned-companion, Howard K. Stern, and found nothing unusual related to her death. Tiger also said nothing came up during an exhaustive review of tapes from hotel security cameras and from interviews with numerous witnesses.
Perper said Smith felt ill shortly after arriving in Fort Lauderdale from the Bahamas on Feb. 5 and that she eventually developed a fever of 105 degrees. Perper said Smith had a blood infection that could have been caused by a contaminated needle, but it was brought under control by antibiotics and an ice bath.
“Her temperature never went again above 100 and, except for an episode of vomiting, she felt relatively well expect for feeling very weak,” he said.
The weeks after Smith’s death were filled with public courtroom drama and private whispers about what might have killed her. Officials delayed releasing the autopsy results because of additional evidence, not publicly released.
Perper’s initial examination had revealed no serious injuries to her body. Perper said then that prescription drugs, but no illegal drugs, were found in Smith’s hotel room, though he wouldn’t identify them.
Smith had arrived at the Hard Rock on Feb. 5 and planned to leave four days later aboard a new yacht that her companion Howard K. Stern was arranging to buy. She was seldom seen outside her room during her stay: She was said to be suffering from a stomach flu before she died.
Because her death was so sudden, and because her 20-year-old son Daniel died under suspicious circumstances five months earlier, there has been speculation about possible criminal activity surrounding the deaths. The Seminole Police Department investigated the case because the casino is on tribal land.
An inquest into Daniel’s death is scheduled to start Tuesday in the Bahamas, where he died.
Smith grew up in Texas and went from topless dancer to Playboy Playmate of the Year, Guess jeans model and bride of 89-year-old oilman J. Howard Marshall II. She took her fight for Marshall’s estimated $500 million fortune as far as the Supreme Court, and the ongoing battle could make her infant daughter, Dannielynn, very wealthy. Stern and two other men have claimed to be the baby’s father. - AP
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith have sold on online auction site eBay for more than $500,000 to a German man planning to use them as the basis of a book, according to the memorabilia house that sold them.
Jeff Woolf, co-partner and auction director at Universal Rarities in Corona, California, said the diaries, from 1992 and 1994, were found a few years ago by a man cleaning out a house in Los Angeles where Smith stayed during a filming project.
He sold the diaries to a memorabilia collector who runs a shop on Hollywood Boulevard who came forward with the diaries after the mystery death of the former Playmate in a Florida hotel on February 8 at the age of 39.
In the 1992 diary, which has the words “I follow my own star” on the cover, Woolf said Smith confesses: “I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex.” This diary sold for about $285,000.
In the second diary Smith writes about the illness of her billionaire husband Howard Marshall, who died in 1995 at the age of 90, with a religious awakening with lots of references to Jesus. This sold for about $230,000.
Woolf said the demand for Smith memorabilia had been overwhelming following her death so the price realized for these diaries was not that surprising.
“I don’t think I’ve had the luck of being in such a situation, where the timing was really that perfect as far as the peak of someone’s popularity in the news,” he told Reuters.
“The gentleman who bought them required to be anonymous but I can tell you he is from Germany and has the intention of making a book out of them and doing some things in the publishing world.”
The long-awaited results of an autopsy on Smith will be made public on Monday by a Florida medical examiner.
Her death triggered a bitter and highly publicized legal feud over her remains and the custody of her 6-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who might one day inherit millions.
Smith was buried in the Bahamas on March 2.
Her longtime companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is listed as the father on her daughter’s birth certificate but several other men, including Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, also claim to be the father and the paternity issue is still being fought in the courts.
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