Ford Shelley Locked Out! Was He “Friends” With Anna

Bald Truth Flashback: Ford Shelley Locked Out! Was He “Friends” With Anna When She Died?

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By Art Harris, (c)www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

In this video flashback–we’re serving up the first in a series of memory jogs to offer inquest-watchers clues to the characters in the sad and twisted tragedy of Hollywood dreams, sex, drugs, greed and lies.

Check out the “good friend” who said Anna asked him to grab all her private items from her home should anything happen to her, then answer our poll questions:

Do you buy it? Did Anna consider FS a friend when she died? Should investigators trust him? Do YOU believe him? Do you think Ford and father in law, G. Ben Thompson, will actually show up for the inquest they have been so vocal about?

Oh, and please help us understand another Ford conundrum video at the end of our piece–in one interview, he says he’s well aware of Anna’s drugs and how to administer them, including methadone, and later, with my old friend, Geraldo Rivera, appears totally dumbfounded about her medicine chest.

We’ll be bringing you more on the clown tape Shelley took from the house the day after she died, but for now, ponder our first news clip, shot by a friend of Anna’s, and later shown on FOX News. It shows the ex-Playboy centerfold locking her so called pal Ford Shelley out of Horizons — and out of her life.

It’s about a month after her son, Daniel, had been buried last fall. Shelley showed up to press Anna to sign a mortgage on a house she says was a gift from his father in law, Ben Thompson, the real estate developer who has since thrown in the towel for a title fight in court over the house he once claimed to own.

Here, Anna tells Ford he’s like all the other users in her life, in this case, pressuring a grief-stricken mother to sign a mortgage for a house she believes she owns, threatening her with eviction and daring to charge several hundred thousand dollars more than the purchase price.

In an interview with a real estate magazine, Shelley boasted not only that he owned the place, but intended to sell it for $10 million, gloating that celebrity inflation from Anna Nicole having lived there would be his ticket to ride.

Meanwhile, sources tell me investigators in the California probe of Anna Nicole’s doctors’ who prescribed her drugs have taken possession of the so called Clown Video, or at least whatever edited version Shelley has turned over.

But Stern lawyer Lin Wood tells me in an exclusive interview he’s put investigators on notice it’s stolen property. Like Florida authorities who had no probable cause to search Anna’s computer Shelley took from Horizons the day after she died, and had to obtain Stern’s permission to view its contents, Wood says California prosecutors will have to do the same thing, if they intend to use the clown tape as evidence. “We’ve got no problem showing it, as long as Howard can be there when they play it, to make sure it’s the original tape,” he told me. “No telling what version they were given.”

Sources close to the California Bureau of Narcotics probe tell us investigators are now finally becoming aware of accusers with multiple agendas to railroad Stern and company in the name of justice, and are factoring in circumstances and motives of accusers like Shelley, Thompson, Team Virgie, and others, who may have a financial stake in the outcome of any prosecution.

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