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Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:22 pm |
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Immigration Permit Uproar:
By Candia Dames -
Nassau, Bahamas:
The public row that has erupted between Immigration Minister Shane Gibson and the Free National Movement over the speed in which an American celebrity got her permanent residency application approved intensified on Sunday, when the official opposition party claimed the minister personally collected the cheque for the approval.
The FNM was referring to the application of Anna Nicole Smith, who the minister has said he knows personally.
"Prime Minister Perry Christie should ask Mr. Gibson how it was that the $10,000 cheque for Ms. Smith’s permit was delivered to him personally at Ms. Smith’s house instead of to the appropriate officers at the Immigration Department," the statement said.
While the FNM statement was only issued on Sunday, the claim that the minister collected the cheque at Ms. Smith’s house has been floating since last week with some PLPs saying to The Bahama Journal that the situation could create an unnecessary distraction with election season approaching.
When questioned by The Bahama Journal about the claim on Friday, Minister Gibson said he was done talking about the whole matter involving Ms. Smith’s permanent residency, but he also said, "I know absolutely nothing about what you’re talking about."
He was referring specifically to the allegation that he personally collected the cheque.
The FNM called the situation regarding Ms. Smith’s application approval a "sordid affair".
The party also claimed that Ms. Smith had her permanent residence permit approved in less than three weeks, but a statement from the Ministry of Immigration and Labour released last Thursday said it took three months for the approval to come.
Last week, the FNM released a statement alleging that Minister Gibson had visited Ms. Smith in hospital and at home following the sudden death of her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died in Doctors Hospital while visiting his mother and new born sister on September 10.
When asked whether he had visited Ms. Smith, Minister Gibson said he did not see where the question was important or relevant and refused to answer it.
In its statement on Thursday, the Immigration ministry explained that there are two separate and distinct paths to the application for permanent residency in The Bahamas: one is through a long and creditable residence as a contributing member of the Bahamian community; the other is through significant economic investment in The Bahamas.
"In either case, applications before the department once fully complete, substantiated and investigated, should be processed in an expeditious manner," the statement said.
It was also a point reiterated by the minister when he spoke with The Bahama Journal, referring to Ms. Smith as an "economic applicant".
But the FNM insisted that the minister has "personally intervened" and fast-tracked an application for Ms. Smith’s permanent residence permit.
The statement said that both the PLP government and the FNM government have subscribed to the idea that it is a good thing to give annual residence permits to wealthy foreigners who own second homes in The Bahamas so they can come and go without running into problems with immigration authorities.
It said both parties have also subscribed to the policy of giving permanent residence to foreigners who have lived in The Bahamas for years and have contributed to the community.
The statement said both parties have provided for "accelerated consideration" of applications for permanent residency status by individuals who own residences above a stated monetary value and who are able to demonstrate their intention to make their residence in The Bahamas more than a vacation home.
"From what we can garner from press reports, Anna Nicole Smith does not fit any of these categories," the FNM said.
"…The prime minister himself in announcing his cabinet’s decision to grant Ms. Smith permanent residence status did not offer any reason for their having done so."
The FNM added, "Ms. Smith has been described in the press as a celebrity. Of course there are many kinds of celebrity. We know that Ms. Smith has been the subject of much publicity in the Untied States of America; much of it unsavory.
"No one can argue that her presence here adds to the lustre and reputation of the country, but it’s a safe bet that it will attract tabloid media hype of the variety not normally desired or sought after by high-end tourism, financial services or business locations."
When he responded last week to FNM concerns about Ms. Smith’s permanent residency status, Minister Gibson pointed to what he said was the speed in which the FNM government approved the application of Czech-born financier Viktor Kozeny.
The Immigration statement said Kozeny’s application was processed in less than 10 weeks.
Referring to concerns that had been raised by former Immigration Minister Dr. Earl Deveaux, the statement said, "It is strange that Dr. Deveaux would now level charges that the processing of a similar application [for] Ms. Anna Nicole Smith in three months would be a ‘disturbing precedent’."
The FNM explained in its statement on Sunday that when Kozeny came to The Bahamas he bought a $5 million home and invested tens of millions of dollars in development projects, which qualified him as an investor.
"Mr. Kozeny had problems outside the country that only came to light after he had taken up residence in The Bahamas," the statement said.
"If there is a lesson in this, it is that these things should not be rushed. Even so, there is no guarantee that an investor with a clean record, or what appears to be a clean record when he enters, cannot get into trouble afterwards or have a record [that] comes to light after the grant of residence status. Of course the law makes provision for the latter."
Kozeny has been held at Her Majesty’s Prison for nearly a year while he fights extradition to the United States where he is wanted to face bribery charges.
Minister Gibson has also questioned how Dr. Deveaux could explain the long waiting list for applicants he left behind, but the FNM said the minister should remember that he succeeded his PLP colleague, Vincent Peet, not Dr. Deveaux.
In its statement last Thursday, the Immigration ministry said the government believes in creating efficiency in the process and not unnecessary delays.
But the FNM’s statement on Sunday said the prime minister should be asking "a lot of questions."
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13th March
Custody Battle Into Smith’s Baby Set For This Week
By Quincy Parker
The weeklong reprieve from the unstinting coverage of the Anna Nicole Smith saga on the front pages of the local dailies is likely to end this week, with two court battles set to play out in Supreme Court and Bahamian authorities watching developments in Florida they say may have some bearing on local proceedings.
When Ms. Smith died suddenly and under circumstances that are still the subject of speculation on February 8, she left behind a legal and law enforcement morass: a police investigation that spanned three states, a legal quagmire in Florida that turned into what many described as a circus, multifarious legal battles in The Bahamas and an infestation of paparazzi to cover it all.
One higher-up, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Journal that Bahamian authorities are watching with great interest to hear what the two pieces of evidence are that are delaying the release of the cause of death and the results of the Broward County Medical Examiner’s autopsy.
"If both deaths had happened in Florida," the source said, "there would have been an arrest by now."
The source was referring to reports that the new evidence may have something to do with the narcotic methadone, which reportedly played a part in the death of Ms. Smith’s son Daniel Wayne on September 10, and which many suspect was in the late pin-up’s system when she died in Florida.
In the face of persistent reports that local police were continuing to question Ms. Smith’s paramour lawyer Howard K. Stern about the incidents, the Journal spoke with Wayne Munroe, who briefly represented Mr. Stern last year.
Mr. Munroe was quick to point out that he is not Mr. Stern’s lawyer – that’s Anthony McKinney, who could not be reached – but went on to detail for the Journal the extent of Mr. Stern’s dealings with the local police, as far as he knew.
"As far as I’m aware, after he made the burglary complaint they interviewed him at the station; they then interviewed him by CDU, then CDU came up to the house and it was well televised with the crime scene folk and they interviewed them again about the burglary," he said.
While he is not Mr. Stern’s attorney, Mr. Munroe is the lawyer for the Smith estate, of which Mr. Stern is the executor.
He said that he was not aware of Mr. Stern being questioned by Seminole police when they were in The Bahamas two weeks ago conducting investigations into Ms. Smith’s death.
On Wednesday, lawyers for the parties involved will battle for custody of Ms. Smith’s six-month-old daughter.
Those parties include Virgie Arthur, Ms. Smith’s estranged mother; Mr. Stern, Ms. Smith’s live-in lawyer; and Richard Milstein, court-appointed attorney for the baby.
Also joined in that battle is Larry Birkhead, the California photographer who is Ms. Smith’s ex-lover and claims to be Dannielynn’s father. Mr. Birkhead’s aim is to get a paternity test to confirm whether he is the child’s father.
The hearing is set to take place before Supreme Court Justice Stephen Isaacs.
Typically in a ‘writ action,’ which the paternity matter is, both sides of a dispute file their pleadings with the court (asking for whatever relief they want from the court), then the sides proceed to dispute resolution, which insiders say has no chance of success as things now stand.
The matter is now at the case management stage, during which stage the court makes orders as to discovery, filing of documents that have not yet been filed, answering of interrogatories, and other preparatory steps for trial.
Mr. Munroe explained again the matter of a DNA or paternity test; he did not think it possible under Bahamian jurisprudence for anyone to compel Mr. Stern to take a DNA or paternity test.
"If somebody wishes to discharge a burden, they can ask themselves to be tested," he said.
He told the Journal that Mr. Birkhead would have to do a paternity or DNA test on himself, and then ask the court to compare that with a sample of the baby’s DNA.
"And that’s very possible," Mr. Munroe said. "In our declaration filed as long ago as November I said that was possible here."
Asked whether it is possible in Bahamian law for anyone to compel Mr. Stern to do a DNA test, Mr. Munroe said, "I don’t see how they can. If he is not (the girl’s father) he has no further interest. What interest has he in who is (the father, if he isn’t)?
"There’s an interesting English case, where the English Court of Appeal ruled quite positively that someone in the position of Howard couldn’t be compelled for a very simple reason – he’s the presumed father. Unless somebody else can displace him its in the interest of the child to have a father."
In a separate matter, Senior Justice Anita Allen has set aside an entire day on Friday to hear the matters arising from the dispute over the ownership of the Horizons estate on the Eastern Road, where Ms. Smith lived with Mr. Stern from August 2006 until she died in Florida in February.
There are at least three interlocutory applications involved in that matter: one seeking to force South Carolina developer G. Ben Thompson – another reported ex-lover, and the source of the $950,000 that bought the house – to post a security for costs, as he has no assets within the jurisdiction; one to have Mr. Thompson’s application for a declaration that he is the owner of the house, and – in the alternative – one to have all the applications regarding ownership of the house consolidated.
The Journal understands that there may be other applications as well, but even before Justice Allen hears the applications, she is going to have to determine whether the actions survive.
Mr. Thompson’s lawyer, Godfrey ‘Pro’ Pinder, wants the judge to decide that any actions filed on Mr. Smith’s behalf – like her application for a declaration that she owns the house – died with her, and should therefore be thrown out.
Those involved hope for a swift resolution, but realistically speaking do not wish to suggest a timeframe.
Neither case is ready for trial yet, and until then, there is no saying how much more complicated the matters could become.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=11898
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| Hannie
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Thanks for all the articles guys! 
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Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:17 am |
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Anna Nicole's L.I. Lawyer Tells Her Story
Michael M. Martino, Jr. - mmartino@longislandpress.com 02/10/2007 10:36 am
A Long Island Press Exclusive
It has been about four years since Len Leeds last spoke to Anna Nicole Smith. The Carle Place-based attorney was as shocked as the rest of the world when the former Playboy Playmate and Guess? jeans model died suddenly this week at age 39. But hers was not a calm and easy life, punctuated by court battles, controversy, substance problems, financial troubles and even paternity troubles.
Leeds had long been nationally known as a successful estate attorney before he started to work with Smith in her well publicized and bitter battle over her deceased husband J. Howard Marshall’s $1.6 billion estate. After being introduced by a former client from LI that Leeds had successfully represented in a major estate case, Leeds flew out to Las Vegas to meet Anna Nicole Smith. The money had been put into an irrevocable trust by Marshall's son Pierce.
Leeds met a crying Anna Nicole in 1996, with high hopes that he would win a settlement for his new client. But he soon found that he was entering a chaotic world, one that ended this week with the tragic death of the tabloid star at age 39. Smith was found unconscious and unresponsive in her hotel room in Hollywood, Fla. Attempts to revive her were unsuccessful.
Smith had married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall in June, 1994. It was her second marriage. Seven years before, when she was 17, she married Billy Wayne Smith, one year her junior. The marriage yielded one child, Daniel. At the time of her marriage to Marshall, he was 89, she 26. It seemed to be the classic marry for money scenario. Marshall had met Smith at an exotic dance club, and for two years lavished her with gifts and repeated marriage proposals. She finally relented, and Marshall continued to bankroll Smith’s extravagant lifestyle. “Their courtship lasted for four or five years, but Howard was disabled, in a wheelchair and very fragile. From day one, he loved her. She [eventually] decided to [marry him]. No one had ever been so good to her. He took her from the club and made her life possible,” says Leeds.
The gift giving escalated. “[Marshall] had given her about $10 million, a house in Bel Air, and a ranch in Texas,” says Leeds. “She also made a lot of money modeling.”
Leeds even booked work for Smith. “I was getting for her $25-50,000 for an appearance for something like Entertainment Tonight, or some European things,” says Leeds. But Smith’s well-known spend thrift ways quickly made the money disappear. “She spent a fortune,” says Leeds. “She had bodyguards, wardrobe, hair, make up [people]. Tremendous expenses. Tremendous.”
Leeds never saw Smith dabble in illicit substances, an accusation that has been aimed her way for years after drunken red carpet interviews and other follies. “I can’t say anything about drugs. I really focused on the legal aspect,” says Leeds.
Leeds also says that Marshall paid for Smith to delve into cosmetic surgery to enhance her career. “I think he enhanced her physical appearance. My understanding is that she did whatever cosmetic procedures had to be done,” says Leeds. “There were constant things with her breasts, constantly problems with that. She was enhanced. I think her teeth; I think, certainly, her wardrobe, the acting, the agents, PR. He paid for all of that, and he took her from, as I said, the commonality of strip club and to the fore front of entertainment in terms of the cover of Playboy and the Guess? jeans spokesperson, and then a credible actress.”
Leeds was stunned by the venom of Marshall’s son, Pierce. “I was the lawyer coming from New York thinking he could settle the case, because it was just money,” says Leeds. “We did not want a lot of money. It was a $1.6 billion, she was very reasonable those days.” He quickly found out the fight for Marshall’s cash was personal. “The first meeting I had with Pierce, he turned to me and said ‘I will never give her one nickel. I will spend all of my money on legal fees. I will never give her one nickel’,” says Leeds. “It wasn’t about money, it was about emotions. There was such animosity. Rational people would have settled it, not give millions of dollars to lawyers for 12 years. I was shocked I could not settle. I did not believe it, everybody says that [they aren’t going to give the money]. That’s just negotiations. That’s just bargaining.
“This is the first time that someone stuck to their words, spent millions of dollars, 11 or 12 years, and never paying a nickel. He died never having paid a nickel to Anna Nicole Smith,” says Leeds.
Pierce Marshall began shutting Smith out before his father’s death, when the elderly man became bed ridden and too frail for everyday life. Leeds had to go to court to fight for Smith because Pierce had stopped paying her bills, something that his father had done for years, and her electricity was about to be cut off.
Pierce also stopped Smith’s lavish spending. Leeds recalls a time when he went to Harry Winston on Beverly Hill’s Rodeo Drive with Anna in 1996.”[She] bought millions of dollars in necklaces, earrings. It was paid by check, but Pierce refused to pay the check. Harry Winston finally called me and we had to go from our LI office to get all the jewelry back to Beverly Hills,” says Leeds. “My lawyers were on an airplane with a briefcase with millions of dollars in jewelry to carry back to Beverly Hills.”
Leeds thinks Smith spent all the money she had until her last days. “She probably went through everything. She spent money like water. Her cost of living was sky high. It was just unbelievable,” he says.
Leeds, incidentally, was paid for his services.
But the story has more tragic turns. Pierce Marshall died from an infection last year, and Anna’s son Daniel died tragically in September as he visited his mother in her Bahamas hospital room, where she had had just given birth to a young daughter. To complicate matters worse, the father of the child has not been identified for sure.
Leeds thinks the last years of her life were tragic, because Smith was on the road to real stardom in the early 90’s. He says that at heart she was a very down to earth person, but trouble was around every corner. “Everywhere she went, people sued her. There were maybe 20 suits [when I knew her], and she had a life that was in constant chaos. I think it’s sad there was so much litigation, and after Howard Marshall died, she became focused on the case, and not her career.”
Leeds says that Smith’s friend/attorney/agent/partner Howard K. Stern may not have been the best person in her life, as he built walls up around Anna Nicole so nobody could get close to her.
Then the last few years were upon her. “She became a joke, it was sad. I was pleased to see her getting her life together [recently], but then, when Daniel died, it was tremendous to her, and I don’t think she recovered. Everywhere she went, there was drama.”
http://www.longislandpress.com/view.php?file=12453
(pic of Anna and this atty at link; I couldn't get the pic to post here.)
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Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:07 am |
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thanks SS.
Leeds thinks the last years of her life were tragic, because Smith was on the road to real stardom in the early 90’s. He says that at heart she was a very down to earth person, but trouble was around every corner. “Everywhere she went, people sued her. There were maybe 20 suits [when I knew her], and she had a life that was in constant chaos. I think it’s sad there was so much litigation, and after Howard Marshall died, she became focused on the case, and not her career.”
Leeds says that Smith’s friend/attorney/agent/partner Howard K. Stern may not have been the best person in her life, as he built walls up around Anna Nicole so nobody could get close to her
I would think if HKS was able to keep the lawsuits at bay and keep people away from Anna who he felt would wind up suing her that he did a good thing.
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Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:25 pm |
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Lawyer Wants Anna Nicole Partner's DNA
Lawyer Wants Anna Nicole Partner's DNA
By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
March 13, 2007 2:03 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for one of three men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby asked a judge Tuesday to order late Playboy model's partner, Howard K. Stern, to come to California and provide a DNA sample.
Attorney Debra Opri, who represents Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, said after a closed hearing that she wants the DNA to determine if Stern is the baby's father. His name is on the little girl's birth certificate.
"Put up or shut up, that's what we're asking for," Opri said outside court.
Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider refused to make Stern a part of the paternity court action but said he would review the matter in two weeks after he considers the law more closely, Opri said.
Stern was living with Smith at the time of her death. He and the baby, Dannielynn, currently reside in the Bahamas.
Opri said Birkhead needs a paternity ruling from California to present in the Bahamas to strengthen his case for claiming paternity of the child.
"Without it, we have a weak argument," she said.
A lawyer for Stern argued against the DNA request, saying Stern is already officially listed as the baby's father.
"Howard Stern doesn't have to go to Larry Birkhead for anything," attorney Ron Rale said.
Schnider originally asserted jurisdiction in the paternity suit in California because Smith had connections in Los Angeles and Birkhead claimed the baby was conceived in California.
Smith, 39, died of unknown causes Feb. 8 after collapsing at a Florida hotel.
A court in the Bahamas is currently dealing with custody issues involving the child. A judge has barred Stern from taking the girl out of that country until a custody ruling is made.
Birkhead attended the hearing in Los Angeles and said he was confident he would be declared the father.
"I've been putting a nursery together so I'm smiling. I'm in a good mood," Birkhead said outside court.
Meeting the child in the Bahamas, where Smith was buried, "was one of the greatest things in my life," he said. "That was my delivery room just to get to meet her."
Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be the father.
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Anna Nicole: The Legal Battle
February 06, 2007
On Monday, ANNA NICOLE SMITH spoke exclusively with ET regarding brand-new developments in her paternity battle with photographer LARRY BIRKHEAD, who claims to be the father of her five-month-old daughter, DANNIELYNN.
Larry filed a paternity and custody suit in the Los Angeles Superior Court soon after the birth of Dannielynn last September.
Anna Nicole adamantly denies planning a romantic future with Larry, telling ET, "We had no relationship," and refutes his claims that he was there for the first ultra-sound, that he bought her maternity clothes and baby furniture, and that they previously had a baby that miscarried.
Tonight, Larry comes directly to ET to go on the record about the status of their personal and legal battles.
"You're gonna have to drag Anna Nicole into a courtroom kicking, screaming, fighting," Larry tells ET's JANN CARL. "She's not going to abide by any laws unless she's forced to."
Amid the legal wranglings of both parties, the spotlight turns to a confidentiality agreement that Anna Nicole claims Larry signed, instructing anyone who provides their signature to steer clear of communicating with the media about Anna Nicole, including film, television, print and digital, without her consent.
Anna Nicole tells ET, "Everyone in my life signs one. And yet he claims he doesn't remember signing anything like it. Actually, he signed three of them."
Birkhead claims not to be aware of ever signing one.
"This is my child; it doesn't matter what the penalty is," says Birkhead about speaking out, despite the alleged agreement. "They started this. They started bashing me. I'm just defending myself."
The "AGREEMENT NOT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE MEDIA" consent form obtained by ET contains what appears to be a signature and the initials of one Larry Birkhead, and includes a handwritten addendum that states, "If I breach this agreement then I will pay a liquidated damages sum of ten million dollars, and any money received would revert back to Anna Nicole Smith as damages from any breach."
Confidentiality agreement is here:
http://www.etonline.com/gfx/lbirkhead_et.pdf
http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/spotlight/38685/index.html
ETA: Here he says he never signed it, however in court he said he did sign it because he was made to by Anna and Howard.
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March 13, 2007
By INDERIA SAUNDERS, Guardian Staff Reporter
inderia@nasguard.com
Telephone messages left by the former Immigration Minister, Shane Gibson, on the voicemail of the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith caused a minor stir Monday when they surfaced in the international media.
On the heels of his resignation after photos of Smith and himself appeared in the local and international media, Gibson has once again captured headlines in the international media after December phone messages by Gibson left on Smith's California voicemail materialized on the web site www.TMZ.com yesterday.
The web site alleged that the link to the phone messages, which is provided on the site, shows how Gibson called Smith seven times from 15 to 17 December and left six messages for her to return his calls.
According to TMZ.com, one call was left at 9:05 Pacific standard time on Smith's voicemail, which would have made it 12:05 am in the Bahamas.
The Guardian was able to access the website and listened to the messages. All they showed was that the calls were made and that Mr Gibson identified himself, indicated the local time in Nassau and asked Ms Smith to call him back. There was no suggestion in any of the messages of anything of a sexual, or improper nature. The messages were all very brief.
There was some speculation that the website obtained the messages from the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) yesterday, but this seemed unlikely as the messages were left on a machine at Smith's California address. However, Chief Superintendent Hulan Hanna said that as the official spokesperson for the police department, he had not spoken to any persons regarding the matter, and no other officer had been authorized to do so.
"Whatever assertions being made have absolutely nothing to do with the Royal Bahamas Police Force," Mr Hanna said. "Consistent with the way investigations are conducted in this jurisdiction the Royal Bahamas Police Force will not conduct public inquiry into this or any other investigations."
He added that even though no one in particular had been making demands, he wanted the public and all persons concerned to know that while in other jurisdictions law enforcement may be more liberal about investigations local jurisprudence did not allow such leverage.
"We understand that the media has a need to know because of the role the media plays in the dissemination of news and information and where we can help we will do that," Mr Hanna said. "However, the Police have remained faithful to the law and to the conventions that govern investigations in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas."
He mentioned that he could not speculate on how the web site obtained the phone messages, explaining that in the world of policing there was no room for speculating, only "black and white".
The release of Anna Nicole Smith's autopsy results will now have to wait another two weeks as new evidence in the case may change the medical examiner's earlier conclusion.
According to media reports, Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper has reportedly said that he has to evaluate new evidence "which might change" his earlier unreported conclusion of what caused Smith's death.
Reports also indicate that Smith's computer will be included in the evidence that Perper will review before making a decision. Florida police have reportedly said they are seeking additional information in the case, however, they may need a court order to obtain this information.
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/national_local/316507202326810.php###%20template%20not%20found%20###
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WTF can't they just swab everyone's mouth and get this circus over with? Poor little kid... 
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Yes, I did that with Li'l Shango also, piece of cake....He`s drooping all the time so.....
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lol Hannie, drooping or drooling? 
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| wvgirl wrote: | | lol Hannie, drooping or drooling? |
LMAO, i knew there was something not right, thanks!!! 
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The wayback machine for Anna's "old" website.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.annanicole.com/
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:47 am |
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Interesting quote from her, I think this was in 2004:
"I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support."
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Stern's testimony vital at Smith inquest in Bahamas
Published on Thursday, March 15, 2007
NASSAU, Bahamas: Interest in Howard K. Stern's testimony in a Bahamian inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel, is higher since she died, officials said.
Stern was the lawyer and companion of Smith, who died February 8 in Florida of unknown causes. Florida officials said a cause of death should be announced soon.
Daniel Wayne Smith died, 20, at September 10 while visiting his mother and newborn half-sister, Dannielynn, at Doctors Hospital in Nassau.
Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez, presiding over the March 26 inquest, said Smith's mother would have been a material witness.
"Her death has caused us to lose the weight of her evidence, but at the same time, it has also increased the interest in the inquest because of the way in which she died. She also died suddenly, her son died very suddenly," Gomez told the Bahamas Journal.
While the inquest's primary goal would be discovering the legal cause of the son's death, the court also will "look with interest at the cause of (Anna Nicole's) death as well."
Her death makes Stern's testimony critical because "he would have been the only other person present at the time," Gomez said.
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-479--25-25--.html
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Similarities Between Smith, Son’s Death
16th March
By Quincy Parker
The similarity in the manner of the deaths of American celebrity Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel Wayne Smith prompted Bahamian police to send a delegation to Florida, a senior police official said on Thursday.
Anna Nicole Smith died at 39 on February 8.
Ms. Smith died suddenly in Florida on February 8, 2007 while Daniel died suddenly in Nassau on September 10, 2006. Both deaths occurred under circumstances described as unusual by authorities involved, and both deaths appear to have involved prescription drugs.
Meanwhile, Chief Superintendent Marvin Dames – Officer in Charge of the Central Detectives Unit – told the Journal on Thursday that Bahamian police were in Florida speaking to their counterparts about "a number" of ongoing investigations.
He said he was not at liberty to say specifically whether they were looking into Daniel’s death.
Months ago, the police sent a file to the Coroner containing the results of their investigation into Daniel’s death: at the time, police officials said their investigation into the young man’s death was complete.
However, Mr. Dames on Thursday acknowledged that since the Coroner’s Inquest into the youth’s sudden demise is scheduled to begin a the end of March, the investigation into his death "can’t be closed."
Police Commissioner Paul Farquharson met with Seminole police Wednesday.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Reginald Ferguson has said that since ms. Smith resided in the Bahamas at the time of her death, Bahamian authorities have an interest in the case.
Bahamian police are also still investigating the reported burglary of her home. Ms. Smith’s companion, attorney Howard K. Stern, said computers and other personal effects were stolen.
Mr. Dames spoke of a reciprocal relationship between Bahamian and Florida police, pointing out that Seminole Police Department officials had been in The Bahamas two weeks ago looking into what he described as "linkages" here in relation to Smith’s death.
Such reciprocal cooperation, Mr. Dames said, was "all standard procedure."
The presence of Bahamian police officers in Florida was widely reported in the US press, but Bahamian police are sticking to their customary silence regarding ongoing investigations.
According to Florida press, Seminole Tribal Police have met with Broward prosecutors to assess whether they have sufficient grounds for search warrants to access Ms. Smith’s computer files.
Seminole police have the computers, but are concerned about examining them because it’s not clear whether they were obtained legally.
The Miami Herald is reporting that authorities say they have no evidence of foul play, but her death is nevertheless considered suspicious, which means they would investigate it as thoroughly as they would a homicide.
Last week, it was revealed that the Seminole police had two new pieces of evidence in the case that they wanted to explore, thus holding up the Broward medical examiner’s final report on the case.
Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper has yet to announce what caused Ms. Smith’s death.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=11953
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Opri- You're Fired!
Debra Opri is Out
Posted Mar 16th 2007 9:06AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith
Larry Birkhead's attorney Debra Opri issued a statement this morning, saying "Larry Birkhead and I have terminated our attorney-client relationship effective immediately."
TMZ has learned that there has been trouble brewing for some time, and that this split was not a surprise to either party. Larry will participate in today's hearing in the Bahamas, but will only be represented by a Bahamian attorney. He has not yet retained new counsel in the United States.
Opri, for her part, says "My prayers will be with Larry and Dannielynn always."
http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/16/debra-opri-is-out/
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Anna Nicole Smith movie in the works
POSTED: 9:43 p.m. EDT, March 16, 2007
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Filming will begin in Los Angeles early next month on a motion picture about the life of Anna Nicole Smith, CNN has learned.
Producer Jack Nasser of All-Media Productions told CNN on Friday that his company is in the process of casting the lead role in the film, which could be released as early as June.
"We're moving as quickly as possible" on the production, Nasser told CNN. "We're on what we call 'the fast track.' "
Nasser said the film will cover Smith's life from from age 17 until her death last month at 39, including her marriage to billionaire J. Howard Marshall and the death of her son Daniel.
Nasser said his film will focus on "the positive" about Smith, whose February 8 death caused a media sensation. "It's not focused on the trash," he said.
Nasser's company has produced a long list of little-known TV movies, including "Amber's Story," "Hostage Negotiator" and "The Suspect."
He told CNN the untitled Smith biopic is intended for a theatrical release but could wind up on TV.
Nasser said it was not necessary for him to obtain the rights to Smith's story to make the film because it is based on biographical details that have been widely reported.
"She's very famous," he told CNN. "There's so much in the public domain. In this case rights aren't necessary."
Casting for the role of Smith will begin next week, he said. Nasser said he may cast two women, one to play the younger Smith, the other the older. A casting notice online specifies the role involves "some minor nudity for two brief striptease" scenes. Smith was a stripper in Texas when she met her late husband, Marshall.
Actors also will be cast to play Marshall, Smith's son Daniel at ages 5, 9 and 16, and the private nurse who discovered Smith's lifeless body in a Florida hotel room, among other roles.
Nasser told CNN his company had been at work on a film about Smith for the last two years and stepped up production after she died unexpectedly.
"We just kicked it into gear" after her death, he said.
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well thank goodness it's not Larry Garrison
ETA: Please don't tell me Nasser and Garrison are connected
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This looks like old news, but I found it interesting.
http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Interviews-Features/Article/default.aspx?posting=%7B29E3E6CF-0802-40FF-A929-59701A624436%7D
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Inside Howard K. Stern's "Get Slim Quick" Plan for Anna Nicole
by N.F. Mendoza
Anna Nicole Smith and Tony Little (inset).
Even as the E! network was hiring überfitness trainer Tony Little to get the increasingly plus-sized Anna Nicole Smith into shape, her lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, was already brokering a deal with TrimSpa, Little tells TV Guide — an arrangement which would have netted Stern a lot of cash.
"I was brought in as a trainer, to get her to drop the weight and get her motivated," Little recalls. But, as others who tried to help Smith found, the bombshell wasn't particularly interested in helping herself. "She was a very tough case."
Little helped install a home gym and tried to get Smith to begin a regimen, in the hopes that she'd lose weight in a healthy way. "I'm a high-energy motivating guy," he explains. "If you could get her to smile and joke it was cool, but all of a sudden she would zone off. She was so depressed and so medicated, it was an impossibility for me to conquer."
Smith's lack of motivation may have been due to the fact that Stern "was already trying to negotiate a TrimSpa deal, because they were going to pay him a lot of money," Little says. Little did his best to convince Smith that as a trainer, he was certain she could lose the weight and keep it off through dieting and exercise. "'Pills wouldn't give you the results,'" he recalls telling her, "but she said she needed the money, and it was a good endorsement deal."
With Smith's lack of interest and motivation — combined with "Howard Stern in the house, there every second, and [son] Daniel, who seemed to be just as depressed as his mom" — Little found it a beyond-daunting task. Daniel "was very sad," the trainer remembers. "I can't remember him saying two words or lifting his eyes from the carpet."
The entire situation was "sad," Little says with a sigh. "There's nothing worse that can happen than losing your child, and she no doubt felt terribly sad. She had such a hard time in her life. If she was depressed before, after Daniel died she had to be beyond depressed."
Little concurs with many of those on the periphery of Smith's life, saying, "She was on medication to handle it." He then shrugs, "I don't know the Howard K. Stern angle. It's a very strange thing, how he was there every second of every minute of every day in every area. It was a very hard situation."
Anna Nicole "was truly sweet, but beyond loss," Little says in conclusion. "If you add depression and you add medication.... It wasn't a good environment. She did beat [early] adversity, but she seemed to be making the wrong decisions."
The TV Guide Channel looks back at Smith's rise and tragic fall with Anna Nicole: An Unfinished Life, which retraces her career from her emergence as a top model to her courtroom battles to her reality-TV comeback. Also examined: her last months, her unresolved lawsuits and her final legacy. Check local listings. Revisit Smith's life in pictures in our photo gallery.
Send your comments on this feature to online_insider@tvguide.com.
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Smith's Ex in 'Happy Mood' After Hearing
By JESSICA ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writer
Fri Mar 16, 11:16 PM
NASSAU, Bahamas - A former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith who claims to be the father of her daughter expressed optimism following a court hearing Friday. But both he and the late model's mother, who is also seeking custody of the girl, refused to discuss the case.
Larry Birkhead, a California-based photographer seeking custody of Smith's baby girl, Dannielynn, said he was "in a happy mood" after the hearing but others were not as pleased with developments inside the courtroom.
"There were different moods for different people. I'm in a happy mood but I can't speak for anyone else," Birkhead said.
Virgie Arthur, mother of the 39-year-old reality TV star and former Playboy Playmate, and her attorneys left the Superior Court building without speaking. She wants to take the girl from Smith's live-in companion, Howard K. Stern, arguing she could provide a more stable home.
Stern, who is listed as Dannielynn's father on the Bahamian birth certificate, did not attend the hearing.
The court clerk's office closed near the hearing's end and nobody was available to answer questions about the proceedings in the three-way custody dispute.
The fight for custody of the infant, who could potentially inherit millions of dollars from her late mother's estate, began after Smith, 39, died of unknown causes Feb. 8 in Florida.
Meanwhile, a hearing on an ownership dispute concerning the house where Smith lived in the Bahamas was adjourned until April, according to an attorney for South Carolina developer G. Ben Thompson.
Thompson, who briefly dated Smith, says he advanced her money for the $900,000 house but she did not honor an agreement to repay the debt. Smith, who lived there with Stern in the months before her death, claimed the house was a gift.
Stern, has remained at the gated house known as "Horizons" with Smith's daughter
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Howard K. Stern moves in with Courtney Love!
http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2007/02/12/howard-k-stern-moves-in-with-courtney-love/
A little humour for the less offended.
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DNA Is Not in The Bag
Posted Mar 19th 2007 1:35PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith
There's a rumor floating around that Dannielynn's DNA has already been taken. TMZ has learned it just isn't so.
Although it hasn't happened yet, that could all change tomorrow. As TMZ first reported, the judge in the Bahamas is inclined to issue a DNA order as early as tomorrow. We've learned that at tomorrow's court hearing, DNA experts are scheduled to testify. Stay tuned.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/19/dna-is-not-in-the-bag/
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OMG I just read this.......this is a RIOT!
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