[TexKat]

Howard K. Stern Plays Hardball With Larry Birkhead

Anna Nicole: Stern Pressures Larry to Sign Deal

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 Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas funeral, sign a contract deal with "Entertainment Tonight" and acquiesce even further regarding the future of baby Danniellynn.

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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[Southerngl]

>>>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." >>>

"Look man, if you just shut up and go away, I can get you this million dollar gig with this guy Steines on ET..."

[maggief]

Sick.

[roses of sharon]

Now Stern and Birkhead teaming up with ET?

Amazing how wrong the weepy judge was.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Roger Friedman seems to be getting on top of the story, finally.

Pretty interesting stuff in there, including:

"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 methadone overdose in her Bahamian hospital room last September.

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

Also, later he grinds Mark Steines to a fine dust.

[mom4kittys]

Incredible, I hope Larry doesn't fall for this. Hopefully he is just biding time for the hearings

[sarasota]

I am going to be beyond disappointed if Larry joing forces with Stern in any way shape or form.