Now, one has to ask, did ANS knowingly sign a will that would disinherit a child she was about to deliver?
No, the will was written and signed July 30, 2001, 3 months before this son was born.
Now, one has to ask, did ANS knowingly sign a will that would disinherit a child she was about to deliver?
Yes - I believe she would have done so - under duress and some kind of threats from HK$ - Wonder if Daniel knew about this birth?
Soto never used condoms with his voluptuous mistress, trusting in the "rhythm method" of birth control that she swore by. But a home pregnancy test soon revealed that Smith was pregnant with Soto's child, and she was fearful of how Howard K. Stern might react, or how it might affect several lucrative modeling and entertainment contracts coming down the pike, including negotiations with the E! Channel for what would become The Anna Nicole Show. Stern called her constantly to offer updates on business transactions, scheduling, and so forth, or to just keep tabs on her. Now each time the phone rang, Smith seemed rattled, fearful, and annoyed.
Soto suggested an abortion, but Smith was brought up Southern Baptist and would have none of it. She believed abortion was a mortal sin. However, she was afraid the sometimes Svengali-like Stern would force her to abort the fetus. In a panic, she began consuming mass quantities of ice cream, Twinkies, whole pies and cakes. Already, by the time she left for Los Angeles to see her Beverly Hills gynecologist, she'd packed on 10 extra pounds. During the limo ride to Sky Harbor International Airport, she wept mascara-streaking tears, like a much better-looking Tammy Faye Baker. She declared her undying love for Soto, and swore they would be together as soon as circumstances allowed.
"I was stupid and kind of believed her," Soto admits. "But once her flight took off, I felt like something had ended. On the ride to the airport was the first time I saw her take drugs — a handful of Vicodin she washed down with vodka from the limo bar. She never did that while she was at the resort. I told her she had to be careful because of the baby, but she said it was just because plane flights made her nervous. Little did I know."
But only one man can lay claim to being Marshall Soto's father, and he has boxes of receipts and documents proving his assertion that his son is also the son of Anna Nicole Smith. Aside from a birth certificate from Burbank's Providence Saint Joseph's Hospital listing Anna Nicole as the mother of one Marshall Black Deer Soto, there are numerous boarding passes for round-trip flights from Phoenix to Burbank. Smith would ensconce Soto at the Safari Inn Motel on Olive Avenue, close by the NBC studio where the Tonight Show's filmed. Being pregnant made her horny for Soto, as she told him. No one else would do.
"I knew we weren't exclusive, that she was having affairs," says Soto. "But I wanted to be with the mother of my child."
Smith had rapidly begun to put on weight, even more than the average expectant mom, in what she told Soto was an attempt to hide the pregnancy from Stern. Smith's height (5 feet, 11 inches in her bare feet) and her big-boned Texas frame also helped. The pregnancy was kept secret from the press for fear of the ramifications. Stern was already afraid of losing the E! deal, a major money-making proposition since Smith's cut of the J. Howard Marshall II pie was still tied up in the courts. So Stern was kept in the dark about the pregnancy until about a month before the delivery, for fear he would flip out. For the child's delivery in 2001, Soto persuaded Smith to fly out a tribal elder from the Tohono O'odham reservation, who smeared yellow clay on the faces of both the mother and the child in a traditional ceremony. The medicine man then fed Soto, the child, and Smith a small portion of the clay, and, as is O'odham custom, gave tiny Marshall a name that had emerged from his dream about the Smith-Soto union: "Black Deer." As mentioned above, the Indian name was listed as Marshall's middle name on the birth certificate.
Since E! was to begin filming in late 2001 or early 2002, Smith had no time to be a mother. She granted Soto custody of the boy, with Smith agreeing to deposit $10,000 a month in Soto's Wells Fargo account for care and upkeep of the child. Soto returned to Phoenix, quit his job at Sanctuary, and began devoting himself full-time to raising the infant.
Smith promised that they would one day marry and live as a family, and Soto has numerous hand-written notes and letters from Smith stating those intentions.
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Smith, by then anywhere from 60 to 100 pounds overweight, continued to fly them out so that she could spend time with them on weekends. She began to develop profound post-partum depression, which she salved with drugs such as methadone, Demerol, Zoloft, and Phenergan. Her weight gain also fed her melancholia, leading to her oft-bizarre and seemingly drug-addled behavior as cameras rolled for the E! reality show.
"I saw her go deeper into the drugs," states Soto, who himself has had issues with alcohol, but now says he only occasionally drinks Jack Daniels when he's overcome with the reality that little Marshall will never again spend quality time with his mother. "She got more and more wild, and I was afraid for Marshall to be near her. The reality show was an embarrassment. She had become a different person, so I called her and told her I was taking Marshall to the rez, where she couldn't find him, and that I didn't want her around our child. It broke my heart, but I had to do it. I thought, 'What if I meet her in Los Angeles and she tries to steal him from me with her bodyguards and those other stooges she has working for her? How would I get my boy back?' Look what happened to her other son, Daniel. See how he ended up? The same thing could have happened to Marshall.
There is much more here...
Notice, when she was pregnant with Dannielynn and staying with Gina's mother in Florida the mother reported she would get very irritated when HKS would call and bug her.