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You have to read through a whole lot of ANS coverage to catch what many of the more recent stories have done. They researched old ANS articles (maybe) and anywhere it just said "her lawyer" or "her attorney" they put in Stern's name, not taking into consideration that she has had many other attorneys.

The current media does it all the time with the Marshall cases.

So, I always go back and try to find the original story, if possible, then to the law files, if I have to.

Luckily, the NY Mag story was still around from 1994 when I was tracking down all the attorneys' names for the Case Name List. Freydl had been her lawyer in the Cerrato case, which she lost to the tune of $850,000.

Original story

" ... ANNA NICOLE SMITH, the voluptuous model, filed suit against New York magazine on Wednesday claiming unauthorized use of her photograph on the cover of its Aug. 22 issue for an article called "White Trash Nation."

In the photo, she appeared squatting in a short skirt and cowboy boots and was eating a bag of chips. That's not what she expected to see in print, her lawyer, T. PATRICK FREYDL, said yesterday. The suit, brought in Superior Court in Los Angeles, seeks $5 million in damages to her reput...

October 21, 1994 Style News ..."

Did you ever see the video mentioned on this site? It's not working now.

http://www.celebrities.com/blog/?cat=65

HOWARD testified that he started being intimate with his client in the year 2000. Our video cameras recorded history of Hollywood, again, as they shot the first public outing with ANNA NICOLE SMITH and her new “LAWYER”, HOWARD K. SMITH, in FEBRUARY of 1998.

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