TMZ has learned Larry Birkhead got a Fed Ex on Saturday, and it was not good news. It was a bill for legal services from Debri Opri, the lawyer he fired two weeks ago. The total: $620,492.84.
OMG!
Opri billed her services out at $475 an hour. Here are some of the charges:
- A total of three $1,500 monthly charges for Luck Media & Marketing, Opri's personal publicist.
- On March 1, 2007, the day before Anna's funeral, there is a charge of 10 hours for "preparation for and attendance in Bahamas re services and var. meetings re same." On the day of Anna's funeral, there is another 10 hour charge with the exact same language. Ironically, TMZ knows Birkhead asked Opri not to even attend the funeral, but she did anyway. On March 3, Opri charged yet another 10 hours for travel from Nassau back to L.A.
- On February 24, 2007, while Opri and Birkhead stayed at a private residence in Ft. Lauderdale during the Florida hearing, Opri billed $600 for Seafood World. We're told she brought four trays of lobster to the house. The bill says, "Dinner gift/Ft. Lauderdale house stay." But it was no gift to Larry. That same day, she billed $211 for items at Publix grocery store.
- March 8, 2007, Opri billed $161.65 for an Outback Steakhouse dinner. And get this -- the bill was for $111.65. Opri left a $50 tip and billed Birkhead, who wasn't even there!
- Opri billed Birkhead $4,265 for Cingular roaming service while she was in the Bahamas.
- Opri billed Birkhead 18 times for Diva Limos that took them to and from the Ft. Lauderdale courthouse to the private residence.
- October 22, 2006, Opri billed Birkhead $1,116.16 for a dinner at Graycliff, a restaurant in Nassau. The note next to the charge is "Alexiou atty mtg." Alexiou is Birkhead's lawyer in the Bahamas. Birkhead was not present.
- The next day, October 23, Opri billed $2,467.75 at Graycliff restaurant for another meal. The charge again was for "Alexiou atty mtg." Again, Birkhead was not present.
- Also on October 23, Birkhead was billed $25.75. The item -- "laundry service Zawacki." Zawacki is Opri's husband, who was present on the trip. Ouch!
In all, the packet of bills Birkhead received today totaled 112 pages. Opri offered Birkhead a bargain: Instead of the $620,492.84 bill, she offered him a discount at $511,365.09, but only if he accepts immediately. Opri wrote, "I'm still willing to accept the discounted billing at this time, but only without further discussion."
Good grief, I told Larry he should hire some bad boys to GO GRAB THAT BABY! LOL
Stern's hoping to max him out.
Poor Larry. This is why when I hear about Larry and Virgie selling pics I don't get upset. Stern I do because he's a greedy SOB.
OMG...
Can you imagine what Stern's Atty bills are looking like.
Ugh for Larry. No wonder he severed ties with Opri. Couldn't afford her and the Bahamian attorney too. Couldn't afford her before either. Didn't he have a website where people could contribute to a legal fund for him? IF not, he needs to start one.
Oh, bless his heart. I thought she made a big point of telling everyone she was doing it pro bono.
Maybe that is just her invoice for the write-off. She's probably doing her taxes and had to do that. I always had to, too. Just send an invoice and then -0- it out. Then she can take the $600 grand as a loss.
I *hope* that's what she did!
Absurd isn't it except bills are private and I doubt that Larry passed it around.
I don't know for certain if this quote applies to Burkhead and Opri, but I couldn't help but think of this line after reading about the bill she sent him:
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."