...Ray Martino was someone I had never heard of until recently...
some info on Mr. Martino:
RAY MARTINO
The Robert Gallo & Ray Martino Homepage (geocities site ‘temporarily down’)
“...her boyfriend and acting coach Ray Martino. She entered the world of B-movies with legendary producers Joe Merhi and Rich Pepin of PM Entertainment. Ray Martino personally directed Anna in the action flicks “To the Limit” and “Skyscraper”. Both films were seen widely on cable tv and became bestselling rentals at video stores thanks to horny guys hoping to catch a glimpse of Ms. Smith’s legendary tatas. In addition to copiously displaying her assets, Martino nurtured her action skills in these films. The combination proved a winner.
“...In 1998 Ray Martino again teamed with Anna Nicole for a “day-in-the-life” type documentary about the sex-symbol’s wild life entitled Portrait of a Pin-Up Queen. Though the movie wasn’t a critical success, Anna’s fans were very pleased by the T&A flick that advertised “her fantasies revealed.”
(Martino was also the producer of Illegal Aliens i think)
RECENT INFO:
COURT TV, FRI, APR 6, 2007: Guest: Jackie Hatten
(transcribed without tivo and incomplete)
JACKIE: raymond martino - put daniel on plane to bahamas
QUESTION: understand relationship between dan & ray close?
JACKIE: ray and daniel were very close, father figure nice person honest and real daniel sensed that day one
QUESTION: described as surrogate father?
JACKIE: lot of diff pll that came to house ray one of few people that had anna and daniels best interests in mind, asked daniel ‘how do you feel’ about things, connected with daniel ray was equally one of those people more introverted like daniel
QUESTION: did daniel look to ray for advice?
JACKIE: yes, dan did, confide in him (and in jackie) confided about wanting to go into the military or some sort of armed forces to be more “man”; philosophy in later times of dan’s life philisophy interested ray interested dan had lot of conversations
QUESTION: was he serious: funny? following his mother?
JACKIE: he wanted to be on the backside of the camera - mom beautiful out front - he wanted to see the screen, see how everything played out
QUESTION: ever see Daniel do drugs?
JACKIE: never, not even take aspirin, not after first, was there when he took an aspirin, he felt like he had some type of allergic reaction, drank a lot of water to get asprin out of his system..made (jackie) do accupuncture, would not take anything nothing no alcohol no drugs
QUESTION: reaction to daniel’s death?’
JACKIE: to me this was foul play, it was so rediculously heinous to paint danny as ‘drug addicted child of celebrity’ great kid, indoor boy, loved computers
QUESTION: how did he move in with ray?
JACKIE: partially it may have stemmed from ANS going to bahamas, didn’t want to be here left alone by himself, wanted to be with ray or someone like ray who he trusted not alone
(note: Daniel moved in with Martino following him being thrown out of his home (by Anna) after he stayed out all night with his buddies (sr yr high school? first year jr college? not sure) (kinda reminded me of Anna’s same story?)
(note 2: it’s been reported that Martino, not Stern, was behind the camera during the ‘tell us your will’ video made of Marshall, if so, martino has been around a significant time and would have been wellknown to Daniel)
(Note 3: a birdy told me that P.I. is a friend of martinos?)
Ray Martino was Anna Nicole’s “boyfriend” about 2 years...this was in the period when her husband died and she od’ed later that year. It is believed she od’ed at Martino’s house.
HE knows a LOT about life with HKS and ANS and I understand that he was no fan of HKS.
HIs testimony will be most interesting.
I inadvertently repeated the rumor that Martino video’ed the “unwill” of JHMII’s that Christmas of 1994 with ANS and others at her house in CA.
Someone asked who shot it and I replied off-the-cuff that I thought Melvin Tabers and his wife Elaine did - they took video pix of ANS a lot at that time and lived on her Tomball Ranch. Also, they were the ones who had possession of this videotape when they gave it or sold it or otherwise turned it over to a TV show recently. (In the last few years.)
They were family, so it made sense that they were out there in CA for Christmas. But, actually, I hadn’t really thought too much about it that the video was done in CA, not TX. So, when I went to find out if I was right about the Tabers shooting it, I found quotes online saying it was really Ray Martino who shot it.
So, I came back and posted that. Then I ran across *more* accounts of Melvin and Elaine doing the video-shooting. Thus, I have no idea who actually shot it, nor whose male voice is heard in the audio.
One thing is for sure, it was *not* HKS.