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Posted on 04/07/2007 3:14:35 PM PDT by mom4kittys
Thread Number 3
“”””I think she injects her lips.””””””
And the poor little critters are still alive - and trying to escape!!!!!!
Yikes!
FReepmail!
Funnier yet, that is exactly what Perper said! I couldn't believe he said it. Were we suppose to just say, "Well, that makes it ok then ... TY for clarification Perper!"
It was similarly with John Ramsey, JonBenet’s father. His widower father married John’s then-wife’s divorced mother. John and his wife divorced, then John’s father died and his stepmother/mother-in-law went on to marry someone else.
lmao!
Except that Virgie wasn’t married to David Sr., so he wasn’t her husband.
Maybe Perper let KE write the autopsy report and submitted as his own? :)
Anna Nicole Smith leaves a legacy only lawyers could love
By John Rogers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
4:11 p.m. April 19, 2007
LOS ANGELES – When Anna Nicole Smith died in February she left behind an infant daughter, a spurned ex-lover, an estranged mother and a financial legacy so complicated it could take a small army of lawyers years to unravel.
The former reality TV star, who lived a life as large as her famous bustline, died while embroiled in legal battles in two countries in which hundreds of millions of dollars might ultimately be the prize going to the winner.
Meanwhile, the next episode in the real-life reality show that was Smith’s life and death is scheduled to unfold Friday at a custody hearing in the Bahamas involving Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn; her mother, Virgie Arthur; and her former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead.
The eventual winner of that dispute not only takes over the care of 7-month-old Dannielynn but will likely also win the right to carry on a legal fight for a share of the billion-dollar estate of Smith’s late husband, the colorful Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall.
The couple, who seemingly had nothing in common except strip bars, met in one in 1991 while Smith, still a couple years away from becoming a Playboy Playmate of the Year, was working as a topless dancer. They married three years later when the oil baron was 89 and Smith, by then a model for Guess jeans, was 26.
Before Marshall’s death the following year, Smith sued his son E. Pierce Marshall, claiming he was cheating her out of money her husband wanted her to have.
One of the Marshall estate’s attorneys, Yale law school professor G. Eric Brunstad Jr., said this week that Smith had already blown through $8 million of the old man’s money at that point and that was all he intended her to have.
After Marshall’s August 1990 death, a Texas probate court jury ruled that Smith deserved nothing. But a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Los Angeles awarded her $450 million from an estate then estimated to be worth $1.6 billion.
A U.S. district court in Los Angeles later took over the case and cut the award to $88 million, plus $42 million in punitive damages.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed that judgment, saying the case was out of the Los Angeles court’s jurisdiction. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously last year that the case did fall within a federal court’s jurisdiction and ordered the appeals court to decide the case on its merits.
That was such an important victory for the rights of the nation’s federal courts, said professor Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes, that he teaches it in his South Texas College of Law classes.
What happens next in the inheritance battle was put on hold after Smith was found Feb. 8 in a room at a hotel-casino on a Florida Indian reservation. Authorities said she had at least nine prescription drugs in her body and had died of an accidental overdose.
“After she passed away, the court of appeals entered an order staying all of the proceedings,” Brunstad said.
Neither he nor attorney Kent Richland, who argued Smith’s case before the Supreme Court, would even guess when proceedings might resume.
“Given the history of this case so far, I don’t think anyone can predict what is going to happen next,” Richland said. In the meantime, he said, he has files from the case stacked ceiling to floor against two walls of his Los Angeles office.
Nothing more can happen, the attorneys agreed, until someone is appointed to represent Smith’s estate in court.
Which is what makes the events unfolding in the Bahamas in the weeks ahead so important – not to mention so fascinating to seemingly anyone sitting in front of a TV.
“You know what is most amazing about this case? How riveting this is to the world?” asked Alexandra Leichter, a Beverly Hills attorney and family law expert who has been called on frequently to provide her take on the case.
“Here is a woman and what did she do? Did she fight against AIDS? Did she save children from a holocaust? Did she go and fight against land mines? Nothing. Just a pretty face with gum showing when she smiled.”
Then Leichter offered her prediction on the outcome of the custody case. She said Birkhead, the 34-year-old Los Angeles photographer who met Smith at a Kentucky Derby party in 2003, is the eventual winner.
“He is now in total, 100 percent control,” she said, adding the fact that DNA proved two weeks ago he is Dannielynn’s father will trump anyone else’s custody claim.
Not that he doesn’t have a few other little legal matters to straighten out before he can head home to California and fight on his daughter’s behalf for a share of Smith’s disputed inheritance. First among them is getting his name added to Dannielynn’s birth certificate.
After Smith dumped Birkhead last year for her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, she put Stern’s name on the girl’s birth certificate.
Stern, who is still living with Dannielynn in the Bahamas mansion he and Smith shared in the months before her death, has formed a partnership of sorts with Birkhead since the DNA results were released. He says he now supports him in the custody case.
Meanwhile, Arthur’s attorneys said this week they were still negotiating a possible custody sharing arrangement with Birkhead.
Also to be resolved is the status of a will Smith had drawn up in 2001 that named Stern executor of her estate. It leaves Smith’s assets to her son, Daniel, who died last year of a drug overdose. That means, said New York attorney Laurie S. Ruckel, an expert on estates and trusts, that whatever Smith left will almost certainly go to Dannielynn, her only surviving child.
But just what Smith left behind hasn’t been revealed.
“I couldn’t give you an eyeball figure,” Smith’s attorney, Ron Rale, said this week. “But it’s going to be determined.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070419-1611-ca-annanicolesmith.html
LOL. Actually I would not surprise me.
Gosh, I missed all that today. That’s sickening. She killed him in cold blood. I saw a clip this morning and as is my wont, I had the sound muted, but turned it up to find out if that huge platform shoe and that wig were Matthew’s!
I thought they were going to say he was a cross-dresser and that’s what drove her insane. I still didn’t know the story until I saw a clip later in the morning, saying those were *her* costume items he wanted her to wear. Yeah, sure.
Sorry, I never believed any of Farese’s ramblings or any of Mary’s later story - all of it added to and cobbled together *after* the lawyers came on the scene. Oh, his poor parents. And I can’t imagine the girls having to be around her and live with her in 3 years from now.
*tiptoeing around so they don’t set Mommy off*
I used to think so, too. When we had a Dancing thread here at FR, someone said she should sue her plastic surgeon for a botched collagen job.
Then another FReeper said he/she grew up with Lisa and all her siblings and that’s the way her lips have always looked. Then, I kinda felt sorry for her. I still don’t like her, tho.
What was so funny on Dancing was that she was paired with this little flippy mini-Hamlin. We kept calling him that - he looked just like him!
I don’t see how those lips could ever be called “natural” ~LOL
I don’t, either, but that’s what the FReeper said.
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