Actually, it's clouding up here.. I suspect more is coming your way soon..
Bodyguard: Birkhead Abusive to Anna Nicole
Maurice “Big Moe” Brighthaupt, Anna Nicole Smith’s bodyguard, will detail how Larry Birkhead, the father of her daughter Danielynn, held her against her will and sent her threats by phone in his tell-all book, Baby Girl, due out in July by HarperCollins.
Birkhead is the reason Smith “escaped” to the Bahamas, according to Kenji Jasper, the author who is co-writing the book with Brighthaupt, who worked for Anna for several years and tried to revive her with CPR in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino where she died.
Brighthaupt, pictured above with Smith and her companion Howard K. Stern, also will discuss “Anna’s abuse as a child, abuse her mother turned a blind eye to, leading to a feud that would last for the starlet’s entire life,” Jasper says in an email interview. He also will detail his efforts along with those of Stern and a doctor to “curb Anna’s prescription drug use after the death of her son, Daniel.” Brighthaupt also says that G. Ben Thompson, the South Carolina developer who tried to evict Anna Nicole from her home in the Bahamas, tried to bribe him with $500,000 to get into Anna’s house while she and Howard K. Stern were away.
Jasper, a founding cast member of BET’s Teen Summit and author of several novels including Dark, Dakota Grand, and Seeking Salamanca, says he was tapped to do the project by Manie Barron of the Menza-Barron Agency, which represents both him and Moe.
“Manie felt like we would be a good match as we were both from DC,” Jasper says. “As it turns out we grew up in the same neighborhood. Thus I had an interest in making this as descriptive and personal of a story as I could make it. Once Manie had paired us together and we had talked I wrote a proposal for the book, which Harper almost immediately became interested in.”
“I wanted the challenge of taking what could have been made into this really fluff or sensationalist kind of thing and try to make it classic,” he added. “I wanted to have a hand in writing the definitive book on Anna Nicole through the eyes of someone who knew her extremely well during her last days.”
Last month, a so-called tell-all book by Smith’s sister Donna Hogan, Train Wreck, hit the shelves to poor reviews by those who shared their opinions on Amazon.com. And in California, two of her booksignings scheduled for this week have been cancelled due to negative feedback from consumers.
Jasper says he expects Baby Girl to fare much better.
“I think the book will be have a terrific reception, particularly as Moe was a key figure in Anna’s life as opposed to Donna Hogan, who Anna told Moe she hadn’t had anything to do with in quite some time. I think readers really want to get Moe’s take on all that has happened in these past few months.”
I wish them both success, but I’m not one of those people who cares enough about anybody’s take on Anna Nicole Smith to buy the book. Do you?
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