Well, evidently that’s not even the “brother” who is going to be on, so that’s my bad.
I had seen some discussion earlier of even more children who were raised in Virgie’s home when Anna Nicole lived there, other than the ones named in the Seidlin hearing and elsewhere in family trees.
All the other boards claimed Donald Ray Hart Jr. had the prison record - they claimed to have seen it or gotten paid searches done. I had to just blindly accept that, because I couldn’t prove differently.
I had been trying to find the daughter (step-daughter to Virgie) Shauna for some time and wanted to know her married name. I had clues, but no proof. She seemed to live in the Dallas area, which was not the norm for the other family members.
So, I thought she must have lived with Hart’s ex-wife, but I didn’t know which one it was. I was fairly certain her last name was Hart at birth, but couldn’t prove that. Then I ran across another place that stated Hart’s ex-wife who was Shauna’s mother was married to someone named Jenkins first - it was possible Shauna’s last name was Jenkins and that Hart was her step-father.
However, I could never find an ex-wife of Hart’s who fit that criteria - at least, in Texas. So, I had to give up at that point. Then, today I saw that this convict who will be interviewed is also from that same ex-wife and goes by both the last name Jenkins and the last name Hart.
Apparently, the ex-wife had Shauna and a son, named Larry Dale Jenkins, born in 1960, who is allegedly this man in the prison interview. When their mother married Donald Hart in 1962, he adopted them both, according to what I read. (But the Shauna I had found wasn’t born yet at that time.)
Then when she and Donald Hart divorced in Dec 1970, the two children lived with her until she was incarcerated at some point. Meanwhile, Hart had married Virgie in Feb 1971 and whenever the ex-wife went to jail or prison, Shauna and Larry went to live with Virgie and Donald - but I don’t know when that was.
I had been under the impression that Shauna was Donald Hart’s birth daughter - and that she was born just a few months after her parents’ divorce (like a make-up baby but the reconciliation didn’t work) and not long after Virgie’s marriage to Hart. In fact, when I found that birth record, I felt like that explained why Virgie called Shauna “my daughter” - perhaps she and Donald had gotten Shauna when she was just a baby, depending on when the mom became incarcerated.
But, if Shauna’s name was Jenkins, then that’s not the right person - I had looked up Shauna Hart. And that child would have been 11 years younger than the son Larry.
Some of this I was never able to prove up, but perhaps the person who wrote it all got it firsthand. There may not be TX records for some of these marriages, divorces, births and so forth. Some were older than the online records and some are just too difficult to sort by hand.
I suppose we’ll find out tomorrow! Mainly, if all that’s true, it would mean this ANS “brother” is the stepson of one of her stepfathers’. No relation to her or even to Virgie, but someone who lived under the same roof. This family was even more blended than I thought.
So, my apologies to Donald Ray Hart, Jr., if that’s not who this is. I’m very sorry to have ID’ed him by the only “brother” name we’d seen who had lived in ANS’s same home. I had wondered if he wasn’t the one who was partially paralyzed and lived next door to Virgie - so this story hadn’t made sense to me when posters first said he was the criminal.
Follow-up on the stepbrother story that will be on ET and The Insider today:
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From the ET site
ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s step-brother, LARRY DALE HART is doing hard time in a Texas prison for aggravated assault, one of several cases against him — with one that includes sexual assault.
In an exclusive interview with Anna Nicole before she passed away in February, a visibly upset and angered Anna claims there was rape in her past: “You want to hear about my childhood? The rape?” she tells ET, trembling with rage.
Now, ET special correspondent ART HARRIS asks Hart the point-blank question: “Did you rape your sister?”
“No! Never,” replies Hart from behind bars. “I’ve never even heard that before. I don’t think she’s said that. I don’t think so. That’s a shock to me. I’ve never heard that before.”
Harris questions the response, given the inmate’s past, which includes pleading guilty to one count of sexual assault — for allegedly raping a 38-year-old woman in 1998. Hart claims the woman accused him to get even for breaking up with her and tossing out her pills, but he still plead guilty. In response to Harris, he insists he’s telling the truth.
“That’s just the furthest thing from our relationships growing up,” says Hart. “I think that’s a bunch of malarkey.”
“If [my step-mother, VIRGIE ARTHUR,] knew about that, believe me, she’d have shot me,” he adds. “That right there would have proved it. Virgie would have shot me if she had thought something like that [had happened]. I would be a dead man.”
Hart says the last time he saw or spoke to Anna was back in either 1996 or 1997: “The last memory that I have with her is buying tennis shoes for her,” he recalls.
When asked what he would say if he could talk to Anna right before she died, he offers, “That I love her, and I wish that I could help her get her life right, you know? Because I’m more of a counselor with other people — I can help other people with their problems more than I can help with mine.”
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>>>> It’s still a little bit confusing because there is a Larry Dale Hart in TX just 4 years older than *this* ANS stepbrother known as Larry Dale Hart, whose real birth name was Celeria Dale Jenkines [sic] - and registered that way with that spelling in the TX birth records.
This story is much different from the wild speculative and very misleading hype that ET/TI had on yesterday in the teasers.
Even if the guy is a lowlife, he told a good story about Virgie and how it was in her home - and mostly, how she did protect ANS/Vickie.
Some of these media types and Stern supporters went off the deep end on ANS’s mention of “rape” in relation to her mother and stepfather.
From what we’ve seen, the rape was of a different family member, not of Anna. And the accused, supposedly convicted, person was not this Celeria Dale Jenkines aka Larry Dale Hart.