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personal comment: one wonders why Larry hasn't alligned himself with the thompson/shelleys instead of Stern - does he have animosity towards them that they aided Anna? too bad he doesn't put that aside and get on the 'winning' team..

older news:

12th April

Lawyer Says Paternity May End House Battle

By Quincy Parker

Larry Birkhead’s confirmation as the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter Dannielynn paves the way for an end to the legal standoff centred on the Eastern Road mansion called ‘Horizons,’ according to the lawyer for one claimant to the house’s title.

Godfrey ‘Pro’ Pinder told the Journal that his client, Ms. Smith’s ex-lover G. Ben Thompson, would "work with" Mr. Birkhead.

He has been locked in a dispute with lawyers for Howard K. Stern, Ms. Smith’s live-in lawyer, over who owns the residence where Ms. Smith and Mr. Stern lived with Dannielynn until Ms. Smith’s sudden death in February.

Mr. Stern and Dannielynn still live at Horizons.

Mr. Thompson claims he owns the home, since Ms. Smith never fulfilled the terms under which he supposedly turned it over to her, and Mr. Stern and lawyers for Ms. Smith’s estate support Ms. Smith’s claim the house was a gift.

Mr. Pinder said that the substantiation of Mr. Birkhead’s paternity claim adds a new dimension to the wrangling over the house.

"I believe that he (Mr. Birkhead) would also get temporary custody. If he gets temporary custody then he should replace Howard K. Stern in the house. You don’t need to have two fathers in the house," Mr. Pinder said.

"We shall invite Howard out of the house, and leave Larry in. We’ll work with Larry. Larry knows who the owner is; he’ll eventually probably do the right thing and turn it back over to us."

http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=12270

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Mr. Thompson claims he owns the home, since Ms. Smith never fulfilled the terms under which he supposedly turned it over to her, and Mr. Stern and lawyers for Ms. Smith’s estate support Ms. Smith’s claim the house was a gift.

Mr. Stern's lawyers support his claim to the house in the Bahamas because they are LIARS FOR HIRE!!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Mr. Thompson claims he owns the home, since Ms. Smith never fulfilled the terms under which he supposedly turned it over to her, and Mr. Stern and lawyers for Ms. Smith’s estate support Ms. Smith’s claim the house was a gift.

I can't wait to see Howie out of that mansion on his @ss. How he had the nerve to stay there is outrageous...One of the lessons you learn in kindergarten is not to take something if it doesn't belong to you...

[PeskyOne]

Mr. Stern and lawyers for Ms. Smith’s estate support Ms. Smith’s claim the house was a gift.

If ANS and HKS really believed the home, Horizons, belonged to her, why did she buy another house that is described as a 'fixer-upper'? Hasn't it been reported that plumbing fixtures and tiles are in the front yard? I also think I read that HKS was afraid to dock the the boat, "The Crackers", at the new house because it was unoccupied.

IF, and that's a big IF, ANS did own Horizons, shouldn't it go to her next of kin, which would be Dannielynn? I think this entire ANS saga gives most lawyers an even worse name than they already have. It looks as if some are more interested in money and how to circumvent the law rather than following the law IMO.