Posted on 10/13/2007 6:14:00 PM PDT by fatima
Anna Nicole Smith, Seeking Justice #4
Wonder how come Stern and Martino have the same address? I still think Martino is a “buddy” of either Stern or LB and is just there to fool the public and the tax man.
Those are just lawyers’ addresses in FL that they used, not their own.
No, Martino knew Anna “way back when” - he produced some movies she was in, very early, like 1992-93 or so. He was around in her life long before HKS or LB showed up.
He had known Daniel when Daniel was a little boy. He spent Christmas with Anna’s family and was kind of a boyfriend for a while.
There’s definitely something to Martino. He’s never spoken privately but what he seems to have some “control” on Stern. It doesn’t seem like Stern ever tried to cut him out of Anna’s life. And Martino was one of the first people Stern called after Anna died. Also Martino was the one that allegedly hooked Daniel up with the PI. Maybe Martino isn’t as clean in this as we have thought. Who knows maybe he “inadvertently” gave Stern the heads up about Daniel’s intentions. just speculating because I’m surprised to see him listed as being part of the charity.
Isn’t Ray Martino on the witness list?? Talk about “intimidating” and/or “controlling” witnesses.
I think as soon as we’re past the inquest, the two bodies will come to the USA....where it will be a little easier to make some bucks off the grave site. I’m sure Billy will be cooperative...even if the bodies go to California...But then, maybe not. Maybe he will side with Virgie (someone should) and the bodies will go to Texas where they belong.
Thanks to you both. I highly doubt that Martino is clean and probably does know something on HKS.
I don’t have a good read on Martino at all, because the only info I’ve seen about him is very old.
Having said that, I just have a gut feeling he is not a Howie-lover. Again, that’s just my gut feeling.
And he didn’t actually hook Daniel up with Harding. He and Daniel used to go to a coffee shop near their house and Harding was one of the regulars that they would shoot the breeze with there.
At some point, Daniel decided he wanted to talk to Harding privately, away from Martino, without Martino’s knowledge. So they made arrangements to meet somewhere else, so Daniel could ask him about looking into the people surrounding ANS at the time, such as HKS, maybe KE and LB - not really sure who-all he meant.
Daniel wanted Harding to go to The Bahamas to check things out, because he felt his mom was in danger. But, Harding’s services would’ve been too expensive for Daniel, so he never followed through. I think they met several times over about a 3-month period, IIRC.
The thing about this is, I expected to learn a whole lot more about Daniel’s life at the time he came to Nassau - his frame of mind, the alleged girl friend, the illnesses and hospitalizations, his plans, his friends, interests, and so forth - from Martino on the witness stand. I feel like this is crucial testimony.
But then there is the Harding angle, which is a secret aspect of Daniel’s life that Martino didn’t know about - and that info is also critical - but can’t be gotten from Martino. Harding hasn’t seemed to have been deemed as credible as he should be - or this might be spin.
I only saw him the first time, before more was added to his story - he seemed fine to me - but I think he “evolved.” Whatever he can add under oath, though, should be most welcome.
At any rate, I don’t think Martino is in cahoots with anyone - the last I saw about him was that he was an extreme religious fanatic, which alienated him from most of Anna’s crew, although not from Anna, who seemed to think it made him more reliable and trustworthy than the others - enough for him to be a “father figure” to Daniel.
I know he *had been* wild, as with any Anna-person, but I got the impression all that had been left behind long ago. I could be so wrong about this - and I’m still extremely puzzled by the report of him giving Daniel valium for the plane ride. Again, we need testimony under oath!
I really don’t think Anna and Daniel will ever be re-interred in Texas. California, yes; Texas, no.
Seeing as how Barth and her boss did the charity set-up, which means HKS did it, I think he *had* to have Martino on the board to make it seem like Daniel was represented.
Obviously, the deck is stacked with Howie’s peeps, so it would always be HKS&LB against RM if there were votes on anything.
Since they put Anna’s name on it, too, Daniel is really just an afterthought, as he always is to the duo. But, because it was supposed to be Daniel’s foundation to begin with, they had to pay lip service to him, since so many people keep asking about it because of the commitment ceremony photo shoot money!
I guess my question would be: “Why are they setting up a foundation for Daniel in the first place”? None of the priciples are related to Daniel. Something ain’t right!!
Oops...I see Anna’s neame, too. A charitable foundation?? Does that mean “anonymous” donations? Is it just a money laundering scheme? Separating money out of Larry’s “cut” via pictures etc?
Good info as usual Rte66!! Since it’s been so long I guess I’m beginning to doubt everyone in this fiasco. I wonder if anyone has tried to interview Martino. He must have talked to someone for his “Don’t leave me down there” Daniel quote to him to make it’s way in Rita’s book. Does it mean anything that Howie isn’t listed as esq in the charity listing?
So they set up a couple of "comfortable" offices, buy a few cars...submit restaurant expense tabs...
We know now that Martino is now part of the inner circle!!!
Installment #2 of the ANS death anniversary saga on ET - once again, I couldn’t understand about 3/4ths of what Larry said. I even turned up the volume and sat very close to the TV and watched his mouth and still, nothing he said made any sense. *oh, well*
This part was just more of him carrying Dannielynn around the graves, then going into the Mt Horeb church and a clip from last year, with his eulogy and then some fake crying today.
He said something about not ever saying what he really wanted to (in his eulogy) - but he didn’t say *what* that might have been.
He and Jann Carl each took one of Dannielynn’s hands and walked her down the aisle of the church. She had shoes on that time, looked like maybe white sneakers but probably not with her dressy dress - the shoes were off in other photos.
There had been a preview clip of her crawling in the church, but they never showed that actual segment.
Carl asked him about moving the bodies to CA and he (I think) said what was in the story already posted. He added that by the time he lets DL make the decision about any exhumations, it will be 15 or so years from now and he *thinks* she’ll say no!
Then there was more blah blah blah nothingness, then they showed previews of “Dannielynn’s homecoming” to her “real home” - which I assume they mean is Ben Thompson’s house on Eastern Road in Nassau, lol. Yikes, yes, LB is rocking her in the same rocking chair where Anna rocked her in the Horizons nursery.
While they were doing this “special,” there was one segment in the ET studio where they had some huge blow-ups of photos of Dannielynn on panels in the background and there were two which were just outstanding. Her look was very different from most we’ve seen, so I hope they show them again tomorrow and maybe they will be online.
I really wish they could have just done this “tribute” as a minute or two of DL by herself and none of the other gosh-awful narrative. LB makes me sick. Sorry, maybe he’s doing a good job of rearing DL, which is fine - but he, himself, makes me ill.
Well, could be because he’s just a party to the non-profit corp and not acting as an atty for it. (Like the atty who was a witness for ANS’s will, for example.)
Could also be because he’s not licensed to practice law (lol) in FL.
Harding gave Daniel his business card when Martino introduced them in the coffee house.
The PI had stated long ago that Martino was scared to death of HKS.
Opri dreams
She said, “It’s very sad. Everybody else, they’re just bit players but she had stardust.
“I’ve had two dreams about Anna Nicole, who I’d never met. I see Anna like a ghost, but it’s pink stardust. In both dreams she’s crying and all I remember saying in my dreams is, ‘What do you want me to do? There is nothing else I can do.’ It’s always about her daughter - and then I wake up.
http://www.pr-inside.com/custody-battle-lawyer-dreams-up-anna-r427994.htm
Wow!
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