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Anna Nicole’s Producer Found, Explains Disturbing Clown Tape
Wednesday October 24, 2007

Usmagazine.com has exclusively learned the identity of “Mark,” the mystery man Howard K. Stern repeatedly refers to in the shocking new Anna Nicole Smith video.

Mark Schey, the president and CEO of creative agency 22Digital, which created the “TRIMSPA, Baby!” slogan, tells Us that through his “good, professional relationship” with Smith he often helped her post fan videos on her personal website “as a courtesy kind of thing.” He claims he was not paid, however, and that he wasn’t present at the Bahamas video shoot.

“It could have been something [Stern] intended to put on [her website]. He would give me instructions, ‘edit this, don’t do this,’” Schey tells Us, adding, “I’ve never seen that video, and had nothing to do with the filming of it. I never even got this tape.”

Schey is “not sure” who was the man behind the camera, but says it “could” have been Stern.

“I help put videos online – I had nothing to do with the production of them, and was not there when she filmed any of them,” Schey explains.

Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for TRIMSPA, tells Us: “Mark Schey is not an employee of TRIMSPA. He owns his own company and TRIMSPA has contracted Mark on occasion for TRIMSPA-related events. The video is not a TRIMSPA event, nor is it related to TRIMSPA in any way.”

The disturbing footage of an apparently drugged-up, eight-months-pregnant Smith — which was seen on Geraldo Rivera ’s show Geraldo at Large this week — shows an incoherent Smith in clown makeup, pushing a baby doll in a stroller at her then-home in the Bahamas. Smith acts as if she thinks the doll is alive and does not realize she is pregnant; she appears to thinks she is just bloated from gas, the tape shows.

Her partner Howard K. Stern can be overheard asking Smith if she is on a “mushroom trip” and giving direction to a colleague he calls “Mark.”

At one point, Stern says, “This footage is worth money,” and instructs Smith to cover her right breast, which had popped out of her caftan. He then says, “You can’t show that, Mark.”

On the tape, Stern and Smith are joined by the nine-year-old daughter of Smith’s former friend, Ford Shelley — whose father-in-law, G. Ben Thompson, owns the home where Smith was staying at the time — who was at the house for a playdate when the tape was shot. The child is overheard urging Stern to “Cut the tape off and help...” Later she pleads, “I think we need the hospital... Howard, seriously, please help!”

Stern has claimed the tape, a small portion of which was broadcast earlier this year on Fox News Channel, was stolen.

But last night on Geraldo, Shelley — who admitted he took the tape — shot back: “It’s funny to me that he said I stole something ... I had a key to the house.”

Shelley added that his daughter was “emotionally not good” after the incident.

So why release it? “I want the truth to come out,” he told Rivera.