Bald Truth Exclusive: Debra Opri Back In Court Today
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
We’ve obtained, in another Bald Truth Exclusive, motions filed by Debra Opri against Larry Birkhead that lay out her strategy in court today, when she’s expected to ask the judge to take back what he already granted her–a speedy court date–and to reconsider her plea for arbitration, not hammering out her fee deal at some nasty trial.
Also, the second motion has Birkhead’s interrogatories attached, along with admissions, production of documents and deposition. We’re betting Birkhead attorney Michael Trope has a few tricks up his sleeve, and will keep you posted how he responds.
Opri’s moves are, as usual, as fascinating as a filibuster, and sketched out in our court docs below. Read on and let us know what you think.
More to come.
ah-opri-opri-motio-reconsideration-9-14.pdf
opr-motion-protective-9-26-07-ah.pdf
http://www.artharris.com/2007/10/25/bald-truth-exclusive-debra-opri-back-in-court-today/
The “Mark” Howard Stern repeatedly referred to throughout the infamous “clown” video featuring Anna Nicole Smith obviously under the influence of something, most likely is Mark Schey, President and CEO of the creative agency 22Digital. Schey would take the footage shot by Stern and upload it to Anna’s site. He said it wasn’t uncommon for Howard to issue directions while filming.
“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.
When a snippet of the tape first emerged, Stern claimed it was stolen and the snippet was taken out of context. It’s apparant to most who viewed the tape that Howard knew Anna was on drugs and also planned on selling the video because he asks her if she’s on a “mushroom trip”: and tells her how the tape is worth money - while she asked why.
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.
http://www.celebritycowboy.com/producer-of-anna-nicole-smiths-clown-video-explains.htm