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
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October 24th, 2007
MIAMI (AP) — The attorney who represented Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter in the rancorous dispute over the starlet’s body is seeking nearly $200,000 for his work.
Richard Milstein served as the court-appointed guardian ad litem for Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead. He has filed paperwork in state court in Broward County seeking $198,493.98 from a trust set up in Dannielynn’s name.
Attorneys for the girl’s father, Larry Birkhead, and Smith’s longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, say Milstein’s bill would exhaust nearly the entirety of an estimated $200,000 remaining in the trust, though the girl could eventually inherit millions more.
Besides acting as Dannielynn’s representative in a Fort Lauderdale court, Milstein also helped coordinate funeral arrangements for Smith.
“This representation required the guardian ad litem to devote significantly all of his professional and personal time and attention to the interests of Dannielynn for a period in excess of two weeks,” Milstein argued in his petition.
He did not return a phone call Monday seeking additional comment.
The matter is scheduled for a hearing Nov. 8, but attorneys for Birkhead, Stern and Smith’s mother have already opposed.
“It is unconscionable for a trust established for a baby to be billed at a large firm hourly rate,” wrote attorneys for Birkhead and Stern. They also said the Playboy model’s mother, Virgie Arthur, should pay at least part of the bill, which the mother’s attorney called ridiculous.
Lawyer Stephen Tunstall did find common ground with Birkhead and Stern in his objection to Milstein’s accounting. He said the guardian ad litem “went wild” in generating a bill.
Smith, who died Feb. 8 in a Hollywood hotel, was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. She had been fighting Marshall’s family for years over his estimated $500 million fortune, which could eventually go to Dannielynn.
http://davidnoonemore.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/lawyer-for-smiths-baby-wants-payment/