I am not so sure LB was well known before ANS at the Derby. He was a nobody photog sending some reports to USA Today is all and .. interestingly, those DROPPED off and Thinned greatly after 2000.
Missed reporting even on the Derby altogether in 2001 for USA.
By 2002 one article each year to USA for the whole year, those were always Derby articles.
By 2003!!! Year of the CA apt (on the SAME street as where he rented in 2005)
...he is writing about ANS at the Derby for USA .. and even puts a few mentions in one article! He goes from calling her Anna Nicole Smith to Anna Nicole. 2003 was ANS first Derby. This was one of her E! episodes. Last of the second season maybe?
Howard testified that when he met ANS it was
Stern Rale and MrK (forget the name but the disbarred lawyer that witnesses the will)
I am looking for that article where ANS tells an interviewer that “Larry keeps me busy so I don’t have to be lonely anymore” or something like that. Anyone have that date handy?
he had a stint at the wall street journal rumor says
re: Larry keeps me busy
I’d guess with a big G, that it would be a comment said at the Playboy Halloween bash 2004 when LB was pushing Daniel aside to get into the photo :
Oct 30, ‘04 - In this photo released by Playboy, Anna Nicole Smith, center, poses with Larry Birkhead, second from left, Howard K. Stern, right, Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel Smith, third from right, and unidentified guests during the Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, on Oct. 30, 2004.
(is the man on Anna’s right Edward Lozzi?)
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/gallery/0,22056,5022449-5010141,00.html
pic of Edward Lozzi
on his site, link to Nygard:
http://www.nygard.com
Clients: (LOTS!) plus Ron Smith Celebrity Lookalikes - the world’s largest agency for celebrity lookalikes, with offices in Hollywood, New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Miami, Chicago and Toronto.
also has link to rita cosby interview under pic of him and ANS. says to her, ‘grief can kill you’ says ‘she would not say bad things about you unless you really deserved it’
the video link is a double video - it will play two videos of rita’s coverage so hold on after the commercial if you want to see the msnbc general news coverage of 9 minutes
http://home.earthlink.net/~lozzi/clients.html