thanks for the links, SUN :)
words from the past:
Feb 12th, ‘07 - LKL
TONY POTTS, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD: Yes, absolutely. And I think with the claims now that Howard K. Stern has sold his story for a lot of money, I think that it does.
Indeed, I mean, I want your viewers to put themselves in Howard K. Stern’s place. What if the woman you loved all your life has just died hours ago, why are you on a plane, with photographers inside the plane with you following every step?
Wouldn’t you want to grieve? Most people, especially if they are high-profile, what would happen, they would have a PR agent come out and say, you know what, Mr. Stern is grieving at this time, we all know the importance of this story, the national media is here, but can you please give him his space. At the appropriate time, he will come out and he will go ahead and speak to you, or he will issue a statement.
Who would bring cameras in? What is the upside of bringing cameras on a plane, especially when you reunite with Dannielynn, also going into the house?
What’s the upside? The upside is money,Howard. And he knows, and, also, Larry, you know, that it is nothing but money for him. And to me, he may love her. He may love Dannielynn. I have no idea about that. I’m sure maybe he does. But what’s the upside? It’s all about money down here. I’m telling you, there’s blood money down here.
[snip]
KING: Why won’t he let, Harvey, the DNA — for me, wouldn’t you want to know?
[snip out Levin comments]
POTTS: Larry, I’ll tell you the reason why, Larry.
KING: Why, Tony?
POTTS: I’ll tell you why. Because the minute that it’s found out that Howard K. Stern is not the father of this baby, nobody is going to pay him millions of dollars to follow him around and photograph and publish his story. That’s why. The longer he can ride this out, that baby — unfortunately — I’m a father and hate to say this — but that’s his gravy train.
And the minute he’s not found to be the father — and you know, I have to agree with Harvey. The person so far in all of this is Larry. Larry seems to be under the radar. I do know that he’s in the Bahamas now, so he is going to probably come here and go through the legal means and order a DNA test by the court.
[snip]
KING: We will take a break and be back with more. Don’t go away.
COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[snip Perper stuff]
Tony Potts in Nassau in the Bahamas. We understand you have something to add to all of this.
POTTS: Yes. There were talks earlier about Howard being very controlling. I can tell you that I have learned firsthand that there’s an audiotape of Anna Nicole calling her mother after Daniel died.
There’s a phone conversation for a short period of time. And then Howard comes in the background. You can hear him clearly, and there’s some sort of discussion, and then the phone is slammed down because he had found out that she was trying to contact her mother.
I can tell you that the person that I received this information from has heard this firsthand, and, by the way, is in possession of this tape — one, I hear, of many tapes that will give examples — audiotapes — of how controlling Howard K. Stern was. Larry.
KING: Harvey, I understand that you had a report today that Bahamian authorities had a face-to-face with Howard K. Stern earlier today?
LEVIN: Yes. They wanted to talk with him specifically about what happened in that hospital room with Daniel when he died. And Larry, I am telling you, I know that at least one witness is going to testify — and the cops are interested in this — that it was Howard K. Stern who gave Daniel the methadone in the hospital room, and then flushed it down the toilet, the remainder, after he died. And now suddenly methadone turns up in Anna Nicole’ refrigerator, and he’s in the middle of all this methadone, and they are concerned.
KING: Are you reading foul play?
[snip Levin comments]
KING: You agree, Tony?
POTTS: Absolutely. The trail of when I first started meeting Anna Nicole, doing interviews with her, and also then Howard K. Stern started showing up and was always by her side — yes, I feel the exact same way, Larry.
KING: And the conflicts tonight, Harvey, between people saying, we know him, we don’t know him. He ran her, she ran him. He ran her. Might we ever find that out?
LEVIN: I think a little bit of everything is true here. I think in some ways, she controlled — he controlled her. But at the same time, I’m told that after Daniel died, she was a loose canon, and she was suicidal at times, and she was saying, I don’t want anything to do with you, Howard.
And one of the theories is that maybe he wasn’t so upset that she was on drugs, because then at least she was contained.
POTTS: Absolutely.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/12/lkl.01.html
Access Hollywood was on here a little while ago - and I never can remember if that 4AM one is the same that was on yesterday or if it’s the same as the one that runs here at 12:30PM the same day.
I know it always seems like it’s a day later than the other shows. I don’t usually catch it because it’s on opposite my Andy Griffith reruns.
Anyway, two things about it. They had highlights of the Biography Channel’s Anna Nicole - “The Final 24” or something like that.
They have Moe (not “Big Moe” - lol, that’s a hip-hop rapper from here who just died) and Tas on, narrating it!
I guess y’all have seen Tas more recently than I have, because of the GVS show. I hadn’t seen her with the weight gain.
What’s weird is they have her billed as “Anna’s Nurse” and they’re asking her questions about Anna’s daily activities! She had only met ANS one other time, months before that and the 2nd time she was dead! How bizarre to act like she had been her nurse and had known her!
Also on AH, they had a poll, asking “Do you think Anna Nicole Smith’s death was an accident?”
No - 56.44%
Yes - 43.56%
I have an always will believe Tony Potts owes Virgie an apology! There was absolutely NO reason for him to try and ruin Dannielynn’s kentucky ‘homecoming’ with the way he kept trying to egg on the Birkhead’s to say mean things about Virgie. Birkhead’s were’t even talking about Virgie! It was DL’s day! Talk about what she will see in years to come! She will see Tony Potts, IN FRONT OF CHILDREN, bashing a grandma that isn’t there and DL may never know! For what? What the hell did Virgie ever do to Potts? What did Dannielynn ever do to Potts for him to taunt her homecoming tape with hate?
He has kids. Is that how he would like his kids to spend a day with the family? Mean adults gossiping? God help his kids having him for a Dad! He has a hateful heart.