The real confusing thing is that Rita put in her book that Tasma is Bahamian - but according to the records I saw, she claimed to have been born in New Jersey.
Before we knew anything about her, I brought up the fact that I’d found her maiden name was Rolle and there are lots of people by that surname in Nassau. One sang in the choir at the funeral church and one was interviewed by the newspaper - but Tas never said anything publicly about being Bahamian and never indicated that she had been in Nassau or any of the Islands any of the time that Moe was.
Then I found some other docs that led me to believe Rolle could have been a previous married name for her - except that’s *supposed* to be the maiden name on the marriage licenses I saw.
Then someone on another forum alluded to Moe being Bahamian and we know he’s not - born in Wash DC, college in Boston. And, he was only her bodyguard on trips to things like Hard Rock or Derby or Vegas.
I’d swear I’ve seen another reference to Taz being Bahamian, well before the book - I’ll dig around for next time :)
yes, I saw your research posted around 3/7 or 3/8 - I’m still trying to find a mention other than that but not having much luck so far..
did find this - appears she’s known Moe for a long, long time:
July 6th, ‘07 - VAN SUSTEREN: Tas, when did you first meet Mo?
TASMA BRIGHTHAUPT, NURSE WHO FOUND ANNA NICOLE’S BODY: I met Mo about 12 years ago.
VAN SUSTEREN: How long have you guys been married?
BRIGHTHAUPT: About two years now.
VAN SUSTEREN: When was the first time, you know, before Mo or after Mo, that you ever heard the name Anna Nicole Smith?
BRIGHTHAUPT: Years ago, from her “Playboy” days.
VAN SUSTEREN: So you’d heard of her before.
BRIGHTHAUPT: I’d heard of her long before.
VAN SUSTEREN: When you married Mo, did you know that Mo knew Anna Nicole?
BRIGHTHAUPT: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: How did you understand that they knew each other?
BRIGHTHAUPT: In a working sense. He worked with her as a bodyguard.
VAN SUSTEREN: When did you then first actually meet her?
BRIGHTHAUPT: I met Anna about two years ago, a year-and-a-half ago.
VAN SUSTEREN: Where?
BRIGHTHAUPT: At the Hard Rock.
[note: recall that gaydaddys claim ANS had to ‘approve’ of ‘their’ relationship ....wonder why TAZ was never ‘introduced’ to ANS by Moe at ANS’s request ala gaydaddys, before they, themselves, were married?
Am I seeing things wrong, or does it seem that Moe, Shelleys, G.Ben, Gerlene/Shane Gibson/King Gibson, Jackie, Goen, Daniel, etc. etc., describe such a different ANS than HKS/LB/KE want us to believe?]
and how messed up was ANS after all, if she was allegedly writing a screenplay for a movie?