Showing posts with label Krista Bath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Krista Bath. Show all posts

22 February 2007

Birkhead Breaks Down in Courtroom


Larry Birkhead took to the stand again today in the Anna Nicole Smith burial case. Birkhead came across again as very sympathetic, and at one stage breaking down and crying when discussing Anna Nicole's drug use while she was pregnant. Birkhead told how he tried to hide the drugs from Anna Nicole, and how Stern and Anna told him she needed them to live.

Krista Bath introduced an email that Birkhead allegedly sent to Anna Nicole, saying that he couldn't believe how she had cheated on him, and all the shit she put him through. Bath made Birkhead read out the rest of the email, and it was clear that Birkhead was very upset that Anna Nicole had taken his child away from him.

Birkhead went on to describe how Stern had harassed him, to try and get him to say that he was not the father of Dannielynn.

Birkhead also said he had been approached by the media, and offered millions, to go to the Bahamas and knock on Anna Nicole's door and confront her. Birkhead stated that he has never accepted any offers that were made to him.

Birkhead continues to come across as a genuinely nice guy, and he truly believes that he is the father of Dannielynn. Stern looking more like an enabler, drug pusher and all around snake. Stern's relationship with Anna was basically "kept man".

In other news, CourtTV put up a poll that said that 72% of respondents did not believe Vergie Arthur's testimony yesterday. Right on - CourtTV watchers. Mia and I didn't believe her either!


Opri: Larry is the good guy

21 February 2007

Anna Nicole's Mother Takes The Stand, Can't Seem to Answer the Question


Vergie Arthur was on the stand all morning in the Anna Nicole Smith burial trial.Vergie seemed to have A LOT of memory issues. Here are some highlights from this mornings proceedings:
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  • Vergie couldn't remember when she first came into contact with Larry Birkhead, she finally said it was after Anna Nicole died.
  • Vergie stated that she lost touch with Anna Nicole after Anna Nicole started to use drugs and stated that Howard K Stern drove them apart.
  • Vergie said that she couldn't remember any conversations in the last 10 years with Anna Nicole about where Anna Nicole wanted to be buried. Richard Milstein (court appointed for Dannielynn), in cross examination finally got Vergie to admit that the last she knew, Anna Nicole wanted to be buried with the "Stars" in Hollywood. This is in direct contradiction to the reason Vergie is in court. She says that Anna Nicole wanted to be buried in Texas with her family.
  • Vergie brought the courtroom to tears with her recounting of going to the Bahamas for Daniels birthday and being unable to find the grave and finally someone in the cemetery took pity on her and pointed to a grave with flowers on it. Vergie discovered that the flowers and the note were from Larry Birkhead!!
  • Under cross examination from Krista Bath, Stern's Attorney, Vergie Arthur kept avoiding answering the question about wether she was paid $12,000 by Splash News for a video that Vergie made of a ceremony she held at the graveside of Daniel, Anna Nicole's son. Vergie kept deflecting the question by pointing at Stern and saying that Stern was the only one making any money from Anna Nicole's death. Judge Seidlin than asked that Bath produce some people from Splash News to testify as to wether Vergie Arthur was paid for the video.

Howard K. Stern takes the stand after the lunch break and then hopefully Larry Birkhead will have his chance to testify in this matter.

Mia and I have been sitting around with our mouths hanging open at Vergie Arthur's testimony. We think she is not telling the truth at all about not being paid for the video she took at Daniels graveside. This is just our opinion from what we have seen today. Time will tell, especially if the Splash News people can provide some evidence that contradicts Vergie.

UPDATE: Vergie Arthur admitted in court that her trip to the Bahamas was paid for by a third party. She went to the Bahamas with her sister in law and a friend of the family who works for Splash News. TMZ

20 February 2007

"Anna Nicole Was My Goddess" - Stern.

Howard K Stern took the stand today at 12:15. He outlined how long he had known Anna Nicole (since 1996) and said of her "she was my whole world. My best friend, my lover, my goddess and the mother of my child".

Stern went on to describe their relationship as a "non-exclusive intimate relationship", which involved Anna Nicole having other boyfriends while she was with Stern, between the years of 2000-2007.

Krista Bath, Stern attorney, and Judge Seidlin, both questioned Stern. Stern outlined his relationship with Daniel Smith - "we were like brothers" and said that Daniel was "Anna's whole world".

Stern described looking for burial plots in Westwood, CA, in close proximity to the grave of Marilyn Monroe, as that was where Anna Nicole originally wanted to be buried, but it was cost prohibitive. Things changed of course when Daniel died last September in the Bahamas,and after much discussion,double plots were purchased in the Bahamas, and Daniel was laid to rest in one of the plots, and Stern contends that the other plot was for Anna Nicole, and "she always believed she would die young, like Marilyn Monroe".

Stern came across as very flat and factual, and didn't really show much emotion while he was on the stand. He is a lawyer and well accustomed to the courtroom.

For a period of time all the lawyers were in chambers with Judge Seidlin, so it was off camera. Larry Birkhead returned from chambers with a small smile on his face. I would love to know what went on in there. Birkhead and Stern are seated very close to each other, but from what I can see have not even acknowledged each other.

Just before court recess, it was agreed that Krista Bath, Stern's lawyer would bring into evidence tapes of interviews of Anna Nicole, where she is talking about her relationship with her mother Vergie Arthur. All lawyers argued for the full tapes of the interviews, not just the edited versions.

Mia and I are definitely on Team Larry Birkhead. After watching the sad video Stern took of Anna at 8 months pregnant, I just can't trust a word that Stern says.

Birkhead Lawyer Accuses Howard K Stern of Murder?

Birkhead Lawyer Accuses Howard K Stern of Murder?



The hearing into Anna Nicole Smith's burial continued today in Ft Lauderdale Fl. All the major players turned up. Howard K Stern caused pandemonium outside the courthouse on his arrival. Larry Birkhead and Vergie Arthur hugged in the courtroom. They appear united against the common enemy, Howard K Stern.

There was lots of talking and instruction from Judge Larry Seidlin, who jogged four miles this morning, and therefore "my head is very clear on all these issues".


The Judge also inexplicably asked Stern to get up and write Dannielynn's name down on a white board at the front of the courtroom. To prove what? I don't get it.

Ron Rale and Krista Bath - attorneys for Howard K Stern, battled to keep the jurisdiction of the court and the battle at hand narrowed to who gets custody of Anna Nicole's body for burial. They both seemed dead set against the court getting into the messy area of paternity. However, Judge Seidlin is all for the paternity of Dannielynn being discovered, as Seidlin believes that the paternity issue needs to be resolved for everyone's piece of mind and he also feels that the biological father of Dannielynn needs to have input into the burial of Anna Nicole Smith.

Krista Bath complained on the record to Judge Seidlin after Debra Opri went over to Howard K Stern and accused him directly of murdering Anna Nicole!!!! When Bath went on the record, Opri did not stand up and deny that she said it, however she looked at the judge and shook her head, implying that she didn't say it . Wow. That is totally amazing for a lawyer to get up in court and make accusations like that. Opri is a real wild card!

Judge Seidlin did not really react to Bath's accusation of the murder accusation - so maybe he didn't really belive that Opri said that? We wait to find out.