Jan 01, 2020 · Likewise, how much did Anna Nicole Smith get? 5, ... The attorney turned quasi-husband of the late reality TV star and Playboy pinup has resurfaced with a new job in Los Angeles. Remember Howard K. The lawyer turned quasi-husband of reality TV star and Playboy pinup Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007, has resurfaced with a new job. ...
Nov 12, 2020 · After Anna Nicole Smith's death, Howard K. Stern became the executor of her estate, which included her California home worth nearly $2 million. Though he told Fox News in 2011, that Larry Birkhead ...
The bankruptcy court sided with Anna Nicole and agreed that Pierce had tried to cheat her out of Howard's money. The court awarded her $474 million, …
May 30, 2013 · Breaking News. 5/30/2013 12:45 PM PT. The legal battle has raged for more than a decade ... but Anna Nicole Smith 's estate may finally see a piece of the Playboy legend's millionaire dead husband ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 39 on February 8, 2007 — 19 days before her planned wedding with her personal lawyer, Howard K. Stern, 52. They had a non-binding commitment ceremony on September 28, 2006 — three weeks after the birth of Smith's daughter Dannielynn, 15, and the death of her 20-year-old son ...
According to Today, the former model died of an "accidental overdose" of at least nine prescription drugs. She'd been extremely ill, suffering from a stomach flu, and had been mixing medications for that as well as meds for "anxiety, depression and insomnia." Her refusal to go to the hospital is what ultimately lead to her demise, but according to a statement by Stern's lawyers, Smith stayed put, because "she did not want the media frenzy that follows her."
While this might surprise many people who followed the paternity suit, which seemed to portray a rivalry between the two, Birkhead claims that couldn't be further from the truth. He said, "I think people think that because of all the craziness that went down ... that he and I are arch-rivals ... I was just looking out for my daughter, so to have any grudges beyond that would mean there were some other intention on my behalf.
By the time The Anna Nicole Show premiered in 2002, the law firm Stern co-founded had been dissolved, and he had moved on to a new venture — a talent agency he founded called Hot Smoochie Lips, Inc. Smith was his only client. According to The Guardian, this was "an effort to represent every aspect of [Smith's] life himself.".
News, which he said was not related to "the appropriateness of the medication.". Stern claimed that he arranged for the prescriptions to be in his name "to protect Anna Nicole's privacy and it was nothing more than that.".
After Anna Nicole Smith's death, Howard K. Stern became the executor of her estate, which included her California home worth nearly $2 million. Though he told Fox News in 2011, that Larry Birkhead would "probably become [the estate's] sole administrator," as of 2013, Stern was still seemingly very much in charge.
Uncle Howard? Nearly ten years after Anna Nicole Smith's death, Access Hollywood Live reported that Howard K. Stern had made sure to stay in Dannielynn's life. Even though he is no longer playing the father role, Stern is known to Dannielynn as a good friend of her mother's.
Though Howard K. Stern was listed as the father on Dannielynn's birth certificate, that never stopped Larry Birkhead from firmly believing he was the girl's father. According to CNN, Birkhead and Stern "began battling in Bahamian courts" over the matter shortly after Stern fought another ugly legal showdown over where Anna Nicole Smith's body was to be laid at rest. A court-ordered DNA test later proved that Birkhead is Dannielynn's biological father. Regardless of what Smith's intentions were when he chose to tell the world he was the father, this was likely another devastating blow for him after losing his longtime friend and lover.
The bankruptcy court sided with Anna Nicole and agreed that Pierce had tried to cheat her out of Howard's money. The court awarded her $474 million, nearly half a billion dollars. That claim was appealed to the U.S. District Court in California, which again sided with Anna Nicole, but reduced the award to $88 million.
Anna Nicole is survived by her 5-month-old baby daughter, Dannielynn Hope, born in the Bahamas three days before her 20-year-old son died from a drug overdose. Anna Nicole named her lawyer, Howard K. Stern on the birth certificate. But a former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, claims he is the biological father.
Pierce jumped into her bankruptcy case trying to prevent her from discharging her debt to him in bankruptcy. He alleged that Anna Nicole owed him money for defaming him when she accused him of fraud and of trying to cheat her out of her inheritance. Anna Nicole answered his claim by asserting truth as a defense.
If she had a will, it may be invalid if she left everything to her son Daniel who predeceased her and was written before Dannielynn Hope was born . If Stern turns out to be her executor and sole beneficiary, the will may be invalid if he exerted undue influence over her and she was coerced into leaving him everything.
If she had no will, a court will distribute her assets according to the law of intestate succession in the place of her domicile. But it is unclear where she was domiciled. One can have many residences but only one domicile. Was she domiciled in the Bahamas? Or was she residing in the Bahamas but domiciled in the U.S.? Just as she battled for J. Howard Marshall's money, so will there be a battle for hers.
But paternity of Dannielynn does not determine custody, nor does custody determine inheritance. As for the child, the court first has to establish paternity before it decides custody. And which court has jurisdiction over paternity and custody is an issue.
Ironically, the California court did order the Florida medical examiner to preserve the body for ten days, until February 20, when the court will hold a further hearing. (In yet another odd twist, the Medical Examiner completed his autopsy, but was unable to determine the cause of death without further testing.
Stern didn't contest the custody ruling and even helped Birkhead get sole custody. The lawyer's main concern was to make sure that Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, didn't get custody of Dannielynn. "As long as I have one breath left in my body, that woman will not see Dannielynn," he said. "Anna despised the woman, just despised that woman."
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She then sued for half of his trust and was awarded $474 million before it went back to the courts in a number of appeals.
Smith continued to drag the case through the courts, until Anna Nicole died in 2007, bankrupt, from a drug overdose.
Since Anna Nicole is dead, this means her sole heir, daughter Dannielynn, gets no money from this 15-year-old case. Four-year-old Dannielynn is being raised by her father, Larry Birkhead. Last year he auctioned off some of Anna Nicole Smith’s things, including a 1992 Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster and a dog bed, for money to raise his daughter.
Anna Nicole Smith gets no money from ex-husband’s fortune, says court. It has taken 15 years for a decision to be made, however, the Supreme Court today ruled that Anna Nicole Smith ’s estate gets not one single penny of J. Howard Marshall’s $1.6 billion fortune.
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