Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8 after being found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, Florida. The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Howard K. Stern, the longtime companion of Anna Nicole Smith, was charged Wednesday with five more felonies stemming from the one-time Playboy Playmate's 2007 death. The additional charges – which had already been filed against Smith's psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, and her internist, Dr.
0:145:25Whatever Happened To Anna Nicole's Lawyer Howard K Stern - YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipSo whatever happened to Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer and reality TV co-star. Business beginningsMoreSo whatever happened to Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer and reality TV co-star. Business beginnings Howard case Stern and Anna Nicole Smith's. Relationship. Started out as strictly. Business his law firm
$474 millionAs the Texas case proceeded, Anna Nicole filed for bankruptcy in California, alleging that Pierce had interfered with her potential inheritance. That court ruled in Anna Nicole's favor, awarding her a whopping $474 million.
Stern's law firm was dissolved around the time he became a co-star on The Anna Nicole Show (2002 - 2004). Stern maintained an apartment in Santa Monica, California, from which he operated a business called Hot Smoochie Lips, Inc., a talent agency that had Anna Nicole Smith as a client.
October 19, 2006Daniel Wayne Smith / Date of burial
According to the reports, Dannielynn was born to her parents on Thursday, September 7, 2006, in Nassau, the Bahamas She took birth in a celebrity family. As per her date of birth, Dannielynn's age is 15 years old (as of 2021). Birkhead's real birth name is Hannah Rose Marshall Stern.
15Â years (September 7, 2006)Dannielynn Birkhead / Age
Often he reminisced about his military service in Vietnam, where, he bragged, he once “took out a whole village” and specialized in killing children because he “wasn't as tough as the other guys.” As his fans knew, Stern had never been in the armed forces—it was all fantasy, a private joke between him and them.
According to the latest court ruling, Dannielynn Birkhead will NOT receive any of the $450 million inheritance from J. Howard Marshall's estate. Anna Nicole Smith claimed that the inheritance was promised to her by the late billionaire with a verbal agreement. After nearly 15 years of lawsuits that outlived J.
Anna Nicole Smithm. 1994–1995Bettye Bohannonm. 1961–1991Eleanor Piercem. 1931–1961J. Howard Marshall/Spouse
The actor, 63, updated his Facebook relationship status on July 24 - five months after popping the question to 36-year-old Idaho native Kenna Nicole Smith.
Stern was also part of the continued legal battle for the money allegedly promised to Anna Nicole Smith when her ex-husband, J. Howard Marshall II , died. Throughout this 20-year legal battle, Smith was continually denied the money that she felt was rightfully hers, but Stern was still fighting on her behalf in 2015, according to Forbes .
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."
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.".
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.
According to People, the two tied the knot aboard a catamaran off the coast of Paradise Island. Two days before the ceremony, Stern appeared on Larry King Live, where he claimed he was Dannielyn's biological father.
But not everyone saw Stern as Smith's trustworthy companion. Bobby Trendy , who appeared on The Anna Nicole Show as Smith's interior decorator, was clear about his feelings toward Stern, and later went on to call the lawyer "a coattail-riding ambulance chaser" in an interview with The Village Voice. Yikes.
According to People, Stern's law firm "handled Smith's modeling and show business contracts in the mid-1990s.". In 1995, Stern's representation of Smith's affairs extended to the aforementioned fight for a piece of her late husband, billionaire J. Howard Marshall II's estate, during which Stern "presented Anna's direct examination in ...
In the years before her tragic death, Anna Nicole Smith was regularly seen in public with her lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern. The two first met when the former Guess model sued the estate of her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, for millions in the late 1990s, per ABC News.
Stern handled Anna Nicole’s complicated estate after she died. In the immediate years after the blonde beauty’s death, Stern also found himself in the headlines amid charges that he used fake names to obtain prescription medication for Anna Nicole.
Stern and Anna Nicole became so close that he was a regular on her E! reality show, The Anna Nicole Show. In 2006, the two exchanged vows in a non-binding ceremony in the Bahamas, just a few weeks after a grieving Anna Nicole lost her son, Daniel, to a drug overdose.
Anna Nicole Smith charged that Pierce Marshall, her husband's son, had fraudulently taken steps to prevent her from inheriting any of her husband's money. Upon her husband's death she filed a petition for bankruptcy in California. That court originally awarded her $400 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.
The drama of the legal saga was not lost on the Chief Justice. He quoted from Charles Dickens : "'This suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no two lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises.
Pierce Marshall challenged the award. However, in 2006 Pierce Marshall died and a year later Anna Nicole Smith died, so the legal proceedings continued on behalf of their estates. Smith's lawyer said that today's ruling means his client's estate no longer has the right to the millions awarded by the bankruptcy court, ...
In a highly technical ruling a 5-4 majority of the court found that a bankruptcy court had exceeded its authority in originally awarding Smith over $400 million in damages.
On February 9, 2007, following Anna Nicole Smith's death, it was revealed that Stern had custody of Smith's child, Dannielynn. Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor alleged he could be the father of Smith's daughter and threatened to file a lawsuit for custody.
Stern's law firm first handled Anna Nicole Smith 's modeling contracts in the mid 1990s. Stern met Anna Nicole Smith in 1998, after the death of her husband J. Howard Marshall. When she fought for the Marshall's fortune, Stern presented her direct examination at the trial. Stern's law firm was dissolved around the time he became a co-star on The Anna Nicole Show (2002 - 2004). Stern maintained an apartment in Santa Monica, California, from which he operated a business called Hot Smoochie Lips, Inc., a talent agency that had Anna Nicole Smith as a client.
Powell Goldstein LLP was the law firm for Stern in the libel lawsuits against Rita Cosby; lawyer John O'Quinn who represented Smith's mother Virgie Arthur and a defamation lawsuit filed by Virgie Arthur whose suit was dismissed before the trial in 2010 after TMZ Productions, CBS, Stern and other defendants won summary judgments. Lin Wood represented Stern as executor of Smith's Estate in federal action against developer G. Ben Thompson of South Carolina, his son-in-law Ford Shelley Jr., Susan M. Brown, Esq. for misappropriation and theft of estate property.
In August 2009, federal judge Denny Chin ruled that "Cosby's actions are extremely troubling, and suggest that she was attempting to obstruct justice by tampering with witnesses" and allowed most of Stern's US$ 60-million lawsuit against Cosby and her publisher, Hachette, to proceed.
Stern was born to a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990 and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of California , Los Angeles. He was admitted to the State Bar of California on February 25, 1994.
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967 in Houston, Texas. She was the only daughter of Donald Hogan (1947–2009) and Virgie (b. Tabers) Arthur (1951–2018). She had five half-siblings on her father's side. Smith was primarily raised by her mother and her aunt. Smith attended Durkee Elementary School and Aldine High School in Houston. When she was in the ninth grade, she was sent to live with her maternal aunt in Mexia, Texas. At Mexia High School, Smith failed her freshman year and dropped out of school during her sophomore year.
In the late 1990s, Smith appeared on the variety series Sin City Spectacular in 1998. That same year, Smith appeared in the tell-all self-promoting film, Anna Nicole Smith: Exposed, which was based on several photo sessions during her Playboy career.
In the photo, she appears squatting in a short skirt with cowboy boots as she eats chips. In October 1994, Smith initiated a $5 million lawsuit against the magazine, claiming that she did not authorize the use of her photo, and that the article damaged her reputation. The lawsuit was reported to be settled.
Her cases reached the Supreme Court of the United States: Marshall v. Marshall on a question of federal jurisdiction and Stern v. Marshall on a question of bankruptcy court authority.
Anna Nicole Smith. Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith first gained popularity in Playboy magazine when she won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for fashion companies, including Guess, H&M, Heatherette and Lane Bryant .
Smith was featured on the cover of Marie Claire, shot by Peter Lindbergh in October 1993, and in GQ magazine earlier that year. A photograph of Smith was used by New York magazine on the cover of its August 22, 1994 issue titled White Trash Nation.
Smith secured a contract to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer in a Guess jeans ad campaign featuring a series of sultry black-and-white photographs. During the Guess campaign, she took on the stage name "Anna Nicole".