What Happened To Anna Nicole Smith's Lawyer Howard K. Stern? It was also reported that he was attending a training program for public defenders in downtown L.A. 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.
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.
He was the domestic partner, attorney and agent of the late model Anna Nicole Smith. He became known as a co-star on Smith's 2002–2004 reality television series The Anna Nicole Show. He currently works with the Los Angeles Public Defender's Office.
On April 10, 2007, a Bahamian court determined from DNA evidence presented by court-appointed DNA expert that Larry Birkhead is the father of Dannielynn. Stern announced that he would not contest the ruling and would help Birkhead obtain sole custody.
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 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.
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. 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 ...
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.
Anna Nicole Smith, a former Playboy Playmate, married J. Howard Smith (who was 60 years her senior) in 1994, about a year before his death. Although he gave her money and gifts during their marriage she was not included in his will.