Sunday, October 28, 2007

A real life soap opera (Part 2)

This is the second of a two part post, so if you’re new here maybe you should read part one first.

We’ve been following the story of Anna Nicole Smith, exotic dancer, Playboy playmate of the year and poster girl for breast augmentation surgery.
So far, Anna Nicole has climbed her way up the ladder from exotic dancer to Playboy centerfold to wet dream girl of post pubescent boys of all ages. She has sued a New York magazine for damaging her reputation and been sued by some nut bar who claimed she sexually harassed him; and won. Why in hell was he complaining?

Then she divorced her first husband and married an 89 year old billionaire who lasted over a year before buying the biscuit. It is not recorded whether or not he went out with a smile on his face.

Hell, we’ve already got enough for a good book. Now, here’s the sequel.

Anna Nicole had a daughter she named Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. The poor child bears the name of Anna Nicole’s deceased husband, J.Howard Marshall and her lover, Howard K. Stern, who claims to be the father. But we’re not through yet. Somebody called Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole’s former lover, is also claiming to be the father.

Not wanting to be left out, the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, also joined the paternity battle. He claims he had a ten-year affair with Anna Nicole. He also said up to 30 men could be Dannielynn's father. The gallant Prince Frederic says, "Anna liked to have fun. She liked to have fun with men. She was a very sexy woman." Uh-huh.

Folks, I’m no expert, and as the father of three children I know doctors can’t always pinpoint the exact time of conception, but even allowing for an error of a month or more, that means that Anna Nicole had fun with a different man every night for a month. She wasn’t just sexy; she was horny as hell.

Determining the father of Dannilynn could be very important since whoever is ruled to be the father will take control of Anna Nicole's estate and the roughly half a billion dollars she could inherit from Marshall's estate, if the courts ever figure it out. They’ve had over twelve years. My but the wheels of justice do turn slowly.

Oh, but there’s more.

Broward County, Florida, medical examiner Joshua Perper concluded that Anna Nicole died of "combined drug intoxication" after taking a concoction of the sleeping medication chloral hydrate and at least eight other prescription drugs, including methadone and Valium. She died aged just 39, after being found unconscious in a Florida hotel room on February 8, 2007.

Her death came just five months after her 20-year-old son Daniel, offspring of her first marriage when she was still in her teens, suddenly died under suspicious circumstances in the Bahamas.

Her death sparked the controversy over the paternity of Dannielynn and who should be given custody.

Her live in lover, Howard K. Stern wanted Anna Nicole buried in the Bahamas where he shared a house with Anna Nicole and where her son Daniel was buried. Her mother wanted her buried in Texas. So they went to court in Florida to settle the matter, while Anna Nicole’s embalmed body decomposed in a Florida morgue.

The battle over the body came complete with weird accusations like the claim by Anna Nicole’s mother that her lover wanted her body so he could sell the rights to her funeral to Entertainment Tonight for a cool million. (Did she really have a pink funeral?) There was also an incident where Stern's lawyer Krista Barth accused Birkhead's attorney Debra Opri of claiming her client had killed Anna Nicole.

There’s more; much more; enough to turn this tale into a trilogy. But you’ll have to dig it up for yourself. This stuff is a little too bizarre for my tastes.

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