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By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

As we close out the year, we came across one of the 2007 turning points in the ugly Anna Nicole wars: Rita Cosby popped with a $60 million libel suit that raises serious questions about journalistic standards in the era of 24/7 cable news and the reporting of an Emmy award winner.

It happened outside a New York restaurant hosting a book party for Blonde Ambition, a so called expose that lead to Howard K. Stern’s lawsuit after Cosby detailed a purported gay tryst on tape between the Anna Nicole Smith executor and Larry Birkhead both men deny…

…A third-hand sex story Cosby concedes, under oath, that came from Virgie Arthur’s private investigators, and that she never spoke directly to the purported eye witnesses, Anna Nicole’s Haitian nannies, who deny the yarn, or eyeballed the mystery tape that has yet to turn up. Read the rest of this entry »

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida

By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

When Howard K. Stern tried to subpoena all police records related to the death of Anna Nicole Smith in the files of the Seminole Tribe of Hollywood, Florida, he didn’t get very far.

On December 28, the tribe filed an emergency motion –obtained exclusively by The Bald Truth — to quash Stern’s request for records to use in his defamation case against a Texas lawyer who called him a murderer on national TV.

And his lawyer, Lin Wood, learned a quick lesson that classic civil litigation rules rarely apply on tribal lands, where the ex Playboy centerfold died of an accidental overdose at the Hardrock Hotel & Casino in Feb. 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

No one ever accused Houston lawyer John O’Quinn of being stingy when it comes to worthy causes.

Despite some who view at least one pro-bono client less deserving than his other charitable endeavors, The Bald Truth wanted to applaud the legendary litigator for generous pockets in his $300,000 gift to a pioneerng Texas School dedicted to helping childen with autism, bipolar disorder and other hard-to-crack issues that limit their ability to learn and function in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Don Clark, former Head of FBI, Houston, now private investigator

By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

What did he know and when did he know it?

That’s what former FBI-agent Don Clark-turned-Virgie Arthur PI may be asked when he faces Lin Wood, the attorney for Howard K. Stern. A deposition scheduled for Wednesday in Houston was postponed over attorney scheduling conficts and will go forward early next year, we’ve learned. When it does, he’s likely to be asked, just what was his role, if any, in Rita Cosby’s book accusing Stern and Larry Birkhead of a gay tryst on tape both deny and no one has produced?

Clark claims no part in the book, though Cosby says otherwise. Read the rest of this entry »