While Virgie Arthur’s lawyers jockey for legal standing that would give her a bead on her grandbaby’s half billion dollar boodle back home in Texas, we hear a grassroots posse of internet researchers is ferreting out Virgie’s past, not only raising serious questions about her motives in seeking custody, but her ability to guarantee Dannielynn’s safety after Anna Nicole charged her mother failed to protect the late Playboy centerfold from sexual and physical abuse.

If Bahamas authorities have the baby’s best interests in mind, we wonder if social workers will be launching an independent Virgie investigation–baby at 14 and a half, another at 17, ex-husbands in jail, one ex-convicted of incest, one son imprisoned for kidnapping–and sift fact from fiction before a judge rules on her custody request. In light of what’s percolating, we can better understand why Howard K. Stern was so adamant in honoring Anna Nicole’s wishes that Dannielynn not be left alone with her mother.

And now that he and Larry Birkhead are working together, and the official biodad has agreed to let Virgie visit, and take an active role–the only things she once said she wanted–why is she still on the tarmac in the islands, demanding legal custody?

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10:51 a.m. April 20, 2007

NASSAU, Bahamas – Anna Nicole Smith’s mother and ex-boyfriend left a Bahamian court disappointed Friday as the latest closed hearing in the custody dispute over the late Playboy Playmate’s infant daughter ended without resolution. Read the rest of this entry »

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — On a university campus of 2,600 acres, with more than 25,000 students, ironclad security is not a practical goal. Even so, tough questions swiftly surfaced as to how effectively Virginia Tech authorities responded to Monday’s horrific massacre.

Why were campus police so sure the threat was a “domestic dispute” contained in one dormitory, when most of the killings occurred two hours later in a classroom building?

Why were they interviewing a “person of interest” off campus in regard to the first shootings at the very time the classroom killings were unfolding?

Why was there a lag of more than two hours after the first shootings before an alarm was e-mailed campuswide — around the time the second, more deadly burst of carnage occurred? And more generally, some security experts wondered, was the school’s crisis planning and emergency communications system up to the task?

Clearly, something went terribly wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

The Bald Truth has obtained mass e mails sent to try to warn students a killer was on the loose at Virginia Tech. After the first double murder at 7:15 a.m., and 911 was called, police suspected it was a domestic killing, a young man and a woman. Over an hour later, the school sent out its first mass e mail, warning students.

Two more e mails went out before the killer gunned down another 31 students across campus, including himself. The timeline raises serious questions about what campus cops knew and when did they know it, and how it was possible for a gunman to roam free for more than two hours before the mass killing happened and police realized they had a psychopath of epic proportions, but it was too late. Read e mails below: Read the rest of this entry »

06:39 PM CDT on Saturday, April 14, 2007

The top bidder for the diaries of Anna Nicole Smith backed out Saturday, after Howard K. Stern declared the diaries stolen property, according to Dallas station WFAA-TV and the Associated Press. When the second and only other bidder was notified he’d won, he backed out, too, said Heritage Auction House.

But Smith’s Texas ID card did sell for $6,000. The two diaries were written by Smith in the early 1990s and Stern claims they belong to the estate and should be returned. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s 3 p.m. est, and I’m watching the Anna Nicole Diary auction via a live feed from Dallas, courtesy of Heritage Galleries, the auction house hawking her two diaries. It’s free, and you can see it, too, if you click on the link, then their section on the web page that directs you to the Watch Auction Live tab.

The diaries will go on the block last, and they are now up to about #150 with more than 600 items for sale…No hint of any U.S. Marshals in the wings with an injunction, so the auction rolls on, with Heritage offering to hold them for safekeeping for whoever buys the diaries if Howard K. Stern’s lawyer, Lin Wood, can prove they were stolen, or establish title as cloudy.

To watch, click here.

He’s been a busy attack dog for Howard K. Stern.

First attorney Lin Wood demands the Heritage auction house in Dallas yank Anna Nicole’s diaries off the block for sale, claiming they were stolen. That was Thursday. When they decline, he fires off another letter today that you can read here exclusively, warning that the title to the two diaries’ is “vague,” and how the diaries were acquired is “questionable.” Threat Letter #2

Next, he drops a bombshell lawsuit for defamation against Virgie’s Texas lawyer for trashing Howard K. Stern on national television. Can hardly remember how many times the 10-gallon Texan spat out the word, “Murderer,” along with Debra Opri, Virgie Arthur and others, perhaps gambling that slander would make it true and no talk show host would stop them because the M Word makes great TV!

Now, we can expect O’Quinn to file a wrongful death claim against Stern by conjuring legal standing for a grandmother other lawyers tell me has none at all, but it appears anything goes if it spins Virgie Arthur closer to her payday, and diverts attention from professional screamers. In the hypothetical case against Stern, O’Quinn surely knows it’s unfair to blame even an alleged enabler for the accidental death of an adult addict, or alcoholic. So who will be next? Ford Shelley?

Whew! It’s a wonder Wood has any energy left for a big baseball game in Atlanta this weekend.

As for Wood’s letter, he claims the man who sold Anna Nicole’s diaries to Hollywood collector David Elkouby at his store, Starworld on Hollywood Blvd., is unnamed and the circumstances too “vague” to prove the seller actually owned them, or acquired them lawfully, so if the auction goes forward tomorrow, as Heritage tells me it will, guess we can expect another lawsuit soon .

But Elkouby says he bought them lawfully from an unnamed dude who wandered into his store three years ago and said Anna Nicole had thrown them out, and did he want them. He paid a pittance, he says, but can’t look over his shoulder at what might have been had he not then sold them to a collector named Thomas Riccio of Unversal Rarities who sold it to the guy who handed it to the Dallas auction house.

Making good on his threat to sue those who called him a “murderer” on national television, Howard K. Stern filed his first lawsuit for defamation Friday against Texas lawyer John O’Quinn, the mega-millionaire attorney for Virgie Arthur who often trashed Stern as a killer, before and after he was exonerated of any crime in the death of Anna Nicole by a major police probe and a medical examiner.

The lawsuit, filed in West Palm Beach, Florida federal court, asks for unspecified punitive and compensatory damages for slander and invasion of privacy, citing O’Quinn’s “recent appearances on 
 national television
in which he has made public accusations of murder and other misconduct against Mr. Stern.”

Stern cites one appearance on Greta Van Sustern’s Fox News s how, Feb. 21, 2007, when the swaggering O’Quinn publically accused him of being a murderer. In a statement issued Friday we have below, attorney Lin Wood said the accusations were not only false, but Stern would “hold him accountable thorugh the civil justice system.”

O’Quinn could not be reached for comment, but if he stays in character, can be expected to scoff at the charges, and we hear, has plans to file his own wrongful death e lawsuit against Stern soon. That, according to what lawyer Tom Pirtle said on Court TV a little while ago…Check out lawsuit exhibits attached.

Exhibit A | Exhibit B | Exhibit C | Exhibit D | Exhibit E.