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Deal or No Deal Host with Bald Truth’s Art Harris at NATPE

Suddenly we turn a corner near the escalater at the Mandalay Bay convention center in Las Vegas, and there’s our favorite game show host, surrounded by oohing and ahhhing fans, a fitting spot for a show that, like Vegas, depends on raw beauty and raw luck. Do we need a goatee to get Howie’s mind-blowing ratings? — Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Britney Spears Does “I’m A Slave 4 U, Las Vegas, 2001

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

To save their daughter, Britney’s life, her mother, Lynne Spears details the alleged drug-induced state her manager, Sam Lufti, tried to juggle, crushing up sleeping pills and mood stabilizers to calm her frenetic state so she could sleep, and using paparazzi to keep tabs on her all-night forays…then daring to warn her parents, if they fired him, she would die and he would “piss on her grave.” Read the rest of this entry »

Virgie Arthur Testifies in Florida, 2007, Talks to FOX’s Greta Van Sustern

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

Within six short days of Daniel Smith’s death, Virgie Arthur hit television shows to accuse her long-estranged daughter, Anna Nicole Smith, of negligence, or murder in connection with the apparent accidental overdose of her own son, and warned her to be careful about companion Howard K. Stern, fingering him as a possible killer, too, out to make a buck.

Now shocking e mails from Arthur’s own photo agent, David Leigh of Splash News, obtained exclusively by The Bald Truth, reveal a grieving grandmother hustling her own media deals. In hawking exclusive rights to cover her own memorial service for Daniel in Texas, to TV shows and magazines like In Touch weekly, the e mails suggest a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

“If you do want to have exclusive coverage inside the church, we’re going to need a firm commitment pretty soon,” David Leigh writes Entertainment Tonight in an e mail dated Sept. 29, 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

Page Six Breaks Virgie Arthur Media Deals; she has no comment.

By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

The New York Post reports Anna Nicole Smith’s long-estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, “tried to make a fast buck off the death of her grandson, Daniel Smith,” and cites E mails sent to Entertainment Tonight from David Leigh of Splash News on her behalf.

A shocking report in Page Six Monday says the e-mails show Leigh, Splash News Miami bureau chief who escorted Arthur to the Florida trial in February, 2006, and accompanied her to the morgue, offered ET “exclusive rights to her private memorial for Daniel after his drug death in September, 2006. Read the rest of this entry »