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Dannielynn $200,000 Legal Bill To Be Cut!

March 30th, 2008

After months of wrangling, The Bald Truth has learned the court-appointed legal guardian who charged the estate of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter almost $200,000 to look after Dannileynn’s best interests has agreed to accept a drastic reduction of his bill.

“There’s going to be a significant cut in fees, as there should be,” a source inside the negotiations with Miami lawyer Richard Milstein told me in an exclusive interview. “I’d rather not say how much since we hope it will be finalized in court this week.”

Milstein and lawyers for Larry Birkhead, Dannielynn’s father, and estate executor Howard K. Stern, are scheduled for a “case managment” hearing before Broward County Circuit Judge Mark A. Speiser on Tuesday, April 1, according to documents dannielynn-milstein-casemanagmnt-401-08-c.pdf obtained exclusively by The Bald Truth. Read the rest of this entry »

Anna Nicole Smith: Let Her Body Go!!!!! We Talk to Dr. Joshua Perper, the ME! Howard K. Stern Asks Him for The Body

February 12th, 2007

“I could release Anna Nicole Smith’s body tomorrow,” the Broward County Medical Examiner (ME) is telling me as a cold rain hammers his office Monday in Hollywood, Florida, “if I had a court order saying who is legally entitled to her body.”

Dr. Joshua Perper says he’s extracted enough tissue, blood and bone marrow to test dozens of Cinderella Daddys for DNA matches, though only four so far are publically vying for Anna Nicole’s daughter, Dannielynn. And…the ME has taken enough samples for toxicology tests, too, so that that in several weeks, he’ll have an answer to how Anna Nicole died, if not how she lived. He doesn’t need the body any longer.

He says Howard K. Stern is the only family member to ask for the body so far, but he’s keeping Anna Nicole locked away in a refrigerated drawer “as a courtesy” to the California judge conducting a paternity hearing next week. In fact, Dr. Perper has written a letter on behalf of Stern, telling the judge there’s no scientific need to hold the body any longer, that Anna Nicole can be buried without undermining his death investigation or any future DNA tests.

He says he could release the body next week, after that hearing if he gets a local court order naming Stern as the legal next of kin. Then a funeral home would likely take over and the body would be readied for a burial. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dannielynn $200,000 Legal Bill To Be Cut!

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