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We basically have two big mysteries rolled into one.  The first question is who is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn?  The second question is when will we see the paternity tests that Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead requested and a judge later ordered?  

Everything involving Anna Nicole Smith's death has become controversial.  From deciding where to bury the former Playboy superstar to deciding who is the father of Smith's child to deciding how Anna Nicole died.  Now, it looks like we will play a waiting game until the results of Dannielynn's DNA tests are revealed.

Howard K. Stern who is listed on the birth certificate as Dannielynn's father dropped his appeal yesterday after his legal team discovered that a panel of judges would deny it anyway.  The logical thing would be to reveal who Dannielynn's father is today, right?  It may not be that simple.

Original reports showed that the results would come down in a closed hearing being held today, but most media outlets are reporting that it will likely happen later in the week.  TMZ says it won't even happen then.

There are reports that the DNA results revealing the real father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby could be unveiled today, but TMZ knows it isn't so. In fact, we're told that it probably won't happen this week, and that next week is the time.

An inquest into what killed Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel is also under way in the Bahamas.  Howard K. Stern has also tried to prevent that case from going forward out of fear that someone (like himself) might be charged with murder.

Larry Birkhead's former attorney Debra Opri seems a bit pissed off that her hefty attorney bills hit the media.  Larry's fired attorney says the charges are legit!

"One can only imagine from whom and for what purposes these stories were started. I cannot comment on unauthenticated documents which were disseminated to the media under suspicious circumstances, and which are covered by the attorney-client privilege. I can assure you, however, that all of the fees and expenses incurred on behalf of Mr. Birkhead were reasonable, necessary, and appropriate, given the complexity and magnitude of this very high profile case that was litigated in two different states and a foreign country. Out of respect for Mr. Birkhead, I cannot comment further at this time."

Respect for Larry Birkhead?  You just smacked him with a $600,000+ bill.  Now that's respect!

Birkhead won a major victory in court today when Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer turned alleged lover Howard K. Stern withdrew his appeal to block the release of Dannielynn's paternity results even though DNA tests have already been conducted.  The results are expected to be released in court any day now!

Larry Birkhead is speaking about the controversies surround his involvement in the Anna Nicole Smith trials.  He speaks out about his plans for Dannielynn and more.  Here's the entire excerpt from www.larrybirkhead.net:

TO CLARIFY PUBLISHED REPORTS:

BILLS: I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO COMMENT NOR I HAVE MADE ANY COMMENT ON ANY SITUATION PERTAINING TO ANY ATTORNEY'S BILL.

TRADEMARKS: I have never requested a trademark, signed or filled out any paperwork on a trademark relating to Anna Nicole Smith, and the saying "Goodnight My Sweet Anna Baby."  The form was filled out by another individual on my behalf. The form was not reviewed or approved by me.

The media is reporting that they have seen a copy of the form, please send me one as I have asked for a copy and never have received it. It does not have my signature or authorization, I am far too busy working on my fight for my daughter Dannielynn, to worry about things like trademarking sayings for use in movies, etc.

**In other words, I will seek to have this trademark withdrawn or cancelled on the grounds it was not approved by me.**

HIGH STAKES POKER: It was reported that I was playing $1500.00 a hand at the high stakes poker table in the Bahamas. FALSE. I do not even know how to play poker and I wouldn't be playing with money like that in any event.

SAVE DANNIELYN?: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY DONATIONS TO ME FOR A LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. PREVIOUSLY, SOMEONE SET UP A "SAVE DANNIELYNN" DEFENSE FUND FOR ME (AGAIN WITHOUT MY AUTHORIZATION) AND SOME INDIVIDUALS SENT IN DONATIONS BEFORE THE  "FUND" WAS DISCOVERED BY ME AND I DEMANDED THAT PERSON  WHO INITIATED THE FUND TO IMMEDIATELY CEASE ANY UNAUTHORIZED COLLECTION ON MY BEHALF.***

YOUR WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH.

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MANY THANKS TO MY ATTORNEYS EMERICK KNOWLES, OF ALEXIOU KNOWLES & Co., AND SUSAN BROWN AND NANCY HASS FOR ALL OF THEIR ETHICAL HARD WORK, THEY ARE VERY FAIR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LOOKING OUT FOR NOT ONLY ME, BUT MY DAUGHTER' S BEST INTEREST AS WELL.

LARRY BIRKHEAD

A panel of judges in the Bahamas has laid down the law with Anna Nicole Smith's most recent companion Howard K. Stern ordering him to pay $10,000. 

Stern appealed a judge's decision to test the paternity of Anna Nicole's daughter Dannielynn, but on Monday morning a panel of three judges planned to deny that appeal.  As a result Howard and his attorney made a last minute decision to drop the appeal.

Not only did the judges say that the paternity test involving Dannielynn and Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will go forward, but they also told Howard that he owes Larry some money. 

According to TMZ.com, the judges ordered that Stern pay $5,000 to cover Birkhead's legal fees and $5,000 to cover legal fees for the Registar General.

The DNA tests are expected to be revealed in court one day this week.

It seems as though Anna Nicole Smith will keep helping our ecomony as long as the drama continues.  Her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead just got a $620,492.84 bill from his former attorney Debra Opri.

Birkhead, of course, has been involved in several legal battles since Anna Nicole died including the paternity battle against Howard K. Stern over Smith's daughter Dannielynn, custody of the little girl and the battle over where Anna Nicole Smith would lay to rest.  I bet he never thought it would cost over a half million bucks.

• According to TMZ, Opril billed out her services at $475 an hour with over 112 pages of invoices.  Oh, and evidently this woman can eat!
• A total of three $1,500 monthly charges for Luck Media & Marketing, Opri's personal publicist.
• On March 1, 2007, the day before Anna's funeral, there is a charge of 10 hours for "preparation for and attendance in Bahamas re services and var. meetings re same." On the day of Anna's funeral, there is another 10 hour charge with the exact same language.
• On February 24, 2007, while Opri and Birkhead stayed at a private residence in Ft. Lauderdale during the Florida hearing, Opri billed $600 for Seafood World. TMZ were told she brought four trays of lobster to the house. The bill says, "Dinner gift/Ft. Lauderdale house stay." But it was no gift to Larry. That same day, she billed $211 for items at Publix grocery store.
• Opri billed Birkhead $4,265 for Cingular roaming service while she was in the Bahamas.
• Opri billed Birkhead 18 times for Diva Limos that took them to and from the Ft. Lauderdale courthouse to the private residence.
• October 22, 2006, Opri billed Birkhead $1,116.16 for a dinner at Graycliff, a restaurant in Nassau. The note next to the charge is "Alexiou atty mtg." Alexiou is Birkhead's lawyer in the Bahamas. Birkhead was not present.\
• The next day, October 23, Opri billed $2,467.75 at Graycliff restaurant for another meal. The charge again was for "Alexiou atty mtg." Again, Birkhead was not present.
• Also on October 23, Birkhead was billed $25.75. The item -- "laundry service Zawacki." Zawacki is Opri's husband, who was present on the trip.

TMZ called Opri's high priced publicist James Levesque with Luck Media & Marketing. He said, "Debra Opri always gets paid. That's what she does for a living."  Wow, a bit cocky huh?

No one has been able to reach Opri herself for comment.  Birkhead fired Opri on March 16th after the two realized they don't see eye-to-eye.

This could be the missing piece of evidence needed to tag Howard K. Stern with the blame for killing Anna Nicole Smith. 

The Broward County Medical Examiner confirmed that none of the 11 drugs that were found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room were prescribed to Anna.

As it turns out, 8 of the 11 drugs found were prescribed to her most recent companion, Howard K. Stern.  Two of the others were prescribed to Alex Katz (anyone know who this is?) and one was prescribed to Smith's psychiatrist and traveling buddy, Khristine Eroshevich.  The even crazier thing is that Dr. Eroshevich wrote all 11 prescriptions!!!

The prescription that likely killed Anna Nicole, chloral hydrate, was prescribed to Stern.  Even more interesting, it was found in a duffel bag inside the hotel room where Smith died.

As Fox News' Greta Van Susteren questioned, if Anna Nicole was too weak to get out of bed before dying, then how did she get up and dig through a duffle bag to chug the chloral hydrate?

According to TMZ, Van Susteren pressed the medical examiner Dr. Joshua Perper for an answer.  The ME said he asked Stern, Eroshevich and the bodyguard if they gave her the drugs to which they said they did not.

What?!  Did you kill this lady?  No.  Did you?  No.  What about you?  No.  And you're the father of her baby?  Yes.  Ok, problem solved.  Accidental suicide.

This is really starting to get ridiculous!  Dr. Pepper Perper definitely took the easy way out, and it is very possible that the inquest to find out how Daniel Smith died may reveal who or what killed his mother as well. 

Poor, poor Dannielynn.  What a life this kid will have to lead even if Larry Birkhead is her real father.

Anna Nicole Smith's legacy continues to live on in the court rooms as the dust continues to settle following the Playboy pin-up's untimely death on Feb. 8 in Hollywood, Fla. 

The week opened up with news of Anna Nicole's cause of death.  Taking the easy way out, Florida medical examiners declared that Smith died of an accidental overdose.  They also said they found at least 9 drugs in her system, and that they did not suspect any foul play.

Her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead seems to be pretty confident that he is Anna Nicole's baby's daddy.  TMZ.com caught Larry at a Baby Gap in Miami buying clothes for Dannielynn.  Larry also did something that threw me off a little when he trademarked the phrase "Goodnight, My Sweet Anna Baby" to use it in movies, books, TV programs, Internet programs and stage plays.  That's the  statement he says Anna Nicole Smith used to ask him to tell her when he tucked her into her methadone dreams at night.   

Anna Nicole's most recent companion Howard K. Stern insists that he is Dannielynn's father and says that Larry Birkhead has his days wrong.   Filing an appeal to prevent Dannielynn's paternity tests from ever being released, Stern claimed that Birkhead has mis-calculated his dates thus there is no way he is the father.  This will likely put this case on hold past the scheduled April 3rd hearing scheduled to reveal the DNA results.

Howard K. Stern is also to blame for stalling the case investigating Daniel Smith's death in the Bahamas.  Stern's attorney Wayne Munroe first challenged the use of the jury in the inquiry, but a judge promptly knocked that down.  Now Stern has everything on hold pending a Bahamian Supreme Court ruling on whether or not the jurors should have to complete questionnaires before being finalized. 

I have said it before, and I'll say it again -- what does Howard K. Stern have to hide?  If he is Dannielynn's father, then he shouldn't be worried to prove it with a paternity test.  If he didn't kill Daniel Smith then the shouldn't be worried that jury could consider his death a homicide.  If he has nothing to hide, he shouldn't be filing all of these appeals.  I am not saying Howard K. Stern killed Daniel or Anna Nicole Smith, but I will tell you that he is acting like a guilty man.

He even released a statement on Monday saying that Anna Nicole refused medical attention before dying.  Who would release such a statement about your dead wife?  Someone who was you married for all the wrong reasons possibly?

Meanwhile, Anna Nicole's estranged mother Virgie Arthur has been in the court room every day.

Not only does Howard K. Stern want to draw out the inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel, but he also wants to draw out her daughter Dannielynn's paternity test too.

Stern has filed an appeal to a court ordered mandate that would reveal paternity tests taken last week.  Stern followed his instructions from a judge to take Dannielynn for DNA testing, and Larry Birkhead (likely to be the real father) did the same.  The results are evidently available, and someone in a blood lab in Ohio probably knows who the father is.  It doesn't look like we'll find out any time soon.

Stern doesn't believe that a paternity test is needed, because he says he is the father.  Again, Howard K. Stern thinks he is above the law.

If he didn't kill Daniel, and if he is Dannielynn's real father ... then he shouldn't have anything to hide.  Howard K. Stern is definitely acting like a man with something to hide, not someone who loved Anna Nicole Smith unconditionally.

Stern's latest appeal will likely delay the April 3rd hearing where the results are scheduled to be revealed.  Larry Birkhead, Prince Frederick Von Anhalt (Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby)and Howard K. Stern all say they are the father of the 6-month old little girl.  Anna Nicole's estranged mother Virgie Arthur says she may also seek custody of Dannielynn pending the results of the paternity tests.

Howard K. Stern, representing the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, has once again stalled the inquest into the death of Smith's son Daniel.

Stern seems to be very concerned about using a jury since they would be able to recommend prosecution if they decide that Daniel Smith's death was a homicide.  Today Stern's attorney, Wayne Munroe, made a motion to halt the trial until the Bahamian Supreme court has ruled on whether or not each juror should fill out a questionnaire to guage any bias.

Earlier this week, Howard put the trial on hold by challenging the use of a jury altogether.  Stern must be super delusional because hearing this inquest without a jury would go against 300 years of Common Law Tradition. 

This stalling seems a lot like the actions of man guilty of murder.  What always makes Howard K. Stern think he is above the law?

The judge and jury are expected to hear 40 witnesses, two of which are nannies who will testify that Anna Nicole Smith was overheard blaming Howard K. Stern for Daniel's death.  This alone to could turn this into a homicide and put Stern behind bars.

Anna Nicole's estranged mother Virgie Arthur isn't expected to testify, but she says won't miss a day of the trial.  She is also starting to get fed up with Stern's stalling.

"I'm very disappointed with the delay tactics they are using," Virgie told reporters as she left the court. "But I'll be here every day. I'll be here until the end."

This isn't the only case involving Stern and Arthur.  Anna Nicole's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead is challenging Stern's paternity of Anna Nicole's daughter Dannielynn, but Howard keeps stalling that case too.

The inquest into how Daniel Wayne Smith died is expected to resume on Thursday bringing the circus back to the Bahamas.  Most of the players in the Anna Nicole Smith saga plan to witness or will be on hand to observe.  Anna Nicole Smith will even testify from her grave.

Anna Nicole's lawyer turned companion Howard K. Stern and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will both likely testify that Daniel Smith had a problem with drugs.

Two of Anna Nicole's nannies are expected to testify saying they heard her blaming Howard for Daniel's death.  One of Anna Nicole's former friends Ford Shelly is expected to testify saying he saw Stern removing drugs from Daniel's pockets after he died.

One of the witnesses on the list is even dead.  Daniel's mother Anna Nicole Smith was expected to be a key witness in the inquest, but since she is dead - the court will hear a statement that Anna Nicole gave police after Daniel died.

The case is currently onhold after Howard K. Stern requested that no jury become involved in the investigation.  It will likely resume Thursday morning.