• Howard’s testimony 

Howard K Stern took to the stand yesterday to describe his relationship with Anna Nicole Smith

He says Anna was obsessed with death:

She talked of death really from the time that I met her. Anna in a lot of ways thought she was going to die young and thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe. She [also] thought she was going to die giving birth to Dannielynn.”

Stern claimed their relationship had been on going for the last 2 years but they had kept it a secret.

He added that Daniel’s death destroyed her emotionally:

“She died emotionally when Daniel died,” Stern said. “She had real problems accepting Daniel was gone. She had people open the casket and she was just inconsolable and was hugging him and wanted to go down with him. For the most part, Anna didn’t leave her room [when Daniel died].”

Of Daniel he said the 20 year old was “like a brother to him..Daniel was a great boy and a wonderful wonderful person.”

Oddly he said that J. Howard Marshall was, “truly, truly the love of her life”.Sterns’ lawyers also played a tape to the court in which Anna’s lets rip on the hatred for her mother:
“You want to hear all the things she did to me? You want to hear all the things she let my father do to me, or my brother do to me? Or my sister?” Smith said, glaring at the camera. “All the beatings and the whippin’s and the rape? That’s my mother. That’s my mom!” she snarled.

Tensions in the court room ran high, at one stage, Larry Birkhead’s layers, Debra Opi allegedly muttered, “You killed Anna” at Stern, prompting an outcry from Sterns’ laywer, Krista Barth, The judge eventually told the feuding lawyers to cut it out.

The New York Post reports that at Judge Seidlin also threatened to seize control of the issue of Dannielynn’s paternity:”Don’t I need to know who the father is?” Seidlin asked the lawyers, suggesting he might order a DNA test.

Birkhead has volunteered to take the test but Stern has refused, odd as he claims he is most definitely the father.

• Is Judge Seidlin biased towards Howard Stern?

In another odd twist to this already surreal reality show style court case, Judge Seidlin offered Stern a choice of 2 private jets to take him back to the Bahamas for the night. The eccentric judge said originally Stern would only have to stay one day in court but then told him, “I like having you here” and asked him to stay til Wednesday!!! TMZ refer to him as ‘practically begging’ Stern to show up: “Please don’t embarrass me by not showing up.”

• Was Howard trying to change the will to make it more beneficial to him?

As if all that wasn’t enough, this morning, TMZ reveal another disturbing and even more sinister turn of events . They have obtained a fax sent just 6 days before Anna’s death and they say it “raises questions about Anna Nicole’s intent to change her will”

The fax contains Anna’s existing will, and lists a phone number that appears to be one of Howard Stern’s lawyer Ron A Rale’s number. Under the will, Stern was not protected, he was only trustee of the only beneficiary, Daniel who had already died. As a result Dannielynn was due to inherit all of Anna’s assets outside the will unless Stern was found to be the father.

Anna’s mental health at that time is thought by many to be at least describable as ‘unstable’, so whether she was would be deemed legally capable of making changes to her will is dubious.

TMZ asks the question was Howard about to change Anna’s will and if so does this acknowledge the fact that Daniel predeceasing Anna had ‘derailed his position’??

Every day poses new questions and they all seem to have one common thread, Howard Stern.

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