On the stand in Fort Lauderdale, Arthur was hammered with questions about any compensation she has or would receive from news organizations for access to interviews or footage after the deaths of her daughter and grandson.
She frequently said no to questions about arrangements with specific media outlets, and sidestepped other questions or claimed she didn’t understand them.
“Have you in any fashion profited at all from the death of your daughter?” asked Krista Barth, an attorney for Stern.
Arthur stared for a moment. “I’m trying to process that question,” she said. Then Arthur attempted to deflect the attention, pointing at Stern.
“He has,” she said.
It was a refrain Arthur repeated several times in an attempt to raise suspicions about Stern and the unsolved deaths of her daughter and grandson.
“I knew she would be next. My grandson did not overdose. Howard was there when he died, and Howard was there when my daughter died. And he has my granddaughter now and it is not even his child. I’m afraid for her life as well,” Arthur said, crying. “Please, help us.”
Stern shook his head. Earlier in Arthur’s testimony, he angrily rose from his seat, but the judge interrupted him before he could complete a sentence.
“You have no podium here, Mr. Stern,” the judge said. “Appreciate you being here, though.”
Later in the day, Arthur acknowledged that she had received some compensation from news organizations. She said the tabloid news agency Splash paid to fly her to the Bahamas when she visited her grandson’s grave last month, and she acknowledged her sister-in-law had sold family video footage.
Arthur also acknowledged that a Splash representative accompanied her to a viewing of Smith’s body Wednesday afternoon.
VAN SUSTEREN: Now let’s talk about who got what money. Did you get any money from any news organization or media outlet since Daniel died?
ARTHUR: OK. Splash magazine. And all they do is sell pictures.
VAN SUSTEREN: OK.
ARTHUR: You know. And this was way before Daniel died that they came to me and asked me, did I want to, you know, sell them some pictures, you know, of Daniel and Vickie and the family, and did I want to do a book? You know, and I thought well, you know, I might think about it. And that’s all I told them, I might think about it. So I did give them some pictures.
VAN SUSTEREN: How much did you get?
ARTHUR: Huh?
VAN SUSTEREN: How much did you get?
ARTHUR: Oh, how much money?
VAN SUSTEREN: Yes.
ARTHUR: Five thousand dollars.
VAN SUSTEREN: How many pictures?
ARTHUR: Oh, I don’t know, bunch, a bunch, you know, 50, 100, a bunch of pictures.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did you give them to use for as long as they wanted or to just use them in one-time deal with them?
ARTHUR: No. They can use them for whatever.
VAN SUSTEREN: OK. All right. So you got $5,000 from Splash for pictures. Any other money?
ARTHUR: No. That’s all I have got.
VAN SUSTEREN: What about any relative of yours get any money?
ARTHUR: Relative?
VAN SUSTEREN: Yes. Like — I mean, it was like, you know, anyone who you — besides Anna Nicole — Vickie? Like did any family member cut any deal that you know of?
ARTHUR: Not that I know of, no.
VAN SUSTEREN: OK. So there is no other money pouring into your family?
ARTHUR: No.
VAN SUSTEREN: How about your legal bills? Who is paying those?
ARTHUR: Well, I’m going to have to pay those.
VAN SUSTEREN: Nobody has made a promised to pay them?
ARTHUR: No.
VAN SUSTEREN: No lawyer has gotten paid?
ARTHUR: No.
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