Ya know, with *some* of the legal types, I can parse their statements and see the lies pretty clearly.
With TV people, which is what this Art Harris is (and I apologize for contaminating our thread with his tripe yesterday - it was the first thing in print about the will petitions and it was so outré that it caught me off-guard), they just bald-face lie and don’t bother to wrap any truth molecules inside.
Let’s see, *if* a Bahamian judge really talked to him, which I don’t believe one did, but *if* so, it must be the uncle of that attorney Stern “engaged” for the paternity appeal and forgot to tell him to cancel it. A bigger judge (a SCOTIBA, I guess you would say, lol) has already censured that judge for talking to the media about ANS things, so I’m gonna guess that’s who it might be.
OK. Then the Marshall marshalling - you did see that Bruce Ross said yesterday that $88 million award is a judgment they just have to collect? Yeah, right. And this guy thinks that just maybe the dead Anna Nicole will get $500 million IN MEDIATION? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
To begin with the $88 million was appealed. I’m sure Howie’s team knows what an appeal is! One of their favorite things. You just appeal and appeal and appeal and keep on appealing into oblivion. (That’s the only time the word *appealing* is ever used in conjunction with anything HKS-related!)
When *they* have an appeal in the works or even if they’ve filed one, they *always* make sure to say that about whatever victory the *other guy* won. They just laugh and say “riiigght, we’re appealing!” Then people think “oh, that’s been cancelled out.” Well, guess what - the $88 mil has been “stayed,” too.
And they are loving throwing out that word “mediation” to make it sound like they’re sitting down with Pierce Marshall’s widow and having tea to discuss whether they should fly together to the Koch Industries board meetings or go in separate planes in case something happens to one of them.
The absurdity of ALL of this is that it derived from ANS’s hare-brained bankruptcy case to begin with! Why don’t they ever go back to that? As usual, she was trying to get out of paying her bills and a big judgment when somebody thought maybe she should have included that pie-in-the-sky Marshall money in her assets.
A decade later, here they still are. The bankruptcy itself was discharged years ago (altho, it would be funny if they *could* come back on her for that one $850,000 charge, if nothing else, to cancel out the minimal CA asset value in the estate and put it into the red).
And as far as HKS being “named the administrator” - by whom? By the probate attorney *he* hired for Anna? Guess what. A COURT has to “name” the adminstrators and executors - and no hearing has happened yet - that’s what the petition is asking and will be heard on June 19.
Stern the quarterback? Oh, ha. That’s what they call whichever lawyer got the short straw way back when and had to baby-sit the berzerko client until her death? That’s usually the water boy.
Reminds me of myself in the 5th grade when the teacher made me the “coordinator” of the class play. She played it all up and said it was the most important job, blah blah blah, yada yada yada - but it was only because I couldn’t sing and she didn’t know what else to do with me.
LOL!! You are absolutely right! I got so caught up in my outrage of the first part of the article, that I forgot to even mention the ridiculousness of some parts of it! Like the $88 million ‘judgment’ that they (ANS Estate) just have ‘to collect’!! As if that’s a DONE DEAL!!
I especially love the part at the end about how much ANS’s name and image might be worth, and how much she wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe...and then this statement:
“She’d want Dannielynn to live the lavish lifestyle she dreamed she’d live one day,” just like Marylin, confides a confidant. “That’s what Howard is trying to make happen. That’s what keeps him going.” “
*GASP* *Choke* *Clearing my throat*.... Um....Dannielynn is 8 months old. Have any of these people been ‘clued in’ to the fact that Marilyn Monroe suffered a lifetime of depression, emotional and physical abuse, mental disorders, and drug abuse (AS DID ANNA)? AND, THAT is the life they WANT for Dannielynn??? How VERY VERY SAD!! She deserves so MUCH MORE!! The last line in that paragraph is particularly poignant.
“That’s what Howard is trying to make happen. That’s what keeps him going.”
In regard to that statement, I ABSOLUTELY believe him! And, it terrifies me for Dannielynn...
You are right: they lie. Far too many lies have been made in this case and the media appears to go along spreading their own. Howard K. Smith deserves the Liar of the Year award. You and the others might yet help bring down HKS. Terrific comments here like questions about the authenticity of the commitment video and inconsistencies of the time line. The authorities should have investigated them but were too eager to give HKS a pass.