Larry Birkhead tells the New York Daily News he has an agreement-in-principle with a television producer to do a series sharing a "day in the life" look at the biological father of the late Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn.... ABC has given a pilot order to an untitled drama penned by Grey's Anatomy's Jill Soloway and produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot. According to Variety, the series revolves around a cable-access psychologist who is forced to become a mobile notary.... Comedy Central is not renewing The Showbiz Show with David Spade — having decided, "I liked it the first time I saw it... as David Spade's Hollywood Minute" — while History Channel has picked up new seasons of The Universe and Cities of the Underworld.
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The attorney who started (and later withdrew from) Larry Birkhead's custody case has filed a lawsuit against him. Allegedly, Anna Nicole's babydaddy didn't pay his bill.... Sin City starlet Jaime King has gotten engaged to her Fanboys director Kyle Newman, People reports. Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
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In separate petitions filed on Monday, Howard K. Stern is asking the court to recognize Anna Nicole Smith's 6-year-old will as a binding document, while Larry Birkhead has asked to be appointed the guardian of his and Smith's daughter Dannielynn's estate.If Smith's will is declared legal, the document tendered by Stern left an estimated $710,000 to Smith's (now-deceased) son, Daniel, and gave Stern custody of the then-minor. A probate proceeding will sort through Smith's assets and debts and establish a trust for Dannielynn, who could possibly inherit the $500 million estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall III. A hearing slated for June 19 will consider the will as well as Birkhead's petition, which claims that Dannielynn's dad "is in the best position to protect and safeguard the interests of the child... including her interests in the estate of her deceased mother."
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A Bahamian court on Friday rebuffed an appeal by the late Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, clearing the way for Larry Birkhead to leave the Bahamas with his and Smith's baby daughter, Dannielynn, the AP reports. Arthur had challenged a judge's decision to let Birkhead leave the islands with Dannielynn, contending that he might not return as directed for a June 8 hearing in the custody case. Said Birkhead outside the courthouse, "I'm happy because this is nonsense really." Amen to that.Bahamian judges have ruled that a U.S. court will likely have the final say in the custody dispute between Arthur and Birkhead.
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After months of speculation, photographer Larry Birkhead has been declared the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith's now 7-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, a court in the Bahamas ruled on Tuesday. The ruling was determined through DNA evidence submitted by Smith and fellow claimants Howard K. Stern and Prince Fredric Von Anhalt. Smith and Birkhead had a contentious relationship by the time Dannielynn was born, and it was only exacerbated when Smith identified Stern, her lawyer and live-in companion, as the baby's father (and even listed him as such on Dannielynn's birth certificate). Though everyone involved has been issued a gag order by the court — the case is still in progress — Birkhead, speaking briefly to reporters after the decision came down, said he believed Smith "would be proud that I fought [for custody]." Stern, in turn, said the months-long process has been "difficult, very difficult," due in part to media coverage that he deemed "beyond irresponsible" and ...
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