A book being shopped to publishers this week finds Anna Nicole Smith — via a series of never-printed interviews she gave journalist Joyce Wagner back in 1996, at which point she was fresh out of rehab and bankrupt by an ex-nanny's harassment suit — chronicling a childhood of parental and sexual abuse, as well as her intimate encounters with husband J. Howard Marshall. In a snippet played for the New York Daily News' Rush & Molloy, Smith recalls how when she returned from running away from home at age 12, mom Virgie Arthur "started beating the s--- out of me... kicking me with her boot," and in another instance "hit me with her [deputy sheriff's] nightstick." Smith also recounts sexual abuse, though Wagner isn't previewing any details on that. As for her and J. Howard's sexcapades, Smith says, "He could not exactly satisfy me, which is to be expected, but he was very satisfied himself." (Well, duh.) "He satisfied me in other ways. He cared about me... never looked down ...
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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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