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Anna Nicole Smith & Howard Stern Married!

Anna Nicole Smith married her shady lawyer, Howard K. Stern in the Bahamas this morning. First, let me make this very clear. I have had it, up to my eyeballs, with all this “Anna Nicole Smith” drama. I’m very sad for her loss, but I see this being drug out into this year-long ordeal.

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Anna Nicole Smith married her long-time attorney and close confidante, Howard K. Stern, this morning at 10:30 am in Nassau, Bahamas. The wedding occurred only 18 days after the death of Anna’s son Daniel, 20, from an accidental drug overdose in her Nassau hospital room on September 10.

In a world-exclusive report, an eyewitness tells Star that Anna, 38, and Howard, 37, tied the knot at 10:30 am on the morning of September 28, on a 50-foot catamaran anchored off Blackbeard’s Cay in Nassau! “There was heavy security around the yacht, plus extra speedboats to deliver more supplies as needed (including unlimited Dom Perignon champagne) from the island to the catamaran,” says the eyewitness, who adds that the wedding party celebrated the union afterwards by having a swim party around the yacht – “and Anna was wearing a pink bikini!”

Now here’s the real shady part. Rumor has it… that in response to these reports, one legal expert explains to us that the move may be part of a cover-up as to the true paternity of Smith’s new baby girl. Now that’s sneaky!

“I am positive that the reason they got married is because under the family
law in the Bahamas, if a person marries the mother AFTER birth of the child AND acknowledges he is the natural father (which Howard Stern did on the Larry
King show) — he is presumed under their laws to be the father of the child.

Look here for their statutes:
http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/statutes/statute_CHAPTER_130.html

See Part III, 7 (1)(c)

Under Part 10, Larry Birkhead can only file a paternity proceeding if there is no one presumed to be the father.”

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Well she won’t have to pay any more legal fees. But if she ever gets any money from the estate she’s been clawing after–hubby will get half because I’m sure there was no pre-nup!

Posted by Caviar | September 29, 2006 | 10:12 am | Permalink
 

They didn’t get married. They had an illegal commitment ceremony. They wanted to swear before God that they were going to stay together during the aftermath of her son’s death. They do plan on getting married and raising their daughter Hannah Rose, but not just yet. I just saw it on Inside Edition.

Posted by Katie | September 29, 2006 | 06:50 pm | Permalink
 

Dude, your legal “expert” isn’t. Had he read the statutes more carefully, he’d have noticed that Stern could have gotten the same presumption by marrying Smith before Danielynn was born, and that in any event, Larry Birkhead can file a paternity proceeding because no one is presumed the father “where circumstances exist that give rise to presumptions of paternity in respect of more than one father,” which is clearly the case here.

All this assumes, of course, that Bahamanian law applies to their situation, a questionable proposition in its own right given that the couple was domiciled in California. If it doesn’t, Stern’s screwed, as Cal. Prob. Code 7540 would have conclusively presumed paternity if he had married her before Danielynn was born.

Posted by Xrlq | February 18, 2007 | 06:24 pm | Permalink
 

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