Stern Files Anna Nicole's Will, Ensuring None Of These Names Are Going Away Any Time Soon
Anna Nicole Smith's 2001 will—which named her deceased son Daniel as her sole heir and Babydaddy Sweepstakes also-ran Howard K. Stern as its executor—has been filed by Stern in an L.A. probate court yesterday:
The documents were submitted by her companion and attorney Howard K. Stern, 38, who is also named as the will's executor. According to the papers, her total assets are worth $710,000.
The will, drawn up in April 2001, leaves all of Smith's assets to her son Daniel, who died on Sept. 10 from an accidental overdose in the Bahamas. [...]
While the original text of the will is outdated, the valuation of Smith's assets was added by Stern, written on May 7.
For Larry Birkhead, this of course means the moment he finally pried baby Dannielynn out of Stern's tenacious embrace would therefore not be his last face-to-face interaction with his former love triangle nemesis. But just as they cooperated in the custody hearings, an L.A. probate lawyer claims they now too appear to have formed a united front in pursuing the real prize: the J. Howard Marshall inheritance, valued at approximately $1.6 billion, a beautiful reminder that even sworn, bimbo-coveting enemies can lay down litigious arms and offer "great help" to one another, merely in the knowledge that a brighter, 10-figure-settlement tomorrow lies ahead.