Anna Nicole Book Prompts $60M Suit
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October 2, 2007 – 7:11 pm
Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, filed a $60 million libel lawsuit Tuesday against Rita Cosby and her publisher over a book she wrote that claims Stern and Smith’s ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, had a sexual encounter.
The suit was filed in Federal Court in New York and asks for $10 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages over Cosby’s acclaimed book “Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death”.
The book came out in September and claims that both Birkhead and Stern worked together after Anna’s death to maximize their publicity with the media.
The suit says that the book falsely accuses Stern of, among other things, criminal lewd acts, homosexual acts, illegal possession and use of cocaine, conspiring to commit murder and kidnapping for ransom.
“Defendants have exploited Ms. Smith’s life and death by publishing false and defamatory factual accusations against” Stern, according to the 65-page lawsuit filed by Atlanta lawyer Lin Wood.
There was no further comments from Cosby or the publisher.
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