First it was the celebrity photographer versus the Hollywood lawyer. Then Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband entered the fray. Yesterday, the extraordinary whodunnit over who fathered Anna Nicole Smith's baby took another twist - it could have been her elderly billionaire husband, who died on August 4, 1995.Apparently it could be nearly anybody male.
| All you Rantburg gents ought to submit your claims soon; the field's getting crowded. You may address the entry "To whom it may concern." Make sure you throw a little love Fred's way, unless (our) Fred is the daddy, in which case RB is due for a MAJOR upgrade... |
J Howard Marshall II's name was thrown into the paternity stakes by the half-sister of Smith, 39, the buxom, platinum blond former Playboy Playmate of the Year who died in mysterious circumstances in a Florida hotel room last week.
Then again, it could have been the guy with the hat...
In the manuscript for a new book, Donna Hogan says her sister froze the 90-year-old Mr Marshall's sperm and may have used it to become pregnant.
Lends a new dimension to the word "Popsicle," doesn't it?
Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, who bears the names of two of her possible fathers and became the heir to a share of the oil baron's $1.6 billion fortune when her mother died, was born in the Bahamas five months ago. The latest dramatic revelation comes on the heels of a paternity court hearing - held just a day after Miss Smith's death - pitting Howard K Stern, 38, her lawyer, who claims to have been her lover, against Larry Birkhead, a photographer and former boyfriend.
Therefore also her lover...Prince Frederic von Anhalt, 61, husband of the almost comatose 90-year-old Miss Gabor, joined the ranks of claimants on Friday, saying he had a decade-long affair with Miss Smith.
Prince Fred is also rumored to actually be averse to having sexual congress with women except for money...
He later muddied the waters further by saying that any one of 30 men could be Dannielynn's father.
He was probably being impeccably polite and dropping a zero. Or two. Maybe three.
"Anna liked to have fun. She liked to have fun with men," said Prince Frederic, the son of a German policeman, who bought his title. "She was a very sexy woman." Speaking in Los Angeles, he claimed she had pleaded with him to make her a princess, but he had refused to divorce his wife of 20 years, who suffered a stroke on July 7, 2005.
Anna Nicole seems to have spent a good part of her life with her pants off. Maybe she died of exhaustion?
