Howard Stern on Larry King Live
KING: This is a high-stakes, high-drama scandal. Reputations, millions of dollars and the future of an innocent, little girl on the line. Howard K. Stern on the attack. He’s here. He’s next on LARRY KING LIVE.
Howard is joined here in New York by his famed attorney from Atlanta, Lin Wood. This is Howard’s, as we said, first primetime interview since the shocking death of Anna on February 8th of this year.
It’s also his first interview since the release of Rita Cosby’s controversial book, “Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death” and the filing of his $60 million libel suit against Rita and her publisher.
Howard has filed a defamation suit against John O’Quinn as well. O’Quinn has been the attorney for Anna Nicole’s mom, Virgie Arthur. And as if that weren’t enough, Virgie has filed a defamation suit against Howard.
How are you doing, with all of your — what a year.
HOWARD K. STERN, ANNA NICOLE SMITH’S ATTORNEY: it’s been a nightmare. I can’t even really describe in words how difficult that it’s been to lose Anna, to lose Daniel, and then not even really to have a chance to mourn with everything that everybody said in the media, all of these just lies by people who are complete frauds.
KING: Was the book a shock?
STERN: The book was a shock. You know, I didn’t know that Rita Cosby was writing a book. She’s somebody who I’ve never talked to. And then when the claims came out in that book, the book really should start “Once upon a time,” because it’s just total fiction.
KING: So she never asked to interview you?
STERN: She never asked to interview me.
KING: Before we move into other things, Lin, isn’t that surprising in a case where someone does a book, don’t they usually ask?
LIN WOOD, ATTORNEY: It’s an egregious breach of basic journalism 101, to ask to interview to give him an opportunity to respond. Larry Birkhead, she also did not ask to interview Larry Birkhead. She turned her head away from the truth, Larry. She didn’t want to face it.
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