Howard Stern Claims Anna Nicole Smith Diaries Were Stolen

Posted on April 13, 2007

An auction planned for Saturday of two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s will go on despite a claim by her lawyer-turned-partner, Howard K. Stern, that they’re stolen property.
Stern wants the diaries returned to her estate.

In a letter to Doug Norwine, the director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, an attorney for Stern wrote that the diaries were stolen and therefore belong to him.
“On behalf of the estate, Mr. Stern hereby requests that the diaries be returned to him immediately,” the attorney, L. Lin Wood, wrote in the letter Wednesday.
The auction house obtained the journals, as well as a $16,954.66 receipt from a Bloomingdale’s shopping spree in 1992, a signed bank check from Smith and her 1994 Texas photo ID card, from an anonymous German businessman who purchased the items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago.
Norwine said he [...]

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