Howard K. Stern

Wait, is that Molly, the bird?

Small plas- [upbeat music] They're alleging that I worked in secret with Dr. Arosovich and Howard Stern.

The radio host? No.

[sighs] The other one.

His wife is carrying on this case in his name, and Anna Nicole had passed in 2007.

Her estate is being managed by Howard K. Stern, who was a lawyer that was incredibly, incredibly close to her.

She started working with him at the beginning of this trial.

He was an entertainment lawyer.

And this decision effectively ended the case in 2011.

Anna Nicole's estate was not entitled to any money that had been awarded to her throughout this process through this ongoing litigation of the last, like, 15 years.

After Anna Nicole died in 2007, Howard K. Stern was the estate executor, and along with another lawyer, he was representing Dannielynn and her father, Larry Birkhead, in these ongoing trials.

And actually, even though I said this case was essentially over in 2011 with that final Supreme Court decision, in 2017, some other heirs of J. Howard Marshall II were still contesting the estate in a Texas probate court.

That was everywhere in the news.

Multiple men, including her lawyer Howard K. Stern and photographer Larry Burkhead, claimed paternity, playing the dispute out on national television until DNA tests confirmed Burkhead as the father.

But at the exact same time that they are fighting over a baby, Anna Nicole's own estate is embroiled in a decades-long battle over the fortune of her late husband, the Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall.

A legal battle of such immense complexity that it went all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

So you have a dense, highly technical Supreme Court battle on one front, a tabloid fueled public paternity battle on another.

And then the most visceral, deeply disturbing conflict of all, the fight over Anna Nicole's physical remains.

her mother, Virgie Arthur, locked in a bitter dispute with Anna Nicole's companion, Howard K. Stern.

Over where to bury her.