This is the longest chapter in the book so I am going to break it down into two parts because there is just too much to cover in one article. Following this article and part 2 of the debunking of this final chapter of Rita Cosby’s book, we will be adding a couple of articles to sum up what, in my opinion, are glaring inconsistencies throughout each chapter of the book. With that said here is part 1 of 2, we call,”The Blond Ambitious” Rita Cosby debunking the myths chapter 13.
One of my questions in this last chapter of Rita Cosby’s book is who gave Ms. Cosby the cell phone records that this chapter is based on. I asked that because the Seminole Nation has filed a Motion to Quash all Record Subpoenas in the Howard K. Stern vs. John O’Quinn and the associates of the O’Quinn law firm lawsuit, based on being a sovereign nation. So how did Ms. Cosby come into possession of those records? They seem to be “accurate” right down to the minute and length of the calls as well the hotel surveillance tapes, however we will probably never have the question of “who” gave them to Ms. Cosby answered.
There are a few different views I would like to present based on what we have learned in the public records and court filings before and after Ms. Cosby’s book was published in September 2007. With all of this in mind here goes.
“From the night before her death to the night after her death, there were numerous calls and frenetic activity that are now confirmed that raise new questions. The facts I have discovered in my investigation show a broad series of inconsistencies – outright untruths and questionable circumstances –, which add to the mysterious death of Anna Nicole Smith. …..according to official documents and records, court transcripts, eyewitness accounts, and the participants’ own words, here is the chain of events of what definitely [emphasis added in book to the word definitely] happened during the key hours surrounding the death of Broward County Decedent No: 07-0223 Vickie Lynn Marshall.”
Ms. Cosby uses and emphasis “definitely” as an absolute statement and therefore to the reader must be accurate. This is the lead in from Ms. Cosby to name what she claims are all of the calls made to and from cell phones. All of the “calls” made to and from different parts and parties of the hotel staff. The calls made to and from the Seminole Police; the paramedics called; and some parts taken from the scene reports included in the Broward County M. E. records. So where do we start to untangle absolute truths to hypothesis, and once we include the hypothesis, then is Ms. Cosby’s version the absolute truth? Is Ms. Cosby as an award winning journalist and best seller author on the New York Times list, responsible for doing any further investigations before putting her name to this or not?
On February 7 and 8, 2007, Ms. Cosby’s refers to calls made by Howard K. Stern or received by Howard K. Stern on his cell phone. There is an implication this is all from the parties’ cell phone records, but does not really say if it was just cell phone records are perhaps some hotel records that Ms. Cosby came into possession of.
On the afternoon and night of February 7, we have a seven minute call from Dr. Khris Eroshevich to Howard K. Stern at 5:13 PM because “she had left to catch an evening flight to California”. Could this call be as simple as a friend calling to check on Anna Nicole Smith and how she was feeling? Ms. Cosby really does not tell us what her thoughts or sources said about this call. Then we have “at least 5 calls” in the afternoon that Mr. Stern made to “his longtime friend”, Ron Rale, with the last of those calls occurring at 6:38 PM. Ah wasn’t Ron Rale the attorney representing Anna Nicole Smith in the DNA paternity suit in California? If there had been recent court hearings, decisions, filings, you know stuff lawyers do is Ms. Cosby trying to imply clients don’t call their lawyers and lawyers don’t call their clients after normal business hours. That would go to why then is Ms. Cosby having dinner with Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson with her lawyer in March 2008? If calls to Ron Rale are implied, in my opinion, as sinister then what is a dinner? I feel both the calls that day of February 7 and the dinner in March 2008 were innocent or about legal things. Is Ms. Cosby saying none of her friends call to check on her, nor does her lawyer ever call her during the day or evening during Ms. Cosby’s current legal woes?
We then have one call described by Rita Cosby as, “Howard K. Stern’s FINAL call of that day/evening/night at 6:41 PM from Alex Goen to Mr. Stern’s cell phone”. Ms. Cosby does not tell us how long the call lasted but does admit that it was during the litigation of the Trimspa class action suit.
Therefore, to me we have one call from a friend to check on her friend, five calls that day about litigation in California and probably as a friend asking how Anna Nicole Smith was feeling and one call from Alex Goen probably about litigation in the Trimspa lawsuit. So seven phone calls made to and from Howard K. Stern on February 7 establishes that day and evening part of the “frenetic activity”. In case you are like me and had to look up “frenetic” here is the meaning. Frenetic is “excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion; “frantic with anger and frustration”; “frenetic screams followed …” per wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn on line dictionary.
We have something I found far more interesting, per Ms. Cosby, the Hotel surveillance tape at 11:01 PM shows a Melodie Delancy entered Moe’s room and stayed until 8:03 AM the next morning. Can we all say that Moe probably had a girlfriend? That with breakfast at 9:00 AM with Mrs. Moe, there must have been a hustle to get the girlfriend out before the wife arrived. Ms. Cosby also quotes from the medical examiner report here where Moe “woke up and “checked on Anna Nicole Smith at about 4 AM because he had seen her earlier in the evening watching T. V. but she had gone to her bedroom by 4 AM.”
Between 9:00 AM to about 9:30 AM Moe “checked on Anna and thought he saw her moving, but later was not certain”, and then Moe was off to have breakfast with his wife. Did Moe tell his wife that there had been another woman that had stayed in the suite with Moe the night before? You know wives have a way of just knowing those things, no wonder Tas has always been in a bad mood about that day. Left to baby sit Anna Nicole Smith, a woman by Tas’ own admission she had met once for 30 minutes. Now Tas was going to be stuck with watching over a sick and recuperating Anna Nicole while her husband Moe was out gallivanting around town.
Ms. Cosby takes one minor dig at Howard K. Stern here saying, “Howard was now left alone in the suite with Anna”. Yea and ?? Wasn’t Howard alone in that part of the suite with Anna Nicole Smith the whole night before, from the last phone call at 6:41 PM on February 7?
Then we have detailed records about Howard K. Stern’s cell phone records and calls and again I ask who gave Rita Cosby these records? Ms. Cosby says Mr. Stern “checked his voice mail for messages once between 10:00 and 10:03 AM that last morning of Anna Nicole Smith’s life”.
We skip forward to King Eric calling at 10:42 AM to say he was at the airport with his first mate and Brigitte and that he needed someone to pick them up. Then we have the question would Howard K. Stern go pick them up or would Moe and Tas go pick them up so Howard could stay with a still recovering Anna Nicole. In the end, it was Moe and Tas that cut their breakfast short. Remember Tas telling Greta Van Susteren, On The Record, on Fox last summer, the number of phone calls Moe got while breakfasting with his lovely wife from Howard K. Stern asking if Moe could pick up the arriving guests. In the end, it was “Moe and Tas that went to pick up King Eric and his group between 10:56 and 11:19 AM with Moe and Tas getting back to the hotel with the company at 11:50 AM”. I just have to ask if the Seminole Indians as a sovereign nation did not have to turn over any records for this lawsuit of Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette Books, how did Ms. Cosby get both multiple phone records and access to the video tape of the hotel. Alternatively, did she get these second or third hand records from the “private investigators” that we now know work for John O’Quinn?
We then have Ms. Cosby’s book giving us a run down of Howard K. Stern’s cell phone records, 10:45 AM, Howard called Moe while he was still having breakfast with Tas, that would now be an hour and forty-five minute breakfast, at 10:46 and again at 10:49 AM Howard checked his voice mail. At 10:51 AM, Howard called Alex of Trimspa, had to be about one minute or no more than 90 seconds because at 10:53 AM Howard called Ron Rale. Here Ms. Cosby’s gives us a little intrigue to this “who dunnit” by saying “It is perhaps interesting to note it was still early in California, 7:53 AM, where Rale lives”. Well yea, usually attorneys are on their way to court or their office near 8 AM no matter where they live, so for a lawyer wouldn’t this be typical?
At 10:54 AM we have Moe calling Alex of Trimspa so that would have been about 4 minutes after Howard had talked to Alex, could Mr. Goen had asked Howard K. Stern to have Moe call him or perhaps asked why Moe had not called him?
From 10:56 to 11:19 AM, we have “several calls back and forth between Howard, King Eric, and Moe during Moe and Tas’ drive to the airport to pick up King Eric”. Do any of you remember Tas on Greta’s On the Record, talking about Howard calling Moe several times during that breakfast from 9:00 AM until 10:45 AM bugging them about would Moe pick up the guests and what time could Moe leave since the guests were sitting at the airport? Anyone have that transcript for all us to read?
Then we have the sinister part of they all got back to the hotel at 11:50 AM and met Howard K. Stern coming out of the elevator. Ms. Cosby goes on to state that; “According to both Tas and Moe’s statements to private investigators, Howard was acting strange. He was very fidgety; Howard said rather peculiarly that he had to come to the lobby because his cell phone wasn’t working in the room. Then he turned around quickly and headed back up to the room with the newly arrived visitors.”
So we know this part of the book came from the “private investigators” getting statements from Moe and Tas, remember Moe saying that G. Ben Thompson and Ford Shelley had offered him a cool $500k for access to Horizons during a trip where Howard and Anna would not be there, saying it was for a DNA sample? So with all of the money playing merry go round in this sordid tale, was Moe and Tas compensated for their statements by anyone?
The hotel surveillance footage showed that the group of people entered the suite at 11:54 AM, that Anna was “not feeling well and according to his visitors Howard shouted, “Anna, we have guests. Brigitte then said, “Don’t wake her up”.
Ms. Cosby continues about that Howard K. Stern’s phone did not work in the room at 11: 50 AM per “statements made by Moe and Tas to the private investigators” but by 11:59 AM Howard was able to use the phone just fine in the suite. Ms. Cosby goes on to state, “…that Howard then made three phone calls on his cell phone. …The first was calling the hotel liaison – twice—“, so that would be 2 of the three phone calls right? Then Ms. Cosby does not tell us whom Howard called with the third phone call at 12:02 PM, noting the time because that was when the hotel liaison called Howard back and he was on the phone. Howard and the hotel liaison were missing each other by playing telephone tag. Something I will note here that this appeared to also happen during the frantic calls later that day as Howard was driving back to the hotel and making call after call trying to check on the condition of Anna Nicole, after getting the worse call anyone could receive at 1:24 PM that day; which would forever change so many lives.
Ms. Cosby then tells us what a Hotel liaison does and that this one was close to Anna Nicole because of Anna’s other stays at the hotel the last being in January 2007. We then have Ms. Cosby spice this part of the chapter up with, “She was called many times during these critical minutes”. Ms. Cosby does not tell us what was critical at noon though, so we will probably never know why Ms. Cosby felt that those calls were critical, could they have perhaps been just making sure there was rooms available for the guests to check into later in the day for their stay?
At noon, “Howard called boat broker Mark Dekema, the gentleman who had sold Anna the boat the month before. According to both Dekema and the boat handyman, Howard had a 1 PM appointment scheduled and confirmed.” So this is the third call perhaps that Ms. Cosby is referring to in the “three calls” she mentions earlier in this chapter. Ms Cosby tells us that call lasted ten minutes at which time, “Howard immediately announced to his guests that he had to do something between 12 and 1 PM”.
Noting it was noon then, Brigitte on the record remembers; “…he asked me if I could stay, because they were going to the boat. And I said no problem”.
“Moe did not like the idea that of Brigitte staying alone with Anna when she was so sick, so he asked Tas if she would mind hanging back too. Just stay for a little while baby, he asked. Do you mind?”
“Tas unenthusiastically agreed to stay.”
The next part of this chapter will be from 12:14PM to the end of this day. This will be including Ms. Cosby’s excerpts from the M. E. report from the hotel suite, the hospital, and the findings of the autopsy. However, this time we have the same pieces of information that all of the public had access to in order to ask some very important questions of why. Why did Ms. Cosby decide to go down one road of assumptions when in fact there are several unanswered and very important even critical questions, in my opinion, that Ms. Cosby failed to ask and follow through on.
Before we get to the second part of the debunking of chapter 13, I suggest all of you download the documents in our download section of the reports issued by the M. E. as they become critical to the last few hours of Anna Nicole Smith’s life. These downloads are open to ALL, not just the members of Rose Speaks.com.
As you get ready for the next part of our debunking of “The Blond Ambitious, Ms. Cosby’s book”, remember two things, a Melodie Delancy spent the night in Moe’s room the night before this fateful day and that, “Tas unenthusiastically agreed to stay.”
©Rose Turner
June 12, 2008
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