G. Ben Thompson missed the filing date the Court set of November 3 for his mandatory filing of the Rule 26 f of initial disclosures, also Howard K. Stern’s attorney pointed out that due to Thompson’s attorney being ill they had not been able to hold the required conference via phone.

The Court approved Susan Brown to represent Ben Thompson. Howard K. Stern has attorneys approved for Pro Hac Vice status, including Lin Wood, Luke Lantta, Nicole Jennings Wade of Powell Goldstein as well as his South Carolina attorneys.

The best reading in my opinion is the Rule 26f filings required by the Court of which to date Ben Thompson has not answered. Ford Shelley lists only 3 witnesses, himself, his wife Gina Shelley and Howard K. Stern. However, in Shelley’s rule 26-3-a local rule filings, he lists only himself and his wife Gina Shelly as witnesses or persons that have information relevant to these allegations.

What caught my eye was the list of people who have possessions of some of the items alleged to have been taken out of Horizons the day after Anna Nicole Smith’s death.

1. Defendant Shelley has possession of a copy of a clown video.
2. All documents and tangible items related to litigation in the Bahamas which are in possession of the Bahamian authorities.
3. All documents and tangible items in possession of the California Department of Justice as to any investigation relating to Ms. Smith.
4. All documents and tangible items in possession of co-defendant Ben Thompson and/or his agents.
5. All documents and tangible items in possession of Larry Birkhead and/or his agents.

Which leaves the question of who has the ORIGINAL copy of the infamous Clown Video?

Howard K. Stern’s filing is a tad more revealing about where Stern’s team is going. In his required Rule 26-f list of the following witnesses.

(1) Howard K. Stern
(2) Larry Birkhead
(3) Pol’ Atteau
(4) Rita Cosby
(5) Don Clark
(6) Wilma Vicedomine
(7) Stancil “Ford” Shelley
(8) G. Ben Thompson
(9) Tom Pirtle, on of Virgie Arthur’s Texas lawyer at the burial hearing
(10) Tracy Ferguson an attorney that is part of Callendar’s in the Bahamas that G. Ben Thompson is suing.
(11) Gaither Thompson
(12) Melanie Thompson
(13) Gina Shelley
(14) Representatives of Fox News
(15) Representatives of Biscayne Professional Associates (possibly the company that imaged Anna Nicole Smith’s computers and hard drives when the Estate recovered them)

Howard K. Stern lists several Counts that make the basis of the Estate’s case against Ford Shelly and Ben Thompson and a couple caught my attention.

Count Three: Statutory and common law commercial appropriation of right of publicity:

Under California law, the right of publicity survives the death of a celebrity. Thus, any person who uses a deceased person’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner . . . without prior consent from the executor of the deceased person’s estate commercially misappropriates the deceased person’s right of publicity. Cal. Civ. Code § 3344.1.

There can be no dispute that Ms. Smith held a fully descendible right of publicity
in her Estate property. See Cal. Civ. Code § 3344.1. Further, Shelley has admitted to removing documents and materials from Horizons after Ms. Smith’s death. There is no question that these documents and materials are owned by the Estate. Further, there is no dispute that these items removed by Shelley contained Ms. Smith’s name, voice, signature, and photograph. Shelley used the property by, among other things, distributing it to third parties, including media entities. Shelley had no prior consent from the Executor to use the property he stole from Horizons.

Count Six: Violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act:

Whoever knowingly causes transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer; intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct causes damage and Forensic analyses confirm that Shelley copied and deleted files contained on the password protected computers and external hard drives owned by the Estate, which Shelley unlawfully removed from Horizons. Shelley lacked authorization to access the computers and external hard drives. Shelley’s conduct caused damage and losses in excess of $5,000 in a one-year period. causes losses of at least $5,000 in a one-year period, violates federal statute. 18 U.S.C. §1030(a)(5).

Forensic analyses confirm that Shelley copied and deleted files contained on the
password protected computers and external hard drives owned by the Estate, which Shelley unlawfully removed from Horizons. Shelley lacked authorization to access the computers and external hard drives. Shelley’s conduct caused damage and losses in excess of $5,000 in a one-year period.

Stern’s Local Rule 26-3-a, lists most of the same witnesses with the exception of Wilma Vicedomine which leads to ask when and why did she become involved with Ben Thompson and Ford Shelley?

Howard K. Stern’s lists the following evidence and documents in the same disclosure that he and/or the Estate (Dannielynn Birkhead as the sole heir) might use to prove the claims.

The following categories of documents in the Executor’s possession, custody, or control may be used to support his claims:

(1) All documents referred to in the Complaint.
(2) Documents relating to the investigation into Defendants’ unlawful conduct in the Bahamas.
(3) Media interviews of Defendants.
(4) Communications between Defendants and third parties regarding the factual circumstances that form the basis for the allegations in the Complaint.
(5) Deposition transcripts of third parties in other litigation regarding the factual circumstances that form the basis for the allegations in the Complaint.
(6) Forensic analyses of Ms. Smith’s computers.
(7) Communications from counsel for Defendants which support the factual basis for the allegations in the Complaint.

So folks why did Ben Thompson miss the date of November 3 and has not notified the court or ask for an extension due to one of his lawyers being ill? Who edited the Clown Video and who has the original now? Why is Tom Pirtle listed, but the rest of Virgie Arthur’s legal team in Florida are not? Then we have Don Clark on both disclosures but Wilma Vicedomine as the lone separate person missing in one of the filings.

Could the Clark/Vicedomine investigation lead us from California, to Florida, to New York to South Carolina in the alleged attempts to have Howard K. Stern arrested and tried for something, anything it appears if the filings are to be believed.

Remember you can pick up all of the documents related to the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith suing Ben Thompson and Ford Shelley, opened to ALL, not just members of Rose Speaks.com.

In other news on November 4, 2008 Court Order from Florida that Postpones the Requirement of John O’Quinn and the O’Quinn Law Firm financials until November 10, 2008 the deadline for the two sides to file a Joint Motion to Dismiss with Prejudice.

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In the Original Complaint filed August 4, 2008, the executor of the estate for Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern, filed that this suit “is an action for compensatory, equitable, and punitive relief arising from actions taken by Defendants with respect to personal property”. However, the Answer filed on September 16, by G. Ben Thompson is stating his “Answer and Affirmative Defenses to Plaintiff Howard K. Stern’s Complaint for Libel (the Complaint)”. I am not sure of the strategy behind this Answer and the ignoring of the Estate’s claim of wrongful taking of property and Thompson and saying it is about the fact that G. Ben Thompson did not “commit Libel” against Howard K. Stern.

Many of us watched Entertainment Tonight as Ford Shelley along with the John and Jane Does he used to help him remove all of Anna Nicole Smith’s, Dannielynn and Howard K. Stern’s possessions and then had the locks changed to her [the Horizons] house. Ford Shelley’s statement was that Anna had asked him to remove these items upon her death.

We then watched ET again as Howard K. Stern returned home to find the house pilfered with a note attached to a Lampshade explaining who had been there and why.

Pol’ Atteu’s statement, in the article of May 18, 2008, during his interview here at Rosespeaks.com talks about the day Ford Shelley removed all of these possessions from Horizons. “That’s one of the hardest things Pol’ ever had to do: stand there and watch them pillage Anna’s home. At the time, there was NO establishment of residence in place. Technically, there was no LEGAL way to stop Ford Shelley and crew from doing what they did. While that was going on, an attorney for Howard, Wayne Munroe, was in court to get a court order to get the house back, which would have prevented Ford and crew from doing what they did. Pol’ was outside with the Police waiting, so even if he wanted to do something, he couldn’t. It was the most helpless feeling. And, to make it even worse afterwards and walk in to see what a disheveled mess was left behind. Once those court orders were in place, Pol’ had the locks changed to prevent them from coming back and then immediately went to the Bahamas Police Station to file the theft report.”

One by one we again watched as the media exploited all of Anna’s stolen personal videos that had been altered to show both Anna and Howard in a very bad light. Geraldo, Greta and Nancy Grace couldn’t get enough of Anna Nicole Smith’s very private life and her personal struggles.

G. Ben Thompson’s Answer is fairly typical of most Answers in federal court I have read in regards to the Original Complaint. That is except right off, G. Ben Thompson states instead of “libel” that he is denying anything in the Complaint that “implies or infers any liability on his behalf for any alleged damages had by the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith”.

The Answer contains statements of, “Defendant admits the allegations”; “Defendant denies knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth or falsity of the allegations contained…” and “The Defendant denies the allegations.” It is better reading if you put the Original Complaint of the Estate next to G. Ben Thompson’s Answer to get the gist of what each is saying. [Stancil] Ford Shelley’s Answer is due on September 29, per the stipulation agreed to by the Executor of Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate.

Among the things that stuck out to me in Ben Thompson’s Answer was number 18 in which Thompson says, “Defendant denies the allegation “…that Ms. Smith maintained a home in the Bahamas known as Horizons, but admit[s] the Defendant owns a home in the Bahamas known as Horizons that Ms. Smith was permitted to live in”. Most of us remember that Ben Thompson dropped any claims of ownership to Horizons when he sued his previous attorneys in the Bahamas, the bank, the previous owner of Horizons, and the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith [Dannielynn] in the Bahamas in August 2007.

Thompson denies all of the following: The dispute first arose after the death of Ms. Smith’s son, Daniel, on September 10, 2006. Thompson had an eviction notice served on Ms. Smith on October 20, 2006, the day after the funeral of Ms. Smith’s son, Daniel. In mid-November 2006, Thompson had the power at Horizons turned off while Ms. Smith was in the home with her newborn daughter. However, Thompson admits in his Answer that, “in October 2006, Ms. Smith sued Thompson over ownership of Horizons, and Thompson filed a counterclaim against Ms. Smith. On November 20, 2006, the court in the Bahamas entered an injunction (the “Injunction”) against Thompson and his agents, which prohibited Thompson and his agents from entering Horizons.” Thompson goes on to say he is not sure if the Injunction was posted at the all entrances of Horizons, but denies he ever had “publicized the contentious dispute with Ms. Smith in the international media, including holding a press conference in early November 2006”. [See photo with article note that Bahamian attorney Knowles is in the photo at the news conference], wonder when this press conference was held in the Bahamas? Thompson goes on to deny that Ford Shelley and he “appeared on the Fox News Network (“Fox”) show On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, on January 30, 2007, to publicize the contentious dispute with Ms. Smith.” I wonder why he would try that “don’t believe your lying eyes”, as Geraldo, said during many interviews with Shelley and Thompson. Following that in any of the allegations of Shelley going into the house or interviews following that alleged break in, Thompson states that, “[he] Defendant is without sufficient knowledge to admit or deny the allegations”.

One of the most interesting denials in Thompson’s Answer is that Ford Shelley and others DID NOT take the tape now known as the “Clown Video”, doesn’t that kind of make that tape useless to Geraldo the AG of California and others if that chain of possession is broken by “I don’t know nothing about no clown video”? Another interesting thing is how did the tape that was the dispute of Horizon’s between Ford Shelley and Anna Nicole Smith that we have all seen make it on to Greta’s show if no one took it, did it fly itself into the hands of the show’s producers in time for Shelley and company to appear with it? Thompson also, had NOTHING to do with the taking and releasing of those pictures with Shane Gibson as well as the calls that were released later of Gibson calling Anna Nicole Smith when she was in California, so who did. Thompson also denies that there is any ongoing investigation in the Bahamas over the break in of Horizons and the taking of any personal property of Anna Nicole Smith. If not Thompson via Shelley then why was Shelley at the dentist and could not talk to Bahamian officials when they came to Myrtle Beach to talk with him? On the other hand, was the investigation closed after Thompson and Shelley’s testimony at the Inquest? Thompson does admit some items of Ms. Smith began to appear in the media, however [Thompson], denies knowledge as to who released them to the media or how they were obtained.

Thompson denies that [Ford] Shelly provided the Clown video to various media outlets. So if not Ford Shelley to Greta and Geraldo as Shelley appeared on those programs either in “crocodile tears” or at other times in “outrage” over how his “good friend” Anna Nicole Smith had been done wrong by Howard K. Stern, then how did those alleged edited tapes find their way into the media hands? That leads to another question, of why did friends of Ford and Gina Shelley remember being in the “Clown Video”? Why did they remember being around the pool in the blurred out part that appeared on Geraldo’s show in October 2007 along with Ford Shelley? This show allegedly was done right before Shelley was flying right out to give that video to the DOJ of California or the FBI.

Thompson is not sure about whether Ford Shelley shared items taken from Horizons with the media because Thompson “denies knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations.” However, Thompson is sure that Shelley never falsely asserted during “media appearances that he had returned some of the Estate property to the Horry County, South Carolina authorities, or that Shelly falsely asserted that he had returned all Estate property in his possession to those authorities”. So is Thompson in a round about way is saying they still have some of this property, but he is unsure if it was ever taken?

Thompson denies that, “Stem has consistently demanded that Shelley return all property in his possession belonging to the Estate to Stem’s attorneys in Atlanta, Georgia”. Thompson denies that, “On or about May 22, 2007, in blatant disregard of Stem’s demands that Estate property be returned to Stem’s counsel only, Shelley delivered certain Estate property to Larry Birkhead (“Mr. Birkhead”), the father of Dannielynn Birkhead, who is Ms. Smith’s daughter, in Kentucky.”

Thompson denies that, “Shelley knowingly caused the transmission of the “copy” and other commands to a protected computer, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally caused damage without authorization. Shelley intentionally accessed a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, caused damage.” That is reminiscent of the USA vs. Lori Drew criminal case isn’t it?

In Thompson’s “Affirmative Defenses” Thompson states in part that, “By alleging the Affirmative Defenses set forth below, The Defendant is not in any way acknowledging or conceding that he has the burden of proof for any issue as to which applicable law places the burden on Plaintiff. Plaintiff’s claims are barred, in whole or in part, by the doctrine of un-clean hands. The statements complained of in the Complaint are privileged under the common law. The actions complained of concern a public figure and were published without the applicable degree of fault, including without negligence, gross irresponsibility, actual malice, or fault of any kind. Plaintiff’s claims fail because any injury or damages suffered by Plaintiff, which injury or damages The Defendants expressly deny, were proximately or directly caused, in whole or in part, by the actions of Plaintiff, or by the actions of others over whom The Defendants had no control.”

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We have added these two pictures to our birthday mystery of “two of everything” for Riley’s birthday party. Do you know who the four adults are in the first picture? Do you see two bikes and two dolls in either of these pictures? We have the whole interview on tape, and I did not see that even going frame by frame.

New York Post Feb 14. 2007

Smith’s computers, hard drives and digital videotapes and disks, containing all of her personal digital pictures and phone videos, were stolen. Also taken were infant daughter Dannielynn’s birth certificate, banking information – and a yet-to-be-released DVD copy of Smith’s flick “Illegal Aliens,” in which she plays a lingerie-clad babe intent on saving Earth from intergalactic evil.

Ford Shelly Jr., the landlord’s son who admitted taking the items after Smith’s death, said he had a right to enter the property – and anyway, he wanted to “secure” the items for Dannielynn. “Let’s get something straight: That is our home,” Shelly told The Post. “We were going to make sure that Dannielynn’s mother’s possessions were kept protected for her.”

The above will become important as we go through the ever shifting of stories/memories of Ford Shelley and crew.

Now onto the Feb. 19 2007 There is only a partial “paper” transcript of excerpts on this interview in the Fox archives. However, we are fortunate to have the whole video that we watched before doing this article. This would have been eleven days since Anna Nicole Smith’s death, ten days since the “allege theft” of Anna Nicole Smith’s things, a full week after the first appearance on Greta’s On The Record, and 6 days after turning over “select items” to the Horry County Sheriff’s department of the booty admitted taken by Ford Shelley.

All shows not done live are edited, and thanks to John O’Quinn latest court filings, we now know they are edited for sensationalism and not to “educate the public”. With that line of thought we have edited this partial transcript of the Fox News archives.

Ford Shelley: We got her in the middle of May, she went to the Keys end of June or first of July and she stayed there until July 18, when we moved her to a rental house in the Bahamas. While at the Keys she was there with Ben (G. Ben Thompson), his mother, Gaither II, Melanie and their 2 children.

Gina Shelley: Gaither and Melanie left the Keys and left Anna their at the Keys with Ben’s mother.

This “memory” changed since the interview on February 12 with Greta when Ford and Gina Shelley said they were with Anna Nicole Smith during that full eight to ten weeks of Anna Nicole’s last trimester of pregnancy “except to leave for a weekend trip”. So which is it, they were the ones shoveling drugs down Anna Nicole Smith, Ben’s mother was doing the shoveling, because as of now Lori Payne has still not be named as the “main person” who shoveled the prescriptions that kept Anna Nicole Smith “out of it” for that time. This will become VERY important in the March 31 interview with Geraldo, because per that interview someone had to be doing the shoveling of drugs down Anna Nicole Smith to keep her as wasted, as that interview will “imply”.

Ford Shelley: On July 18 Ben and I flew down to the keys. Ford Shelley goes on to add in response to a question from Greta; “from mid May to end of July Anna was the happiest he had ever seen her”. From July to Mid August with Howard only showing up for brief periods of time from the end of July until in August.

Again, I have to ask who was in charge of the “duffle bag of drugs” that Ben and Ford would become so fond over the next year of describing for us? Who gave Anna Nicole Smith ALL of the drugs during the last trimester of her pregnancy? Did this crew keep her so drugged up that is why Ford says, “she was the happiest he had ever seen her” [Anna].

Gina Shelley: …at some time in end August, Riley (their 9 year old daughter) spent some time with Anna. Anna knew we were coming to the Bahamas for a week and Anna said, “I want to have a Riley – Anna day”. We said that was fine, and Anna said, “no you don’t understand I just want it to be me and Riley, and that’s it, and I want to play with Riley for a WHOLE day ”.

Gina Shelley: Everything was fine when we got there, everything was decorated, they had MATCHING bicycles, matching baby dolls and coloring books and crayons. Anna had bought TWO of everything for them. Gina remembers saying, “You sure you are up for this and they were like yea, ya’ll go have a good time for a few hours, just give us a few hours we want to have some time by ourselves.

Gina Shelley: That’s fine so we went to ah dinner…

Remember during sweeps just a couple of weeks ago, Ford Shelley told Tony Potts that Riley was with Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern for 36 HOURS; however, we will give him that slip and say from 3 to 6 hours, but how long was dinner that night/day?

Just one week before when describing these eight weeks with Anna Nicole Smith, Gina Shelley had said, “We had a wonderful time. She spent a lot of time with our children. And my brother and his wife and their children went and stayed with her when me and Ford had to go out of town one weekend“.

As responsible adults did, Ford and Gina Shelley “mention” to Anna Nicole Smith or Howard K. Stern that it would not be a good idea for Anna to be riding a bicycle just three weeks before her baby would be born [referencing the comment Gina Shelley made on February 19 that Anna had bought two bicycles]. As responsible adults that would later on Geraldo tell us that Anna Nicole Smith was so stoned when she was with them ALONE, that her eyes rolled back in her head. In fact, they would share on March 31 that Anna Nicole Smith was out of it on drugs the whole time in their care from mid May to the end of July. So Ford, tell us who gave her [Anna] all of those drugs to keep her out of it and her eyes rolled to the back of her head while in your care?

Gina Shelley: That’s fine so we went to ah dinner and we KEPT calling and checking on Riley, and Riley would say I’m fine, I’m fine, don’t come get me I’m fine.

Stop the camera folks; turn off the lights, let’s read this “scripted” television show again. Gina Shelley is saying they “KEPT calling and checking on Riley”. During any of those frequent calls why didn’t Riley mention to them that Anna Nicole was not acting right, or Howard would not help Anna, and Riley was scared for herself or Anna?

Most of us who have raised children are in tuned with the sound of our child’s voice from reassuring us that they were having a fun time, to 45 minutes of hell and being scared. Don’t most of you notice a change in one of your children voices? Aren’t most of you VERY in tuned with that change? As my husband just said, most parents can even tell if you are lying to them or not.

Now we are going to change to the brief transcript of an excerpt from the Greta show, F. SHELLY: Well, it was almost like Howard was taping these so he could sell them, because he — on the tape, he made reference to — it was going to be worth some money.

Once again, a year later Ford Shelley was able to “remember” with Tony Potts that Anna Nicole Smith made her living selling video diaries. Ford Shelley with Tony Potts even said, “All of these things were done for profits to SENSATIONLIZE, for them [Anna and Howard] to make a living”. SENSATIONLIZE, meaning being something that is fantastic and incredible, to cause intense interest, curiosity, or emotion, commanding attention, “a stunning performance”, a manner of being extremely controversial, loud, or attention-grabbing. It is especially applied to the emphasis of the unusual or atypical. It is also a form of theatre.

My next question is knowing that was true when did Anna Nicole Smith stop putting video diaries up on her site to sell? Didn’t a guy named Mark come forward later to say he did edit many of those video diary tapes but did not do this one? If this was done in August 2006 and Howard K. Stern had wanted to make money, would this have been put up on Anna’s official site? Perhaps Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern did intend to keep an afternoon party, documented but not sale it. After all, to sale it they would have had to obtain a signed release from the four other adults there as well as one from Ford and Gina Shelley to allow their daughter to be on the web site “for sale” at Anna’s official site, right?

G. SHELLY: It [the video of the birthday party] shows them having a party and Reilly painted her face like a clown and they had face painting and they started playing baby dolls. And then Anna’s believing that this baby is her baby.

I have an observation here since the parts of the edited video we have all seen has ONLY ONE doll in it, could Anna Nicole Smith been in a “child like mode” saying to another child, “Stop that is my baby, don’t take my baby”? Like hey kid you have your own doll why are you trying to take my doll too. Have any of you ever seen two children “fighting or claiming ownership” of the same doll or toy?

G. SHELLY: And then Reilly keeps going up to Howard saying, you know, “Howard, tell her it’s got a battery. Let’s go get a screwdriver and take it out and show Anna this is not a real baby.” So, I mean, this went on for probably about an hour. Until…

Ford Shelley interrupts Gina so we will never know what the rest of her sentence was going to be.

F. SHELLY: Well, that’s all we know.

GINA SHELLY: “Please call the doctor, Howard. Let’s call the doctor,— Reilly’s like, “I’m going to call my dad.” And Howard’s like, “That phone doesn’t work, honey, the one in the kitchen does.” And when Reilly ran out to call, Howard tells Anna, “You’re scaring Reilly. You’re scaring Reilly, Anna. You really need to straighten up. You’re scaring her.”

Once again, I am going to say that most of us who have raised children are in tuned with the sound of our child voices from reassuring us that they were having a fun time, to 45 minutes of hell and being scared. Are we to believe that during all of those frequent calls of Gina and Ford Shelley to check on Riley they NEVER noticed something was not right? Hello, am I the only one to see a hole big enough in their story to drive a Mac truck through?

VAN SUSTEREN: How about Anna, how does she look to you in that tape, Ford?

F. SHELLY: Just distorted. It wasn’t Anna. ………..And I’ve looked at that tape, and I have regretted ever letting my child go to that house.

Ford, Ford, Ford as we will later hear during the March 31, 2007 interview, you and your employees are going to share that for the whole eight weeks Anna Nicole Smith was stoned out of her head with her eyes rolled back in her head, Howard K. Stern was NOT there. That Ford and Gina Shelley’s employees NEVER saw Anna during that time when she was not completely stoned. Sounds to me like good personal friends and responsible adults, NOT!

VAN SUSTEREN: Why do you think the videotape? I mean, , this whole party there’s videotaping.

Because we now know this tape was edited into segments for the court, and these shows, it appears to me that Greta is saying that the video tape in its entirety shows a “whole party”.

F. SHELLY: But we can’t say — we don’t know. I mean, we didn’t — we’re seeing this for the first time. We’ve seen her act different and we’ve witnessed mood swings with Anna.

“We’re seeing this for the first time”. Ford, Ford, Ford, you had this copied by February 9, 2007, you have stated word for word on several shows by now what you wanted us gullible watchers of Infotainment, as John O’Quinn said in his latest filing, to “get”.

BY THIS TIME OF SHOWING SEGMENTS OF THE “CLOWN TAPE”, FORD AND GINA SHELLEY HAS THIS PART OF THE TAPE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT MEMORIZED WORD BY WORD BUT WITH A DIFFERENT TONE THEN WHAT YOU HEAR HOWARD WITH ON THE TAPE.

This appears to me, to be a recurring statement of Ford Shelley. “That they had witnessed mood swings” with Anna Nicole Smith and had seen her “act” differently over the time they spent with her. Wouldn’t responsible parents have been a tad concern about leaving their nine year old daughter with Anna Nicole Smith before dropping her off and spending part of that time knowing about the video taping of the party? Clue to that the four adults in our first article picture, so “adults” did know the party was being taped. Wouldn’t responsible friends and adults have reacted to “something is not right with Anna Nicole Smith”? Why would Riley not tell or not think if she told her parents about her fears that day that her parents would not act like responsible adults and get Anna Nicole Smith to the doctor or hospital. To borrow a phrase from Lincoln Bains, I smell a rat here. How long after Riley called her parents scared, did it take them to get there? We know Riley had access to the phone because Gina Shelley tells us that.

VAN SUSTEREN: Had you ever come to learn that maybe the day was not a particularly normal one?

FORD SHELLY: We’ve later found out and we didn’t know it, that Anna wasn’t up (INAUDIBLE) herself that day. Anna was — Anna had — must have taken something to calm her down, but Anna wasn’t herself that day.

VAN SUSTEREN: That day was taped, do we have some clips of it…

Ford Shelly: And she didn’t understand. Anna didn’t mean it. But, Howard is a grown man, and he’s sitting there videotaping this and watching Anna. She needed help. She didn’t need that.

Which Ford, brings me back, you are a grown man, and all of your family are adults that had Anna Nicole Smith under your care for most of the last trimester of her pregnancy. If we are to believe this “sell job” from you, son of a used car sales man, then why didn’t you get Anna Nicole Smith help if not before this day, then as soon as your daughter called and told you she [Riley] was scared something was wrong with Anna?

VAN SUSTEREN: The one on the video, frankly, she looks like she’s on something to me.

G. SHELLY: Right. And it’s.

VAN SUSTEREN: See and this is three weeks before her baby is being born or two weeks.

G. SHELLY: Right.

So once again, we know Anna was at the end of her pregnancy, and once again, we know most of that time was spent alone with the S. C. group. Now we are being told their nine-year-old thought Anna needed help and these responsible parents, adults, never made one phone call to get help to their “good friend”. We are now told it appears to me that they never pleaded with Anna Nicole Smith to go to the hospital. Sadly, if they and these edited clips are to be believed they never attempted to intervene.

VAN SUSTEREN: So, what’s the role of Howard in all of this?

F. SHELLY: We don’t — I’m not going to be the judge of that.

We now know this is NOT true by all of Ford Shelley’s actions. He has been the main peddler of this tape among other things, with many different law enforcement agencies, including having three criminal attorneys and at least 2 of them trying to get Howard K. Stern arrested in Broward County. Therefore, in my opinion, if one is to believe that Ford Shelley was “not going to be the judge of Howard K. Stern” then that goes back to selling swamp property. However, the infotainment industry did act as an enabler to Ford Shelley in my opinion. Fox especially gave Ford Shelley a stage for his attacks on Howard K. Stern any time Ford Shelley wanted on and was prepared to give Geraldo or Greta just a tad more of the mud Ford Shelley was “peddling”.

F. SHELLY: I don’t think we ever knew Howard.

G. SHELLY: But, yeah, I mean, I don’t think.

F. SHELLY: I don’t think we ever knew him. I don’t even know him today. The man I thought he was.

G. SHELLY: So many things have transpired over the course of us being with Anna, that I don’t think I knew the person that I met, you know. The person that stayed at my house, I don’t know him.

My take on this is that the above statements about not knowing Howard K. Stern is the truest statements spoken on this interview, but not for the reasons that Ford Shelley and Gina Shelley are saying here. In my opinion, a LOT of people did not know Howard K. Stern. A LOT of people underestimated him. Beneath his calm laid back exterior, in my opinion, is a brilliant man with a stone resolve NOT to let “friends” like these destroy Anna Nicole Smith’s image and legacy. They did in fact never know Howard K. Stern or the love he had for Anna Nicole Smith. To defame Howard K. Stern was probably one thing to Howard K. Stern in my opinion. However, they crossed the line when they bashed Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern knew that Dannielynn would grow up one day to read and hear all of this garbage.

F. SHELLY: She wanted to be loved. She didn’t want to be laughed at. She didn’t want to be the tail end of someone’s joke. She just wanted to be loved and to be normal, but that didn’t sell. What sold is her crazy antics and the way she was. And I understand that, but she needed down time. She needed some down time and that’s what she wanted from us.

Here is a HUGE insight to Ford Shelley and all of the S. C. crew in my opinion. With this statement, “… She needed some down time and that’s what she wanted from us”. However, that was the LAST thing Ford Shelley, G. Ben Thompson and this crew ever gave Anna Nicole Smith. Instead of loving Anna Nicole Smith, instead of cherishing her as a generous friend, they have tried to destroy her image in my opinion. Not to mention serving an eviction notice the day after Anna Nicole Smith buried her beloved son. Not to mention the now infamous tape released of Ford Shelley taunting Anna Nicole Smith and suddenly going from $950k and/or a gift to 1.4 million in wanting her to sign papers to pay them ALL of that over one year. Yea, Ford Shelley didn’t get rich as a real estate mogul by kindness. He turned the electricity off twice after serving Anna Nicole Smith with eviction notices between October 1 and November 21 of 2007. What a friend!

Ford Shelley: Howard was there for both, I believe he loved her but I don’t know if his love I think he was obsessed and infatuated by her. Because if he had actually done, what a grown man in charge of a woman who was unstable he would have …

Well Mr. Shelley, you and Ben and Gaither II were ALL grown men and from your accounts were in charge of Anna for most of her last trimester. You seem to be saying here that Howard K. Stern knew Anna Nicole Smith was “unstable”, if you are to blame him, then must you and your family also take responsibility as well? What did all of you do for Anna Nicole Smith if your “shifting memories” are to be believed during the time you were “in charge” for all of those long weeks?

VAN SUSTEREN: Howard ever say anything to either one of you?

G. SHELLY: No.

F. SHELLY: No. He don’t need to, now. I don’t want to ever lay eyes on him again. I don’t want to, you know, we got to — I don’t want to lay eyes on him. And we got Anna’s funeral.

If this wonderful family did not bother to attend Daniel’s funeral to comfort their good and close friend, Anna Nicole Smith, because they were out having eviction papers drawn up on her during her darkest hours, why should anyone believe they would have been invited to Anna’s funeral. Oh wait, Virgie Arthur’s third of the church was empty, because she would not allow Anna’s friends to have those seats, but I bet she offered them to the S. C. crew if the truth be known. For some reason I have the feeling that Howard K. Stern does not want to “lay eyes” on you either, Ford Shelley, unless it is to finally recover all of that stolen booty, hawked and sold by what appears to me to be Ford Shelley and NOT Howard K. Stern.

Ford Shelley: Well I will say for the last 6 months I have not been myself and the last few weeks have been really difficult for me. Howard stole her heart from her, I preserved what was left of it and that child will get it.

During the six months before Anna Nicole Smith’s death, Ford Shelley was “enough of himself” to draw up eviction papers; mortgage papers; and have electricity turned off twice. Ford Shelley was “enough of himself” to pillage Horizons right after Anna’s death; to snatch and grab anything that might be of value to Mr. Shelley; copy computers; external hard drives; have glossy pictures made from those images taken from Horizons by Ford Shelley’s own admission. Now he says, “he was not himself”, WHOA, wonder what Ford Shelley is like when is “him self” and is really capable of attempting to get over on a real estate deal? One more thing “that child” has a name of Dannielynn just like your child has the name of Riley.

About the four people in that first picture we will be repeating in at least 3 more articles about Ford Shelley, G. Ben Thompson and family, another hint. None of the four extra adults at the pool birthday party EVER worked for Anna Nicole Smith.

Stay tune for at least 2 more hints as this day goes on, and stay tune tomorrow for part 3 of this series of looking back at Ford Shelley, G. Ben Thompson and company.

©Rose Turner
February 20, 2008
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