Everybody remembers when Anna Nicole Smith died of drug related complications shortly after the birth of her daughter, and the huge custody battle over the little girl, but it seems that little Dannielynn Birkhead is doing well and a happy little girl with daddy Larry. OK! Magazine got an exclusive interview with the Larry right after Dannielynn's third birthday on September 7. Kinda brilliant on Larry's part, right? As they put it, Larry and Dannielynn "are living proof that love can triumph over tragedy."

On 3-year-old Dannielynn: "It seems only weeks ago I was bringing her home and now all this time has gone by and she's bigger and wiser and such a great kid."

On how she's like mommy: "I have photos where they look exactly the same. She loves posing for the camera like Anna, too. And she's going to be tall like her mommy."

On daddy life: "It's hard work and time consuming but it's worth it when I hear her laugh. All my friends are out in bars, but I don't miss it. In fact, I'm morphing into my parents -- I've become corny and sensible."

On missing Mommy Anna: "She misses her mom so much. Right now she's at the age where she's noticing that other children in television and in books have moms. She said to me the other day quite seriously, "Where's my mom?" It was sad but I explained to her, "Your mommy is in the clouds and you'll see her again one day." She knows who her mom is, though -- I make sure of that. Our home is filled with photos of Anna and recognizes her straight away."

From the looks of it, she is quite an adorable little girl and she looks incredibly happy with her dad. Larry says that he wants to be her shield and keep her from worrying about the nasty things. Aww cute. As the daughter of Anna Nicole Smith, I'm pretty positive that she's going to have to deal with a lot of nasty. I'm just hoping she stays off the celebrity path. That very rarely works out well.

What do you guys think? Cute kid? Think Larry is being the best dad he can be? Think he needs to stop showing his little girl at every opportunity? Let us know in the comments!

Gallery Info: Dannielynn and Larry Birkhead show off their happy life to OK! Magazine.

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It's been a while since we've been forced to look at the late Anna Nicole Smith's uber-creepy, perpetually blood-shot eyed attorney Howard K. Stern.

Thanks to the state of California we can rest our eyes on Mr. Vacant Stare once again because he, along with two doctors Kristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, were charged with one count apeice of felony conspiracy for supplying Anna pills without a prescription. The three earned a whopping accumulation of eight felonies in all.

Officials are saying the three aided Anna in her travel to the great beyond on February 8, 2007 when police found 11 illegally prescribed medication bottles in her Florida hotel room.

"These individuals repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose," California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a statement. "There is ample evidence that Doctor Eroshevich and Doctor Kapoor violated their ethical obligations as physicians, while Mr. Stern funneled highly addictive drugs to Ms. Smith."

We also learn Anna Nicole's alias was Michelle Chase and she was given methadone when pregnant with Dannielynn.

Gallery Info: Howard K. Stern and Sandeep Kapoor mug shot photos.

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And of course, this makes total sense. Why wouldn't she want to decorate her home, utilizing the interior design stylings of a man wearing an overabundance of lip gloss and Patti LaBelle's hand-me-downs from the 80s?

When chatting with Hollywood.TV, Bobby said that Michelle Obama's home "looked like a yard sale" and graciously offered his services to the First Lady-to-be.



Let me just make sure this is same guy I saw using a staple gun to attach fuzzy fabric to the walls of Anna Nicole Smith's home in his heyday back on her reality TV show...

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Today is the first anniversary of the passing of larger-than-life personality, Anna Nicole Smith. Unsurprisingly, Larry Birkhead is taking this opportunity to do some interviews and chatted with People magazine about how he hopes to keep Anna's spirit alive for little Dannielynn. Birkhead revealed, "We have a granite piece of tile with Anna's picture on it, and she crawls to it and she kisses it and says, 'Momma!' and she points to her momma."

A piece of tile? He couldn't find anything more warm and inviting on which to put Anna's likeness? Oh whatever, I should just leave well enough alone and enjoy these pictures of Anna

And look who's in the hizzy - Anna Nicole's Moms! She's always around, sniffing for the money and looking like Ursula the Seawitch. Daniel Smith died at Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas, three days after his half-sister Dannielyn was born to his mom Anna Nicole Smith. The inquest into his death began on Monday after many delays and his Mom's husband and lawyer Howard K. Stern was called to testify. The inquest was originally supposed to have begun in October of 2006, but the case was so mixed up that it has resulted in a decision by the Bahamian Supreme Court Chief Justice disbanding the cornoner's court.

The inquest was delayed again when Stern was didn't love the jury selection process because he was not allowed to ask questions of potential jury members.

Other witnessess testifying yesterday included Stern, a criminal records officer who was in charge of Daniel's autopsy photos, a Bahamiam official who testified to Daniel's demeanor at the airport, and the anesthesiologist who tried to revive Daniel. It's nice to see that they can do the opposite of their chosen profession. Howard K. Stern is SO screwed. They found every drug but Viagra in Daniel's body, and you know he was getting em' from somewhere. Hey, he was able to keep Anna drugged and pliable to keep the money coming all those years - why not the kid? Dannielyn's actually lucky that hairdo addict Larry Birkhead ended up with her, otherwise Stern would be feeding her Aqua Dots to keep her in line.

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I love that there is not a single individual somehow involved with the media circus that is and was Anna Nicole Smith's life who looks boring and normal. Look at this woman--this Rita Cosby of whom we speak. She was clearly born to write unauthorized biographies. Authorized biographers don't wear crazy jackets like that. Well, it's finally catching up with her, now that she's been served with legal papers as she walked in to a book signing of hers in Manhattan last night. The suit is in regards to Howard K. Stern's alleging that she has committed libel in her book about Anna, "Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death." Us Weekly got this quote from Rita, shortly after she'd been handed the papers.

"What crossed my mind...they knew I was walking into a big book party. It just shows you that with these guys it's all just smoke and mirrors. It's all PR and spin. And that's what I write about in my book. So I'm not surprised that they used this opportunity. This is par for the course for these characters."

Yay! Everybody's all riled up! I love when that happens. Apparently, Howard K. and Larry Birkhead are both pissed that Cosby has said that the two of them were lovers and were conspiring to split up Anna's baby and estate after her death. They don't seem to care that it makes them seem way more interesting than they actually are.

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The drama continues. Howard K. Stern is the named executor of Anna's will, and Larry Birkhead has filed as the sole custodian of lil' Dannielynn. It looks like Anna's fortune is valued as around 700K. Uh, wait - what about the gajillion she won from her old dead decrepit husband? Is that still tied up? I thought the guy that was fighting her on that kicked? Jesus, everybody in this case dies.

Birkhead asks the court to name him as guardian "in order to represent his daughter's interest in the probate proceedings for the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall, aka Anna Nicole Smith." Birkhead's hearing is set for June 19. Meanwhile, according to Smith's will, Howard Stern has been named special administrator as well as executor of her estate. Smith's personal attorney Ron Rale was named second executor.

The will, which Smith signed and dated on July 30th, 2001, before Dannielynn's birth and son Daniel's death, lists her sole child as Daniel Wayne Smith. The will directs that all of Smith's property, after the payment of taxes, be distributed to Howard Stern, who will hold it in a trust for her child, Daniel. Once the child reaches 25, the will provides they will be given one third all the income and one half the principal of the trust. At age 35, her child will be given all the remaining principal of the trust. It states that Smith's spouse is deceased and has no registered domestic partner. Smith's estate's current estimated value is listed as $710,000.

Virgie Smith is still hovering around in her Lark. She has vowed to fight for custody of her granddaughter. Because 700,000 ducats will buy a lot of Cossack vodka and those little cordon bleu chicken cutlets that you can microwave.

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Dannielynn has arrived!

Larry Birkhead is back on U.S. soil with his daughter, Dannielynn.

Birkhead just landed in Louisville, Kentucky via private jet. We're told Birkhead will spend time with his family, but will eventually return to Los Angeles.

The custody fight is not over. Birkhead must return with his daughter to a Bahamian court next month for a formal custody hearing. Virgie Arthur is the only obstacle standing in Birkhead's way.

Helicopters are circling! And Virgie's probably in one of them with a net! And some cheeseburgers!

The man with the complicated hair is finally able to take his daughter home. Larry Birkhead was given permission by a judge in the Bahamas to take Dannielynn anywhere he would like, until a June 8 custody hearing in Nassau. At the hearing, it will be decided if Virgie Arthur, Anna's mother, will be the child's guardian in the case that something should happen to Larry, and whether or not she retains a claim on visitation rights. Larry's simply waiting for changes to the birth certificate to be made, in which Howard K. Stern will be replaced by Birkhead as the father on the document. In addition, Dannielynn will be taking on Larry's last name.

Says the source, "Larry is making his travel plans this second, and wants to go to both Louisville, Ky., where his family lives, and to California, where his home is."

I'm imagining a pack of people, who are all sporting the flat-iron, highlighted look of Larry's, cooing over the newest member of their family. Things should start to get interesting, once her hair starts growing. Wow, I really just can't get over that hair thing...

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Last night I attended an Anna Nicole Smith Tribute Event at Here Lounge in West Hollywood. I'm still trying to figure out what the tribute was. I guess D-List celebs paying homage to the passing of one of their own is a completely different process than how the A-Listers mourn the loss of a fellow star.

There was, of course, the requisite photo montage of Anna plastered across all the plasma screen TV's and a couple of girls dressed up like Anna. But that's where the "tribute" ended. It was mainly about getting face time on the red carpet and the open bar. I think the longer you stayed in front of the photographers, the bigger your tribute. And that award went to the infamous Bobby Trendy, the night's host. Or maybe it was the guy who went to high school with Anna and had people sign his yearbook. I'm actually not even making that up.

More smack and many more pictures from Anna Nicole Smith Tribute Event after the jump...