Celebrity Justice
Opri to Birkhead -- Take it Back or I'll Sue!

TMZ has obtained dueling lawyer letters between Larry Birkhead and Debra Opri and THIS JUST IN: It's gotten really ugly.

Opri is pissed that Larry B appeared on Larry King's show this week and claimed he witnessed Opri feed newly-minted author Rita Cosby confidential documents in his custody battle. Opri's lawyer, David Owen, fired off a letter obtained by TMZ, in which he says, "That statement is false and defamatory....we are giving Mr. Birkhead an opportunity to issue a retraction."

Not gonna happen. Birkhead's lawyer, Micheal Trope, fired off his own letter -- also obtained by TMZ -- in which he says, "Mr. Birkhead declines your invitation to issue any type of retraction," adding, "...truth is a defense."

Trope ends with this pretty funny salvo: Larry would "like her to avoid the expense of hiring a process server to deliver the complaint. I have Mr. Birkhead's authority to accept service."

In this case, every penny counts.




Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith


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1. Who cares?

Posted at 4:47PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Ro

2. YEAH.........when does this Birkhead sue-head stop? I'd rather have Anna back amongst the living than to watch this guy's sue happy meltdowns!





Posted at 4:49PM on Sep 6th 2007 by K.L.

3. Go go 'em, Larry!! It was so obvious from the very beginning that Opri was a shameless, press-hungry sad excuse for a lawyer. She's gonna owe him BIG when all is said and done.

Posted at 4:55PM on Sep 6th 2007 by ann

4. What a cat fight!!! This is even better than Larry v. Howard and Britney v. Kevin.

Posted at 4:58PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Snarksnarksnark

5.

He said SUE 14 times during hie LKL interview the other night. This guy eats, drinks, and sleeps .........SUE, He probably dreams about whom he'll SUE next.

Posted at 5:01PM on Sep 6th 2007 by INQUEST

6. I would be leary of shelling out the pennies after what she took him for! He probably still has a lawyer cost mistrust with no offense to his new guy. And truth is the defense. He doesn't seem to be the type that gives up if he believes in himself. Most people do so much out of greed it confuses everyone when someone is doing it being legit. Guess who turned out to be the baby's daddy again? Oh yeah, Larry who said it all along. Hmmmm

Posted at 5:02PM on Sep 6th 2007 by coursingthru

7. So Opri and Rita Cosby are friends......hmmm...explains a lot.

For Rita Cosby's sake, I hope her book is true. She was STUPID to have written it in the first place being that all of her SERIOUS allegations are THIRD HAND information.

If HER SOURCES turns out to be bad ones, I would not want to be Rita.

Posted at 5:02PM on Sep 6th 2007 by REALIST

8. Larry will most definitely need to keep selling Dannielynn to the media to pay for all his lawyers. Larry is a dog & no wonder Anna left the country to get away from him. He's the biggest liar I've ever heard of.....he just makes it up as he goes along.

Posted at 5:05PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Princess

9. Just cause your lawyer is present does not make it priveleged. You are deemed to discuss it in public if others are present

Posted at 5:06PM on Sep 6th 2007 by What next

10. I hope Opri has good lawyers that will wipe the floor up with Larry's butt.

Posted at 5:07PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Polly Anna

11. Good God, They're ALL nuts.

This circus of sue-happy, media-hungry carnival freaks. Why is the media giving these idoios any sort of attention?

I don't believe the statements in Cosby's book (with absurd nut-bag sources the likes of Hatton and Vergie Arthur) contain actual truth. But on the other hand - Birkhead is also clearly a jackass in his own right: why doesn't he take the damn kid and go back to Kentucky, or wherever the hell he's from, and live his --- AND most importantly the child's -- in obscurity.

Keep parading the kid around for the media, and interacting with the rest of these carnival freaks, and he is setting up the child to have an absolute dysfunctional life and she'll end up being as much of a looney toon as her mother was. Where's the sense in ANY of one of these people involved with this whole trainwreck?

Posted at 5:07PM on Sep 6th 2007 by sue

12. All the baby's money is going for Larry's lawyers.

Posted at 5:08PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Maxine

13.
Phone Records

February 7, 2007

5:13 pm Dr. Erosevich calls Howard K. Stern. Call lasts for 7 minutes

6:38 pm Howard calls Ron Rale (Howard will make a least 5 separate phone calls to
Ron Rale during the afternoon and evening hours of the 7th)

6:41 pm Alex Goen calls Howard K. Stern

--- This is the last phone called received on Howard’s cell phone that evening.

February 8, 2007

Morning

10:00 am - Howard checks his voicemail

10:03 am - Howard checks his voicemail

10:42 am - King Eric Gibson calls Howard on his cell phone

10:45 am - Howard calls Moe

10:46 am - Howard checks his voicemail

10:49 am - Howard checks his voicemail

10:52 am - Howard calls Alex Goen

10:53 am - Howard calls Ron Rale (it is 7:53 am Cal. Time)

10:56 am to 11:19 am - There are several calls back and forth between Howard, King Eric and Moe during Moe and Tas’s drive to the airport.



February 8, 2007

Afternoon

11:59 - Howard calls the hotel liason twice

12:00 noon - Howard calls the boat broker Mark Dekema (conversation lasts 10 minutes.)

12:02 pm - Hotel liaison returns Howard’s phone call.

12:17 pm - Howard calls Mark Dekema (boat broker) for the second time.

Howard phones the Boat Broker - Mark Dekema three more times before 1:00 pm

12:27 pm - Moe calls Taz

12:44 pm - Taz calls Moe (call last 1 minute)

12:45 pm - Taz calls Moe again (this call lasts 4 minutes)

1:15 to 1:22 pm - Howard calls boat broker Mark Dekema again, towards the end of the call Howard abruptly says “I have another call, I have to take this”. Instead Howard calls his voicemail.

1:17 pm - Tas calls Moe (call last less than one minute)

1:19 pm - Tas call Moe again (call last one minute)

1:23 pm. - Instead of taking another call, Howard checks his voicemail

1:24 pm - Moe calls Howard (call lasts less then one minute) This is the phone call in which Moe claims to have told Howard that something happened to Anna.

1:26 pm - Howard calls Moe (call last one minute)

1:28 pm - Moe calls Tas (call lasts 4 minutes)

1:31 pm - Moe calls the hotel liaison - while she is trying to call him

1:32 pm - Moe calls the hotel liaison again.

1:33 pm - Moe calls the Hard Rock Gaming Commission Office

1:33 pm - Howard calls Moe

1:34 pm - Howard calls Moe
1:34 - Moe calls the hotel liaison

1:35 pm - Howard calls Moe

1:36 pm - Howard calls Moe
- Moe calls the hotel liaison
- Moe then calls Tas
- The hotel liaison calls her boss, the Director of Operations at the Hard Rock Hotel

1:37 pm - Howard calls the hotel liaison twice

1:38 pm - Tas calls the hotel operator who calls 911
- The hotel liaison calls the Director of Operations, again

1:39 pm - The hotel liaison calls the office of the hotel’s Director of Purchasing

1:40 pm - Hard Rock security calls the Seminole Police

1:44 pm - The hotel liaison calls Howard.

1:48 pm - The hotel liaison calls Howard

1:54 pm - Howard calls Dr. E.

2:02 pm - Howard calls Dr. E.

2:09 pm - Howard calls Dr. E.
- Dr. E calls the Hard Rock Hotel liaison

2:27 pm - Howard calls Moe

2:30 pm - Howard calls Moe

2:31 pm - Dr. E calls the hotel liaison

2:32 pm - Howard calls Moe

2:36 pm - The hotel liaison calls the hotel’s Director of Operations

2:37 pm - Alex Katz calls the hotel liaison

3:12 pm - Howard calls Alex Goen

3:13 pm - Howard calls the Hard Rock Hotel’s main number

3:14 pm - Howard calls Alex Goen

3:17 pm - Alex Goen calls Howard

3:21 pm - Howard calls the Horizon house

3:23 pm - Boesch Law Firm (who handle the Marshall case) calls Howard

3:37 pm - Howard calls Ron Rale

3:38 pm - Howard calls Ron Rale

3:49 pm - Howard calls Entertainment Tonight (call lasts 2 minutes)

3:51 pm - Howard calls Entertainment Tonight (call lasts 4 minutes)

4:15 pm - Alex Goen calls Howard

4:26 pm - Howard calls Ray Martino

4:27 pm - Howard calls the hotel liaison

4:34 pm - Howard calls the hotel liaison

4:47 pm - The hotel liaison calls Howard twice

4:49 pm - Howard calls “information”

4:51 pm - Howard calls a local elementary school

4:53 pm - Howard calls the schools aftercare program

4:55 pm - The hotel liaison calls Howard

5:38 pm - Howard’s father calls him

7:12 pm- Moe calls Ron Rale

7:13 pm - Moe calls Ron Rale

Posted at 5:10PM on Sep 6th 2007 by E=mc2

14. Every time a lawyer gets screwed (which is rare) and angel gets it's wings

Posted at 5:10PM on Sep 6th 2007 by wayne

15. lets get ready to r umble

Posted at 5:12PM on Sep 6th 2007 by crymeariver

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