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.




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16. 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

17. What a beeeeg mess. Anna Nicole Smith was an avowed bi-sexual. read the book, Great big beautiful doll and get a load of the whole mess. Birds of a feather flock together. Birkhead and Stern are probably bi-sexual just like their former partner.

Posted at 5:15PM on Sep 6th 2007 by mimi

18.
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

19. Looks like OPRI is running scared regarding Rita's new book.

You shouldn't be a media-whoring attorney.. STICK WITH THE LEGALITIES!.

You don't look good on TV anyways!

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

20. Rita & Opri earn their money by working but Larry lives off Dannielynn & lies everytime he opens his mouth.

Posted at 5:18PM on Sep 6th 2007 by I like Opri & Rita

21. What has happened to humanity? Have these people lost all sense of decency and common sense? Whether or not the Cosby book contains any truth at all, this guy is a sue-happy jerk. And he was at a gay pride parade to snap photos? Yeah, Larry and I have some ocean-front property I would love to sell you.

Posted at 5:15PM on Sep 6th 2007 by voice of reason

22. I SAY LEAVE THE MAN ALONE AND LET HIM RAISE HIS CHILD. GP GET EM LARRY SUE THOSE STUPID NO TALENT B**CHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:50AM on Sep 7th 2007 by Tammie

23.

Get his sorry a$$ Opri, I am sick of his bs, and the way he uses that baby. Mop the floor with his sorry a$$, and be done with him. He isn't a man, it is a she/he, and is only out for a free ride. I hope his new lawyers have gotten paid up front !!! IMO

Posted at 5:17PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Larry Birkgiveshead

24. Everything in Rita's book is true. By the way, I like Opri too.

Posted at 5:24PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Taz

25.



_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ INQUEST _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_






Posted at 4:52PM on Sep 6th 2007 by INQUEST

Posted at 5:21PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Larry Birkgiveshead

26. I hope Larry kicks the crap out of Rita and Opri in court. And then let's his 15 minutes of fame end so he can go off somewhere in private and raise his child out of the spotlight. Anna is dead, so I wish these people would all just disappear back into the woodwork they came out from.

Posted at 5:49PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Victoria

27. Rita....please blow your nose

Posted at 5:22PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Gar Bear

28. So where are all the lawsuits? Book is out, top selling book in many outlets, many people have read it. Rita Crosby is making money on the book. Hey Larry/Howard where's the lawsuits? Howard jumped on the Dr. who was going to sell video of Anna's surgery so I know he still knows how to file. Has anyone heard of anything filed yet? Maybe I am missing something.

I'm hoping after this child is paraded all over the media on her birthday the media circus stops with a once a year update, Larry goes back to work and stops living off of the money for pictures of her. I know he still has that hearing in the Bahamas with Virgie but in the mean time he can put in his 40 hour work week just like the rest of us.

Posted at 5:41PM on Sep 6th 2007 by George RH

29. What a bunch of kooks. This isn`t the first time someone has come forth and accused Larry Birkhead of a homosexual liason. A man in his own home town has said he had a running affair with Larry. You just watch. These men will come out of the woodwork before this is over. It would be better for Stern and Birkhead to shut up and stay off tv for now. Heck maybe they will find other ways to make money .

Posted at 5:25PM on Sep 6th 2007 by karla

30. Larry is beginning to look just like Howard. He thinks he's a really slick guy now but wait just wait his time will come.

Posted at 5:36PM on Sep 6th 2007 by Susie Q

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