Judge: Anna Nicole Didn't Dig Gay Sex

By Julie Bolcer

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday called it "preposterous" that Anna Nicole Smith would have watched an alleged tape of her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead and lawyer Howard K. Stern (pictured, left, with Smith) having gay sex, reports the New York Post.

"One point that I find troubling is that Anna Nicole Smith would entertain herself by watching this videotape," said Judge Denny Chin, apparently at ease with making an assumption about the deceased model's intimate preferences.

Judge Chin was responding to arguments related to former MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby's motion to dismiss a $60 million libel suit against her. Cosby and publisher Hachette Book Group USA are being sued by Stern, who claims defamation based on parts of Cosby's book, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death .

Lawyers say that the alleged videotape of Stern and Birkhead does not exist.

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Name: Noodlemonkey
Date posted: 7/13/2009 8:02:00 AM
Hometown: DC

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First of all, who cares if he's gay (and is that really defamatory?) What he is is a greedy sycophant who plied Anna with drugs and cared more about his 15 minutes than about her welfare. He's a vile human being.
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Name: PJR
Date posted: 7/9/2009 9:28:00 PM
Hometown: Michigan

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A sad bunch of characters. Just goes to show what evil comes of putting your own selfish lusts and desires and overtly immoral sexuality vices as the paramount driving force in your life, over the moral and common good! It's just sad a dung pile like Stern can even use the court system to pervert the law and justice via his perversions!
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Name: john in SF
Date posted: 7/9/2009 1:24:00 AM
Hometown: San Francisco

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Go ahead, make Anna Nicole the poster woman for the anti-gay sex movement in celebration of her Family Values. "Why Be Gay when you can share my values?" can be her tagline.
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Name: Wes
Date posted: 7/9/2009 12:11:00 AM
Hometown: Charlotte

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When will somebody definatively out Mr Stern? In her TV show, ANS called him "a big sissy boy"......that was years ago. Let's put it to bed (pun intended) and then he cannot sue somebody for saying something about him that happens to be true.
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Name: Alec
Date posted: 7/8/2009 10:39:00 PM
Hometown: Athens, Tx

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Show us the tape Rita, then make the claim. Otherwise, $60 million is a lot of money. Let Anna Nicole rest in peace.
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Name: David
Date posted: 7/8/2009 6:26:00 PM
Hometown: Boston

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Are we all serious here? A judge ruled on something, based on his own biases, that may not even exist - and we're actually debating it? Is this news?? Enough already, people!
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Name: Joseph
Date posted: 7/8/2009 5:51:00 PM
Hometown: Montgomery, AL

Comment:
Okay, I'm a bit prejudiced, but I'd LOVE to see that tape (if it exists). As for Anna Nicole, why wouldn't she enjoy watching it? From all that's out there about Anna Nicole, she seemed to enjoy some fairly wild things so watching two hot guys close to her having sex seems pretty mundane.
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Name: Michael-Bruce
Date posted: 7/8/2009 3:36:00 PM
Hometown: Philadelphia

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Since when is a judge's personal conjecture a legal standard determining the admissibility of evidence? I hope Cosby's and Hachette Book Group's attorneys are up on their Rules of Evidence. By the way, the video sounds hot. Why wouldn't Anna Nicole be turned on by it if it exists?
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Name: Chris Sullivan
Date posted: 7/8/2009 1:43:00 PM
Hometown: Chicago, IL

Comment:
Judge Chin is an ass and merely interjecting his own bias through his unfounded and unknowable assertion... many women love male on male porn for the same reasons str8 men love female on female porn.

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