Source: Contact Music

Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend, paparrazo Larry Birkhead, is going public with some very intimate details about their personal life together. Specifically, he is talking about his past efforts to separate her form her lawyer/"spiritual partner"/maybe baby daddy, Howard K. Stern. According to Birkhead, he had to persuade Anna Nicole to lock Stern out of the house because he would walk in interrupting sex between the two.

Birkhead explains, "Most of the time that I was in the home with her, when we lived together, we would have to basically lock doors to the bedroom. "He (Stern) would try to come in and she'd have to tell him at certain points to call before he came back."

Birkhead also accuses Stern of trying to emotionally blackmail Smith into dumping the photographer. He adds, "One time in particular, while she was pregnant, I had to basically rescue her at a hotel because Howard gave her so much grief about me being the father and saying that he was never going to accept me. He told her to make a choice - him or me. She called me crying hysterically, and she drove herself barefoot to a hotel down the street and I had to basically help her."

Smith and Birkhead are currently locked in a pending court battle to determine paternity to her baby girl, DannieLynn. Stern claimed paternity on the birth certificate, and he and Smith were joined in a non-legally binding marriage ceremony in the Bahamas. The ceremony took place scant days after the body of Smith's son, Daniel, was found in her hospital room after she gave birth to his half-sister.

As well as the ongoing paternity battle, the Bahamian police are conducting an inquest into the cause of death, and investigating what role Stern may have had in it. There are possible allegations, and a witness will testify, that Stern may have given Daniel methadone and then tried to flush the remainder down the toilet.

There was a lethal combination of three drugs in the 20 year old's system, including multiple antidepressants and methadone.

Sounds like a bad year for all involved, and a worse one for Howard if they pin something on him in relation to Daniel's death. He can also face charges for fraud if it's proven that he knowingly signed his name to the birth certificate without being the father. Yikes!

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