March 16, 2007

Debra Opri on Representing Birkhead: 'I Just Had Enough'


Attorney Debra Opri came straight to “Extra” to talk about the decision she made to end her professional relationship with Larry Birkhead.

"I just had enough,” she told “Extra’s” Carlos Diaz. “I can't represent a client who has a middle man by the name of Howard K. Stern. I feel very comfortable in my decision, and I wish Larry the best. But I am worried about him."

Opri admitted that she is worried about Birkhead because, "I just don't like the influence of this middle man, Howard K. Stern, and it was just too much to handle. I couldn't continue with the way things were going."

Debra went on to say, "I don't want anyone to think that I'm jumping ship. He's close enough. He's getting the DNA results today in the Bahamas. I didn't abandon Larry. "


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On 14 Jun 2007, michael santonastaso wrote:

DEAR LARRY-PAY THE LADY-she is the one that got you your daughter-you should be thanking her-praising her-making her your friend for life-don’t defame her-for the amount of money involved you got yourself a bargain-your first words to her should be THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart-mike s

 
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On 8 Jun 2007, Anonymous wrote:

opri is a liar.

 
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On 3 Apr 2007, Larry Beautiful wrote:

Larry Birkhead if this baby turns out not to be yours I will have a baby for ya…………

 
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On 3 Apr 2007, Who's your Baby's Father wrote:

I think Michael Jackson is the baby’s father

 
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On 1 Apr 2007, fior howard wrote:

to celina just so you know even if howard does not own a home he was invited by anna i own tons of property and that does not give me the right to break in and steal someone else property!!! when i want to evict someone it very hard you have to wait for a court date and than the judge has to make a ruling on when to evict someone!!!!!!!!!!even when they have lived in the home and are back on thier rent by mamny months!!!!and by the way howard attorney was completely right by telling off geraldo, i disagree his show did nothing but bash howard!!!!and so howard attorney should start filing liable suits on all the shows that continue to blame howard for anna death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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On 1 Apr 2007, celina davis wrote:

First of all you people only understand what you want to understand.
The House in the Bahanas is not Howard K.Sterms. That house belong to Ford Shelly and his fatherin-law. End of that.
How can you break in to your own home.
I would say Howard has done that over and over since Anna died. It is not his home.
Anna bought a house not far away why not move into that home. After all you said you and her bought that home.
As far as the interview that Geraldo did with Ford Shelly I really think that he did a great job. I dont always like Geraldo but one must give credit where credit is due.
So before all of you make judjement make sure you read whatever State that you are in your Statute and maybe just maybe you will understand. If you can use a comp you can research all State and Federal law. The only concern that I have is for that beautiful little girl welfare. After the Attorny;s are over she will be pennyless. Larry already got a bill from Debra for half
million. And did will drag on for years.
So please be kind and let the law take whatever measure they need to take.
All about fairness.

 
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On 1 Apr 2007, Anonymous wrote:

why is ford shelly not lock up for stealing anna belongings?how dare he walk free and go on tv shows acting like he is annas friend!!!!!what kind of friend are you that you would kick howard and the baby out in the street!!!!!!!!!!!!to bad if you dont like howard!!!now that anna is not here you think you can run the show with your attorney you went out of your way to help anna when she was alive now that she cant speak for herself you think your incharge?by kicking howard out, i think you know at this point that if howard goes so does the BABY!!!!!who are you kidding saying to the media the baby can stay!!!!!!!!!!! bs to you you are a slime bucket and a thief aND I DONT DOUBT THAT YOU KEPT PERSONAL ITEMS OF ANNA BECAUSE HOWARD IS NOT GONNA KNOW ALL THE STUFF THAT WAS MISSING!!!you can fool the media but your not going to fool us the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!your nothing but a low life thief and wre not truly anna friend !!!!!!!!!!!!! just remember what goes around comes around!!!!!!!!!

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, for howard and anna wrote:

just so you all know im not howard giving meassages im a partial person taking in all the evidance and not finding one shred of evidance to suggest howard should take the blame for a grown womens life and or her sons !!! her son died of similar symptons of the same drugs of the mom beacause she had it ready available to anyone in her home did anyone forgetr they were in her refrige in the bahamas not under lock and key!!if i did not want any one especially a young teenager to take drugs i certainly would not hve them wre anyone could easily get to them!!!duh how many mothers with teenagers have drugs in thier kitchen refrigerator, im knowbody i know!!!!!!!

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, for howard and anna wrote:

to you ford shelly i hope the bahemian police file charges on you because you are a thief!!!!you are the only thief on the face of the earth that has not gotten jail time for brecking and entering and stealing someone else property!!!! your lucky you did not pull these in the u.s. or you would be ajail bird right now and your father in laws money wouldnot help you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, for howard and anna wrote:

this is for tiffany thank you tiffany you could have not said it better myself if we are going to try to blame one person namely howard for this bs enabling crap people are saying about howard just because he was around anna alot than we better be blaming the rest of the world for all the drug deaths like fathers and mothers or brothers and sisters or grand moms and granddads because if they wre in the home when others have been taking drugs then they can be held accountable!!!!i beleve from the funeral anna had hundreds of friends if i died tomarrow i could not have that many so heres a thought HOWARD WAS NOT THE ONLY PERSON AROUND!!!!wake up people the media only wants us to listen to them to get better ratings!!!they are trying there best to make us believe only there storys and im not buying it for one minute!!!i hope howard attorneys sue the crap at of all you negative reporters and news shows!!!!

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, for howard and anna wrote:

heres a message to heroldo live,i thought you were smarted than this you have the nerve to put on ford shelly on your show, when he not only admitted to break in and entering anna home but also admitted to stealing her personal properties!!!um what planet are you from?that you think this admited thief who got scot free from being lock up should be a guess on your show???if all you media continue to keep trying to black ball howard and blaming howard for these two deaths little by little we will boycott all these shows! like yours for instance!!!im sorry but i would like to ask all you howard belevers to write to all these tv shows that are bashing howard and tell them you will no longer watch there shows!!! i im insulted to think they put bobby fendy or is it trendy?? a ex decorator anns fired because he rip her off on the show if thats decorating im an alien, or the sister of the jailbird jackie whats her name! and now a confess thief that never did jail time , and we are just suppose to beleve these slime balls that howard try to kill anna and her son ok not please stop putting on this crap for your media ratings if this continues we will start changhing are channels to a better station!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, Amy wrote:

Larry will fight to the end for his daughter. Howard is trouble, he’s a money hungry loser and I hope he gets what he deserves.

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, Tffany wrote:

It makes me sad that know one makes mention of the fact that a women made a choice and efforts to get these presription drugs and take them. She made a choice to live the life style that she was living and in the end no matter what her son died and one would think that it would be a wake up call to change her ways for her beautful baby daughter,but now this poor child will never meet her mother but instead have video’s of her mother druged out of her mind while she was preg w/her and all the other media footage. If we are sad it should be for these children that were brought into this world victims. We see on Tv beautiful famous women throwing their childrens life away because MOM cant handle the stress.Children like Ann’a and Brittney Spears and Ccourtney Loves all have children that for ever will pay the ultimate price of fame and they were their by being a victim of circumstance.
Who are the voices for these poor children?? Who protects them? Mean while most people are concerned that someone is responsable for her death or her sons Anna is responsable for her sons death and her death,No one else.

 
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On 30 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

im am getting sick to my stomach reading all these people trying to still put blame on howard!!!half of you how do you know if someone in your family is on drugs!!!how dare you still continue to find howard reponsible?wre you there ? if you wre and saw howard giving drugs fine but guess what you wre not there!!!its very dangerous to just accuse a stanger of murder,from what you have heard from the media only!!im sorry why would larry be any different he was with anna enough to stop her or tell someone she needy help!!why are you people so blindsised to larry!!he ahs to take responsibilty also he slept with her he said so so why are we not blaming larry for some enabling!!!how the heck do you all know that howard didnot try over the years and finally gave in to anna because she truly had a mind of her own!!!!thats why larry couldnot stop her and neither could howard!!!take a look at your own lives and ask your selfs how many people in this country die of drugs and are we going to start blaming mothers and fathers for thier children deaths also or boyfriends or maybe even grandmothers and grandfathers !!!! this man has lost two people in his life give him a chance to grieve like everyone else!!!stop trying to put the blame of annas drug problems on howard you wouldnot blame a mother or father for thier childrens drug problem.put the blame where the blames lies with anna she was a 39 year old women not a child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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On 29 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

I truly belive Howard K. Stern killed Anna and Daniel. There just isn’t enough evidence. Of course Anna is so on drug most of the time. Therefore, Howard took advantage of her. that’s just the bottom line. Remeber Howard is the one most around with Anna. He could put drug in her drinks and she wouldn’t even know it.

 
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On 29 Mar 2007, Cindy wrote:

Did anyone ever think that Anna was a smart women and maybe she was artificially inseminated by her husband?? She’s blonde but I think everyone under estimates her. I’m curious to c what the DNA says.

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

i just like to say did annas son just walk in a hospital with all these drugs or just maybe he himself to annas refridge in the bahamas before he came to the hospital? nobody in there right is gonna believe howard had these drugs on him and just whip up a coctail to kill danny right in the hospital with doctors and nurses right there!!! i beleve he was jealous of the new baby and he help himself to annas drugs in her home i dont think howard was even in the home when this happen nowing howard i dont beleve he left annas side from the start of her giving birth!!! this is not unheard of when i gave birth to my twins i had a younger daughter who after the birth of my twins moved from the baby to a middle child she acted out a lot when the twins came it took a couple years and alot of love from me and her father to get over the middle child syndrome!!! why should it be any different for anns son to be very jeolous and happy at the same time!! he was the only sons for 20 years!!! we are not talking about a infant that might need mommy to assit to a bottle feeding we are talking about a full grown young adult who could clearly help himself to a drug and nobody ahd to now about it !!! we have famils all over the us wre mothers and fathers have no idea what their children are doing!!! why should this be any different? stop trying to blame others when the blame should go to danny!!!

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, for howard and anna and dannylyn wrote:

ok now we finally villeafy howard from something he never did!!!and the media still wont let up on howard!!!now they are trying to blame him for anna son death if this negatrive nonesence does not stop i say we boycott all shows with people like this half baked want to be detective and bobbi fedi or is it bobbi trendy? yeh right!!or maybe the attorney anna fired in the marshall case or maybe the sister of the jail bird ? do thet really think we as a public are gonna fall for the bs these people are reporting excuse me TO THE MEDIA STOP PUTTING THESE LEFT OVERS ANNA TRASH AND THREW AWAYit makes me sick to my stomach to see the media continue to try any way shape or form to find fault with howard when is it gonna end !!!! he was fould by respectably and qualified doctors and policeforce to be free from any charges why wont people stop trying to hang this man enough is enough allready!!!!!

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, OpiLesbo wrote:

This butch dyke needs to shut her nasty mouth and move on to another case. She is absolutely disgusting and obnoxious, I am sick of seeing her!! What a rude mouth nasty yankee!

 
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On 26 Mar 2007, Jennifer wrote:

Larry IS the father of Dannielynn. So what will happen to God Almighty Howard K.Stern when the truth comes out? What will all of the Howard lovers say then? Was the DNA test wrong?

 
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