STERN WINS COURT ORDER OVER ESTATE BATTLE

Last updated: Friday, July 13, 2007

STERN WINS COURT ORDER OVER ESTATE BATTLE

ANNA NICOLE SMITH's former partner HOWARD K. STERN has been given permission to file trespassing and contempt charges against the developer who attempted to evict him and the late actress/model from their home in The Bahamas.

HOWARD K. STERN

A local judge has given Stern permission to take G. Ben Thompson to court, according to website ArtHarris.com.

Stern claims he has been vilified in the media as a "squatter" by the South Carolina developer and his lawyer, Godfrey Pinder.

He also claims Thompson entered the grounds of the Horizons property when court injunctions were in place protecting Smith against such intrusions.

At the time, Thompson was suing Anna Nicole for the title to the home he claims he sold her. Two Bahamas judges issued injunctions banning anyone from entering the property to disturb the former reality TV star until the lawsuit over ownership was settled, according to investigator Harris' website.

According to the new order granted to Stern, he can apply for "an Order of Committal," or contempt, against Thompson and Pinder.

Harris reports one injunction was issued last autumn (06) when Thompson allegedly cut the electricity off at the property.

Stern won a second injunction the day after Smith's death in February (07), when Thompson's son-in-law went into the house to remove computers and other property "for safekeeping," and later turned some of the items over to police.

Source: WENN

| Friday, July 13, 2007

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