And the Anna Nicole Smith saga rages on. Larry Birkhead and his former attorney, Debra Opri, are still fighting over money.
If you recall, Opri claimed Birkhead owed her over $600,000 in legal fees. Birkhead thought not. Hilarity ensued. Now Birkhead is offering Opri $300,000 in settlement and Opri’s saying "thanks but no thanks." It appears to be a rather bitter dispute too because neither party would sit in the same room with the other.
As Harris reveals on his "The Bald Truth" blog at artharris.com, the once-tight pair agreed to discuss settling their financial falling out on neutral turf — a mediation office in Los Angeles specializing "in dicey conflict resolution, from mega-million-dollar Hollywood divorces to business deals gone bust," Harris reports. "[But they] never saw each other. They sat in separate rooms with their lawyers, coffee and pastries, as a retired LA Superior Court judge shuttled offers and counter offers back and forth for hours." Still, no dice.
"The deal would have saved all parties further wrangling over $620,000 in legal fees for representing Birkhead in his quest for custody of baby Dannielynn," sources told Harris. Birkhead is disputing what he says are pumped-up legal fees, including dry-cleaning bills, expensive meals and at least one trip by Opri to the Bahamas.
His lawyer, Michael Trope, told Page Six: "Larry made a generous offer to settle. It’s not like he was trying to walk away… She made a counter-offer, which we elected to decline." We couldn’t reach Opri, but she confirmed to Harris that negotiations had gone bust, calling her rejection of a settlement a "matter of principle," although she disputed Harris’ numbers.
Way to waste the taxpayers money there, Deb.
2 Responses to “Larry Birkhead and Debra Opri Still Fighting”
Silly “Dopey”…cut your losses…on camera you look like a “Ferret Face”…I truly hope that you will loose!!!!
YOU SAID YOU WOULD REPRESENT LARRY PRO-BONO - YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR WORD!!!…now you are part of the “Bitches of Birkwick” wanting money … U R DISGUSTING!!!
Go Larry and Dannielynn!!!
I’m not sure about this one…do you really offer to settle when the other party has made hateful and scurrilous claims about you….if the claims aren’t true?