There’s a story that Howard K Stern wanted to auction off a bunch of Anna’s personal items on eBay before she was even buried, but that the auction was shut down by eBay administrators due to the contention over her estate. Since her will is not settled yet, and won’t be for some time, he doesn’t have rights to the stuff and can’t just offload it for some quick cash:

Even as Anna Nicole Smith’s lifeless body chilled in a Florida morgue, a rep for creepy attorney/Svengali Howard K. Stern attempted to open an eBay account to hawk the star’s personal items like clothes, jewelry, etc., soruces reveal – but eBay officials decisively blocked the move! With litigation pending on the buxom bombshell’s estate – and as a courtroom battle raged over where she’d be buried – eBay nixed Stern’s auction plans because he simply couldn’t yet prove he’d legally inherited her earthly belongings.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker’s column, March 12, 2007]

It’s plausible that Stern would do this, because he admitted to the overwrought judge trying to figure out where to bury Anna that he was basically broke and lived hand to mouth off Anna. He also said that Entertainment Tonight was covering his travel, and that he was borrowing money from his parents to get by.

There was that kind of half-robbery from Anna’s squatter mansion by the rightful owners of the estate in the days following her death. Jewelry and clothing were said to be taken, so it’s possible that eBay officials also thought that the items may have been stolen, or that those were the people trying to sell her stuff on eBay, not Stern.

Meanwhile Larry Birkhead showed Access Hollywood the cartoon Anna Nicole tattoo and replica of her signature (link launches automatic video) he has on his lower back. He said Anna asked him to get a tattoo of her likeness and that he said no initially. When he was ready, she said it was ok and he didn’t have to go through with it. He did anyway, and she held his hand while he got the tattoo and kept the sheets that were imprinted with the mark from his tattoo while it was healing.

There’s also a story that Howard K Stern realizes the end of his parentage claim on Dannielynn is near and that he’s trying to get the maybe real father Larry Birkhead to sign a deal that would give him rights to manage the child’s finances before the DNA tests come out. He’s also trying to get Birkhead to do lucrative joint interviews with Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, but so far Birkhead has demurred. He seems to be doing fine with his solo interviews with Access Hollywood.

Pictures of Larry Birkhead’s tattoo from Access Hollywood (link launches automatic video)