Admist seemingly bogus allegations by harpie Heather Mills that Paul McCartney beat her during their nearly four year marriage and was abusive to his beloved ex-wife Linda, Paul McCartney has paid 200,000 pounds, or over $380,000 USD for 20 hours of audiotaped interviews with Linda. Linda McCartney became good friends with Peter Cox, with whom she collaborated on a vegetarian cookbook published in 1989. Cox was in possession of the taped recordings he made with Linda in preparation for the book and had signed a legal agreement in 1998 that he would keep them private. He was forthcoming about their existence, though, and said that he would reveal details of his friendship with Linda if compelled to by a court of law.

Cox recently handed over the tapes to Paul in exchange for the exhorbitant sum of cash in a “secret” meeting that took place in a London restaurant. Paul tried to evade trailing journalists on his way to the meeting, but didn’t shake The Daily Mail, which reported on the incident in its Sunday edition:

Linda is said to have cried on tape and to have revealed intimate details of her married life on the tapes to Cox, who was her dear friend and confidant. She is even said to have considered leaving Paul.

The recordings - which his second wife Heather Mills wants to use as part of her divorce claim that he was abusive towards her - were handed over to Sir Paul during an extraordinary cloak-and-dagger meeting in a Central London cafe.

Sir Paul bought the tapes from literary agent Peter Cox, who made them with Linda when he was co-authoring her 1989 book Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking.

The two men met up in Eat in Soho Square on Wednesday morning and spent almost half an hour together as the ex-Beatle poured his heart out about his marital troubles in full view of their astonished fellow diners.

Customers in the cafe told how they overhead Sir Paul claim that Heather has demanded an £80million divorce settlement - the first time anyone in the divorce has revealed what she is actually asking for.

“Everyone recognised him the moment he walked in,” a customer said. “There was a bearded guy waiting for him and they took the table next to me. Paul didn’t seem to be worried about who was listening or he wouldn’t have spoken the way he did.

“He started off talking about what great kids he had but the subject soon changed to Heather and that was when he became very agitated and upset.

“I remember him saying that all she thought about was money and that she had asked for £80million. He said something like, ‘She is going to take me for £80million, because we now know it’s for £80million. All she thinks about is dollars’. He even drew dollar signs to emphasise it.”

Sir Paul also repeatedly branded his estranged wife a liar, adding: “Everyone knows she is a liar, she even lied in her autobiography. Everybody knows that…”

Sir Paul was dressed in a stylish dark suit with a crisp white shirt underneath, according to one diner.

She added: “He came in and was very friendly to everyone. I remember him asking the Polish waitress were she was from. The bearded guy was carrying this huge white envelope, and when they sat down together he put it down next to Paul and said, “This is for you”.

“Paul immediately picked it up, broke the seal and began rummaging inside. Then he turned to the bearded guy and said something like, ‘We must keep this out of the papers…’

“He said, ‘She’s (Heather) not at all nice, or at all compassionate, she just wants the money’. He drew the dollar sign in the air again. Then he said something like, ‘She wants it all, but no, we’ll try to find a way to sort it out’.

“Paul said he was trying to put it all to the back of his mind but said he was ‘entrenched’ by it.

“He did this thing with his hands, with two fingers pointing at each other, saying how they were so at odds with each other.

“Paul said he had tried to remain on friendly terms with her after they separated but then said she ‘flipped’.

“He said, ‘I was prepared to settle things amicably but suddenly Heather turned and something happened to her after that. She has told so many lies like the one about me being a drunk - just because I sometimes go to pubs. It’s all a pack of lies you know, that I am stingy - that’s another one‘.”

The diner added: “Paul said, ‘When she wrote her autobiography she lied, you know, we all know that. Saying I was a drunk and that I used her. It’s not true. She lies and lies. Then it all goes on and on with her playing up to the papers.

“‘And it’s all c**p and rubbish. If she doesn’t get what she wants she’ll pick a fight. It’s all lies that she has told her solicitors and all I can do is to try and keep calm. It’s just my luck to have all these problems. I am really miserable, bullied actually. It just p***** me off, it is such c**p. I am being described as a b****** and it’s just not true’.”

She added: “He said no one had told him what Heather was really like when he married her. He said his daughter Stella was the only one who warned him. Then he said, “She (Heather) really hates Stella“.”

The diner said that soon afterwards Sir Paul announced that he had to go to a meeting. She added: “He left with the big envelope the other guy brought in and I saw him get into a people carrier waiting up the street.”

Linda succumbed to breast cancer in 1998, and is said to have never spent a night apart from Paul in the 30 years she was with him. Paul’s relationship with Linda is generally considered beyond reproach, and nearly everyone thinks Heather Mills is the guilty lying party in his recent divorce. This latest news makes it seem as if McCartney had something to hide, and indeed Cox has said that Linda often had to borrow five or ten pounds when they were out together because Paul didn’t give her even a little bit of cash to spend. No one’s marriage is perfect, though, and Paul might be buying the tapes as insurance in case Heather decides to use any of his wife’s intimate chats with a friend against him.

Paul told the BBC on Saturday that he doesn’t hold grudges against anyone, and that he’s understandably sad, but that life goes on and that he’s optimistic about it. He said “When you are going through difficulties, I think the thing to do for the sake of all the people concerned is to keep a certain dignity and remember that it is a private affair.”

Heather’s first husband claims she beat the crap out of him (thanks Agent Bedhead for the tip), and her own father says that she’s a liar and that he believes Paul. If anything went on in Paul’s first marriage, it was probably the normal problems that every couple has. I’ll choose to believe a beloved rock legend over an ex prostitute and porn model any day, and hopefully the courts will agree with me.

Yesterday I ignored Anna Nicole because I was Halloween hungover and almost as sick of her as I am Madonna. Madonna talked more crap about baby pawn Davie Banda, saying people don’t understand why she has a child of a different color and that she doesn’t consider that more shocking than her horse-themed S&M show (Tickets still available!) or her new children’s book (in stores soon!)

Like Madonna, Anna Nicole is still making disturbing, unbelievable headlines as the latest news in her sad saga is released. There was a report that Anna wanted to bring Daniel’s body with her if she got deported from the Bahamas for not being a bona fide homeowner. She was actually said to be considering exhuming him to take him to the states with her. I really hope that’s not true, but considering that she took over a month to bury him and then asked the undertaker at his funeral if she could bathe him, it sounds plausible.

Daniel’s toxicology report reveals he had seven drugs, not just three, in his system at the time of his death. He was on several cold medications, a sedative, and yet another antidepressant along with the deadly combination of Lexapro, methadone, and Zoloft that was said to have killed him. One of the drugs he was on was Amitryptaline, a mild antidepressant that is sometimes prescribed for unspecified muscle and joint pain. I was on Amitryptaline several years ago when I suffered a drug interaction from just that and Neurontin, which I was given for bad circulation. The effects were so severe that I had slurred speech for hours and had to go to the emergency room. If that’s what happened to me with two drugs it’s not shocking that a cocktail of similar drugs would kill someone.

The man who claims he’s the father of Anna Nicole’s less than two month old newborn claims in new court papers that she dyed the tyke’s hair to get her to look more like her the other guy she claims is the father. He says that in clips he saw of an upcoming “Entertainment Tonight” interview with Smith the baby’s hair is now dark when it was blonde when she was first born. He think Anna dyed the baby’s hair and says it’s “horrendous” and harmful to the child.

Anna Nicole had pneumonia recently and had to be treated at the same hospital where she gave birth and Daniel died. Her lung needed to be drained of excessive fluid after severe pain sent her to the emergency room. The illness was blamed on a “cold snap,” but as Mollygood points out it’s been consistenly warm in the Bahamas so it’s more likely that she’s just worn out from too much drugs and drama.

Oh yeah, and she’s also battling an eviction notice from yet another guy she once claimed was the father of her baby. Confused yet?

Anna Nicole managed to kept her foolish mouth shut for almost two months, but that’s going to change soon. An interview with her will air tonight on “Entertainment Tonight” spinoff “The Insider,” in which she wonders aloud why God didn’t take her instead of Daniel. We are wondering the same thing.

I am so sick of Madonna. There’s a chance Madonna might not have adopted little Davie Banda for publicity, but she sure is milking it for all it’s worth. She went on Oprah already, so she should just stay in London, go see her colorist and continue to do Pilates while dressed in furry hoodies. Instead she came over to the states and is doing the talkshow circuit, bitching about how people care about her babysnatching when there are so many other problems in the world. If she really didn’t want people to pay attention, she shouldn’t have announced her visit to Malawi to the press and she should have stayed the fuck home in London instead of talking about it to everyone.

There’s this story that another woman wanted to adopt Davie, but it sounds like she just cared for him and it’s not completely clear in the article that she was going to adopt him. Yohan Banda claims she was going to adopt him, but the press puts words in his mouth and I’m not sure.

This other woman was a Canadian grandmother who stayed in Malawi near the orphanage for months at a time. She says that two other Canadian couples adopted babies from there and that it took freaking three years and a ton of stress before they were able take the infants home. Now that seems extreme and I think that it should be easier for people to adopt babies from third world countries - but not so easy that it takes less than a month!

Madonna now claims that she offered Yohane Banda the option to keep Davie and that she asked him if he wanted money. He says the first time he saw her was in court and that he was made to sign a bunch of paperwork right away. It sounds like Madonna is either lying through her gapped teeth or she’s embellishing an incident that was half-assed on her part and that the guy didn’t understand. “Can I give you some money…” “No, No.”

Yohane Banda has been interviewed from now till Sunday, and he hasn’t said anything about Madonna offering him money, so he probably didn’t understand it if she indeed gave him that option.

I am not an adoption expert, but I love my kid and I do my best to follow attachment parenting and to be there for him. Madonna had a nanny fetch David from Malawi and she went to Pilates on his first morning in London.

I would have included excerpts form the stories here, which I read while rolling my eyes and shaking my head this morning, but you can read it for yourself from the links above. The whole thing just annoys me. Maybe the kid will have a great life full of Jewish mysticism and The Wiggles, and his dad is surely making money by giving quotes to the press so maybe his life will turn out ok by extension, but Madonna needs to go away now. I don’t want to see or speak of her again. (But I will, you know I will.)

There’s a report that a South African woman was interested in adopting baby David Banda, and that she was coming back for him shortly and presumably intended to live in Malawi for a year and a half according to adoption regulations there. These laws help protect vulnerable babies from being snatched by rich pedophiles and fickle sensationalist pop stars. Madonna is even said to have been told that this other woman wanted to adopt Davie, but just like the fact that the boy had a father, that obviously didn’t deter her. Whatever Madonna wants, Madonna gets:

According to the administrator at the orphanage Lucy Chipeta, a South African national visited the orphanage a few months ago and expressed the desire to adopt David, whose mother died soon after delivery in September last year.

“I think David is a lucky boy,” Chipeta said at the weekend adding that Madonna was told about the matter but she insisted on taking David.

The South African was expected to visit the country again to start the adoption process. She will have to look for another orphan now that David is Madonna’s new baby pending finalisation of the adoption.

According to Chipeta, the orphanage presented to Madonna a set of orphans, some of them without both parents, but the pop diva fell for David although she was told about the impeding adoption by the South African.

David underwent an HIV test at a government hospital and was diagnosed negative. Madonna’s own medical team conducted another test and confirmed the earlier results.
“But even if he was found to be HIV positive, Madonna indicated she would still take him because all she wanted was to know his HIV status,” Chipeta said.

You can think, “Well, Madonna was there first, and who knows if this other person would have followed through with the adoption?” and that’s partially valid. When the other woman had to rearrange her entire life to adopt Davie because she needed to live in Malawi for 18 months first, is it any wonder she went home to get her affairs in order first?

Davie is reportedly doing well, and Madonna has outfitted his nursery with enough crap to make his family’s entire village self sufficient.

His father has said that he doesn’t want to take Davie back despite saying earlier that he didn’t really understand the fact that adoption is legally permanent. He also said that Madonna’s claim on Oprah that his wife and two other children died of aids is not true and is incredibly stigmatizing to his family.

Moreover, Yohane Banda says that he did visit David at the orphanage often and that his mother and brother went to see the baby too. Madonna claimed on Oprah that none of Davie’s “extended” family went to see him. It’s possible that officials told Madonna a bunch of lies about Davie’s family because they didn’t want to jeopardize her huge donation. Why would she use the word “extended” though unless she knew that the boy’s father had seen him at the orphanage?

People are saying that adoption laws need to be reformed so that other children can get a shitload of designer baby gear instead of a supported life in Africa, and maybe they have a point. The answer is not to let wealthy people donate orphanages and take home a baby in less than a month, though. There has to be some sort of compromise that protects children from predators while making sure that the people left behind get the support they so desperately need - without red strings attached.

The trolls are out in full force on these Madonna posts. If you don’t agree with me you’re welcome to give your opinion, which I respect. Most people who are on Madonna’s side explain it clearly and logically. (Thanks Elisha!) Attacking people personally for having a different opinion than you do is called an ad hominem attack and it’s the weakest argument there is. Calling someone fat instead of addressing their points is pretty unconvincing. It makes no sense.

Also, as long as something is making headlines I will cover it. (Mr. T) I do my best to listen to you and take your concerns seriously, but I have a job to do and if I ignore every story or celebrity that someone is sick of I’ll have nothing left to gossip about.

Madonna swooped into a third world country and took home a baby with a father after a couple of weeks. She managed to completely flout adoption laws by dropping a bunch of cash on a Kabbalah-themed orphanage. Who knew that would be so polarizing an issue?

This is probably going to be my last post today as I am incredibly sick and need to rest.

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Anna Nicole Smith was indeed served eviction papers by yet another man who could potentially be Dannielynne’s father, as we reported yesterday.

It turns out that Anna was banging a guy in Florida at the same time she got sperminated by the most likely candidate, paparrazi photographer Larry Birkhead. The other guy was a wealthy old real estate developer, and true to form Anna tried to pin the pregnancy on him since he has more cash and she’s still waiting for the over half a billion she thinks she’s owed for being married to a 89 year-old man for just over a year.

The other guy, Gaither Ben Thompson, told Anna that there’s no way he could be the father of her baby since he’s had a vasectomy. Anna was forced to admit to him that the baby was Birkhead’s:

Sources say in May of this year, Anna Nicole contacted Thompson to say that he was the father of her soon-to-be-born baby girl. It’s especially interesting because we’re told that Anna Nicole had contacted people familiar with Thompson inquiring about his wealth. That’s when Thompson dropped a bombshell — that it was impossible for him to father a baby because he had already had a vasectomy. Days later, sources say Anna Nicole confessed to Thompson that Larry Birkhead was the father. Birkhead, an entertainment photographer who had a relationship with Anna Nicole, has filed legal papers in Los Angeles to establish paternity.

What’s more, Anna was hanging out with her creepy lawyer, Howard K. Stern, down in Florida at the same time she was screwing Thompson. This lends credence to Larry Birkhead’s claim that Howard is just Anna’s buddy and methadone supplier and there’s no way he’s the father of her newborn.

The house worth $1 million where Anna is staying in the Bahamas, and upon which her residency depends since she claims to be a homeowner, is owned by Thompson.

Thompson gave her the house in August because he felt sorry for her and expected to be paid back. Indeed, Anna seems to have netted enough from photo ops to be able to afford mortgage payments, but Thompson says she hasn’t given him anything and has to get out by October 31st.

If Anna gets deported to the states because she no longer has a house in the Bahamas she could be legally forced to get paternity testing due to Larry Birkhead’s lawsuit. Anna and Howard claim the baby is Howard’s due to “timing,” but have refused to submit to any DNA tests. Anna and Howard did not show up for a meeting in the Bahamas with Birkhead’s lawyer on Monday, making it seem like they’re avoiding the paternity issue at all costs.

The complexity of Anna’s situation is probably completely lost to her, but at least the methadone is taking the edge off. She took 39 days to bury her son Daniel after he died of a drug interaction in her hospital room. She wailed unconsolably at the funeral, and asked the funeral director if she could take her dead son’s corpse home for a warm bath.

It’s hard to imagine how the Anna Nicole Smith saga could get any more Shakespearean. (Unless Daniel was the father of her baby, Howard was really a woman, and all of them go to jail. That sounds like a fitting outcome.)

Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern’s drug den in the Bahamas is rented, and they haven’t paid anything for it, so the owner might evict them. What’s more is that he’s also rumored to be the father of Anna’s baby. Who isn’t?

Meanwhile add Anna’s half-sister, Donna Hogan, to the list of relatives that are trashing her. Her sister says she’s a “freaking waste of a human being” for waiting so long to bury her son but managing to get married and sell the pictures in the very long interim. By the way, her sister is also publishing a tell-all book about Anna that will come out next month.

Among the revelations in the book is Donna’s suggestion that Anna’s long-dead husband, billionaire J. Howard Marshall, could be the father of Dannielynn because Anna “always talked of freezing [Howard's] sperm”

According to Hogan, Smith “doesn’t even know who the father of her children is,” and suggests that her newborn’s father could be her late husband, millionaire J. Howard Marshall, because Smith “always talked of freezing the old man’s sperm.”

Last week, an attorney for Anna said she would not submit Dan-nielynn to a DNA test demanded by ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who believes he, not her lawyer Howard K. Stern, is the daddy.

Anna’s own mother said just last week that Daniel’s death was suspicious and that Howard K. Stern should be investigated.

Daniel Smith died about a month, and his mother had plenty of time to stage a mock wedding and work out lucrative deals with photo agencies. One thing Anna Nicole Smith hasn’t done, however, is find time to hold a funeral and burial for her tragically departed 20 year-old son.

Friends and family held a memorial service for him in Mexia, TX this weekend, where he lived as a young child. Of course Anna didn’t attend. Her ex husband, who is not Daniel’s father, was there and friends remembered Daniel as a happy, playful child.

Meanwhile Bahamian authorities have come to the US to continue their investigation into Daniel’s untimely death. They interviewed doctors to try and figure out how Daniel obtained the lethal antidepressant and methadone combination that resulted in an accidental drug interaction. They say they have not found evidence of criminal activity, but considering that Anna Nicole’s ex boyfriend claims she’s a methadone addict it seems they just as easily could have stayed home and interviewed Anna and Howard to figure out what happened.

Anna Nicole is trying to fast-track her residency application to the Bahamas by bribing the government to the tune of $10,000. She sent a check to the Bahamian immigration minister in the hope of obtaining citizenship as soon as possible. It’s unknown why she would do this, but it probably has something to do with Larry Birkhead’s paternity claim on her newborn. Unwed fathers have almost no rights to their children in the Caribbean.

Two more men besides Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern have claimed to be the father of Anna Nicole’s newborn, Dannielynn, but it is thought they are speaking out for publicity reasons.

Anna Nicole’s tragic trashtastic tale is the story that just keeps on giving.

Daniel’s body is still in the Bahamas awaiting word from Anna as to what to do. If I’m jumping the gun by calling her irresponsible for not burying him yet let me know. She could be in denial or something, but it seems uncaring to not have taken care of matters by now.

When I saw these pictures of Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern’s wedding I kind of cringed a little. Anna looks strung out and greasy faced, especially in the picture of her holding her baby. The whole thing seems like a ridiculous stunt considering that she had a baby and her son died just three weeks ago.

The accompanying article is a fluff piece about how great the fake wedding was and how Anna’s been coping with the tragedy of losing her son after supplying him with methadone.

When asked why they had the stupid ceremony in the first place, a different one of Anna’s lawyers claimed they needed the “adrenaline rush.” It looks like the cash for the pictures was a bigger motivation.

Larry Birkhead has filed suit at an LA courthouse claiming paternity of Anna Nicole’s newborn Dannielynn. In statements given to the press, he insists that Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern are just friends, that there’s no way Stern is the father of Anna’s baby, and that Stern was often hanging around the house when he visited Anna. He also claims that Anna miscarried an earlier baby she conceived with him.

These pictures destroyed any shred of sympathy I had left for Anna. I wish her well and I hope her baby gets the care it needs, but she and Howard need to be questioned and put on trial to determine their role in Daniel’s death.

Photos from People Magazine. There is also one picture from Splash News Online of Larry Birkhead arriving at court to file paternity papers.

Anna Nicole’s quick weight loss and loopy public appearances make a lot more sense in light of the lawsuit filed by the man who claims he’s her baby’s daddy. Photographer Larry Birkhead says Anna is addicted to the heroin substitute methadone and that her lawyer Howard K. Stern is her dealer. In a lawsuit asking for custody of Anna’s newborn, Danilynne, Birkhead claims that Anna escaped to the Bahamas right before she was due to give birth in order to avoid drug testing, with the added benefit of denying him paternity rights.

He also says that not only is Howard K. Stern not the father of the baby, but that Anna initially shopped around for another man to pose as her baby’s daddy:

If this is true it sheds light onto why Anna was overheard screaming “You did this!” when she first found her son Daniel’s lifeless body. Daniel died from a lethal combination of methadone, Zoloft, and Lexapro. He only had a prescription for Lexapro. Howard might have slipped him a little something extra to help him relax after his long journey to meet his new baby sister.

That’s incredibly sad. Anna and Howard need to be taken into custody soon and questioned about Daniel’s death.