Legal Opinion
Stern v. Cosby
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 25, 2009No. 07 Civ. 8536(DC)PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
In this libel case, plaintiff Howard K. Stern, the former lawyer for and companion of the late Anna Nicole Smith, sues defendants Rita Cosby and Hachette Book Group USA, Inc. (“Hachette”), the author and publisher, respectively, of the bestselling book Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death (the “Book”). Stern contends that defendants defamed him in the Book by falsely stating or suggesting, among other things, that he had engaged in sex with the father of Smith’s child, “pimped” Smith to as many as fifty men a year, and played a role in…
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