CBS gets sued a lot:  Anna Nicole's mother joins the crowd  
Thursday, October 11th, 2007

CBS seriously gets sued a lot.  Dan Rather, Bob Barker's ex-employee, and now Virgie Arthur, all in the matter of a month or so.  Anna Nicole Smith's mother filed a lawsuit against Howard K. Stern and CBS yesterday.  She's suing Stern for giving Smith prescription drugs, influencing and controlling her, and according to Arthur, "encouraged her to answer questions in a defamatory manner" in their interview that was broadcast in November of 2006 by Entertainment Tonight, which is owned by CBS.  In the interview, Anna Nicole accused her mother on the air of being involved in the physical and sexual abuse of Anna as a child.

"You want to hear all the things she did to me?  You want to hear all the things she let my father do to me or my brother do to me?  Or my sister?...All the beatings and the whippin's and the rape?  That's my mother.  That's my mom," Anna said.

CBS distributed the interview to its affiliates, and Arthur's lawsuit alleges, "The videotape was provided to Stern by CBS Studios/Entertainment Tonight, which conspired with Stern to defame Plaintiff [Anna] for its own profit."  Graphics of the words "HATRED" and "ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE" were displayed for emphasis.  ET can be really creepy - especially when they broadcast Anna's burial.  Anything for ratings.   But somehow I don't see Virgie as the good guy in all this...do you?

   

 

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