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Anna Nicole Smith’s Ex Details Their ‘Cult-Like’ Romance

Larry Birkhead said the late model’s attorney, Howard Stern, was an overbearing member of her entourage.

Larry Birkhead is pulling back the curtain on his relationship with the late Anna Nicole Smith—revealing the control environment that she cultivated. During a Monday appearance on Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, the 53-year-old described their dynamic as “cult-like,” recalling how Smith surrounded herself with a paid entourage that orbited her every move. Birkhead said she portrayed herself as an “available goddess that people desired to be with” and compared the atmosphere to “some kind of cult” built around the model. He also pointed to the presence of Smith’s attorney, Howard Stern, who Bunnie suggested was “a little bit in love” with Smith. The actor described how Stern deeply embedded himself in the pair’s day-to-day lives—at times even crossing into what Birkhead described as “relationship territory.” Despite the environment, Birkhead said he tried to maintain some independence. “I still worked and did my own thing. I wasn’t asking her for money,” he said. The pair kept their relationship under wraps for two years. Their relationship became public after Smith’s 2007 death from an accidental overdose when Birkhead challenged Stern over the paternity of the model’s daughter, Dannielynn. Stern had been listed as the father on the girl’s birth certificate but a DNA test later revealed that Birkhead was the father of the now 19-year-old.