Best known as the lawyer/confidante of Playboy Playmate and reality TV star, Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern was frequently in the spotlight alongside his client, who endured very public scrutiny over her battle for the estate of her late billionaire husband, her weight issues, and her suspected addictions. At the time of Smith’s tragic death on Feb. 8, 2007, he was in the process of attempting to prove that he was the father of Smith’s baby, daughter Dannielynn, having wed his client in a legally non-binding commitment ceremony in the Bahamas after the tragic death of Smith's 20-year-old
