Anna Nicole's Jailed Ex Seeks Inheritance

by Gina Serpe
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 02:04:47 PM PST

Anna Nicole Smith's men just can't seem to keep their paws off the late model's estate.

Just two weeks after Howard K. Stern filed a claim against Smith's holdings, maintaining he's entitled to 6 percent of the former Playmate's potentially substantial assets, an incarcerated ex-boyfriend has stepped forward, claiming he too is deserving of a cut of Smith's fortune.

Mark "Hollywood" Hatten, who dated Smith for two years beginning in 2000, filed his claim with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 31.
Smith's estate is believed to be worth in the low millions—a figure that could balloon 100-fold should her estate win its long-playing legal battle for a sizable inheritance from her late oil-tycoon husband, J. Howard Marshall II.

For now, Smith's only heir is her daughter, Dannielynn.

In his documents, Hatten, who proclaimed himself a possible father of Dannielynn during her disputed paternity saga earlier this year, indicated he had already notified lawyers for Stern and Dannielynn's true biological daddy, Larry Birkhead, that he planned on seeking a cut of the estate.

Hatten is currently in the midst of a six-year sentence at the Pleasant Valley State Prison for threatening Smith with a knife and assaulting one of her neighbors. He was also accused of stalking Smith after their relationship flamed out, but was acquitted of the charge.
Should the court accept his claim, however unlikely, Hatten would be given access to all the accounting relating to Smith's estate.

The whole Hatten family is proving to be a pain in the butt for Stern.

In September, Hatten filed a $100 million suit against the attorney and Smith's steadfast sidekick, claiming Stern enabled the deaths of Smith and son Daniel and once attempted to murder Hatten via "a toxic blend of narcotics."

Hatten's sister, Jackie, a self-professed best friend to Smith, earlier this year served as the source of a salacious anecdote that resulted in more lawsuits when she told Rita Cosby she once walked in on Stern and Birkhead in a compromising position. Cosby subsequently printed the account in her book, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.

Stern and Birkhead angrily and adamantly refuted the story. In October, Stern filing a $60 million libel suit against Cosby, claiming her supposed tell-all was riddled with false information and exploited the late reality star's estate.