HOLLYWOOD - Anna Nicole Smith's longtime companion Howard K. Stern is suing a journalist for "exploiting" the memory of the late glamour model.
Stern filed a $60 million lawsuit against Rita Cosby on Tuesday over "false allegations" in her new tome Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.
The book claims Stern and Larry Birkhead--the father of Smith's daughter Dannielynn--were lovers who plotted to get control of the late star's estate. Cosby, a former MSNBC correspondent, claims there is a sex tape to prove the pair were lovers.
But Stern's attorney, L. Lin Wood, has furiously denied the accusations.
Wood says, "Blonde Ambition purports to be a 'tell-all' book, but it can only be accurately described as a 'tell-all-lies' book.
"And I am sure Howard and the estate and everyone else involved is going to sue her, too. This is just nonsense... None of it is true."
Birkhead has denied a sex tape exists and has also threatened to sue.
Smith passed away earlier this year.
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