Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern are suing
MSNBC’s Rita Cosby and her publisher over Rita’s upcoming book which alleges that Larry and Howard were gay lovers and that there is a sex tape out there that proves it. Rita’s book also claims that Stern and Birkhead cut a custody discount and that Stern kept Anna Nicole pumped up with drugs. Stern and Birkhead furiously deny the allegations.

Birkhead, the father of Smith’s infant daughter, said that though he has yet to see the book, he intends to sue Cosby, her sources and Grand Central Publishing.
“This is going to be one of the most expensive lawsuit settlements in book-publishing history,” Birkhead told The Associated Press Tuesday.



Stern also planned to “file and aggressively pursue a libel case” against Cosby and her publishers, his attorney, L. Lin Wood, said Tuesday.
“The more information I have received over the last several days about Ms. Cosby’s book, the more convinced I am that she has, as a practical matter, authoruddy a work of pure fiction,” Wood said in a statement.



Birkhead acknowledged meeting with Cosby several times after Smith’s death in February. But he flatly denied that he and Stern, Smith’s attorney and sometime boyfriend, ever sharuddy a sexual tryst.
“It’s totally false and defamatory,” Birkhead said. “This book is fueled by Internet gossip and tabloid reports. She never once tried to contact me or Howard to see if any of these things were true.”