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Larry Birkhead fires his lawyer

Posted by Fired Fred on June 1, 2007 5:13 PM
So the guy whose little swimmers lucked him into Anna Nicole Smith's massive fortune has a problem with his lawyer doing to him what he did to the late Playmate. Debra Opri has about $650,000 of Leisure Suit Larry's money stashed away in her client trust fund account.

TMZ.com has the sad, sordid story...
Behind the scenes, Opri and her agent, Babette Perry (who works at the IMG Agency) were negotiating the deal for Birkhead. NBC Universal agreed to pay Larry $1,050,000. Birkhead subsequently appeared on a Bravo special. He also repeatedly appeared exclusively on "Access Hollywood" and "Today."

But something weird happened after the check was cut. Although the money was negotiated for Birkhead, the first installment -- $850,000 -- ended up in Debra Opri's client trust fund account.
Devious Debra cut him a check for $200,000, then sent him a bill for over $620,000. Which is pretty close to the money she just happens to have tucked away from his NBC payoff.

Meanwhile, Larry stands to make a freaking mint off of Anna Nicole's do-me fortune. I don't know who to root for here. I'm going to root for a meteor to hit Debra and Larry.
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