[Larry King:] Tonight exclusive, he was there with Anna Nicole Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, after her shocking death. There when Stern reunited with her baby daughter, and when he found her Bahamas mansion ransacked. Now in his first interview on this world exclusive, Mark Steines of "Entertainment Tonight" tells us all about flying to the Bahamas with Howard K. Stern last weekend. And then...
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[King:] Next on LARRY KING LIVE. Good evening. Welcome to another edition of LARRY KING LIVE. We begin with Mark Steines, the co-host of "Entertainment Tonight." He did a world exclusive interview with Howard K. Stern in the aftermath of Anna Nicole's death, and witnessed his reunion in the Bahamas with baby Dannielynn. Also with us is Bonnie Tiegel. Bonnie is senior supervising producer at "Entertainment Tonight," and at "The Insider." She's been covering the Anna Nicole story back and forth in Florida and in the Bahamas. How did you get to get that interview, Mark?
[Mark Steines, Co-host, "entertainment Tonight":] Well, over the past several months, we have had a relationship with Anna and Howard. We have been my first interview was back in October after Daniel died. We flew immediately down to Florida when we found out the news. And we were able to talk with Howard. And I found myself in a position where we were alone on that plane. And I asked him, you know, as any journalist would, would you grant me an interview?
[King:] Bonnie, the report is you gave him $1 million.
[Bonnie Tiegel, Senior Supervising Producer, Entertainment Tonight:] Larry, we do not pay for interviews. It is just not done.
[King:] Everyone said that on this show last night, you paid a million. Why did he make a million?
[Tiegel:] You know what? Speculation. They don't have the story. We are inside. We are the only ones inside.
[Steines:] Can I speak?
[Tiegel:] You may.
[King:] Please.
[Steines:] Because this bothers me. Because so many people say this and they're from the outside. And we have been with these people. Bonnie has been on the phone with Howard. We've had a relationship with these guys. And because of the tragic events that happened, we were so close to this that Howard, when he saw me, when he sees Bonnie and our producers, they see a trusted face. They see somebody who they've allowed into their life. And that's how this relationship and this that's how this interview came about.
[Tiegel:] We are the only ones that actually saw the story. We got the story. Because when Daniel passed away, we were there. We were there in a heartbeat.
[King:] In other words, you hustle.
[Tiegel:] We hustled.
[King:] I mean, you hustled. Did you pay for anything else? Did you pay for if not for the interview, did you pay for a video he may have given you?
[Tiegel:] Larry, we don't pay for interviews.
[King:] OK. "Entertainment Tonight" did that exclusive interview in the Bahamas after the death. The first clip you're going to see is Howard reacting to what he called a break-in at the house. Let's take a look.
[Howard K. Stern, Smith Boyfriend:] I mean, this is just outrageous. And they are stealing from Dannielynn because everything, everything, all of Anna's assets go to her daughter. You know, they it's not like anything I mean, that's what makes this the sickest part of all. I mean, they took pictures off the wall, drawings that were paintings that were made for Dannielynn. These are Dannielynn's memories.
[King:] Why do you think he did this, Mark? Who did this?
[Steines:] Who?
[King:] Howard? He has just lost the love of his life.
[Steines:] To do the interview?
[King:] Yes. He has lost what would have been his stepson. Why did he do it?
[Steines:] Well, I think, you know, I had asked him, I said, can we come into the house when you first walk in there to see? And there was a hesitation. I said, listen, for anything else, for proof that you didn't go in and do this yourself. That you didn't go in and turn the house upside down. And he said, sure. So when we followed him inside and he was shocked to see what he saw there. When everything was gone. He got emotional about it. I mean, paintings that Anna Nicole had painted for the baby were gone off of the wall. Pictures of her as Marilyn Monroe.
[King:] What was the reunion like with the daughter?
[Steines:] It was emotional. It was you know, we I stepped back because I wanted I'm a father. And I know what it was like for him to hold that baby. And you know, Howard is a very calm, cool, collected guy. He's smart. But it was that emotion that I saw come out of him that was just uncontrollable.
[King:] Did you have any idea, Bonnie, why he won't have a DNA and put this case away?
[Tiegel:] I don't have that answer. I can only know what he has told us. And that is that Anna's wishes were not to do that. They didn't want to do that because simply because they were asked by Larry Birkhead. And they made the decision Anna made the decision, which I believe Howard is going along with...
[King:] But nobody everyone says that's a weak explanation. Wouldn't you agree it's a weak explanation.
[Tiegel:] I just don't have the answer to one.
[King:] You want to know you're the father, wouldn't you? Wouldn't he want to know? He can't know for sure. No one knows for sure until you do that, right?
[Tiegel:] That's correct. Anna doesn't...
[Steines:] But do you go against her wishes? Think of yourself as Howard now. He knows what Anna's wishes were.
[King:] But he looks like a money-grubber because she's going to inherit a lot of money and he wants it.
[Steines:] I know, but what do you do? Do you...
[King:] You do the
[Dna. Steines:] You do the DNA? Even though you know Anna didn't want it to happen?
[King:] I would do the DNA for the baby. The only thing that counts now is the baby, I think.
[Tiegel:] That is going to be resolved. But it is going to be resolved possibly on their terms.
[Steines:] Is it the baby or is it the pile of money?
[King:] What only counts is the baby, her life counts. She should know her father.
[Steines:] Right, right, right.
[Tiegel:] And he has an amazing relationship with that baby, as did Anna. He is loving. He is caring. I only know because that's what I have seen every time we have been there. He feeds the baby. He I mean, this is what he is, he's caring. And I thought...
[King:] What's...
[Tiegel:] Go ahead.
[King:] What's going on in the Bahamas? Are they suspicious of these deaths, of the boy? I mean, what's...
[Steines:] I don't think there should be any reason for suspicion. I mean, they looked into this. I've asked Howard pointblank. Listen, I've talked to his sister. I've done I've asked other people, I've talked to the bodyguard. I said, look, what's going on here? What's really happening behind the scenes? And he's like, nothing. It's not as if Howard is shoving pills down her neck or trying to ply her with any other that I have ever seen or witnessed. I have been through that house there. I have been in there several times. I have not seen pill bottles laying around. I haven't seen him give her anything.
[King:] Bonnie, you're one of the great producers in the business. No one would deny this.
[Tiegel:] Thank you very much.
[King:] Why is this this big a story?
[Tiegel:] I think it's the biggest story of my career and possibly Mark. You have a larger-than-life person, which Anna was, just because of her nature and what he she did. You have the very, very sad fact that she lost a son three days after she had a baby.
[Steines:] A son that died in bed with her, next to her in the hospital. It is compelling. It is larger than life. And unfortunately it is death as well.
[King:] Classic drama then?
[Steines:] It is. It is you know.
[Tiegel:] And you don't have answers to everything. And that makes it interesting.
[King:] See another part of Mark's exclusive. This is Anna Nicole with her daughter and Howard K. Stern. Let's listen in for a few seconds.
[Anna Nicole Smith:] Can you say mama? Mama, mama, mama.
[Stern:] Say, mama, give me my ba-ba. Mama, give me my ba-ba.
[Smith:] Say, shut up, daddy. Say, mama, mama.
[King:] You provided us with a photograph of a baby shower held for Dannielynn. What's significant about it, particularly in connection with the renewed controversy over Anna Nicole and the Bahamas immigration story?
[Steines:] It is a really good question. And I think this just goes to show you how fair we are trying to make the scene look here, because photographic evidence was removed in that evidence. Photographs were removed from their premises. We were there when went inside. The pictures that have been released to the local media there only show a side that really kind of incriminates one of the officials there. We also have a photograph that shows that it was actually part of a baby shower and that they only selected a portion of a smaller picture to show that perhaps there was some sort of sexual relationship happening. And we have other pictures from that hard drive that show that it was a baby shower and the hugs and the embraces were just Howard saying or it was Shane saying goodbye.
[Tiegel:] The picture with Anna saying in bed with Shane Gibson, who I believe is the minister of immigration in the Bahamas, that's in her bed. She was saying goodbye. She's in the same exact clothes. She's under the covers from the baby shower.
[Steines:] We are told Howard took the picture with her camera.
[King:] Are we going to get all of the answers?
[Steines:] I'm going to stay with this story until, you know...
[King:] Bonnie says no, we'll never get them.
[Tiegel:] I don't think we'll get them all.
[Steines:] Well, I'm going to keep going until...
[King:] When you go back there when do you go back?
[Steines:] When the story takes the next step. I mean, you have got a funeral to plan. You have got a DNA test. You have got an inquest that is all coming up. There is a lot happening.
[King:] Thanks, Mark. You're doing a great job.
[Steines:] Thank you, thank you very much.
[King:] Bonnie, one of the best.
[Tiegel:] Thank you, Larry. Thank you.
[King:] Coming up, Judge Judy weighs in on the Anna Nicole hubbub and the fate of the daughter. And as we go to break, a lighthearted look at Anna Nicole as she shows the folks at "ET" and "The Insider" a certain special feature of her home. We will be right back.
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[Smith:] It is a stripper pole.
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