Celebrity Justice
Birkhead To Opri -- B**ch, Don't Spend My Money

TMZ has obtained Larry Birkhead's new legal attack on Debra Opri. This time, he's asking for an injunction, prohibiting his fired lawyer from spending around $600,000 she's holding hostage in her client trust account.

Birkhead made the money after inking a million-dollar deal with Bravo network. Birkhead has sued Opri, alleging she put the money in her trust account without his consent, and then sent him a ginormous bill.

In an interesting turn, the lawyer for IMG, the agency that represents Opri, turned on her. Regan McGorry writes in a declaration that "Debra directed IMG, and in a telephone call directed IMG and Television Network [Bravo] to wire the initial payment of approximately $866,250 into her attorney client trust account. Debra informed me that she had full authority to have this money wired into said trust account." Wrong!

In Birkhead's declaration, he says, "I need protection to make certain that Opri does not and cannot abscond with my money."



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31. Someone's stretching the truth & as much as I don't care for Opri, you can read all the legal documents here as well as see Larry's sweet handwriting agreeing to monies in a trustfund, etc.:

http://www.artharris.com/2007/06/09/exclusive-debra-opri-fires-back-at-ex-client-larry-birkheads-filthy-digs-dirty-laundry-wheres-his-mystery-roommate-named-byron-demands-arbitration-settle-her-600000-fee-more-trash-to-c

I don't take the fact Regan McGorry made a declaration as to turning on Debra Opri, but more covering her/his? ass. Notice the Wrong! isn't in quotes. Plus Opri hasn't spent a cent of the trust fund, that's why she's legally bound to take it to arbitration.

Oh and guess what, Larry was also flying under the Splash umbrella, not just Virgie, at the same time. I think there's more than meets the eye between these two, Opri & Larry.

Posted at 5:12PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Sherry

32. Awwwww Larry it never seems to end...does it? I hope you get Dannilyns money back from Opri. I guess by now you know what it was like to be Anna Nicole....ppl after you all the time about MONEY......BTW... how is Howard?

Posted at 5:10PM on Jun 19th 2007 by nance

33. BITCH!!!!!

Posted at 5:09PM on Jun 19th 2007 by BIG MO

34. Birkhead made the money after inking a million-dollar deal !!!!!!!!!!!!! so you tell me who is out for the money.

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 19th 2007 by tia

35. Each and everyone of these people will get there due, Opri, Birkhead, Stern, and i guess the wonderful Anna got hers already. Greedy, money hungry vultures, who feed off of a innocent baby. This little girl needs a real home. No one involved has clean hands.

Posted at 5:10PM on Jun 19th 2007 by sherlock

36. Hey Opri - you wanted publicity? You got it. Good luck with any future big cases to pay your $2K dinners. Between Pam Bach and Larry seems eating a little humble pie is in order for you. Bella

Posted at 5:10PM on Jun 19th 2007 by bella

37. 15. Opri had no right to leak your case to the media. Then when you wouldn't succumb to her blackmailing you, she smeared you.

Opri Shame on you.

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Again, have you read the contract between Larry and Opri? Larry hired her to put him in the media. He wanted her to make him a celebrity. Determining DL's paternity was only one of the four things he hired her to do. The rest all involved HIM. It's all there in writing with his signature and his initials on every page of the contract. If you want to know the truth, you'll read it. If not, continue to spout off with no idea of what you're talking about.

Posted at 5:15PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Pampster

38. Hey #29, I prefer to look like a fool! It is so much more fun than being educated. I've tried both! Lighten up.....this is hilarious!

Posted at 5:15PM on Jun 19th 2007 by R U Kidding Me!

39. Dear Debra Opri,

Anything signed after the fact is fraud ! You should have not offered your services for free.
Then you see birkheads big deal with Bravo, and grab his money.
Get your fee agreement sign up front! Not after you see the goose lay a golden egg.
Right tell it to the jury. Your finished!

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Jesup

40. I haven't been here in a while. I staunchly supported LB through his "paternity" quest, only to realize he's one and the same with Howard "OJ" Stern and ANS. They're all a bunch of narcissistic publicity whores with the same objectives: self-promotion and privileges without responsibility. Opri couldn't represent LB through his union with HKS, for obvious (a.k.a.: "ethical") reasons. The whole saga makes me sick now. It actually stinks a little of premeditation. That poor poor baby.

Opri's husband's dry cleaning keeps coming up. Let it go already. Seriously. She loaned LB AND HIS SISTER her family's clothes and credit accounts to buy clothes for the PR gigs (more commonly known as "trials").

Larry,
you're seriously immature and out of touch with reality. As a fellow parent, you disgust me. The (apparent) fact that you're hiding your gay lifestyle is further appalling - not because you're gay (God bless my gays; I love you!), but because you're a FRAUD. You never laid down in LOVE with Anna. I believe that part of her story was true: that this was a business arrangement and YOU got greedy for money and fame. I think part of her laughed in appreciation, because, after all, birds of a feather . . . You must make her proud in that sick little sociopathic way.

You don't know what it's like to pay your way in life. Newsflash: Lawyers make A TON of money - especially high-profile ones. What the hell did you expect? Never mind. What a dumb question.

Kisses to Byron. After the big payoff, maybe you can hire a maid.

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Diego Chick

41. pay you bill,Larry is a gold digger,just like anna

Posted at 5:19PM on Jun 19th 2007 by convict #9818783

42. HEY LARRY,

YOU BETTER WATCH THAT BITCH ASS CROOK, SHE LOOKING FOR PREY, AND SHE STEALS FROM EVERYBODY INCLUDING HER MOMMA.

Posted at 5:22PM on Jun 19th 2007 by HERE WE GO AGAIN

43. Diego Chick-most of these people have no idea what lawyering entails-they remind me of a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. Zealots who try to scream louder and harder than everyone else. Larry turned idiot, or maybe he just scammed us all. But he is definately in it for the $$$ now. Poor kid, she never stood a chance from the minute she was conceived.

Posted at 5:23PM on Jun 19th 2007 by sherlock

44. 41. Dear Debra Opri,

Anything signed after the fact is fraud ! You should have not offered your services for free.
Then you see birkheads big deal with Bravo, and grab his money.
Get your fee agreement sign up front! Not after you see the goose lay a golden egg.
Right tell it to the jury. Your finished!

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Jesup

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Read the documents. Larry HIRED Opri to represent him in his media deals. It wasn't done after the fact.

Posted at 5:25PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Pampster

45. Pampster, the signed copy was one Opri told Larry it was just for the sake of formality in the California courts and that she was representing him for free except that she wanted 10% of media coverage he got. That sounds fair to me and I hope someone besides Larry and Opri heard what was being said. I would trust Larry long before I would trust anything Opri said. Opri went beyond what she told Larry. Then because he let her go, she then concocted a huge bill to cover whatever she had in the trust. Sounds to me like Opri in wanting good press representing Larry that she is going to get just the opposite. If I were a person needing help from an attorney, Debra would be the last one I would ever want! She is ruining her name. Its a disgusting world with the love of money being the root of so much evil.

In the long run, Larry will make the money he needs to keep his little girl safe and sound. Too bad Virgie turned on him. I liked her until she started wanting to control Larry's money too. Bad news.

Posted at 5:28PM on Jun 19th 2007 by JAN

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