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Anna Nicole Nannies Deny Dishing to Cosby

Mon., Oct. 8, 2007 10:35 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

Here's something that supposedly didn't make it into these nannies' diaries.

Two women who worked as child-care providers for Anna Nicole Smith in the Bahamas have denied telling a private investigator—or anybody else—that they spotted their boss watching a tape of Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern getting intimate, as it says in Rita Cosby's new tell-all, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.

"They don't know one way or another if it happened," attorney Elizabeth Thompson told the Associated Press on behalf of clients Quethlie Alexis and Nadine Alexie, who both worked at the waterfront mansion where Stern and Smith lived with the former Playboy Playmate's infant daughter Dannielynn.

Alexis and Alexie, whose insider perspective became a hot commodity after the death of Smith's son, Daniel, in September 2006 and then even more so after Smith's death, admitted to speaking with a detective who they thought was working for Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur.

But, they agree, they never said anything about a tape of Birkhead and Stern, Thompson said.

Cosby, a former MSNBC anchor who followed Birkhead and Smith's—and then Birkhead and Stern's—custody battle very closely, wrote in Blonde Ambition that the two men who both claimed to be Dannielynn's father at one point were actually lovers who plotted together to win control of Smith's estate.

Both gentlemen called the book's so-called revelations ludicrous, and Stern filed a $60 million defamation lawsuit against Cosby and her publisher last week, claiming she "intentionally published false and defamatory statements about Stern related to Ms. Smith's death, in a calculated effort to increase sales and increase profits."

Stern and Birkhead have also both said that Cosby never attempted to contact them to verify the allegations before the book went to print.

The newswoman, meanwhile, has stood behind her reporting efforts, saying she had multiple sources who alleged an affair between Birkhead and Stern, as well as the existence of a videotape of them engaged in sexual activity.

"We have a number of sources," Cosby told the AP Monday, after Alexis and Alexie denied being involved in the project. "We have it attributed directly to a private investigator who specifically said that."

Cosby, who's currently in the Bahamas, said she would like to speak with the women while she's in town.

"It was obvious that they were not readily accessible, and we thought it was important to come down here and speak," she said.