There’s a new chapter in the ongoing drama in the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith’s death.

Attorney Debra Opri, who had represented former Smith lover Larry Birkhead until they parted ways last March, filed a defamation lawsuit against Birkhead Monday in an L.A. court.

“After I chose to terminate our legal relationship, Larry Birkhead began a malicious and relentless media campaign to discredit me and to destroy my reputation,” Opri said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

Birkhead, 34, the father of Smith’s ...

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