Anna Nicole hoax confirmed?

At a party in Phoenix Tuesday night, an Arizona Indian gaming official declared that the Native love child story was a hoax. She didn't offer any evidence that it was a hoax, but presumably she's in a position to know. So there you have it, for what it's worth.

Smith and the Tohono O'odham

I e-mailed an expert on the Tohono O'odham language. She said the words in the Phoenix New Times article were genuine. Again, if this article is a hoax, it's one of the best-researched ones in history.

Smith's love child: hoax or not?

Phoenix New Times:  Ew.The difference with this hoax is that it has Anna Nicole Smith making vile racist comments to the Native American man with whom she supposedly had an affair back in 2001. It also depicts her asking the man, called Johny Soto, to fuck her “axe wound” in the bathroom of a casino in Las Vegas. The article also includes a nice dollop of racist assumptions about Native Americans–the author had John Soto’s father die of an alcohol overdose after consuming several bottles of Lysol floor cleaner. Go read the article if you want.

Anyway, the article is a fake, and it’s clear for several reasons. First, if John Soto is supposed to be a full-blooded Native American, then I’m a Samurai. The photo of the little kid is obviously Photoshopped. A little Googling showed that the spa where Smith and Soto supposedly stayed was closed during that time for rennovations.Comment:  See my comments at the end of this posting. Also see

Courttv.com Message Boards > Anna Nicole Smith > Marshall Black Deer Soto [m]

a long thread in which the participants discuss the evidence against the hoax.

So far the evidence is inconclusive. If the story is a hoax, you gotta admire the Phoenix New Times for constructing a story rich with details that people, even Native experts, can't knock down easily.

Is Smith story a hoax?

Did Anna Nicole Have A Secret Love Child?

Newspaper Prints Story About A Man Who Claims Anna Nicole Smith Bore His SonThe paper has printed phony stories in the past in honor of April Fool's Day.

Most of the New Times Web site's readers commenting on the article said that they were hip to the hoax. A few pointed to the paper's history of phony stories, as well as several "facts" in the article.

Charles Tatum is the name on the byline of the far-fetched story, which is the only article on the New Times Web site with that name.

Tatum—or at least a man at the New Times offices claiming to be Tatum—spoke to The Showbuzz insisting that the story was true and that he went to Soto's home.

"(Soto) spins quite a tale," Tatum said. "He has documents to back it up and photos. I don't know. I'm not an expert in documents, (but) he had enough for me to believe that he was who he said he was."

But, the Tohono O'odham nation may not appreciate the joke.

Matt Smith, a spokesman for the Tohono O'ohoma tribe, tells The Showbuzz that tribal leaders are not happy that the tribe is mentioned so prominently in the New Times article. They're also not thrilled about the photo of Soto posing with a bottle of whiskey and othere references to drinking in the article.

On the other hand, the reservation is building a new resort and casino, so perhaps they're actually in on the joke for the publicity.Update:  A lot of blogs have picked up the "Soto the love child story," but no one has definitively said whether it's true or not.

Anna Nicole's Native son

Tohono O'odham With Love

Move over, Dannielynn; Anna Nicole's Native son is alive and well on the Tohono O'odham reservation, and he may be the rightful heir to the tabloid temptress' millionsLittle Marshall Soto is glued to the TV this Friday morning in his dad's modest home just outside of Sells, Arizona, capital of the Native American Tohono O'odham Nation. He's not watching cartoons or Sesame Street or some new kids' show on Nickelodeon. Instead, he's focused on the image of a white hearse approaching a Baptist church in the Bahamas.

He looks up wide-eyed to his father, Johnny Soto, seated on a couch behind him. "Je'e?" the boy asks plaintively in his native tongue. Je'e means "Mother" in O'odham.
How did Smith and Soto get involved?Johnny Soto's a tall, ruggedly handsome man in his mid-thirties, with copper skin and jet-black hair, and the way he tells it, in his slow, laconic manner of speaking, it was Anna Nicole Smith who seduced him, not the other way around.

"She'd never slept with anyone who wasn't white before," explains Soto. "That's what she told me. She had what we call 'scarlet fever' [when an Anglo falls for a Native American man or woman]. When an Indian man goes for a white woman, it's called 'eating at the white man's trough.'"And what kind of a mother was she?Since E! was to begin filming in late 2001 or early 2002, Smith had no time to be a mother. She granted Soto custody of the boy, with Smith agreeing to deposit $10,000 a month in Soto's Wells Fargo account for care and upkeep of the child. Soto returned to Phoenix, quit his job at Sanctuary, and began devoting himself full-time to raising the infant. Smith promised that they would one day marry and live as a family, and Soto has numerous hand-written notes and letters from Smith stating those intentions.

One reads, "Oh, my brave Injun-man, how I long to be with you and feel your red manhood. Look after my little paapoosie [sic], and soon I'll be your squaw again. I love you, kemosabe, Anna."Comment:  I'm not sure if this story is true or not. If it isn't, it's an excellent piece of fiction in an otherwise serious alternative weekly.