With accusations of a deal between him and Howard K Stern still swirling, Larry Birkhead has said the mother of Anna Nicole Smith, Virgie Arthur is just interested in money and not Anna Nicole & Larry’s daughter Dannielynn Birkhead.

Dannielynn turned one year old last week but Virgie has expressed sadness at not being invited to the 200-guest birthday party in Kentucky at the weekend. Larry told E! Online: “Virgie knows exactly why she can’t see her granddaughter. It’s because she’s waging a custody battle against me in the Bahamas. It’d be a little awkward with her coming over to my house for dinner—’Virgie, pass the peas. By the way, see you in court next week.’”

“She doesn’t want to be a grandmother, she wants to be a money manager. She can continue to play poor-pitiful-me games to anyone who’ll listen, I’m not buying it.”

“Dannielynn has [paternal] grandmothers who are all supportive, you don’t see them dragging me through every courthouse.”

He added that Virgie hasn’t shown much interest in the baby away from the court: “She stood me up for a Sunday visitation. I waited all day, and she didn’t show up or call. Then a few weeks later, I get a note: ‘How’s the baby? Is she getting her first tooth?’”

“She had two teeth when she was sitting in front of her in the lawyer’s office. A good grandmother would remember whether her granddaughter’s got teeth or not. She’d also remember to call and come over for a visitation that she scheduled…She can’t remember to call me for visitation, but she can remember to file papers in the courthouse about me.”

Virgie insists she’s asked for photographs of Dannielynn but Larry denies the claim: “[It’s] not true. The private investigator she hired to follow me around asks for photographs.”

“She hasn’t shown any respect for me, and we keep people like that at bay.”