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December 1st, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
We’ve talked about the O.J. factor and how it’s making investigators in the Michael Jackson case act with such extreme patience and caution at every turn.
Basically, there’s no rush, and they don’t want to let another winnable, high-profile case go by the wayside because they got sloppy like with the Juice.
But there’s another reason the case is dragging on for months – Anna Nicole Smith. Her ex-beau Howard K. Stern will likely go to trial on multiple drug-related felony charges stemming from the model’s addiction woes and death.
Because the case is similarly compliex, prosecutors are probably watching that case to determine the specific charges Dr. Conrad Murray should face.
Murray, who has been blamed by the Jackson family for MJ’s death, has maintained his innocence throughout the process and has returned to work.
How Dr. Conrad Murray is charged may hinge on the Anna Nicole Smith case.
While some Jacksons have called him a murderer, it’s clear there was no premeditated killing of Michael, and how to prosecute him is a murky task.
“It’s not like prosecutors think there’s a propofol murderer out there,” says Robin Sax, former Los Angeles prosecutor, saying he’s not a flight risk.
Yet another factor slowing things down: the feds.
“At the very least,” retired Drug Enforcement Administration supervisory special agent Gregory D. Lee says, “Murray runs the risk of losing his license.”
That seems like a given, but like the LAPD, the DEA is still determining what, if any, more serious federal drug charges will be filed against the doc.
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October 30th, 2009
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A nanny who once worked for Anna Nicole Smith claimed she saw Howard K. Stern and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich force drugs on the late Playboy model.
This according to an investigator testifying in courtyesterday.
The Department of Justice’s Danny Santiago testified that Nadine Alexie claimed she saw Smith’s companion (Stern) and former shrink (Eroshevich) give Smith drugs against her will that kept her asleep for days.
Santiago said he got the information from Alexie in September.
The nanny, according to Santiago, also claimed that Smith would wake up covered in vomit and feces in her bed. Absolutely tragic, terrible stuff.
Anna Nicole Smith (1968-2007).
The testimony was part of a preliminary hearing to determine if Stern, Dr. Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor will be tried for Smith’s death.
We suspect they will be. Last week, a pharmacist testified that Eroshevich prescribing lethal doses of drugs to Smith and he wouldn’t comply.
The trio of defendants face more than a dozen felony counts of allegedly supplying Smith with drugs illegally, and for aiding a drug addict.
All three defendants have pleaded not guilty.
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October 28th, 2009
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October 15th, 2009
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October 14th, 2009
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October 14th, 2009
Original Article from Snarky Gossip
More details are surfacing about Anna Nicole Smith’s final days before her drug-induced death.
In addition to the usual crazy we’ve already heard about (see above), testimony is coming out from the criminal trial involving charges that Smith’s former lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two California doctors conspired to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances; such as she couldn’t walk unassisted, couldn’t sit up, and was taking nourishment in a baby’s bottle. A BABY”S BOTTLE.
Of course, I think we can all agree that Howard K. Smith really needs to go to jail for the part he played in this, right? He’s definitely the bad guy.
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October 14th, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Anna Nicole Smith’s death wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was the polar opposite.
Revelations made in the first hours of the preliminary hearing against Howard K. Stern, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor – the trio facing a combined 23 felony charges relating to the star’s drug use and death – are disgusting.
We’re talkin’ feces in the bed, infections in uncomfortable places, blue-lipped ugliness. Detectives investigating the Playboy model’s death found the following:
- Smith was found February 8, 2007, covered with feces.
- A dozen different prescription and illicit drugs from her hotel room, many prescribed by the hundreds, included powerful sedatives and muscle relaxers.
- Howard K. Stern had served Anna, who was complaining of flu-like symptoms, children’s electrolyte formula Pedialyte in a baby bottle. Great imagery.
- Smith’s cause of death was ruled acute combined drug toxicity of chloral hydrate, with additional drugs contributing. Sound like someone else we know?
- Coroners say Smith had an infected abscess on her buttock and that Dr. Khristine Eroshevich admitted that Smith had been taking meds via injection.
- Medications including methadone had been shipped to Smith’s P.O. box during her stay in the Bahamas and were sometimes picked up by Stern.
Anna Nicole Smith (1968-2007) was a deeply disturbed individual.
Yeah. And it’s actually much worse than you think. One can only wonder what will happen when Larry Birkhead is called to the stand in the case this week.
For the full story, read on at E! …
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October 8th, 2009
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Mark “Hollywood” Hatten used to date Anna Nicole Smith. Yeah, yeah. We know. Didn’t we all. But his allegations are much more scandalous than that.
The FBI believed Anna Nicole Smith schemed to kill her late husband’s son to secure his family fortune, and investigated her for it from 2000-2001.
Ultimately, they did not have enough evidence to charge the Playboy model.
“I’m responsible [for the probe],” Hatten told the New York Daily News.
The late model and reality star was investigated for plotting the murder of E. Pierce Marshall, who was in a legal battle with her over her dad’s $550 million estate.
J. Howard Marshall, who made a fortune in oil exploration during the 20th Century, died in 1995 at age 90. He was married to Anna for his final 14 months.
Hatten says Smith wanted him to off his son to secure the money – and wanted him to do the honors: “She was begging me to kill Pierce Marshall, telling me that he was the Devil standing in the way of her inheritance.”
“She said that we’d be set if I just take this gun and knife and do this. She convinced me she wanted [Pierce Marshall] dead. But she was doped up.”
“Then we’d wake up the next day, and she’d say, ‘No, no, I don’t remember saying that.’ It was like a split personality,” her ex reflected.
Mark “Hollywood” Hatten said he feared what would happen so he went to Marshall’s lawyers. No direct evidence of Smith’s involvement appears in the FBI file.
Agents confiscated a .375-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, a knife and a Dr. Seuss hat (?) that Hatten said was the hiding place for the weapons.
Smith’s lawyer, Ron Rale, said the allegations are untrue.
Pierce Marshall died from natural causes three years ago. Smith died of a drug overdose in 2007, for which her former companion Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were only recently charged.
Smith’s death has been called a “pharmaceutical suicide.”
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October 7th, 2009
Anna Nicole Smith was investigated for plotting to have the son of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, killed. Even though the FBI investigated Smith, she was never prosecuted. According to newly released files, Smith was under observation in 2000 and 2001 for scheming to kill E. Pierce Marshall over the hundreds of millions they were battling for in court. The Associated Press reports:
Smith’s FBI records, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press, say the agency investigated Smith in 2000 and 2001 in a murder-for-hire plot targeting E. Pierce Marshall, who was at the center of a long legal fight to keep the starlet, model and stripper from collecting his father’s oil wealth, valued in the hundreds of millions. The younger Marshall died three years ago of natural causes.
The documents released under the Freedom of Information Act depict an investigation going on as the fight raged over J. Howard Marshall II’s estate. Vast sections of the 100 pages of released materials — a fraction of Smith’s full FBI file — are whited out, and no evidence of her involvement in such a plot is detailed.The FBI files show a .357-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver was confiscated from Smith’s home, along with a 3 1/2-inch stainless steel knife and, for reasons that were not explained, a black and orange hat described as “Dr. Seuss.” All three objects were returned to her about seven months later.
Would they let this woman rest? I would probably want to kill E. Pierce Marshall too?! I mean Anna had to make out with that old man!! Doesn’t she deserve something?! No wonder she was under so much stress. She was dealing with the trial and an FBI investigation. Poor Anna. R.I.P.
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September 23rd, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Howard K. Stern, the former companion and wannabe baby daddy of Anna Nicole Smith, was arraigned today on 11 felony charges related to her drug use.
The charges include allegations that Stern, the late model’s principal enabler, helped the Playboy model score opiate prescriptions using aliases, a major crime.
He is also accused of helping administer them.
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, both of whom treated and allegedly prescribed drugs to Smith, were each arraigned on six felonies as well.
All three defendants have pleaded not guilty.
Howard K. Stern is in hot water over Anna Nicole Smith’s death.
Howard’s attorney, Steve Sadow, charges against his client “BS” at a press conference afterward, and claims that Anna Nicole Smith was “not an addict.”
He says the medications given to Anna were prescribed for pain relief, and there therefore, she wasn’t an addict. Not sure that adds up, Steve, but hey.
Anna Nicole’s health was Howard’s “main concern,” his lawyer said.
Tuesday, a Los Angeles Times report described the death as a pharmacutical suicide. Like the Michael Jackson case, time will tell if a jury finds that the defendants below played criminal roles in Smith’s death, however it’s classified …
Howard K. Stern, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor.
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