Anna Nicole Smith (born November 28, 1967, died February 8, 2007) was an American model and actress. She died in 2007 of a drug overdose a few months after her son, Daniel, died of similar causes. She was one of the US's most popular...
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Anna Nicole Smith (born November 28, 1967, died February 8, 2007) was an American model and actress. She died in 2007 of a drug overdose a few months after her son, Daniel, died of similar causes. She was one of the US's most popular reality television stars. Find more Anna Nicole Smith news, pictures, and information here.
Howard K. Stern has settled his $60 million defamation suit against Rita Cosby ... TMZ has learned. A dismissal was filed late yesterday. We know the case settled and the terms of settlement are confidential. Cosby -- in her book "Blonde Ambition" -- said, among many other things, Stern and Larry Birkhead had a sexual encounter that was caught on video. Both Birkhead and Stern said Cosby made it up. Birkhead did not file suit. Thus another chapter in the Anna Nicole Smith saga comes to an... Read Full Story
Khristine Eroshevich (Getty Images) Pictures reveal that Khristine Eroshevich may have overstepped her professional boundaries with the late model Anna Nicole Smith by engaging in sexual activity with Smith while also prescribing her a regimen of drugs that at least one pharmacist called "pharmaceutical suicide." Khristine Eroshevich arrives for a court hearing. (Getty) The Los Angeles Times reports that three photos on Anna Nicole Smith's hard drive at the time of her death show Smith and... Read Full Story
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Well, that's one less Howard K. Stern legal headache has to worry about.
With a criminal trial looming on the question of whether he conspired to drug Anna Nicole Smith , the lawyer has settled a $60 million defamation suit he filed against former MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby over a tawdry tome she wrote.
A petition for dismissal was filed on Friday, Stern attorney Steve Sadow confirms to E! News, but he would not comment further "pursuant to the terms... Read Full Story
Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend and two physicians were ordered to stand trial on Friday on charges of illegally supplying the late model with powerful drugs. After a two-week preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry ruled there was enough evidence to require Howard K. Stern and doctors Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor to stand trial. All three are accused of funneling prescription drugs to an addict. Former Playboy centerfold Smith, 39, died from an... Read Full Story
A doctor charged with illegally funneling drugs to Anna Nicole Smith wrote in a personal diary that he had to get off drugs himself and wondered if he was wrong to kiss Smith at a party four years ago. Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry read the explosive entries from a diary of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor at a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Kapoor's lawyer previously said he was gay and objected to prosecutors' allegations that he had a sexual relationship with the former Playboy model that could... Read Full Story
Anna Nicole Smith’s ex-boyfriend has settled a defamation lawsuit with a TV journalist out of court.
Howard K Stern’s $60 million defamation suit against Rita Cosby was dismissed on Friday.
TMZ claims the case has been settled and the terms of that deal are confidential.
In her book – Blonde Ambition – Cosby claimed that Stern had a sexual encounter with another ex-boyfriend of Smith, Larry Birkhead.
Cosby claimed that the alleged encounter was caught on camera, which Birkhead and Stern... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California judge on Friday ordered the boyfriend and two doctors for former Playboy model and actress Anna Nicole Smith to stand trial on charges of fueling her addiction to prescription drugs. Smith, 39, died from a prescription drug overdose in February 2007. Her longtime boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, is charged with 11 felony counts, including dispensing a controlled substance to an addict and obtaining a prescription for opiates by deceit. Doctors Khristine... Read Full Story
Two doctors and the lawyer-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith are due in court to hear what government witnesses have to say about their alleged roles in supplying drugs that killed the celebrity model. A preliminary hearing for Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich is scheduled Tuesday before a judge who will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to order them to stand trial. All three have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally provide Smith with... Read Full Story
The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter says he was criticized by a prosecutor for his testimony about the role Smith's former boyfriend had in her medication. Larry Birkhead was questioned about the incident by a defense lawyer before his testimony resumed Monday in a preliminary hearing that will decide if Smith's former boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors will face trial. They are accused of illegally giving the former Playboy model controlled substances. Birkhead says Deputy... Read Full Story
The FBI investigated whether Anna Nicole Smith was part of a plot to kill her tycoon husband's son, whom she was battling for his late dad's fortune, but prosecutors ultimately decided there wasn't enough evidence to charge the Playboy Playmate who died in 2007 from a drug overdose, newly released files show. 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... Read Full Story