Anna Nicole Smith

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 end. More Howard K. Stern Rita to Anna's Men: Nothin' Wrong with Gay Sex Birkhead and Stern ... 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 her therapist, Eroshevich, naked together, embracing in a bathtub. Also in question is the conduct of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor , who was photographed shirtless and nuzzling the late ... Read Full Story

Scott Suchman / Getty Images 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 of the settlement." That sound you're hearing is the husky-voiced journo clearing her throat in relief. Stern was seeking ... 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 accidental drug overdose in a Florida hotel room on February 8, 2007. "I do find the proof is sufficient to bind them over for trial," Perry said, ... 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 have contributed to him prescribing drugs for her. However, Kapoor's diary entry on June 13, 2005, seemed to ... Read Full Story