Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend, and two doctors were charged with conspiring to furnish drugs to Smith prior to her death in February 2007.
The charges include conspiracy, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict, The Associated Press reports. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were booked and released late Thursday on ...
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In separate petitions filed on Monday, Howard K. Stern is asking the court to recognize Anna Nicole Smith's 6-year-old will as a binding document, while Larry Birkhead has asked to be appointed the guardian of his and Smith's daughter Dannielynn's estate.If Smith's will is declared legal, the document tendered by Stern left an estimated $710,000 to Smith's (now-deceased) son, Daniel, and gave Stern custody of the then-minor. A probate proceeding will sort through Smith's assets and debts and establish a trust for Dannielynn, who could possibly inherit the $500 million estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall III. A hearing slated for June 19 will consider the will as well as Birkhead's petition, which claims that Dannielynn's dad "is in the best position to protect and safeguard the interests of the child... including her interests in the estate of her deceased mother."
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Although the late Playboy pinup's non-babydaddy Howard K. Stern is claming that two diaries being sold to the highest bidder(s) this Saturday are stolen property and as such should be returned to him (though he, um, didn't write them), Dallas' Heritage Auction Galleries says, "In the absence of a judge stopping this auction, this auction will go forward." Also on the block: a $16,954.66 receipt from a shopping spree Smith went on in 1992, a signed bank check (probably no longer any good, just a hunch), and the dimbulb bombshell's 1994 Texas driver's ID (the first of its kind to denote bust size as opposed to eye color).
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After months of speculation, photographer Larry Birkhead has been declared the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith's now 7-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, a court in the Bahamas ruled on Tuesday. The ruling was determined through DNA evidence submitted by Smith and fellow claimants Howard K. Stern and Prince Fredric Von Anhalt. Smith and Birkhead had a contentious relationship by the time Dannielynn was born, and it was only exacerbated when Smith identified Stern, her lawyer and live-in companion, as the baby's father (and even listed him as such on Dannielynn's birth certificate). Though everyone involved has been issued a gag order by the court — the case is still in progress — Birkhead, speaking briefly to reporters after the decision came down, said he believed Smith "would be proud that I fought [for custody]." Stern, in turn, said the months-long process has been "difficult, very difficult," due in part to media coverage that he deemed "beyond irresponsible" and ...
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This is no way to get the tabloids off your back. Although Court TV has reported that a swab test already has been performed on Anna Nicole Smith's 6-month-old, Dannielynn, the deceased's lawyer and the supposed father of the baby, Howard K. Stern, is trying to block the ruling that ordered the test in the first place. Dude, if you're the dad, chill; if you're not, give it up already. In other parenting news, Angelina Jolie left Hanoi yesterday with more than a lousy T-shirt: She took home her new son, Pax Thien Jolie (né Pham Quang Sang), whom she renamed with the Latin word for "peace" and the Vietnamese word for "sky" or "heaven." 'Cause Bob just didn't have the same ring to it.
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