Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith
Howard K. Stern, the lawyer and companion of Anna Nicole Smith, was charged Wednesday with five felony counts in relation to the late reality star's drug use and February 2007 death.
Stern has pleaded not guilty to all five charges, which include four counts of obtaining fraudulent prescriptions and one count of prescribing, administering or dispensing controlled substances to an addict.
The tragic life and death of Anna Nicole Smith
The charges follow a March 2009 charge against Stern, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor. They were accused of...
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Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith may have had sexual contact with two of her doctors, and a Los Angeles pharmacist rejected a prescription for the reality star five months before her 2007 death, calling it "pharmaceutical suicide," the Los Angeles Times reports.
Newly unsealed affidavits revealed these details, including a description of the prescription in question, which called for 300 tablets ...
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Anna Nicole Smith
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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Ongoing developments in the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith's death:• All but sealing his bid for a TV show titled "Judge Wishy-washy," circuit court judge Larry Seidlin on Thursday ordered that Smith's body be handed into the custody of the court-appointed guardian of Dannielynn, the deceased's 5-month-old daughter. (Reuters)• In court on Wednesday, Larry Birkhead claimed that when Smith was four months pregnant with Dannielynn and hospitalized to wean her off a prescription-drug habit, Howard K. Stern "was thwarting [the] efforts" by sneaking her meds "on top of what she was getting from the IV."• Questioned for a second time, Stern was pressed by the judge to admit that "Anna paid for everything," including his $950-a-month rent, since he immersed himself in her life in 2002. He also 'fessed that he stands to reap six percent of any fortune Smith might inherit from late husband J. Howard Marshall.• Virgie Arthur said Stern is angling to sell broadcast rights to...
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Anna Nicole Smith and Tony Little (inset).
Even as the E! network was hiring überfitness trainer Tony Little to get the increasingly plus-sized Anna Nicole Smith into shape, her lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, was already brokering a deal with TrimSpa, Little tells TV Guide — an arrangement which would have netted Stern a lot of cash.
"I was brought in as a trainer, to get her to drop the weight and get her motivated," Little recalls. But, as others who tried to help Smith found, the bombshell wasn't particularly interested in helping herself. "She was a very tough case."
Little helped install a home gym and tried to get Smith to begin a regimen, in the hopes that she'd lose weight in a healthy way. "I'm a high-energy motivating
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Ongoing developments in the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith's death:• As Florida courtrooms battle to decide who has the right to bury Smith, Virgie Arthur said on Wednesday that any estrangement between the two was largely due to Howard K. Stern's omnipresence in her daughter's life, and broke down in tears as she recalled how she was not invited to grandson Daniel's funeral. "She wasn't estranged from me all those years. We were still in contact," said Arthur. "It was when she was older, when she was with Howard Stern, that I was not able to get ahold of her." Circuit court judge Larry Seidlin has said he would rule by Friday on where Smith's body should be buried. (Fox News)• Arthur wants to exhume Daniel Smith, now buried in the Bahamas, and bring his body to Texas, to be buried with his mother in Anne Nicole's native state. (AP)• On Tuesday, lawyers for Stern played a video in which Smith calls Arthur "mommy dearest." "You want to hear all the things she did to m...
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