Jury Questioning Begins In Anna Nicole Smith Drug Trial
Posted on Aug 02, 2010 @ 08:15AM - 2 comments
Jury questioning begins Monday into the drug conspiracy trial surrounding the death of former Playboy pin-up and reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith, and RadarOnline.com has details.
Smith's attorney and constant companion Howard K. Stern, as well as Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich have all pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally provide Smith with massive amounts of opiates and sedatives.
Anna Nicole Smith Drug Case To Go To Trial
Posted on Oct 30, 2009 @ 04:28PM - 2 comments
The verdict is in!
A judge ruled Friday that Howard K Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr Khristine Eroshevich will stand trial for felony drugs charges relating to Anna Nicole Smith's death.
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The three are accused of providing prescription drugs illegally to the late model, who died February 2007 at age 39.
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The judge's decision was made following a three week preliminary hearing.
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All three have pleaded not guilty, they are set to be arraigned December 11th.
EXCLUSIVE: Larry Birkhead Not Appearing On Millionaire Matchmaker
Posted on Oct 14, 2009 @ 04:26PM - 5 comments
Reports surfaced Wednesday that Larry Birkhead is set to appear on the next Season of Bravo’s hit show Millionaire Matchmaker.
PHOTO: Larry And Dannielynn At The Pumpkin Patch
But, that’s all news to Birkhead who tells RadarOnline.com there’s not a word of truth to the rumors.
"The producers of Millionaire Matchmaker approached me about doing the show, and that was several months ago,” Larry tells RadarOnline.com. “ I said no at the time, and that I wasn't interested. I'm not doing the show and reports that I was were news to me."
It seems that Larry has enough on his plate at the moment without popping up on reality TV. The single father is busy raising his adorable daughter, Dannielynn, from the late Anna Nicole Smith, and is due in court Thursday to testify in the preliminary hearing of the case against Howard K Stern, Dr Khristina Eroscevich and Dr Sandeep Kapoor.
Larry Birkhead Set To Testify In Preliminary Hearing
Howard K Stern Seen Injecting Anna Nicole Smith “Four Or Five Times”
Posted on Oct 14, 2009 @ 04:19PM - 9 comments
Howard K. Stern was caught in a bathroom burning a pill over a spoon in order to inject Anna Nicole Smith, according to her former bodyguard.
Maurice Brighthaupt took the witness stand in the case again Stern and two other doctors and revealed how he saw him inject his client on a number of occasions.
And he even saw Smith gulping Chloral Hydrate - one of the substance which killed her - straight from the bottle.
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"I saw him inject Anna maybe four or five times," Brighthaupt told the courtroom in Downtown Los Angeles.
"I saw her trying to give herself an injection too."
On one occassion in the Bahamas in 2006 just after her son died, Brighthaupt claims he walked in on Stern preparing to inject Smith.
"There was a burned spoon," he told Judge Robert J Perry. "Anna was in the bedroom. When I walked in it was in the middle of being burned. "I saw him drawing up liquid from the spoon, it being cooked. I saw, lighter, spoon, heat, liquid, withdrawl."
He also admitted it was in pill form before being burned and claimed Stern told him he was doing it this way because Smith could not swallow the tablets and it would be "ingested quicker" directly into the blood stream.
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Brighthaupt said he knew Smith was taking Chloral Hydrate but that the way she was administering it became out of control.
He also claimed when he went to see her in the Bahamas in 2006 following the death of her son, Daniel, she was swigging the medication straight from the bottle.
"At the beginning she would use a spoon," he told the court. "I saw her use a spoon maybe twice. Then it was bottle to mouth. A gulp."
He also revealed how Smith had deteriorated into a state of depression in the Bahamas.
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"She was somber. She was sick. She was out if it," he admitted. "She spent a lot of time sleeping. She had just lost her son and she was in mourning. So she was always in bed."
During the testimony, Stern shook his head and bit his fingernails while taking notes.
The other two doctors, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristina Eroshevich - who are also accused of administering drugs to an addict - looked directly ahead at the witness stand.
As Stern left the courthouse he was asked what he thought about the witnesses statements to which he simply replied, "Just wait."
The preliminary hearing will continue tomorrow when Larry Birkhead is expected to take the stand.
Anna Nicole Smith Was High On Ecstasy At American Music Awards
Posted on Oct 14, 2009 @ 02:03PM - 2 comments
Anna Nicole Smith was high on Ecstasy when she gave her famous AMA awards speech.
Smith's former bodyguard, Maurice Brighthaupt took the witness stand Wednesday and revealed shocking details about her drug abuse.
Brighthaupt - who is also a firefighter and paramedic - admitted he tried on several occassions to stop Smith from drinking and taking drugs.
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But on the night of the famed American Music Awards in 2004 he witnessed her taking an illegal substance.
"Did you see her take medication at the hotel before the awards?" asked Judge Robert J Perry. "Yes," he answered.
When asked what she took and whether it was pills or liquid Brighthaupt revealed; "Pills. I've seen her take medications and others that weren't medication. At the awards show she took Ecstasy."
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Brighthaupt, who Smith nicknamed 'Mo Mo', also revealed how he attempted to curb her drinking habits.
"Before she went on stage she was backstage. She was drinking a little champagne," he told the courtroom, where Smith's ex, Howard Stern, was sat.
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"She had started drinking champagne in the room back at the hotel. But after she had taken a sip I would take it away and throw it out."
When asked why he did this, he said; "I didn't want her to make a fool of herself. But someone always gave her another glass or bottle. A lot of the time it was Larry Birkhead giving her a drink."
VIDEO: Lawyer Says Stern Was Just Looking Out For Anna Nicole
Witnesses were taking the stand in the preliminary hearing in the case against Howard Stern and two others doctors, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr Khristina Erosevich accused of conspiring to furnish a drug to an addict.
Court Papers Say Anna Nicole Smith’s Doctor Lied To Investigators About Medical Files
Posted on Sep 22, 2009 @ 05:01PM - 3 comments
According to just released court papers tragic star Anna Nicole Smith’s doctor Sandeep Kapoor lied to investigators after they raided his Los Angeles home – by hiding her medical files below some shirts in his bedroom closet.
During a raid on his home on October 12, 2007, Dr Kapoor told Medical Board Investigator Jon Genens that he had no medical papers in his house and that they were being held at his attorney’s office.
Click here to read how Dr. Kapoor could of harmed Anna Nicole’s unborn baby
But during the raid the investigators discovered some important papers about his famous patient whom he is charged with illegally prescribing medication to.
In court papers filed against Dr Kapoor Genens reveals: “Carmen Aguilera Marquez, Supervising Medical Board Investigator, found a file secreted on the floor of Dr Kapoor’s closet between some folded shirts.
“Inspector Marquez opened the file and saw the name Michelle Chase on a document which looked like a medical record – she closed the file because she believed the file may have contained medical records.
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“Michelle Chase is an alias used by Anna Nicole Smith and the records were seized and sealed.
“When confronted Dr Sandeep Kapoor told me he had forgotten that he had that file of medical records, which we found secreted in the closet.
“Dr Kapoor told me that his attorney Ellyn Garofalo, told him to remove paperwork from the Anna Nicole Smith medical records and the paperwork we found in the closet, was the paperwork which his attorney had told him to remove.”
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The papers also reveal that pharmacist Ira Freeman from the Key Pharmacy in Valley Village, California, confirmed that Smith was a patient under the care of Dr Kapoor and that Howard K Stern and her assistant Kim Walther regularly picked-up controlled substances and other prescription drugs for Anna Nicole Smith.
Psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and attorney Howard K. Stern have been charged with illegally providing Smith with prescribed drugs along with Dr Kapoor.
