It’s hump day and what’s been going on in the world of celebrity gossip lately?
Same old crap and some new crap.

Lindsey Lohan went to court and partied the night before and the night after her court hearing. Yawn!
But wait… she said she’s afraid her Dad may kidnap her now. Uh.. again yawn. Wake me up when she does something new.

What’s also up?
Not Balloon Boy!  That news is SO rampant, that I am already tired of it. But it looks like reality has caught up with the Heenes. Honestly, I caught these loons on Wife Swap a while back and the father was a hot headed, delusional wacko, who thinks the sun rises and sets by him. I thought this man was questionable way back then, but you can’t always tell, with the way “reality” shows edit their shows. But now we know for sure. Yep! My gut instinct was totally spot on.

Now I think his wife is either abused and doesn’t know enough to get away and agrees with everything her idiot husband does regardless, or she actually agrees with everything her hubby does and also thinks you should raise your children by dragging them to twister romps and pulling them out of school and allowing them to trash talk to whomever they want. Either scenario is SAD. 
Oh! Have you seen their video on YouTube? I can’t understand what the hell they are singing about, but it looks pretty darn questionable. Future Beastie Boys ya think?

I wonder if wifey-poo will throw hubby under the bus, when it comes down to their day in court? Get out the popcorn! And as far as reality fame goes? Heenes… you got it now! Yah happy?

And more people who get under my skin…
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is back on The View. (oh joy) 
I guess little Ms. Perfect sent out some not so perfect baby pictures of her baby AND a guest appearance of her nipple to her friends and family by mistake. HA HA HA! This story brought me so much joy.

On to other idiots…
Rod Blagojevich (again NOT a celebrity), WILL appear on Celebrity Apprentice, yet another reason not to watch Trump’s show ever again.

And even more idiots…
Stephanie Pratt was busted for DUI. I wonder what bible thumper sista -in-law Heidi Montag will have to say about this? Maybe Heidi can get Stephen Baldwin to baptize Stephanie for her. ‘Cause we all know just how beneficial it was for Heidi. Praise Jesus!

And on to the King  and Queen of idiots…
Jon Gosselin is still hated by the majority of America. Well wait a minute…I stand corrected. Octomom, Nadya Suleman told Radar Online she thought Jon Gosselin was hot and has a crush on him. Ummm… hot?Perhaps Nadya needs her eyes checked and should pick up a paper every once in a while. Oh that’s right, she has 14 children, who has time?

But sorry Octomon, Jon was too busy getting his sexy on in a fancy cab with gal pal Hailey Glassman.
Hey Jon, you sure you want to pass this up? Could be a new show fer yah!
How about “John +Nadya +14+ 8 = The Earth Spinning Off It’s Axis”?

Well not if TLC has anything to say about it! They are already suing Jon for breech of contract, of course.
And he also has been ordered to pay back $180,00.00 back to his account with Kate. Kate ALSO has been ordered to pay some money back too. Seems like Karma has been rearing it’s ugly head with those two.

And speaking of Octomom, the Doc that implanted the SIX embryos (one split into two) into Octomom has been booted from the practice where he was employed for not following the rules. But of course he is still allowed to practice. Who knows what he will do now that he is on his own. I smell another reality show?
I can hear the promo now…
“Meet Dr. Eggo! He’s serving them sunny side up, so you too can have your very own reality show and start exploiting your very own litter of children in no time! Hey! Let Go Of My Eggo!”

Seriously, have you seen the latest clip of Octomon and her brood with all those kids crying? It makes me want to pull my hair out.

Speaking of child exploitation, Kate Gosselin tells Vanity Fair she ”feels like a prisoner” of her own fame and that the kids are starting to act out. STARTING to act out? Wow, if seeing Maddy in previous shows was only the start of her bitchdom, I woudn’t want to see her now. That child is not a force to be reckoned with! And please Kate…  let me get out the violin….you were being interviewed by VANITY FAIR and getting paid for it. Prisoner my ass!

On to more phony things….
Miss California, Carrie Prejean is being sued for her her boobs! K2 Productions (which directs the California USA pageant ) is asking Carrie for $5,200 back. I guess they paid for her boob job. K2 says it’s not about the money, and the money will go to charity. I doubt if will want the implants back. *snicker*

Speaking of cash….
Nicholas Cage is in a heap of debt. Cage is suing his former manager Samuel Levin for $20 million. Levin allegedly screwed with Cage’s money and Cage says that his manager is the one responsible for his current debt headache. Word of advice Nick…. don’t wait seven years before you check up on hired help that handles all your dough.

And on to big sloppy messes…
Anna Nicole Smith is back in the news again. Well, the court case of her doctors and Howard Stern that is.
In court, Larry Birkhead told a scathing account of Anna’s drug use while she was pregnant. 

Maurice Brighthaupt, former bodyguard of Anna, claims he saw Howard Stern, and Dr. Eroshevich injecting Anna with needles. He also said he saw Anna injecting herself. Why did this guy wait so long with this information? Supposedly Dr. Eroshevich was the bodyguard’s friend, as well as Stern. Sorry! No excuse.

Supposedly Anna Nicole was drinking pedialyte out of a baby bottle and laying in her own feces when found. Why was she ever brought to Florida in this condition? Now I know Anna was a complete mess with drugs, but when someone is that addicted to drugs and that incapacitated, she should have received help from the people around her, especially her doctors and those closest to her. Not checking into a Florida hotel. Stern was not present at her death, he was busy seeing a man about boat.

The IRS is also in play with Anna Nicole these days, and have filed a $125,112.86 tax lien on the estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall. So much for resting in Peace. Geez, what a mess.

And some weirdness in the news…
Marge Simpson is on the cover of Playboy’s October issue. Sorry, I didn’t find it at all amusing and I refuse to show a picture of it.
In fact I poo poo Playboy for advertising the Simpsons.

Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, Scientologist extraordinaire, donated TEN MILLLION DOLLARS to Scientology in May of 2008. Anyone that supports the Simpsons in any way is inadvertently giving money to Scientology down the line. Why would Cartwright give the money to her children, when she would rather hand it over to Scientology? Gotta keep everything KSW! (Keep Scientology Working) Right Nancy? Hope she wakes up some day.

Speaking of naughty pictures.
Levi Johnston (former husband of Bristol Palin) will be posing for Playgirl and has been in the gym bulking up for his upcoming saucy shots. I also caught him on a commercial for Wonderful Pistachio nuts. Yes, the man who will soon be showing his nuts was hawking nuts on TV. The commercial shows him with an immense bodyguard and Levi is eating a few nuts and the tag line says “Now Levi Johnston does it with protection”
I kid you not. See the commercial for yourself!
Wow! Talking about pissing Palin off! Yeehaw!

But wait it gets better….
Levi was interviewed by Vanity Fair. The name of the article is “Me and Mrs. Palin”.

Levi dishes about Palin and her lack of parenting, her bad moods, Todd flipping out and Levi was quoted as saying,

“I thought, Was this woman—who, at home, would literally say things that did not make sense—really running for vice president?”

You go Levi! I have a new respect for the boy. *snicker*

Then we move on to more puzzling things…
The court case of John Travolta.
Readers are probably wondering why I haven’t reported on this case as of yet. The testimonies in the court case were changing on a such a daily basis with so much “he said/she said” garbage going on, and with changing stories, that if I wrote about what was happening as it happened, I would have had to edit the story every single day.

I will be covering this story when and if I feel that some sort of conclusion of sorts has been made. I will say that this case has been one big puzzle of unanswered questions on BOTH sides.

And speaking of The Travoltas moving on …
Both Kelly and John attended the IAS (International Association of Scientologists)
Scientology 25th Anniversary at Scientology’s St. Hill Org in England.
Sadly, it looks like John will not be leaving this cult any time soon.

Tom Cruise, Katie and Suri were also in attendance. Poor Katie and Suri.

Scientology wanted people to believe that 4,000 people were in attendance at their event. ROTFL!
That number is just classic Scientology spin in which they are so famous for. They usually have to fly and bus tons of people in, as well as dressing up their Sea Orgers members to fill in the seats so it will look full. Reason for this? So their IAS PR photo will look like they are still successful to their members. It’s an old smoke and mirrors trick of Scientology, so they can continue to deceive their members. Lovely, isn’t it?

The IAS is nothing more than members donating money to Scientology. (which the majority goes straight to cult leader David Miscavige) In return for their donation, they get a discount on courses, auditing and such. Which is not a discount at all since they are donating money. Duh!

Cruise and Travoilta have donated millions and millions of dolllars to Scientology. Exactly what Scientology does with all that money as fas as “helping” to “clear the planet”  is a mystery. The money goes to buy more buildings that stand idle, make Miscavige richer and pay for all their pending court cases, lawyers and Sci goons. Oh! and I almost forgot, they have to pay their Sea Org slave labor members about .25 cents an hour.

US Magazine reported on the 25th Anniversary and quoted Cruise about the Scientology protestors outside the event:

Later, during a reception, Cruise was overheard chatting with another American man about the protesters outside the venue. “They’re squirrels,” Cruise said angrily, according to a witness. “Stuck in an electronic incident. It makes me so angry!”

“Protesters are squirrels stuck in an electronic incident?”
Oh Tom, you certainly are one brainwashed mofo.
A ”squirrel” in scio-speak, means someone that messes or changes the tech of dead cult founder L. Ron Hubbard. Aka “squirreling the tech”. And “stuck in an electronic incident” is more scio babble from Hubbard’s work.

I wonder if Cruise actually said this though? Personally, I think if anything he would of called the protesters SP’s (suppressive people) not squirrels. And I think the “stuck in an electronic incident” line may have been borrowed from a video of another wacky Scientologist named George, which we reported on recently. Many duplicate videos of Scientologist George (who is an OTVIII, the highest that you can get on Scientology’s Bridge) showed up on YouTube and showed just how brainwashed Scientologists become the longer they stay in. The video is totally unscripted and SAD.

Cruise is supposedly an OTVII on The Bridge To Nowhere.

One more level to go Tom until you reach the tippety top to the Bridge of Total Freedom!
Yippee!
Good luck with that Tom! Wait till you see what OTVIII is all about!
SO worth the millions and millions of dollars that you blew. *snicker*

And now for something completely different and funny….
I was watching TV the other night, and there was a brief teaser for Season 6 of the steamy Nip /Tuck show, which started on Oct 14th. I thought I was seeing things, when I saw Mario Lopez completely decked out in black lingerie complete with a garter belt and black stockings. But no, I looked it up and yep it was none other than A. C. Slater (his name on Saved By The Bell) in drag!

Mario played Dr. Mike Hamoui on the series and he was seen in a steamy shower scene in a previous episode. Damn! I am going to have to start watching that show! Kudos for Mario for having the balls of steel for donning the less than flattering get up.

And even though Mario is one huge piece of eye candy…
sorry, this outfit just doesn’t cut it for me Mario. *snicker*

Karma! Your Table's Ready!

It may have taken two years since Anna Nicole’s untimely death on Feb 8th, 2007 to finally catch up with what everybody thought was fishy about this case, but it looks like our friend Karma is biting some well deserved people in the ass. Naming her ex “boyfriend/lawyer” and her two doctors. Looks like the three musketeers will have to face a hearing this August.

The three suspects pleaded not guilty only this past May. Sorry, I am not buying it. Don’t forget, Anna was found with both prescription and over-the-counter drugs in her system, including THREE antidepressant or anti-anxiety drugs. Human growth hormone AND chloral hydrate, which is a sleep medication. That’s quite a list.

The news of Anna’s death hit me a little hard back in 2007.  I happened to be in Florida when it occurred and drove right by the Hard Rock on the highway on my way to Miami, and I remember pointing out the blue hotel from the highway the day before her death.  

I always felt Anna was a tragic victim of Hollywood and also a victim of the people who “cared” for her AND society. You can’t mention the name Anna Nicole Smith without getting a few raised eyebrows and a couple of smirks from some people. 
When Anna first came on the scene with her stunning face and traffic stopping curves as a Guess Jeans model, she was all over the media. She went from a Guess Jeans spokesperson to Playboy Model of the year in a very short time and then married a billionaire. Not too shabby for a small town girl.

Not surprisingly, all the media admiration and her fans slowly turned against her. People constantly made fun of her and called her a gold digger when she married 89 year old billionaire J. Howard Marshal, who was 63 years her senior. Let’s not forget, J. Howard wasn’t forced to marry Anna and he was of sound mind when they married. Most importantly, it was he who pursued Anna, buying her lavish gifts shortly after they met.

So perhaps J. Howard Marshal wanted to die being married to a beautiful blonde bombshell SO WHAT! Good for him – maybe he got the last laugh.  He knew what he was doing. After all, the man was worth BILLIONS, he didn’t leave Anna all that much in his will considering his vast wealth.  

The media and the public alike, also made Anna’s fluctuating weight the subject of many cruel jokes. Of course any one knows that being in Hollywood’s limelight opens a person up to a lot criticism, it goes with the territory, but that doesn’t make it any less painful.

Anna’s reality show and then her stint as a spokesperson for Trim Spa and her slurry, incoherent presentation at the 2004 MTV Music Awards (click to watch the vid) made matters even worse. The newscaster at the end of the video, couldn’t have said it any better when she said:

“Anna needs some friends”

Exactly.  She needed some REAL friends. NOT enablers. As for her “boyfriend” Howard K. Stern, I for one, never trusted Howard from the beginning.  I put the word boyfriend in quotes, because I think Anna was in such a foggy cloud all the time, I don’t even think she knew that Howard was her boyfriend, but rather he self-appointed himself as such. Even more perverse, he later became her husband, clearly taking advantage of her clueless mental state. Weddings are supposed to be joyful, but their Bahama wedding was SAD. It was pretty clear to any observer, Anna barely realized what was going on (FYI: the marriage wasn’t legal in the US).

Going back to when Anna had her reality show, I could never understand why Howard sat idly by and even starred in her reality show along side of her, allowing her to be exploited while she was in obvious states of intoxication.  I blame both Stern and the network for this blatant exploitation of her addiction, when they knew full well Anna was in a dangerous spiral. All anyone seemed to care about was keeping the train wreck going because the ratings were high for the show.

I actually wrote letters to the network pleading with them to please open their eyes and cancel the show, not only for Anna’s sake, but for her son Daniel’s sake. I cringed at her behavior and the way Danial looked so embarrassed and uncomfortable on that show.  I always thought that the poor kid was going to grow up so tortured and teased about his Mom’s shenanigans and obvious drug abuse. But ultimately, Daniel didn’t have the chance to grow up, dying barely past the age of 20. In a sick twist of fate, Daniel met the same demise as his Mom with a drug overdose.

Let’s not forget when Anna was pregnant with daughter Dannielynn and she was clearly using drugs throughout her pregnancy. The famous “clown video“ emerged in the media, making everyone a first hand witness to the madness. Anna was painted like a clown, heavily PREGNANT, slurring her words and acting like a child with a baby doll, all while Howard was taping her and actually directing her in the video.

Howard is also heard on the video saying “This footage is worth money“.

Now I am not going to get into the whole Larry Birkhead (daughter Dannielynns’ REAL father) paternity fiasco, where Howard actually tried to claim he was the father of Anna’s daughter or the custody battle between Birkhead, Stern and Anna’s estranged mother, who is as vile as they come, as that would take PAGES.

Ultimately, I hope the truth finally comes out about EVERYTHING, including a more thorough look into Daniel’s case as well. In my opinion, something went terribly wrong there, and I believe the truth has yet to come out. Now I am sure I will get some Anna Nicole hater comments…but she happens to be one gal I felt sorry for and who was so clearly a victim.

Regarding the court case, what I don’t understand is if these three people are convicted, they could face as little as five years in prison? Pardon me, but ONLY FIVE YEARS?  THAT’S IT???

No disrespect to Anna or to her family members, but what was Anna, a freakin’ gerbil that died? I don’t think a death from an overdose from pills that was OVERLY prescribed by her doctors, under different names and Howard being an enabler for those drugs, to say the least, only deserves a short stay in a cream puff jail with a slap on the wrist.

Reuters reported the news on the upcoming trial. IF in fact they are even ordered to stand trial.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A judge on Monday ordered Anna Nicole Smith’s longtime boyfriend and two doctors to face a hearing in August to determine if they must stand trial for illegally supplying the Playboy model with prescription drugs for years before she died of an accidental overdose.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Wesley said the preliminary hearing would begin within 10 days of Aug 12 for Howard K. Stern, who was also Smith’s lawyer, her psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor.

Stern, 40, and the two doctors are charged with conspiracy and prescribing painkillers, sleeping pills, anxiety medications and other drugs to Smith between 2004 and her death on Feb 8, 2007 from an overdose of prescription drugs.

Wesley began the hearing by issuing a bench warrant for Kapoor, 41, after the doctor didn’t turn up but quashed it after he arrived late, saying that a patient had an emergency.
Stern and the two doctors are accused of obtaining the pills for Smith by using false names, but their lawyers say they were merely carrying out Smith’s wishes and that the drugs were prescribed for legitimate medical reasons.

Smith, who was 39 when she died, is best known as a Playboy Playmate and Guess jeans model. With her buxom blond looks, she often emulated Marilyn Monroe, who died of a drug overdose in August, 1962 at the age of 36.

If convicted, all three defendants could face more than 5 years in prison.

Smith was found unresponsive at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida on February 8, 2007 and was pronounced dead at a local hospital within hours.

Her death came shortly after the birth of her daughter and the death of her 20-year-old son, who also died of an overdose from prescription drugs and methadone.

So Vickey Lynne Hogan, (Anna’s real name when she was born) and son Daniel may you Rest in Peace. Hopefully SOME justice may be right around the corner.

A Natural Beauty

Breaking news out of California…former lawyer/boyfriend/leech of Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern, has been arrested and charged in conjunction with an ongoing investigation into the shady causes of Anna Nicole’s death:

Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich are being charged with a total of eight felonies.

According to the L.A. County D.A., the conspiracy counts allege the three defendants conspired to furnish controlled substances to Smith between July, 2004 and January 2007.

Stern and Kapoor were charged with one count of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance. Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 2004 and January 2007.

Kapoor and Eroshevich were each charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” They were both also charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address.

Kapoor and Stern were also charged with one count of “prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict.” Eroshevich was charged with the same crime for separate prescriptions.

Bail is recommended at $20,000 for each defendant. We know both Stern and Kapoor bailed out Thursday night.

As we first reported, California drug officials recently raided the Los Angeles office of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, looking for evidence against Stern.

Stern has denied doing anything illegal in connection with drugs and Anna Nicole.

Back in February, police raided the office of Dr. Sandeep looking for evidence and anything that would link the good doctor to Howard:

The California Medical Board got a warrant to search Dr. Sandeep Kapoor’s Studio City office this morning. Informed law enforcement sources tell us they are looking for prescriptions Kapoor may have written for Howard K. Stern. We’re told Medical Board officials want to know if Stern may have used Kapoor to score drugs for Anna — something Stern has vehemently denied.

The California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, has been conducting an investigation into Kapoor since 2007. He has also been under investigation by the Medical Board for his prescription practices. Thirteen days before Smith gave birth to Dannielynn he wrote a methadone prescription for her under an alias, Michelle Chase. Under California law, it’s illegal to prescribe a controlled substance under a false name.

Howard, for his part, continued to protest his innocence:

Howard K. Stern just released this statement to TMZ: “Dr. Kapoor never prescribed Anna Nicole medication in my name — and that is what the Medical Board will find out.”

Here’s my question…I wonder if this will somehow tie into the death of Anna Nicole’s son Daniel.  If you remember, a Bahamian jury decided that Daniel died of an accidental overdose…but one of the drugs found in his system was methadone, and Anna Nicole had caught him stealing it from her.  If it is found that she had methadone illegally, provided by this doctor and Howard, then would that somehow figure into Daniel’s death as well?

When Anna Nicole died, there were 11 prescriptions found in Anna Nicole’s room, and all were authorized by Eroshevich, who had also traveled to Florida with Anna Nicole.  Also, more than 600 pills, including more than 450 muscle relaxants, were missing from bottles of medication that were at the most five weeks old.

I’ve always wanted to believe Howard was telling the truth; but I guess that, as most things in Hollyweird turn out to be, it was just wishful thinking.  More on this story as it develops, and you can find GlossLip’s archive of Anna Nicole stories here.

 

Like mother, like son…a Bahamian jury decided Monday that Daniel Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith, died of an accidental overdose:

The seven-member jury, which deliberated for less than two hours, recommended no criminal charges in the September 2006 death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith.

The son of the former Playboy playmate died after coming to the Bahamas to meet his new baby sister on Sept. 10, 2006. His mother died early the next year in Florida from an accidental drug overdose at age 39.

Police had said there was no evidence of homicide, and autopsies found that Daniel died from a combination of drugs, including methadone and antidepressants. But Bahamian authorities ordered the inquest amid widespread speculation over the circumstances surrounding his death.

In its ruling, the jury said the cause of death was “nondependent use of drugs,” meaning that Daniel Smith was not addicted and was not aware the drugs in his system would kill him.

Anna Nicole’s mother, however, is having none of it, and still believes Howard K. Stern had something to do with the death:

Neil McCabe, an attorney for Anna Nicole’s mother, Virgie Arthur, said she was disappointed in the ruling because she suspected foul play was involved. Arthur has claimed previously that Anna Nicole’s boyfriend and attorney Howard K. Stern played a role in both deaths, but she did not provide evidence.

“We don’t think it makes any sense,” McCabe said. “The boy was not a drug user, the judge said so. Why would he all of a sudden take a massive dose of methadone?”

Stern, who has denied giving Daniel any drugs, said outside court that he was not sure whether the jury’s decision would bring an end to the case.

“I have no control over them,” he said of Arthur and her attorneys.

What a convoluted tale.  Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole’s former boyfriend and babydaddy, testified that Daniel struggled with drugs, alcohol, and depression, but Howard said that he was surprised by the toxicology findings and said in his testimony that he’d never seen Daniel take drugs.

If Daniel did take his mother’s methadone (he had easy access to it, and Anna Nicole caught him on videotape stealing it out of her home), it is a slow-acting drug who’s effect are not felt for a few hours.  He could have accidentally taken more than the recommended dose simply by believing that he hadn’t taken enough the first time, when in actuality the drug had not had time to kick in yet.

I’m still not convinced HKS had anything to do with it, simply because I’m not sure what he would have to gain from killing Daniel.  He knew that Daniel was Anna Nicole’s life, and to kill him would cause her great grief and sadness…which is exactly what it did.  It would have been to Howard’s best interests to have Daniel alive, in fact.  He should have done more to make sure that happened.

But there are only three people who know exactly what went on that day, and two of them aren’t talking any more.

With the McCartney divorce brouhaha, I kind of overlooked that Howard K. Stern testified in the ongoing Daniel Smith inquest.  He told the court that he did not give Daniel drugs, nor did he see Anna Nicole Smith do so:

Stern said he had no idea Daniel was taking any kind of prescription medication, including Methadone. Stern said from September 2005 until June 2006, he wasn’t even around as much because he was working full time on Anna’s fight with Pierce Marshall.

Stern said there was no duffel bag full of medication at the hospital where Daniel died. He said neither he nor Anna brought any medication into the hospital. As for Stern giving Daniel Methadone, he said absolutely not.

Stern said when he first learned that the toxicology report said that Methadone or any other medication was in Daniel’s system, he didn’t believe it.

He also told the court the while he did take a photograph of Daniel after he died, it was not for nefarious purposes:

Stern also talked about the photo he took in the hospital room of Anna with Daniel after he died. He said Anna would not believe Daniel had died and she wanted to bring Daniel home with her. Stern testified Anna wanted him to take a photo because she couldn’t accept Daniel was dead and needed the photo for proof. Stern said he took the photo, never made money off it and would do it again.

Stern testified he was asleep when an agitated Anna said, “Howard, Howard, Daniel’s not breathing.” Stern said he went over and touched Daniel’s neck but found no pulse. They pushed the emergency button, workers came in the room to resuscitate him, to no avail. They tried to physically remove Anna but she would not break away. After the doctors stopped, both Stern and Anna continued resuscitation efforts.

The whole situation is heartbreaking.  If it were my son, I might react in the same way.  Who is to say what is proper behavior when one loses a child?

But it is heartbreaking in another way as well…the argument could be made that while it is sad that Daniel died, it is equally as sad that he never really got the chance to live.  Not live as a normal, anonymous, regular person, that is.  He spent most of his life in the fishbowl of his famous mother’s life, only he tried as best he could to stay hidden in the shadows.  I think it eventually got to him and he acted out in the only way he knew how…by turning to drugs.

Yes, I know that you can do everything right as a parent and your child still go astray, and you can do everything wrong as a parent and somehow your child turns out okay.  But if Anna Nicole seriously thought that her son would grow up to be even relatively normal, she was more deluded than we originally thought.

And say what you will about HKS (and I have), I hope in this case he is telling the truth.  I’m still not quite convinced that he didn’t give Daniel drugs at some point, or at least knew about them, but I’m going to say that he is telling the truth about not bringing a bag of drugs to the hospital (hospitals don’t let you bring in your own medication) and the photograph.

Regardless, it’s a very sad situation all around.

The inquest into the death of Daniel Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith, continues, and Larry Birkhead gave some pretty incredible testimony yesterday concerning some missing Methadone in Anna’s house:

Birkhead testified that in April 2006, Anna realized some of her Methadone was missing in her Studio City home. Birkhead said Anna had surveillance cameras in the house, checked them and found video proof that Daniel and his buddies were the culprits.

While Birkhead was under oath, he was asked about statements he made to the cops back in 2006, when he was at war with Anna. He had told police he saw Howard K. Stern smoke pot with Anna and Daniel. During his testimony, Birkhead said he was not completely clear on what he saw.

UPDATE: Birkhead also told cops Anna had given Daniel Ecstasy, but on the stand Birkhead said he couldn’t say this actually happened.

Birkhead said Daniel’s personality completely changed between January 2006 and May. He saw Daniel throw a TV through a window. Daniel often stayed out all night long and Anna was worried.

Also, Daniel was admitted to an L.A. hospital for misuse of valium in mid July, 2006.

What, you mean people make up and exaggerate claims to the police when they are angry with someone?  Shocking!

Methadone is often used for people trying to break other drug habits:

This medication is a narcotic pain reliever and is used for severe pain. It is also used in the treatment of narcotic addiction as part of an approved program. Methadone is a potent narcotic substance. It can cause serious side effects and toxic reactions if used by someone other than the person for whom it is prescribed. Do not share this medication with others.

However, in recent years people have become addicted to methadone in place of other drugs, such as heroin:

In North Carolina, deaths caused by methadone increased eightfold, to 58 in 2001 from 7 in 1997 – an “absolutely amazing” jump, said Catherine Sanford, a state epidemiologist. In Maine, methadone was the drug found most frequently in people who died of overdoses from 1997 to 2002. It was found in almost a quarter of the deaths. In the first six months of last year, methadone killed 18 people in Maine, up from 4 in all of 1997. Dr. John H. Burton, medical director for Maine Emergency Medical Services, said hospital emergency rooms were seeing “a tidal wave” of methadone-related cases.

The increase in methadone overdoses and deaths has floored many drug experts because methadone, which does not provide a quick or potent high, has long been considered an unlikely candidate for substance abuse. It can be hours before a user feels any effect, and it works more like a sedative than a stimulant.

And because methadone is considered such an important and affordable tool for treating addiction and pain, health and law enforcement officials are facing a quandary: how to stop methadone abuse without curtailing its valuable uses — and especially without driving addicts back to drugs like heroin. [...]

Naïve users might be “people who are just at a party and someone will give them some methadone,” said Dr. Burton, the emergency medicine specialist in Maine. “They might mix it in with a beer or with some other drug. They take it thinking it’s just like any other drug and will give them a buzz, and they end up either dead or deeply unconscious.”

Methadone’s delayed narcotic effect and its lack of a potent high are important reasons the drug can be so dangerous, experts say.

“By the time they’ve actually overdosed, no one is with them to see what’s happening,” said Kimberly Johnson, director of the Maine Office of Substance Abuse.

Joseph Haddock, an analyst for the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, said some people, unaware of the drug’s delayed effects, “take methadone, don’t get the effect that they want, take more methadone, still don’t get that reaction, and they take more methadone, so they end up overdosing.”

Since Daniel died in his mother’s hospital room late one night when he was visiting his mother and newborn sister, it could be that he took the drug several hours before even arriving at the hospital, and it was only later that the serious effects of the drug kicked in.  He also had Zoloft and Lexapro in his system at the time of his death.

Yet another example of something that is supposed to be used for good, being perverted and used for harm.  There’s nothing wrong with using medications to treat various disorders, be they an illness or a mental problem or even to break a drug habit (after other options have been exhausted).  However, like anything else, often people use the medications in ways they were never supposed to be used, or mix them with medications they were never meant to be used in conjunction with.  The medications themselves often are not bad, it’s when people use them for reasons they were never intended to be used for that the problems start.

I don’t even want to go into what might have caused Daniel to turn to drugs.  What makes any kid do something like that?  Although, I do have to point out that Anna Nicole certainly did not live what you might call a “normal” lifestyle, and life in a fishbowl might have turned out to be too much for the shy Daniel to cope with.  All you have to do is watch a few episodes of the ANS show to see his weariness with the everpresent cameras in his life.

Howard K. Stern is scheduled to testify today, so that should create some fireworks.

 

But is there anything to inherit?

Dannielynn was named the sole heir of the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, after her mother’s death left a will that had yet to be revised:

In court papers filed in Superior Court Oct. 18, 2007, Howard K. Stern, the executor of Smith’s estate, sought to clarify Smith’s intentions in her July 2001 will, drafted five years before Dannielynn Hope’s September 2006 birth. (Smith died in February 2007.)

“We and Mr. Stern always believed that Anna Nicole never intended to disinherit her daughter,”‘ Stern’s lawyer, Bruce S. Ross, said after Tuesday’s hearing. “I’m pleased to say this chapter in the saga is closed.”

The toddler could conceivably inherit millions from the fortune of Smith’s late husband, oil man J. Howard Marshall, whose estate is still tied up in litigation in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In addition to confirming Dannielynn as Anna Nicole’s sole heir, Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff’s ruling also establishes a trust on her behalf with Stern and Birkhead as its co-trustees, Ross said.

Anna Nicole’s original will had her son Daniel as the sole…wait, did that say Howard and Larry are co-trustees of Dannielynn’s trust?

Hot gravy.  It makes me wonder if Howard is calculating the age difference and counting up to see how old he will be when little Anna Nicole little Dannielynn turns eighteen.  I wanted for a long time to think the best of Howard, but I seriously have my doubts.

Of course it isn’t like anyone who was in Anna Nicole’s life was an upstanding citizen of the community.  She had no choice with the family she got stuck with, but of her own free will she managed to surround herself with friends who were competing with her kin for Biggest Loser prizes (and I ain’t talking poundage here).

It’s a crapshoot on whether J. Howard Marshall’s estate will pony up the dough, but in a way I hope they don’t.  Maybe then little Dannielynn will have a shot at a relatively normal life (if we can just talk her daddy into keeping her away from those ET cameras).

Today marks one year since Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of prescription medicine. Anna was 39 years old at the time of her death.

A mere six months prior to Anna’s death, the model-turned-reality star was blessed with a joyous occasion, the birth of her second child Dannielynn, only to face the worst moment any parent could ever face a mere three days later, the death of her son, 20-year-old Daniel.

Anna’s never been easy to pigeonhole or analyze as a media figure. She’s either engaged or disengaged. When Anna was engaged with the world, she was vivacious, stunningly beautiful and charismatic. When she was disengaged she seemed confused, unfocused and randomly distracted.

But wait, there’s more…

With 2008 just around the corner, we must find an appropriate way to wrap up 2007’s top celeb stories. Oh boy, and what a year it was. 2007, or “The Year of the Dimwitted Bimbos” as I like to call it, saw the death of one icon, and the re/afterbirth of another icon.

In between Anna Nicole Smith’s death and Britney Spears mental disintegrate we have Paris Hilton going to jail, Lindsay Lohan crashing and burning with dual attempts at rehab, several celeb DUI’s and of course, to round out the year in celebrity nonsensical behavior, we have Britney Spears kid sister Jamie Lynn Spears announcing she is not only pregnant at 16, but she’s keeping her baby!

Papa don’t preach, because that’s my job.

Join Confessions of a Fanboy’s Josh Hathaway, and with any luck, Blogcritics Eric Olsen as we assail, discuss this year’s top celeb stories!

The inquest into the death of Daniel Smith, son of model/actress Anna Nicole Smith, has been postponed until November 19 because of Tropical Storm Noel.  Magistrate William Campbell says that the purpose is to determine the cause of Daniel’s death and nothing else.  In other words, they have no evidence of homicide and the purpose is not to find a suspect.

Members of Anna’s family, including her mother Virgie, were in the Bahamas for the inquest.  Howard K. Stern was not there, however.

Daniel died on September 10, 2006 in a Nassau hospital while visiting his mother shortly after the birth of his sister, Dannielynn.

Too bad…I’m very curious as to what the inquest will find out.  What do you think he died of…an accidental overdose, natural causes, murder?

Batten down the hatches, you Bahamanian readers, and keep safe.