After introductions by Geraldo where he called Howard K. Stern and the doctors Kapoor and Eroshevich “bums”, and announced the trio is going to trial for “feeding” and “pumping Anna Nicole full of  the drugs that killed her”, brother Craig Rivera had a short interview with Virgie Arthur.

Mrs. Arthur, looking lovely and slender but sad and battle worn, believes the three are guilty. She said the doctors made it possible but Howard K. Stern was the one who kept giving the drugs to her daughter.

Mrs. Arthur, retired after a 28 year career as a police officer said, “you don’t help a drug addict kill themself. If you love them, you help them get off the drugs. Anna was wanting help. No one gave her any.”

Craig Rivera asked her if Anna had a history of seizures. Mrs. Arthur said she spoke to the doctors and she was told that all the meds that Anna Nicole took would cause the seizures.

The conversation turned to granddaughter Dannielynn, the baby who Mrs. Arthur says is her only link to her deceased daughter and grandson.

Rivera asked her opinion of Dannielynn’s father, Larry Birkhead. Mrs Arthur said that same thing many of us have been thinking and saying and that is that Birkhead needs to get a job and someone needs to be appointed to look after Dannielynns interests.

Amen to that!

The infamous clown video? Mrs. Arthur; “even the little girl knew my daughter needed help”.

Craig mentioned the sudden and unexpected death of attorney John O’Quinn who has been Mrs. Arthur’s “knight in shining armor”, since he came to her assistance at the Florida burial trial after Anna Nicole died in February of 2007. He also verified as we did here that in his wisdom, Mr O’Quinn made provisions so that Mrs. Arthur can continue her fight for justice with the full force of the O’Quinn Law Firm and her attorney Neil McCabe behind her.

Last night Geraldo aired a block buster special on the arrests of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s attorney Howard K. Stern and her doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Kristine Erosovitch who are all facing felony and conspiracy drug charges in connection with an arrest warrant issued by California Attorney General Jerry Brown.  

Geraldo started his show with no holds barred labeling Howard K. Stern a two bit hustler who sucked Anna Nicole dry, a sleazy manipulator and puppet master.

Some clips from shortly after Anna Nicole’s death in 2007 were shown which take on new or more of a meaning with the passage of time..

Dr. Eroshevich; “We were looking for ways to calm her down”. “She needed her medication”. “She would take more than the average person”.

Seidlin from Anna Nicole’s burial hearing about Howard K. Stern; “He would be called maybe an enabler”.

Dr Kapoor, when asked why Anna Nicole Smith slurred her words when she spoke;
“I wondered about that too. It was schtick or bad acting”.

Stern at the burial hearing; “She took methadone but over the last month, not in my presence”. (See page four at the SmokingGun.com with the 40 page report of Anna Nicole’s death that does indeed show Methadone in her bile).

The show guests last night were Judge Larry Seidlin, Celebrity Coroner Dr. Michael Baden, Dr Joshua Perper, Former FBI Special Agent Don Clark, Virgie Arthur’s attorney Neil McCabe and of course the feisty and in your face former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Guilfoyle. Doctor Cyril Wecht who preformed an autopsy on Daniel Smith was there and Craig Rivera also gives a special report.

Geraldo gets right down to business with Judge Larry Seidlin asking him not once, not twice but three times if he thought the cases against the three charged with felonies are particularly strong. Seidlin did not want to give a straight answer but finally admitted the defense is going to have a “tough row to hoe”.  Seidlin also said he was sick to hear about the charges if they are true because the three people being two doctors and an attorney had a higher responsibility for the care of Anna Nicole Smith than the average layman. Seidlin also said “his friend Perper” let him know that drugs are what brought Anna Nicole down.

And then it was time for Broward County Coroner Dr Joshua Perper who Geraldo said made a “controversial finding of accidental death” for Anna Nicole. Perper was quick to defend himself saying that if a person is willing to take drugs, it’s an accidental death. Geraldo countered by saying, “we don’t even know if she was cognizant or not”.

And how true that is. Reports from witnesses said that Anna Nicole had to be helped to the bathroom on the day before and of her death. They found dried vomit in the bathroom which also points to incapacitation and she was bruised from falling down. So how did she overdose herself on drugs without Howard Stern knowing, when the drugs were not even in the room where she could get to them alone?

Geraldo asked Perper if it was true that Kristine Erosovitch actually assisted with Anna Nicole Smith’s autopsy. Perper said that they do not adopt the findings of the witness they inquire about but that Erosovitch was a great help because she reported the pain in Anna Nicole’s buttock region and that she had been prescribed Chloral Hydrate by Erosovitch.

Being a prescribing doctor but not even Anna Nicole’s doctor of record, I would think that Erosovitch had a duty to report what she did and it was a stretch to say she was being helpful.

Geraldo asked if Anna Nicole Smith’s hair was tested. Dr. Perper vacillated between trying to remain calm and becoming hysterical at that questioning. Perper said the hair was irrelevant to the cause of the investigation of death.

I have to ask though isn’t the coroner’s investigation typically what precludes and prompts law enforcement investigations? Perper defensively said, to date, he still has not received a request from the “police” or Attorney General Jerry Brown to test the hair. Even though he said he did not need one. When asked, Perper said his office still has her hair but that again, it’s irrelevant.

Neither Dr Baden nor Gulfoyle agreed with Perpers statement that testing hair is irrelevant. Baden said he would take exception because it is important to know Anna Nicole’s history. Baden said, “I would have done the hair, every cop in New York does the hair”.

Guilfoyle then jumped all over Perper concerning relying on Erosovitch for help with the autopsy.  She thought it outrageous that Perper made decisions based on a woman who would be the target of a criminal investigation.  She expressed to Perper the stupidity of relying on Erosovitch.

“You are making your decisions on facts that she has given you when obviously she has a vested interest in clearing her name and the outcome of the investigation. She also told him, “you should have done the hair to see the systematic amount of drugs she was taking over a period of time that these three people conspired to give her”.

In some other clips shown, Geraldo says of Howard K. Stern’s Florida attorney, “if you can believe it, Krista Barth compares charges against Stern to the Duke Lacross players.

He also reads part of Larry Birkhead’s testimony from the Florida burial hearing about methadone being brought into the hospital by Howard K. Stern when Anna Nicole was pregnant with Dannielynn and supposed to be detoxing from that very substance.
Dr. Baden said that was totally “unmedical and unprofessional”.

It was mentioned that Stern’s own statements given in open court at the burial hearing will be very damaging to him in the California drug charges. They talked about Stern admitting that drugs were prescribed to Anna Nicole Smith under several aliases. One of them being Wilma Flintstone amongst others. Geraldo said there are reckless categories of homicide that are relevant to the current charges.

Geraldo makes the point for motive that millions of dollars are still in play from the estate of Anna Nicole’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall that could potentially belong to Anna Nicole’s baby daughter Dannielynn and would be under the control of Stern as executor of Anna Nicole’s estate. They didn’t mention it but there is quite a growing list of media ops that Stern and Birkhead have partaken in and earned millions of dollars from.

We see a clip of Virgie Arthur, Anna Nicole’s mother in court at the burial hearing. Watching her again and some of the burial hearing video, it appears that Mrs. Arthur is the only one showing genuine grief and distress.

Virgie wept as she said;

My grandson did not overdose. Howard was there when he died. Howard was there when my daughter died and he has my granddaughter. Now it’s not even his child and I’m afraid for her life as well. Please help us……

Geraldo asked Judge Seidlin about the disparaging of Virgie Arthur at the burial hearing. He wanted to know if the public misjudged Mrs. Arthur. Seidlin admitted Mrs. Arthur was misjudged. He said, “That is why we can’t rush to judgment…. We have to let these things play out and Virgie was criticized and unfairly because I was with her…. I was with her at many un-televised court hearings…. She loved her daughter. It was apparent to me that she loved her daughter and the criticism was unfair and O’Quinn is a great lawyer and he brought it out during the trial”.

In a 2007 clip of Howard K. Stern’s brother, Gary Stern, a school principal, he says his brother is a caring man and a compassionate man who is a victim of a vicious conspiracy. Gary blames media outlets and in his words Anna Nicole’s estranged family for what the public thinks of his brother. “They want to paint my brother in a bad light that is absolutely false”.

Rivera points out that Stern was educated at Berkley University and UCLA law school, yet claims he split with a former law partner in 2002 to devote himself exclusively to Anna Nicole Smith as she fought for her late husbands millions. He goes on to say that Anna Nicole paid for an apartment that Stern kept in Santa Monica that reportedly housed a talent company from that address called “Hot Smoochie Lips” with its only client being, Anna Nicole Smith.

Geraldo talks to Don Clark, former FBI special agent and hired by Anna Nicole’s mom to investigate the death of her daughter. He reads from an affidavit prepared by Clark for the Florida burial hearing where Clark writes that he came to believe that Howard K. Stern was intimately involved in the deaths of Anna Nicole and her son Daniel. Clark believed that Stern could not avoid direct criminal implication in the deaths of the two.

Geraldo asked Mr. Clark if he still stood by the affidavit tendered in Judge Seidlin’s court.

“I sure as heck do stand by the statement…..there’s no accident here. You’ve got a kid that comes in one day and the next day he’s dead? And he doesn’t take drugs. There is no one at all that will testify the kid took drugs! Then we find his mother a few months later in the Hard Rock and in this particular situation you get an investigation that is questionable at best and the evidence that’s out there that should have been found and that can be found was not found. It’s no accident!”

To Mrs. Arthur’s attorney Neil McCabe, Geraldo asks, “What will Virgie do now in light of the charges against HKS and the doctors”?
McCabe; “Well, we are going to proceed with the lawsuit that we have against HKS and others for defamation and conspiracy to defame.. Jerry Brown has brought a conspiracy case but that’s not the only conspiracy”.

Geraldo asked Kimberly if she thought AG Jerry Brown is done with charges. She said not at all as she knows Jerry Brown from being a former prosecutor in CA and Brown said in his statement the charges levied were what they had “at this time”. She said she thinks there will be more charges and that there should be.

Another question to Dr Baden was, “If you were Jerry Brown, what would you do concerning Anna Nicole’s hair?  Baden replied, “I think it would be important to get the hair and lots of labs will do segmental toxilogic examination. Baden explained that hair grows a half inch each month. In six inches of hair, there are 12 months and a lab can do an examination of each segment of hair and determine what drugs Anna Nicole was using in each month. They can go back a year and it will be important to the criminal prosecution.

Baden also said that from the hair, a lab will be able to tell what drugs she was taking when Daniel died. If she was taking Methadone that was never prescribed to her, and that’s what killed Daniel, you have the illegal source that was providing the methadone for her.

Another clip was shown of Ford Shelley, the owner of the house in the Bahamas who said he saw HKS take two white pills out of Daniels pocket and he heard the toilet flush. I recall Shelley has also stated that after the flushing, Stern said that he “got rid of the problem”.

Since I have been following all of the cases from the beginning, I was quite amused by this segment of the show. Geraldo was reading a statement from Lin Wood, another one of Howard K. Stern’s attorneys. Since we know that On the Record’s Greta Van Susteren has accused Wood of being a drunk dialer, I have to wonder if this was a mistake of Geraldo’s production staff or if Wood really did make this statement?

Geraldo; Don Clark, I must say, Lin Wood, the fiery attorney for Howard Stern, claims that they sued you and you made a cash settlement because you were afraid that they had you, that you were defaming Howard Stern, is that true?

Clark; that is absolutely ridiculously false. And if Lin Wood said that, I would say to his face and anybody else that is absolutely and ridiculously false. No doubt in Lin Woods mind, he would like to sue me but I am going to stick with the facts as they are and I don’t have to come up with these fabricated stories as they have throughout… (crosstalk)

Geraldo; when they say the case was settled amicably, what does that mean?

Clark; I’ve never been sued so you’re asking the wrong guy Geraldo. Not me.

Geraldo; So alright, you’re sticking by your guns, you believe that Howard Stern is responsible for the death of Anna Nicole and her son Daniel.

Clark; I’ve said that from the beginning. I’ve said it needs to be good investigations on all parts in the Bahamas as well as in Florida and we have not seen that and now Jerry Brown has started something up and I hope it will progress from there.

For the last segment of the show, Craig Rivera interviews two domestic staff members who work for Ford Shelley who show and possess proof of Anna Nicole’s excessive drug usage. Craig asks Beverly and Johnny what they observed when Anna Nicole was a guest in Shelley’s vacation home.

Beverly said that Anna Nicole was incoherent. Not right.
Craig asked Beverly if it was true that Anna was injecting drugs into her thigh. Beverly said it was and agreed that Anna Nicole was in the third trimester of her pregnancy with Dannielynn.

According to Ford Shelley Jr. Anna Nicole was taking Methadone and other drugs at times administered by and provided by Howard K. Stern

Craig shows photos of a huge bottle of methadone on Anna Nicole’s bedside table with the alias Michelle Chase on it and also vials of Methadone and other drugs in a refrigerator where she lived in the Bahamas.

Johnny said when they would come in at night that Anna could barely speak and her eyes were rolling up in the back of her head. Beverly found the black duffle bag filled with prescription pills. She said there were up to 100 bottles of pills in that bag.

Craig asks, what about Daniel? Where did he get the Methadone that killed him? Craig says that in court documents Larry Birkhead the father of Dannielynn states that he saw Daniel take a bottle of Anna’s methadone on a home security camera. However according to two of Anna Nicole’s friends, Patrik Simpson and Pol Atteu, in a confrontation with Stern at Daniels funeral, Anna screams, “You did this”! “It’s your fault”! “You did this”! “You caused this’!

Geraldo asks Craig what would be the motive for Howard K. Stern in the two deaths and would it be money? Craig agrees the motive could be money and remembers the statements of G. Ben Thompson who said that Stern took (imo morbid) pictures of Daniel after his death. Thompson inquired as to why Stern would take pictures like that. Stern said that someday the pictures would be worth a lot of money.

Pittsburg PA pathologist Cyril Wecht who did an autopsy on Daniel Smith was asked if Daniel killed himself on purpose. Wecht previously said the cause of Daniels death was a “combination of drugs” in his system. Now he admits it was the Methadone that killed Daniel. Wecht says he has no information to say that Howard Stern was responsible for Daniels death directly in a deliberate premeditated sense. Wecht said he must point out an inconsistency that if Anna Nicole was Sterns cash cow, you don’t kill your cash cow. He said there can be no question about enabling, stupidity, insensitivity or illegality. There is no question about all of these things, but talking about premeditation, is making a quantum leap.

Geraldo says, well, what about reckless homicide or involuntary manslaughter? Wecht agreed that was a possibility. Geraldo says when a person is so irresponsible in their efforts to control someone that you give her whatever it takes to keep her quiet or keep her performing however you want her to, that would be involuntary manslaughter.

Geraldo will continue the same subject matter on his show tonight at 10:00 pm EST.

Neil McCabe who represents Virgie Arthur, the mother of Anna Nicole Smith is scheduled to appear on the Geraldo Show tonight.

Update! Don Clark will  appear on the Geraldo show tonight with McCabe as well.

Keep an eye on US Weekly who also interviewed McCabe about Stern’s arrest.

Also check out E! Online who contacted McCabe to inquire about Mrs. Arthur. However I found their comment to be very snarky. They contacted McCabe but said that Mrs. Arthur wasted no time commenting? WTF?

Another blast from the past, Smith’s estranged mother Virgie Arthur, also wasted no time in commenting on the legal action.

“She was glad to learn of the developments and she expected to sleep well last night,” Arthur’s attorney, Neil McCabe, told E! News. “As always, she wants justice for the death of her daughter and her grandson.”

From Geraldo’s website:

This Weekend:

• Saturday: If you thought it was over, think again. It’s an all-out Anna Nicole Smith extravaganza. New twists and arrests in to her drug-related death two years ago. So why did it take so long? And is Anna Nicole’s former partner Howard K. Stern to blame? What we reveal might just shock you!

The show will air at 10pm EST

Virgie Arthur was interviewed by Craig Rivera for the Geraldo show tonight. When asked, Virgie said that she does not think her grandson, Daniel Smith’s death was suicide. She added that last weeks inquest in the Bahamas revealed prescription drugs that Daniel was taking were not a factor in his death but that methadone alone was.

When asked if it was Virgie’s opinion that methadone was intentionally given to him to cause harm, she replied “yes”.

Rivera then asked Virgie if she has concerns about the well being of granddaughter Dannielynn. Virgie stated that any child who is exposed to drugs in utero will eventually exhibit health problems and it is not known what the effects of the drugs could be in the future. She said that she sensed something wrong when she saw Dannielynn’s eyes and that no one in her family has “crossed eyes”.

When asked about accusations that she is only concerned about any money that she could receive, Virgie stated “Larry and Howard can have the money”. “I want Dannielynn in my life”.

Rivera asked her if she had anything that she would like to say to Larry. Virgie looked to the camera and asked Larry to take good care of Dannielynn and give her plenty of love and please give Anna’s family a chance. A chance for Dannilynn to know her family…