September 7th 2009. Anna Nicole Smiths’ two Haitian nannies, Quethlie Alexis and Nadine Alexie who had explosive things to say about Howard K. Stern and how he treated Anna Nicole Smith back in 2007 are supposed to be in California today to testify in the Anna Nicole Smith drug trial.

Below are videos of a series of interviews by a Bahamian man who called himself Mr. Controversy. And indeed he was. After more attention was given to what the two nannies saw in Anna Nicole’s household, Lincoln Bain and a Bahamian attorney Elizabeth Thompson took the two ladies under their wing. And as has been happening with almost every prosecution witness… well, lets just see what they have to say.

Last week Ford Shelley who was supposed to be a friend of Anna Nicole Smiths did yet another flip flop and cried like a baby about how Howard K. Stern should  not be a defendant.  I guess it doesn’t matter that Stern took a $900,000 house from him. Shelley gave interviews before arriving in California saying that he was worried about testifying because he did not want to be sued by Stern. The fact of the matter is that Shelley and his whole family are already being sued by Howard K. Stern as executor of Anna Nicole’s estate.

If that does not take the cake I don’t know what does. Stern maneuvers and gets possession of an almost million dollar mansion FOR FREE from the Shelley-Thompson family but Stern is suing the family for what they say was “taking Anna Nicole’s possessions for safe keeping”. Shelly claims that Anna Nicole asked them to do this in the event of her death.

I hope the jury is told those facts because it definitely should be shown as an influence in Shelley’s testimony. On the other hand, Shelley’s sister in law Melanie Thompson was said to give some damaging testimony against the defendants although the defendants reporter Linda Deutsch of the Associated Press didn’t give too many details.

By the time I found these videos in 2007, they had been edited by Bain. However they still contain some unfavorable accusations against Howard K. Stern.
Here are the links for three more videos of what the nannies had to say.

*Update*. According to Deutsch and the AP, Quethlie Alexie is telling the truth. Doosh is making a big deal that family members were brought along and one nanny asked to be relocated after her testimony. If you will see in the videos above, the women were afraid for their lives and probably still are.

I also have to wonder why that reporter keeps publishing things that are said out of the presence of the jury. The likelihood that the jury will hear things said out of their ear shot increases greatly when an Associated Press reporter publishes it all over the world.

Witnesses have reneged previous testimony due to threats or lawsuits. DDA Renee Rose said in a police report filed by Mark Hatten who used to date Anna Nicole Smith, that he was threatened by Howard K. Stern through MySpace. DA Renee Rose said anyone writing a book or is a potential witness has been getting something from Stern. Click here to see that.

From TheSunNews.com

Ford Shelley and Gaither Ben Thompson Sr., local developers who are being sued by Stern, appeared Monday without attorneys representing them.

Thompson previously had a relationship with Smith and was involved in a dispute with the celebrity over the ownership of a $900,000 home in the Bahamas that she claimed he had given her as a present. He has denied that claim.

Ford Shelley told Hyman that if he is forced to testify in the criminal trial he is concerned it may lead to another lawsuit.

“We feel like this is something we’ll get sued for again,” Shelley said. “It’s a little different in Hollywood, Calif., than it is in Conway, S.C.”

Anna Nicole Smith at the 2004 American Music Awards

Remembering that we must depend upon unreliable main stream media to provide news of the trial, here is what we have seen so far.

Whats in…

• Howard K. Stern’s sister Bonnie Stern and Anna Nicole Smith herself will be considered uncharged co-conspirators.

• The little girl, now 13 years old who is in the infamous “Clown Video” will testify that she saw Stern give Anna Nicole something from an unidentified bottle.

• Photos of Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Anna Nicole Smith naked in a bath tub may be allowed in, however Judge Perry requested more documentation. Three photos on the hard drive of Smith’s laptop show her and Eroshevich naked with arms around each other in a bathtub, according to an affidavit. One of the reported photos has Anna Nicole sitting spread eagle in the tub with Eroshevich sitting between her legs.  Boobs to back, crotch to butt and Anna Nicole’s hand reportedly on or very near Eroshevich’s crotch. I hope those are not the photographs which  Judge Perry called “playful”. Where I come from, its called “foreplay”. The photos are dated two months before Smith’s death*.

• The judge said he might allow brief snippets of a video showing Dr. Kapoor making out with Anna Nicole Smith during a party.

• Smith’s slurring slush mouth appearance at the 2004 American Music Awards, is allowed.

Whats out…

• The Clown Video.

• Judge Perry said any evidence from Florida connecting the three defendants to the death of Anna Nicole Smith would not be permitted because Florida did not prosecute anyone. Officials in Florida dropped the ball and did not file any criminal charges against anyone in her death. Perry wanted to know why Florida was not handling this case.
  

• Also excluded was a 1996 television interview showing Smith leaving the Betty Ford Center after being treated for alcohol and drug addiction. Judge Perry said he will allow the jurors to know that Smith was in rehab but not watch the interview.

* Source Radar Online

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The first criminal complaint. It was later amended to add more counts to Howard K. Stern.

94 page document with evidence used to press charges against Stern, Eroshevich and Kapoor.

111 more pages of same document.

*Many thanks to blogger DDs and others on Topix for this list of witness and their involvement in the trial.

• Carman AgUilera: -Marquez Medical Board Investigator

• Nadine Alexie: Nanny of Dannielynn

• Quelhlie Alexis: Nanny of Dannielynn

• Lisa Arredondo: Hard Rock Hotel Employee Liason

• Shirley BalIlard: RN? may be a friend of Shane Gibson?

• Marites Batac:

• Anthony Baumgart: San Gabriel Police/ NARC

• Larry Birkhead: Dannielynn’s father and Howard K. Stern friend.

• Dr. Ellie Bloomfield: Internist – Glendale CA

• Dr. Clifforcl Bochner: Fetal OB – LA, CA

• Dr. Timothy Botello: Addiction Psychiatrist expert

• Todd Brehart: DOJ DEA Special Agent

• Maurice Brighthaupt: Anna Nicole Smith’s bodyguard

• Tasma Brighthaupt: Moe/Maurice wife

• Ron Brovetto: DOJ BNE Special Agent

• Marian Bryant: Seminole Detective

• Rhonda Carter: RN – LA, CA

• Don Clark: Oquinn Firm Investigator Former FBI

• Melinda Clark: L.A Co Deputy Sheriff/ computer expert.

• Dr. Pablo DeSouza: Bahamas Anesthesiology Pain

• Jennifer Doss: California Department of Justice Special Agent.

• Racine Edward-Silva UCLA OBGYN Asst Professor

• Kathy Ellis: CURES/DOJ/BNE

• Dr. Rina Falk: Cedar Sinai Cytogenetics

• Tracy Ferguson: Bahama – Shelly/Thompson lawyer.

• Dr. Perry Fine: Utah Pain

• Alan Finn: Assistant Cameraman Anna’s Show IMDB

• Kathy Frank:

• Ira Freeman: Key Pharmacy Pharmacist.

• Dr. James Gagne: Internist Addiction Pro.

• Jon Genens: Medical Board Senior Investigator.

• Eric Gibson: Bahamas – Friend of ANS and Stern aka “King Eric”

• Gerlene Gibson: Shane Gibson’s mother and babysitter for Dannielynn Birkhead.

• Shane Gibson: Bahamas scandal that he fast tracked ANS citizenship.

• Monique Glinton: Wedding Planner???

• Alex Goen: Trimspa owner

• Dr. Ken Grabow: Anesthesiology / Pain Mgmt

• Tara Grinna: Swimsuit designer???

• Troy Hollier: Ex Houston LE Anna / Howard friend

• Wesley Irwin: Eroshevich’s ex-husband

• Umbarto Jaime:

• John James: Illegal Aliens Producer

• Victor A. Johnson: LAPD officer

• Valerie Juge RN – LA, CA

• Gertrude Juste: Broward County Florida Medical Examiner.

• Dr. Ronald Katz: Pain doc Neilson Way.

• Dr. David Kline: OB, LA, CA

• Kathleen Kling:

• Alvin Knowles: Bahamas – Home Improvement company

• Olga Kopetman: pharmacist (Ralph’s)

• Dr. Victor Kovner: Founder of clinic which Kapoor took over

• Kenneth Krause: Homeland Security

• Theresa Laramore: Bahamas, ANS friend worked for Executive Flight Services.

• Dr. Maurice Levy: GP sanctioned in 2001

• Dr. Steve Lochan: Bahamas, NeoNatal

• Diana Marshall: RN – LA, CA

• Ray Martino: Friend of Anna Nicole and where Daniel was living while his mother was in the Bahamas.

• Dr. Natalie Maullin: Cedar Sinai Psychiatrist

• Steve Mazlin: AMC Pharmacy – Burbank

• Joseph Merydlth: Government document forensics expert

• Dr. Hubert Minnis: Bahamas OB

• Imelda Molina RN – LA, CA

• Julie Monson:

• Wayne Munroe: Howard K. Stern’s Bahamas Lawyer.

• Brigitte Neven: Eric Gibsons girlfriend. She was present in Florida when Anna Nicole found dead.

• Claudette Pantig:

• Romeo Par:

• Dr. Joshua Perper: Performed Anna Nicole’s autopsy.  Broward ME

• Dr. David Perry: CA out of state license

• Ron Rale: California attorney and Howard K. Stern friend.

• Marcella Selkert:

• Danny Santiago: California Department of Justice Special Agent.

• Yolanda Santos: Unipharma Pharmacy Los Alamitos — Not retail.

• Dr. Harold Schuler Brown: ME toxicologist

• Ford Shelley: South Carolina business man. Father of Riley Shelley.

• Gina Shelley: Ford Shelley’s wife whose family purchased Horizons and also hosted Anna Nicole and Stern as house guests.

• Riley Shelley: Ford and Gina Shelley’s daughter who was 10 years old at the time of Stern taping her in the “Clown Video.

• Daisy Soria RN – LA, CA.

• Dr. Scott Stoney: Anna’s doctor who Dr. Kapoor bought clinic from.

• Mercedes Taha: Midwife Nurse LA, CA.

• Diane Takeda:  RN – LA, CA.

• Allison Tan:

• Gaither Thompson: Son of Ben Thompson

• G. Ben Thompson: From South Carolina. Owner of Horizons house that was in dispute.

• Greg Thompson:

• Alma Tongson: Investigator

• Usa Troncosco: Investigator

• Charlene Underwood: Lawyer whose name Dr Eroshovich stole to use for fraudulent prescriptions.

• Ron Valdivia: Investigator DA’s office.

• Wilma Vicedomine:  Assisted investigation via Don Clark.

• Kim Walther: Anna’s assistant at one time .

• Dr. Cyril Wecht: Performed private autopsy on Daniel Wayne Smith.

• Lisa Young: RN

Link to jury questionnaire and witness list.

Who is missing from the witness list?

Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson: Gay couple who have made multiple allegations.

Alan Nazario: Same link, Trimspa Bus Driver. Said he saw Stern take ANS behind closed doors and when she came out she was impaired.

Sandy Seranno: Anna Nicole hairdresser. These screen shots speak for themselves.

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March 2009 screen shot, (Birkhead swapping spit with Seranno)

Blast from the past. Lisa Bloom handing Howard K. Stern attorney Krista Barth an excellent smack down!

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.

Lin Wood has filed notice to serve a subpoena on behalf of his client Howard K. Stern on a forensics expert for Virgie Arthur. He filed the notice in the South Carolina case of Stern vs Shelley.

Attorney Neil McCabe, in Houston District Federal Court for his client Virgie Arthur filed to quash the subpoena which requests documents McCabe says is protected under work product protection.

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The second anniversary of the death of Anna Nicole Smith is upon us. She died two years ago today on February 8^th, 2007. I was a fan of her reality show and watched her personal appearances. I saw radio shock jock Howard Stern berate her for weight gain and I celebrated with her when she debuted slim and triumphant as the spokeswoman for Trimspa. She then ended up having the second child she always wanted only to have her beloved son Daniel die three short days after the birth of baby girl Dannielynn Hope. Five months later Anna Nicole Smith was also gone.

That’s why I started this website. It was called “A Mothers Last Wishes”. I already told the story of this blog and the blog war that ensued in this series of articles. A year has passed but what I said then is what I would say now if I were to write that part all over again.

The deaths of Anna Nicole and her son Daniel have spawned not one but several civil legal actions. First there was an inquest into Daniels death. Many were thinking that criminal charges could have been pressed in the Bahamas against Anna’s attorney and friend Howard K. Stern for Daniels death. The jury, who were instructed to come back with a specific verdict in that country known for corruption found Daniels cause of death to be non-dependent drug use.

Stern has been a busy man though. He has sued TV journalist and book author Rita Cosby for her book, Blonde Ambition. Ms. Cosby’s book outlined the suspicious circumstances of Anna Nicole and Daniels deaths. That suit is still ongoing in the United States Southern District Court of New York .

Stern sued Houston Texas billionaire attorney John O’Quinn. O’Quinn represented Anna’s mother Virgie Arthur in Florida Broward County Court as she fought for the right to take her daughters remains back home to Texas. But Daniel was buried in the Bahamas. Early reports from the funeral home handling arrangements indicated that Daniel’s body was being prepared for shipment back to the United States. It’s rumored that Anna Nicole was told she could not afford to do this. This was even after photos were sold for several hundred thousand dollars of Daniels last hours with his mother and sister. Anna’s remains went back to the Bahamas with Daniels and there they rest alone. Stern’s defamation lawsuit against O’Quinn he says, arose from statements that O’Quinn made to the press during and after those hearings.

Stern vs O’Quinn has settled. There was no statement from either party but speculation continues because there was a continuance granted to the defense on the date set for settlement talks. To the surprise of followers of the case, settlement talks proceeded anyway.

Stern as executor of Anna Nicole’s estate sued G. Ben Thompson and Ford Shelley who were former friends of Anna Nicole. They sold her a house in the Bahamas which they were never paid for. When Anna Nicole died, Ford Shelley entered the home and took things belonging to Anna Nicole. Shelley said she told him to do that in case anything ever happened to her. Which it did. What has been revealed has sparked worldwide controversy as to how much responsibility Stern should share regarding the deaths of Anna Nicole and Daniel.

Via Ford Shelley and Geraldo, Americans were treated to the infamous “Clown Video” where Anna Nicole is eight months pregnant and apparently under the influence… Just about every instance of that video has been removed from the internet even though Stern says the video was supposedly a joke that Anna Nicole planned to publish on her website. From a still publicly unknown source, pictures circulated the internet of Anna Nicole purple, hysterical, weeping and devastated while she held her dead 20 year old son Daniel in her arms in the Bahamian hospital where she just gave birth to her beautiful daughter.

In the meantime, Anna Nicole’s mother, Virgie Arthur, sued Howard K. Stern, CBS Studios and KRPC Houston for the Entertainment Tonight segment that will forever be called “The Mommy Dearest” video. It’s actually what brought me to this story. The sight of Anna Nicole weeping and seething in anger at her mother, whom I had never read or seen anything about was heartbreaking. It was that show which prompted me to start this blog. Only to later find out that Anna Nicole was deeply impaired during the taping of the show. According to those close to her (including baby daddy Larry Birkhead),  she was being kept drugged and out of it and told things that were just not true. Although Birkhead has changed his tune these days and is said to be a very close friend to Stern.

Mrs. Arthur’s lawsuit started in Texas State Court and was then removed to Federal District Court . Neil McCabe, Arthur’s lead attorney petitioned the court to add other parties to the case. The court denied the request but declared any case against the proposed added defendants “cognizant”.

That brings us to Virgie Arthur’s Houston Texas case for defamation. Mrs. Arthur through the O’Quinn Law Firm is suing Howard K. Stern and his sister Bonnie Stern. TMZ.com, Harvey Levin, its managing editor, Art Harris who is a special correspondent for CNN and other programs and networks, one blog owner, Nelda (Rose) Turner and two of her moderators who are Teresa Stephens and Lyndal Harrington.

Defendant Rose Turner of rosespeaks.com has an “entertainment blog”. She says she likes to cover various high profile legal cases. Rose wrote almost exclusively about the Anna Nicole Smith debacle until she was served with the current defamation suit. Now she covers other issues as well.

After attorney William Ogden who was representing four of the defendants in that case decided that he could not afford to continue defending at least two pro bono defendants, Rose and Lyndal Harrington, (per Turner) he resigned from the case also leaving those two and  two other clients, Bonnie Stern and Art Harris without representation.

Rose, finding herself without an attorney was faced with having to either cooperate with Neil McCabe’s requests for discovery or the judge in the case, The Honorable Tony Lindsay was going to issue an order compelling Turner to surrender her computer to forensic expert Craig Ball who has been appointed for this case. Turner decided to cooperate with McCabe rather than turn over her computer. The other defendants have been ordered to turn their computers and emails over to the forensic expert due to possible spoliation meaning possible destruction of evidence.

Turner had in her possession an email from Bonnie Stern that was enough for attorney Neil McCabe to bring one more party into this lawsuit which not only charges defamation but conspiracy to defame Mrs. Virgie Arthur. That party is the father of Anna Nicole’s baby daughter Dannielynn. In the court documents, McCabe charges it was Larry Birkhead who gave a mean spirited story TMZ published that implied that Mrs. Arthur married her step-brother with Howard K. Stern “sourcing” that story. In reality, Mrs. Arthur did not marry nor have a child with her step-brother. Their respective parents married later on. Millions of readers saw that story and voted on a poll all designed to humiliate Mrs Arthur.

And then another twist to the story. Defendant Nelda Turner last week, filed a motion to bring CBS into the State case. The Federal case against Stern and CBS had been dropped with costs being attributed to each party. Onlookers suspected a defamation case against CBS was not over but no one ever thought it would be Turner who brought them back in by way of the existing state case. Turner then announced that one of the defendants, Bonnie Stern has filed for bankruptcy. Research shows that this action will stay the Texas State case however there are legal remedies that I am assuming will be discussed in future hearings that may allow the case to continue while Bonnie Stern follows through with her bankruptcy petition.

The suit against Cosby continues. On the eve before former Los Angeles police officer and former body guard of Larry Birkhead, Mark Spear was to give a deposition in the Cosby case, Howard K. Stern filed a lawsuit against Spear and Jackie Hatten who was a personal friend of Anna Nicole’s. Stern claims both parties libeled him and caused false information to be published in Crosby ’s Blonde Ambition.

Sterns suit against Thompson and Shelley continues as does Anna Nicole’s lawsuit against the estate of J. Howard Marshall which she took all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States and prevailed in allowing it to be heard. Anna Nicole’s surviving child Dannielynn would be the beneficiary of anything won in that action but also big legal fees would go to Howard K. Stern.

Larry Birkhead with daughter Dannielynn appeared as a surprise guest on Larry King Live the other night which was featuring “the crying judge” from the Anna Nicole burial hearing, Larry Seidlin. Birkhead and Stern are spotlighted in a television special that is airing  on “E!” television called, “Anna Nicole, Tragedy in Paradise”.

Birkhead said he and Dannielynn are set to star in their own television reality show on the same network which just happend to be the network which created Anna Nicoles reality show back in 2002. It appears on all fronts that Birkhead is the new Anna Nicole Smith. He does not say who his manager is but for all intensive purposes, he has her possessions, her child and now he wants her stardom.

An investigation into the prescribing practices of one Los Angeles doctor and the psychiatrist who prescribed eleven medications of which eight were prescribed in Howard K. Sterns name was announced by California Attorney General Jerry Brown in October of 2007. Dr Kristine Erosovitch and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor had their offices and storage units raided by the California AG.

The much anticipated investigation continues and another bomb shell was dropped just days ago.The offices of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were raided again and this time TMZ is reporting that United States Drug Enforcement Administration  assisted in serving a search warrant along with the California Medical Board. They are looking for a connection between the doctor and Howard K. Stern.

As for me, I have been named as a cooperating witness but former co-conspirator in Virgie Arthur’s defamation lawsuit in Houston Texas. It is said that evidence I and one of my former moderators, “Havana“, submitted to the O’Quinn firm has made this state case possible. We being tiny links to a larger chain of conspiracy.

My opinion of the sad deaths of Anna Nicole and Daniel has changed drastically. However as a witness, I find it best to keep my thoughts to myself. I have been maligned and attacked by Turner and the members of her website on the internet. I refuse to engage. The truth and substance of this case will be sorted out in a court of law. I stand by all I have said and will quietly remain until the final gavel falls.

There are many who desire to know the whole true story behind the lives and suspicious deaths of Anna Nicole and her son Daniel. Her adorable daughter Dannielynn deserves to know.

Hopefully with the latest raid in California and the ongoing investigation, the world will get some answers as to why two people had to die too young and too soon.

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