Howard K. Stern Charged for Drugging Anna Nicole

Anna Nicole Smith's former attorney/boyfriend and two doctors have been charged with conspiracy to furnish drugs to the former Playboy playmate who died of an overdose in 2007.

Howard K. Stern and doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were charged Thursday with three felony counts of conspiracy in Los Angeles Superior Court.

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Police records show Stern was arrested and booked by police in Whittier, Calif., with bail set for $20,000,

Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons says the three defendants were variously charged with eight other felonies, including obtaining fraudulent prescriptions and unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 2004 and January 2007.

In September 2006, just after Anna's son Daniel died of an overdose, she and Stern exchanged vows and rings in an informal commitment ceremony in the Bahamas. Stern, 40, claimed to be the father of Anna's daughter Dannielynn. After testing, a judge ruled Smith's ex Larry Birkhead was the father.

Smith died at age 39 in February 2007 from a combination of prescription drugs.

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How does he live with himself, knowing that is he sponging off of Dannilyn’s money.

He is very evil and selfish. He has control of Dannilyns estate. Larry Birkhead should be the trustee for his daughter.

Why does Stern have control of the dannilyn’s money? Someone in the family needs to sue him and get him away from Dannilyns millions.

What a scoundrel, but somehow, he will not be prosecuted..that’s a dam shame.

Why does Stern have control of the dannilyn's money?
March 15, 2009

The reasons there are “drug dealers” is so they can profit off there victims.

Conflict of Interest is when a professional has s”x with his client.

Murder by injection.

Simple and plain.

Princess Right
March 15, 2009

You can lead a horse to water but he does not have to drink it. You can have prescriptions for the whole family in a house but it does not mean that anyone is going to take the other ones pills. If one winds up taking, who’s fault is it. It’s the person who wants to take it and its not like its being forced down ones throat. That was the lifestyle she chose.

Anonymous
March 15, 2009

Listen…it was clear from the outset that Stern orchesterated this entire thing. What sealed it for me was his refusal to get DNA testing; that told the whole story.

He knew good and well DL was NOT his daughter. If I were Anna’s mother, I would have scratched him on the courhouse steps and had the skin lifted from under my nails and taken right to a lab.

How embarrassed the UCLA School of Law must be…two untimely deaths under the watch of onme of it’s graduates…those deaths were no accidents!

He got rid of her son first in order to send her into depression, then he’d have a plausible explanation as to why a woman who had worked her tail off to get healthy and clean, and professed never to abuse drugs again had suddenly began using them. He couldn’t just push drugs on Anna with no explanation.

I do believe he was planning to let DL live, though…he would have raised her as his daughter and just lived a lavish life…then he would have found a way to off her when she reached about 17. PUT THAT SCUMBAG IN JAIL FOR LIFE!

Ivan
March 15, 2009

I think Howard intended to kill anna, her son, and baby dannilynn one by one.

I think his intentions were greed, if the the whole family was out of his way, he would end up with annas’ entire estate.

I am glad baby dannilynn ented up with her real dad, Larry Birkhead. she could as well been a statstic. thank god she went with her real dad in time.

Howard is a low life crooked pile of sh*t.

Howard is a low life crooked pile of sh*t.
March 14, 2009

Howard Stern sucks and is a propagandist who is a low life scum bucket lawyer in my thoughts.

Just another Madoff as in his case someone died to because of his actions involving wealth.

Stern is the same human rights abuser. Any person who protects him is involving them selves in a con artist crime.

That poor son of Anna Nicole and her may Jesus protect Dannielynn from these vultures who stalk on us.

Linda
March 14, 2009

He is a monster and you can believe he was involved in daniel’s death as well as anna’s. No one deserves to die that way.Thw way he humiliated her in the cown video was disgusting.for all we know he got her messed up then.he is a psychopath.

outraged
March 14, 2009


The Future of Anna Nicole’s Family and Fortune


Author(s): Michelle Kaminsky & LegalZoom Staff

With an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars, numerous ongoing contentious legal battles, and an out-dated last will and testament, the untimely passing of Anna Nicole Smith may be the most complicated and litigious celebrity death ever. However, the confusion and uncertainty surrounding her estate and custody of her infant daughter, Dannielynn, may prove the fiercest battle yet, all of which could have been avoided by following a few basic estate planning tips.
Anna Nicole’s Assets

Much of the interest in Anna Nicole Smith’s legal battles is attributed to the size of her estate. Smith won a $474 million settlement that was later reduced to $90 million from her recent probate battle against the family of her deceased billionaire husband, J. Howard Marshall. Although this settlement is still being contested, Smith’s heir would inherit this fortune. But the issue of who exactly is heir to this potential fortune is open to legal debate.

Smith’s Last Will

Within the past few days, Smith’s last will and testament has surfaced. However, instead of resolving issues, it has created more questions. The former Playboy playmate’s 17-page will, created in California, provided for her attorney and recent romantic partner, Howard K. Stern, to serve as executor. It states that her entire estate should be held in trust by Stern for her son Daniel, who died in September of 2006. With his death, the next person in line to inherit her estate is unclear. Smith’s will makes no specific financial allotments for either her newborn daughter or for Stern, whom she joined in a commitment ceremony in the Bahamas three days after Daniel’s death.

Adding to the confusion, Smith’s will contradicts itself. In one section, it includes a curious provision which appears to specifically disinherit future spouses and children, which would include Dannielynn:

“I have intentionally omitted to provide for my spouse and other heirs, including future spouses and children and other descendants now living and those hereafter born or adopted,” Smith wrote in her will.

However, in other sections, it specifically instructs the executor of Smith’s will to manage the estate to provide for her “children.” This language would appear to provide a portion of the estate for the care of Dannielynn.

Smith’s Infant Daughter and Her Legal Team

Despite the confusion caused by the will, most legal experts agree that the likely beneficiary of Smith’s estate will be her baby daughter. However, the road to administering the estate probably won’t be easy. In her favor, Dannielynn and her team of attorney’s have two strong arguments: (1) Her mother, Anna Nicole, did not mean to disinherit her; and even if she did disinherit Dannielynn, (2) the will is invalid.

An Unintended Disinheritance

According to many U.S. state probate laws, if a parent leaves a child out of a will, or disinherits a child, the child can contest the will and potentially get a portion of the estate. Dannielynn’s legal team will have to show that the disinheritance was unintentional, or that the language of the will is so unclear that it is impossible to say with any certainty that Anna Nicole disinherited her intentionally.

A Question of Validity

Dannielynn’s attorneys’ strongest argument will be that the will is invalid. As it stands, the will cannot be enforced according to Anna Nicole’s wishes. Her will leaves all of her estate to her son—a person who is not alive, and who did not have any children to survive him. Therefore, Dannielynn’s attorneys will likely argue, the will is no longer valid.

If a judge agrees, Smith’s estate could be treated as though she never had a will at all. Instead, the courts would administer the estate through intestacy statutes — the state rules on inheritance which pass along an estate to a deceased’s next of kin. In Anna Nicole’s circumstances, since she was not married, her next of kin is Dannielynn.

Bottom Line: If either or both arguments are held up in court, Dannielynn would receive all of Anna Nicole’s estate. It would make her one very wealthy baby.

Guardianship = Money

What of Anna Nicole’s companion, Howard K. Stern? What would he argue and what does he stand to benefit from any contest of the will? We’ll take this part of the puzzle in steps. First, he cannot argue to be a beneficiary of the will as her husband because he never officially married her. The commitment ceremony is not likely to be held to be valid under Bahamian law. Without that recognition, Howard cannot claim that it is valid under U.S. law.

However, Stern could contest the will on behalf of Dannielynn since he is taking care of her and has actual physical custody of the child currently. He will probably argue that Dannielynn was meant to receive money under the will, even though it doesn’t specifically mention her by name. In addition, because the will names him as the executor of the trust for Anna’s children, Stern can argue, he is responsible for managing the trust for Dannielynn’s benefit until she turns eighteen. What that translates into is actual dollars for him as he will get a stipend as executor of the trust. But it could be even more lucrative should he be appointed legal guardian in the end because he will presumably have to care for her in the manner that Anna would want, including her lavish and luxurious lifestyle.

Smith’s Mother Joins the Fray

Adding still more confusion, Anna Nicole Smith’s estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, is also contesting the will. It appears her interest is to invalidate the will to claim custody of Dannielynn. With custody of the child, she would receive a small stipend to rear Anna Nicole’s young daughter.

Lessons to Learn

Regardless of the size of Smith’s fortune, the confusion surrounding her estate and her last will could have been avoided by following a few simple estate planning guidelines:

First, unlike Smith, who included a great deal of contradictory and confusing stipulations in her will, create a standard, legally valid last will to safeguard your personal finances and secure your family’s future.
Second, a last will should not only indicate your beneficiaries. It should also clearly assign a trusted person or people to serve as a guardian(s) for all of your children.
Third, when circumstances such as a divorce, or the death of a beneficiary or guardian affect your will, make sure to revise it to reflect those changes.
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Howard intentionally left out any future chilodren for anna in the will he drew up
March 14, 2009

Anna Nicole’s Will
Posted Feb 16th 2007 1:30PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has obtained the will of Anna Nicole Smith, aka Vickie Lynn Marshall. The will is dated July 30, 2001 and was drafted prior to Dannielynn’s birth and Daniel’s death, and therefore indicates that Anna only had a son.

The will entrusts all of Anna’s property and names Howard K. Stern as executor.

There were two witnesses to the will’s signing, one of which was Kimberly Walther, Anna’s former assistant.

Anna Nicole's Will
March 14, 2009

The game and plot is being exposed as it has been going on in other places in American. SOS look out Americans you can be next?

The rape of the Judaical system.

Wherever the stars are buried, that’s where she wanted to be buried,” said Mother of Anna Nicole Arthur.

Smith’s ex-boyfriend, photographer Larry Birkhead, also testified Wednesday that Anna Nicole wanted to be buried in California.

The testimony came in a dispute between Arthur and Howard K. Stern, the lawyer who had been Smith’s boyfriend for many years.

Anna Nicole Mother said she wants to exhume the son and rebury him in Texas as is her religious rights.

Here we go a group of people forcing anthers religion on another person and denying a Mother her rights in America.

Tearfully, Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin said he wanted her buried next to her son, Daniel, who died five months ago, aged 20, in the Bahamas, as demanded by her companion who is her lawyer which is in violations of lawyers the profiteer Howard K. Stern.

The judge said, “California has no need for the body of Anna Nicole.”

Now we know why it happened in Florida right?


Americans Who Know
March 14, 2009

Here is Howard Stern lawyer who has helped him in the removable of Anna Nicole body to be stolen from her Country. The United States of America. So her body would be out of reach of those who wanted to come to her grave and grieve.Abusers by using the legal system for you power of others.

Violating her Mothers religious beliefs and no consideration to her culture needs.

We can give more showing where she lives to. Here are some associations listed to. Freedom of Information act thank you…..

BARTH, KRISTA PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL
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Krista Barth
Senior Counsel
Email: krista@emsattorneys.com

Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Child Custody; Child Support; Premarital Agreements; Postnuptial Agreements; Visitation Rights; Guardianship; Probate Litigation; Commercial Law; Commercial Litigation.

Admitted: 1993, Maryland; 1994, District of Columbia; 2001, Florida; 2007, New York

Law School: University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., 1993

College: Daemen College, B.S., 1990

Member: The Florida Bar (Family Services Section); Bar Association of the District of Columbia; Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.; New York State Bar Association.

Biography: Family Mediator, Florida. County Court Mediator.

Born: Buffalo, New York, January 2, 1968

ISLN: 915433368

Marxist
March 14, 2009

There is no question that Howard Stern is a profiteer scary looking old man. Yes he has a right to his trail. The internet is not listed in the trail as a co partner to his alleged crimes. Any fool can see what he did for MONEY.

But everyone knows he played the media threw Anna Nicole for profiteering acts and his face on everything.

Now he cries like a scoundrel and wants out after his fame.

Human rights abuser then sucking and living off the estate of a female toddler.

That is what the whole world sees. He has no one to blame but his own actions and way he profits off the female race.

Howard, you are an “old man” living off the death of a young boy and his Mother who all died under you professional legal activity care.

Now your “sucking vampire living” off a little tinny girl you tried to steal because the estate came with her. but you coned your way into the money in the end right? Yes, yes, yes power over Anna Nicole in the end.

That says it all…..

The internet is an expression of our right to a free mind thought. To the entire world it is not the media. It is not a Jury how dare you insult Americans in not being able to set apart the internet from the Court Room.

We are not a Communist ruled Internet.

Annabella
March 14, 2009

Howard K. Stern’s Lawyer: “Lies, Speculation, Rumor and Gossip”
Today 9:30 AM PDT

Principal enabler or media victim?

Howard K. Stern will “ultimately be exonerated,” says his attorney Krista Barth about charges that Stern, along with two doctors, provided prescription drugs for the late Anna Nicole Smith, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007.

In a statement issued this morning, Barth labeled yesterday’s actions by California attorney general Jerry Brown as “publicity efforts” and reminded the public about her client’s right to a free trial.

“The television, tabloid and Internet trial of Mr. Stern in the court of public opinion has been based on sensational lies, speculation, rumor and gossip. Unfortunately, it appears that criminal charges have now been brought by the State of California based on this same type of misinformation.”

howard stern Principal enabler or media victim?
March 14, 2009


LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Dangerous cocktails of prescription drugs were pumped into Anna Nicole Smith “almost to the point of stupefaction” and eventually led to her death, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.


Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend Howard K. Stern was among those charged Thursday.

Brown called Smith’s longtime partner and attorney Howard K. Stern the “principal enabler” in a conspiracy with two doctors for giving the “known addict” thousands of prescription pills.

Stern and a doctor were jailed on charges of conspiring to furnish drugs before her death in 2007, authorities said.

“Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were arrested and later released from a Los Angeles County jail Thursday night after each posted a $20,000 bond, a police spokesman said.

Dr. Khristine Eroshevich also faces charges and is expected to turn herself in Monday, authorities said.

The doctors and Stern devised a plan to use fake names so Smith could be prescribed “thousands of pills,” Brown said.

Her doctors knew she was addicted and gave her drugs “excessively,” Brown said.

“The quantity of the drugs, the variety of the drugs, the combination at any given point and her continuing to use that; that, to a professional, is clear evidence of addiction,” Brown said.

“These cocktails of methadone and antidepressants and sleeping pills and Xanax, you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes and can cause death, injury and permanent morbidity and disability,” he said. Watch Brown speak to the media »

Brown said he hoped the charges send a loud and clear message.

“Doctors do not have a license to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals,” he said.


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Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8, 2007, after being found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, Florida.

The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, a coroner said. Several prescription medications — both in Smith’s and Stern’s names — were found in the room after her death.

Officials said prescription and over-the-counter drugs were found in Smith’s system, including three antidepressant or anti-anxiety drugs. Also found in toxicology testing was human growth hormone and chloral hydrate, a sleep medication, officials said.

Stern and Kapoor, both 40, and Eroshevich, 61, each were charged with eight felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 to January 2007 — only weeks before Smith’s death.

Kapoor and Eroshevich also were each charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” And each was charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

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Smith was buried in the Bahamas on March 2, 2007, next to the grave of her son, Daniel, who had died in September 2006, days after the birth of her daughter, Dannielynn.


Brown said his office will aggressively target California doctors who over-prescribe dangerous drugs.

“People think those drug dealers on the street corners are the only threat,” he said. “As a matter of fact, people in white smocks and pharmacies and with their medical degrees are a growing threat, and we aim to curtail it and curb it in the best way we can.”

Brown said his office will aggressively target California doctors who over-prescribe dangerous drugs
March 14, 2009

Did Howard Stern use Anna Nicole baby girl money for the twenty thousand bond at the jail?

Did Howard Stern use the little girls money all these years to support his self?

Did Howard Stern spend the little girls money on his family?

Did Howard Stern use a “toddler little girls” who”s Mother died under his care and her uncle to use + pay his cell, electric, gas,water,food,medical,”legal fees” drinking, drugs, women, clothes, bills, insurance,gifts,credit cards,fun, car payment with the little girls money?

It is one thing taking from a vulnerable adult woman but to scam profiteering off a toddler girl is what a monster does.

Need I say more?

Crime fighters Exposed
March 13, 2009

The Judge in Florida who blocked Anna Nicole Mother and father from burying her in Texas and returning her son to Texas to be buried knew what he was doing.

If she was in Texas people would come to her grave and an out raged cry would cause even more trouble.

Interesting plot that Judge thought ahead and knew this day was coming?

Calvery
March 13, 2009

glad they finally locking him up for that. they should add her son’s death to that account. put him away! all he wanted was her money… Glad he didn’t get baby danilynn… she be lost child.

Nina~
March 13, 2009

I agree but the real culprits are the doctors, especially the lady one, she needs to be sent to prison for a long time. She travelled with Anna and prescribed most of the meds and she’s a shrink, shame on her.

kelley
March 13, 2009

Howard is a fraud. I wonder if Anna had life insurance policies with Howard as the beneficiary.

Donald Hogans’ family needs to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Howard and the doctors that were in cahoots with Howard.

Donald, my condolences to you and your family. What a tough time it has to be in your family. I am sorry for your familiy’s tragedy for both Anna and her son Daniel.

Make the culprits pay restitution.

Howard is a fraud.
March 13, 2009

I knew that Anna Nichole was as innocent as a lamb by the way she behaved when everyone made fun of her through the years…she never showed hostility toward these people, even when a judge made fun of her intelligence. She was just a girl that liked to have fun and spread it around. Then along comes these dirt bags with ovatures of “help” and “concern”. Typical of a wolf coming to the aid of an injured lamb. The outcome is often bad. Throw this guy in a dark hole for the rest of his life…that includes Bernie Madoff!

BanzaiPipline009
March 13, 2009
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