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Prosecutors have claimed the late Anna Nicole Smith may have had a sexual relationship with Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, reports Perez Hilton. Eroshevich, Howard K. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor are all currently on trial for allegations that they illegally provided prescription drugs to the reality TV star who died in February 2007.

While lawyers are suggesting the relationship served as Eroshevich’s motivation for providing the medication to Smith, the judge said the claim was irrelevant and he will not allow any further discussion of the topic. He said he did not want the trial to turn into a “circus sideshow.”

Howard K. Stern was arrested on Thursday and charged with multiple felonies – including conspiracy to furnish drugs – in the overdose death of Anna Nicole Smith.  According to perezhilton.com, Stern’s lawyer, Krista Bath, claims that Howie (the former Playmate’s longtime companion) is a victim of lies and not a felon.  

Her public statement was a lengthy declaration of Howie’s innocence: 

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An opera based on the tumultuous life of Anna Nicole Smith will hit the stage in 2011.

Britain’s Royal Opera has recruited composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas, who co-created “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” to work on the project.

“In broad outline, it will tell the story of her life, the people who influenced her, her progress,” Elaine Padmore, the company’s director of opera, told the Guardian newspaper.

“It’s not just a documentary about her, but a parable about celebrity and what it does to people. It can be moving, it can be funny and it tells universal truths about human frailty.”

The opera will be directed by Richard Jones and staged in London’s Covent Garden.

Smith, a former Playmate of the Year, married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26. Marshall’s death was followed by a much-publicized legal battle between Smith and his son over his estimated $500 million fortune.

Smith died of a drug overdose in 2007 at the age of 39.

Ashton Kutcher’s new paparazzi prank show “Pop Fiction” sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, he may have stolen the idea – from Anna Nicole Smith.

TMZ.com has obtained the treatment for a show called “Celebrities Strike Back” that Smith registered with the Writer’s Guild in 2004. It reads, “…what happens if Anna Nicole Smith and other celebrities turn the tables and capitalize off of the overzealous media? What if the next big supposed scandal is not a scandal at all? What if everything is staged, but the media (and the public) don’t know it?… Anna Nicole and other celebrity guests take aim at the media and push all the limits.”

The premise is essentially identical to Kutcher’s “Pop Fiction,” which premiered on E! on Sunday night.

Smith and companion Howard K. Stern approached two execs from the same network, Jeff Shore and Jay James, in 2004 and pitched their version.

According to TMZ, Stern is considering a lawsuit. He is reportedly especially mad that the executives at E! had recently told him the idea just wouldn’t work.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s daughter DANNIELYNN remembers her mother by watching home videos of the late glamour girl.

The tot – who celebrates her first birthday next month (07Sept07) – is regularly shown videos and photographs of the model by her father Larry Birkhead.

Birkhead’s sister Judy insists Larry believes it is important to keep Smith’s memory alive.

She tells UsMagazine.com,” Larry says that it’s important Dannielynn knows about her mom. He’s always telling Dannielynn how much he loved Anna and how great she was.

“He’ll point at pictures and show Dannielynn videos of her too.”

Smith also set aside keepsakes for her daughter – including letters she had written for her – which Birkhead is saving for when the baby grows up,
according to Smith’s longtime pal Jane Rose-Zupetz .

The former Playboy model died in February (07) in a Florida hotel suite of an accidental drug overdose. (LJ/US/JC).

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Reformed wild child WILLA FORD will play ANNA NICOLE SMITH in a new indie movie about the tragic model’s life.

The 26-year-old former PUSSYCAT DOLLS revue star will play Smith from the age of 17 to her death in February, aged 39 in the new project, titled ANNA NICOLE.

Hawaiian moviemaker KEONI WAXMAN will direct the film, which will focus on Smith’s career as a Playboy centrefold, top model, her marriage to oil tycoon J. HOWARD MARSHALL, the birth of her daughter DANNIELYNN and the death of her son DANIEL.

Full casting details are yet to be announced, but it has been reported that veteran actor RICHARD HERD will play late billionaire Marshall in the film.

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ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s longtime companion HOWARD K. STERN insists the tragic model would still be alive today if she hadn’t refused medical help before her death.

In a statement released late on Monday, Stern revealed he and other friends and aides had urged Smith to check into a Florida hospital after her temperature spiked, but, fearing a “media frenzy”, she insisted on sleeping off her fever.

In announcing the cause of death as an accidental drug overdose earlier on Monday, medical examiner DR JOSHUA PERPER revealed the model should have already have been in hospital at the time of her death.

Perper said Smith had been suffering from stomach flu, a 105 degree fever and an infection from repeated drug injections.

In a statement, released by Stern’s lawyers, Smith’s companion reveals his girlfriend refused emergency care in the days before her death because “she did not want the media frenzy that follows her.”

He claims both he and Smith’s physician begged her to seek proper medical help, but “Anna called the shots in Anna’s life and everyone close to her knows that.”

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Tragic model ANNA NICOLE SMITH died of an accidental drug overdose, according to Florida police.

The 39-year-old was found dead in her suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida on February 8 – five months after the death of her 20-year-old son DANIEL in the Bahamas.

Seminole Tribe Police Chief CHARLIE TIGER and Broward County, Florida Chief Medical Examiner DR JOSHUA PERPER announced results of the model’s autopsy in Dania, Florida at 10am local time yesterday morning.

Tiger said there was nothing to indicate foul play in her death and the case was now closed.

Perper said there was “no evidence of disease” in Smith’s body, but she had been feeling ill and had a high temperature prior to her collapse.

He added he had searched numerous medical records and studied numerous bottles of medication in her possession, including Methadone, anti-anxiety and anti-depression medication.

An autopsy showed Smith had overdosed on sleeping medication Chloral hydrate and a minimum of eight prescription drugs, including Valium.

An investigation into Daniel’s death is scheduled to begin in the Bahamas today.

Meanwhile, Smith’s partner HOWARD K. STERN, ex-boyfriend LARRY BIRKHEAD and ZSA ZSA GABOR’s husband PRINCE FREDERIC VON ANHALT are submitting DNA tests to determine which man is the father of the model’s six-month-old baby DANNIELYNN.

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Photographer LARRY BIRKHEAD and his attorney have parted company as the latest battle in the snapper’s paternity battle over ANNA NICOLE SMITH’ child gets underway in the Bahamas.

Lawyer DEBRA OPRI has issued a statement yesterday morning, confirming the split, saying, “Larry Birkhead and I have terminated our attorney-client relationship effective immediately.”

She reveals she felt she had to part company with her former client because she didn’t agree with Birkhead’s apparent friendship with his paternity battle rival HOWARD K. STERN.

Opri tells US news show EXTRA, “I just had enough. I can’t represent a client who has a middle man by the name of Howard K. Stern. I feel very comfortable in my decision, and I wish Larry the best. But I am worried about him… I couldn’t continue with the way things were going.”

Reports have suggested Birkhead and Stern are close to coming to a financial settlement about the future of the baby both claim is theirs.

As WENN went to press Birkhead had not retained new counsel in America.

The photographer has been demanding a DNA test on the baby since late last year after insisting he’s the Dannielynn’s biological father. Stern, Anna Nicole’s longtime companion and lawyer, maintains he’s the father, as stated on the baby’s birth certificate.

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Bahamian and Florida police met in the Sunshine State this week to discuss ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s death – but insist it is not currently a homicide investigation.

The former Playboy model was found dead in her suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida on February 8.

The Broward County State Attorney’s spokesman RON ISHOY says, “We are continuing to help law enforcement agencies and the medical examiner as they try and figure out the nature of this death. This is not a homicide investigation.”

Broward County’s chief medical examiner DR. JOSHUA PERPER was scheduled to announce Smith’s cause of death last week, but delayed revealing his findings after new evidence was given to him by the Seminole tribal police.

Perper announced on Wednesday that he wasn’t aware of any criminal probe into the model’s passing, but he hoped to release his findings next week.

Smith was buried next to her son DANIEL – who died in September – in the Bahamas on March 2.

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