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 in while 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

Source: Queen