Celebrity Justice
Criminal Probe Into Anna's Prescriptions

TMZ has learned the California Department of Justice (DOJ) is conducting a criminal investigation into several doctors who prescribed various medicines to Anna Nicole Smith.

Sources tell TMZ the DOJ's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement has contacted Larry Birkhead, Big Mo (Anna's bodyguard) and others. We're told DOJ is particularly interested in two doctors -- Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor. TMZ broke the story that Dr. Kapoor prescribed methadone to Anna under an assumed name when she was eight months pregnant. Dr. Eroshevich ordered a virtual pharmacy of drugs for Anna, five days after her son Daniel died.

Dr. Eroshevich, who was in the Bahamas with Anna, sent the prescription wish list to Dr. Kapoor. Kapoor's attorney, Ellyn Garofalo, told TMZ "Dr. Kapoor declined the request for prescriptions. He would never prescribe that combination of drugs, in such large dosages, to any patient."

The Medical Board of California launched its own investigation of the two doctors earlier this year. That investigation is pending.

By the way, TMZ has learned Dr. Kapoor is in the process of having twins via a surrogate.



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30046. 10:05 am
- Daniel is pronounced dead
- At 10:05 a.m. doctors pronounced Daniel dead. Initially Smith "was so distraught, she refused to leave Daniel's side, and it was necessary to sedate her in order to check her out of the hospital," says Scott. Hours later she suffered memory loss. "She told Howard, 'I'd like to watch a movie with Daniel,' " says Alex Goen. "Howard had to explain it to her all over again." (PEOPLE. 9/13/06)

10:29 am:
- Local police are notified. Police investigators found Daniel laying on the bead, already dead.
- Assistant Commissioner With Responsibility For Crime, Reginald Ferguson, said police received a call from the hospital informing them of Daniel’s death on Sunday morning at around 10:29 am. “Upon arrival at Doctors Hospital, officers discovered the lifeless body of a male Caucasian in room 201.”
- Officers were sent to the hospital where they discovered Daniel’s “lifeless body” lying on his back on a bed. Crime scene investigators concluded there was “nothing unusual noticed about the condition of the room.”

Posted at 10:29AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Cagney

30047. 30025. I was not able to post a small paragraph quoting from the Seidlin Court Ruling but I was able to post the link to the ruling itself. It was the bottom of page 10 of the ruling and page 11 in which the credibility of the three witnesses was deemed worthy or not worthy. Anna's mother's credibility regarding the particular issue of burial of her daughter was NOT deemed credible and then it listed WHY. The testimonies of both Birkhead and Stern were deemed to be credible and Stern's, in particular, was deemed to be HIGHLY credible--regarding the issue of Anna's burial and her wish to be near her son.



Posted at 9:41AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Ahava

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How about page 12 where the ghost whisperer judge states that Howie (Mr. Ankles) has no standing but he let Barth ramrod the whole proceeding. He must of had a thing for blondes.

Posted at 10:30AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Trainwreck

30048. DWAU,

Just wanted to thank you for stopping in last night and chatting with the ladies.
Sorry I missed you. Hope to catch you in there in the next day or so.

Posted at 10:34AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Law

30049. at 9:38 a.m., when Smith awoke, prodded her son and discovered he was not breathing. According to Goen, "She screamed, 'Howard, wake up! I don't think Daniel is breathing!' " Stern rushed to Daniel's side, checked his pulse and summoned help. (PEOPLE. 9/13/06)

Now a usual reaction from a non medical professional would be to shake him and yell "Daniel , Daniel" not check a pulse? For you would not think he was deceased?
That throws me off right there.

Posted at 10:30AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Lacey

30050. Larry didn't know if Anna was going to use his sperm specimen; but when she asked him to provide one, he agreed. Howard wrote up an agreement that stipulated that Larry would forfeit any claims to parentage. Howard had him sign it right there on the kitchen table, in front of all of us. Anna was there, too, so she couldn't have been dead.


So this is what Howard has been holding over Larry's head. It is all making sense now. Thank you Delusional for taking the time to share all of this info with us. Yes, I am sure the public would have a whole different opinion of Larry as a sperm donor as opposed to a scorned lover/dad. I wonder if the E channel knows any of this. Now we know why larry stutttered and stammered when Seidlin asked him if Anna was the love of his life. What a charade this whole thing is. I just hope he really wants his daughter and is not just using her for money.

Posted at 10:30AM on Sep 30th 2007 by shadowbaby

30051. Butterfly and Ahava---
I would think you would deride one of your compatriots for faking someone else's name. Since neither of you have objected, there's more than a very strong chance that it's one of you.

Posted at 10:31AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Behind the HardRock

30052. Also from CNN transcripts:
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SEIDLIN: What`s your source of income?

STERN: Right now, I`m borrowing money from my parents. (INAUDIBLE)

SEIDLIN: You had no separate independent income?

STERN: No.

SEIDLIN: In 2004 -- what happened in 2004 with your income?

STERN: Same thing. It was through Anna. Anna paid my rent.

Posted at 10:48AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Gerbils, Inc.

30053. I just hope he really wants his daughter and is not just using her for money.

Posted at 10:30AM on Sep 30th 2007 by shadowbaby

Sorry Shadow but any hope for that flew out the window after he made his 2nd million!

Posted at 10:45AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Lacey

30054. Posted at 10:29AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Trainwreck
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Glad you asked and tried to derail the subject, as usual, which was:

The credibility of the three witnesses regarding the two petitions regarding the burial place of ANS. Staying on task here--not difficult for you is that?---Stern's testimony was deemed HIGHLY CREDIBLE, Birkhead's was deemed CREDIBLE and VA's was deem NOT CREDIBLE AT ALL because of her associations for remuneration with Splash limos to the morgue, Splash cameras at the ready when she visited her grandson's grave earlier that year, etc. etc.

THUS the body was the sole possession of the INHERITOR< DANNIELYNN--and awarded to the custody of Dannielynn's guardian ad litem, who then had the body taken to the Bahamas to be buried next to Daniel, as was ANS's wish.

So that is the context of the citation I was pointing out and the body did not go to Texas.

End of story.

If you care to re-open a discussion on other points of the 21-page ruling, go for it. However, this was MY discussion that I opened and commented on and that was the parameters of said commentary.

Posted at 10:49AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Ahava

30055. 10:30 am to around 1:00 pm
- When The Guardian news team arrived at the hospital, security guards were at every door but visitors and patients were only allowed through the main entrance, where they were screened, questioned before entering.
All the door leading into the private hospital that would otherwise be open were locked as security guards kept a close watch to see who was leaving and entering….”As I got off the elevator on the third floor, there were security guards everywhere asking me again and again where I was going and they made sure I went in that direction,” said a visitor.
While members of the press were rushed into the conference room, hospital staff hustled the baby out into a waiting van, while Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern, rushed to the hospital parking lot at the same time.
The new mother was never seen, as she was reportedly whisked out of a back door exit. Photos of the baby wrapped in a pink and white blanket could not be taken, as all cameramen were diverted into the hospital conference room. (Nassau Guardian)

- Dannielynn is taken out of Doctor’s Hospital. Howard sneaks out side entrance
- The Guardian news team was able to get a good view of her [Anna Nicole Smith‘s] new born daughter as she was being carried out of the hospital on Sunday.
Her lawyer, Howard K. Stern used that opportunity to rush out the side exit of Doctor’s Hospital, thereby avoiding the press. (from: Nassau Guardian)

1:45 pm
- Daniel’s body was transferred to the morgue. Daniel’s lifeless body was then taken away in a hearse through a side exit. (Nassau Guardian)

Posted at 10:48AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Cagney

30056. Trainwreck:

My response to you was lost in cyberspace, so I will rephrase it.

The point of page 10 and 11 of the ruling was VA's lack of credibility regarding testimony as to the burial of ANS and her wishes to be near her son as opposed to burial in Texas.

VA credibility was cited as non-credible due to her behavior during the visit to the morgue with Splash limos, and previous remunerations from Splash.

HKS was deemed (in this regard as to placing Anna near Daniel in the Bahamas) to be HIGHLY CREDIBle and Birkhead was deemed to be credible.

VA had no weight nor any legal standing in that court or any other court and that is why her counter petition was denied, the appeal was denied and her appeals in the Bahamas were denied.

Simple as that.

I know your silly old tricks of changing the goalposts (subject) and wandering off to neverneverland in order to switch the subject to one more amenable to your entrenched agenda.

Doesn't work--never will work.

Posted at 10:39AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Ahava

30057. 30061. Butterfly and Ahava---
I would think you would deride one of your compatriots for faking someone else's name. Since neither of you have objected, there's more than a very strong chance that it's one of you.

Posted at 10:31AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Behind the HardRock

No clue what you are talking about??

Since we don’t communicate with each in secret forums, ‘regroup’ monthly meetings nor private emails, how the heck would we know what the other is doing? BUT, Copy & Paste doesn’t exactly fit our ‘profile’ from past experience : )

Posted at 12:15PM on Sep 30th 2007 by butterfly

30058. 10:30 am to around 1:00 pm
- When The Guardian news team arrived at the hospital, security guards were at every door but visitors and patients were only allowed through the main entrance, where they were screened, questioned before entering.
All the door leading into the private hospital that would otherwise be open were locked as security guards kept a close watch to see who was leaving and entering….”As I got off the elevator on the third floor, there were security guards everywhere asking me again and again where I was going and they made sure I went in that direction,” said a visitor.
While members of the press were rushed into the conference room, hospital staff hustled the baby out into a waiting van, while Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern, rushed to the hospital parking lot at the same time.
The new mother was never seen, as she was reportedly whisked out of a back door exit. Photos of the baby wrapped in a pink and white blanket could not be taken, as all cameramen were diverted into the hospital conference room. (Nassau Guardian)

- Dannielynn is taken out of Doctor’s Hospital. Howard sneaks out side entrance
- The Guardian news team was able to get a good view of her [Anna Nicole Smith‘s] new born daughter as she was being carried out of the hospital on Sunday.
Her lawyer, Howard K. Stern used that opportunity to rush out the side exit of Doctor’s Hospital, thereby avoiding the press. (from: Nassau Guardian

Posted at 10:47AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Cagney

30059. Dannielynn is taken out of Doctor’s Hospital. Howard sneaks out side entrance
- The Guardian news team was able to get a good view of her [Anna Nicole Smith‘s] new born daughter as she was being carried out of the hospital on Sunday.
Her lawyer, Howard K. Stern used that opportunity to rush out the side exit of Doctor’s Hospital, thereby avoiding the press. (from: Nassau Guardian)

1:45 pm
- Daniel’s body was transferred to the morgue. Daniel’s lifeless body was then taken away in a hearse through a side exit. (Nassau Guardian)

2:00 and Later
- Ford Shelley told police, Stern returned to the house and checked Daniel’s clothing. Shelley said two white tablets fell out of Daniel’s jeans pocket and that Stern then “went immediately to the bathroom’ and “seconds after, I heard the toilet flush.” Stern, he says, told him “that he had taken care of a problem.”
The report also recounts Shelley saying that he saw Stern remove a brown pouch from under the mattress in the master bedroom, after which Stern explained, “He had to keep the pouch out of Anna’s reach.” According to Shelley, Stern added, “Methadone is also kept in the fridge in Anna’s room.”
- Wecht adds that no drugs were found "on his [Daniel’s] person, in his clothing or luggage." (PEOPLE. 9/13/06)
- Dr. Michael Baden: …“if indeed, Howard Stern attempted to get rid of evidence, which, incidentally when the Seminole Indian Tribe says that there was no illicit drugs in Anna Nicole’s hotel room, that was after people had an hour to clean things up.”

- Howard K. Stern makes a series of Phone Calls that same day.
1). FUNERAL HOME IN THE BAHAMAS: The afternoon of the 10th Howard K. Stern calls Loretta Butler-Turner of Butler Funeral Home in the Bahamas to make arrangements.
2). JOHN JAMES, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER “ILLEGAL ALIENS”: I was down visiting Anna with my family here just 10 days ago in Nassau, before the kids went back to school. And we -- I had been on an emotional rollercoaster ride and been whip sawed around from finding out that she had the baby on Friday to an emotional Howard K. Stern calling us on Sunday and my wife crying in the kitchen.
So I can just only imagine -- and by the way, we forgot to mention this, that Howard called to tell us that on Sunday and also that Anna wanted the movie to be in Daniel's memory, to be that dedicated to Daniel. And we heard that on Sunday. So I just can't imagine what she's going through because my wife is very, very devastated as well.(Larry King Live 9/12/06)
- Entertainment Tonight - Daniel's Mysterious Death (March 22, 2007)
"She wanted to dedicate this film in Daniel's memory," James tells ET.
3) ALEX GOEN On Sunday, September 10, at approximately 7 p.m., TRIMSPA’s website went black. Earlier that morning, Alex Goen, CEO and founder of TRIMSPA received a heart wrenching phone call from Howard K. Stern, attorney and long-time friend of Anna Nicole Smith. Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, had been found not breathing, in bed. An emotionally shaken Stern told Goen that neither drugs nor alcohol were suspected, but the cause of death was unknown.

Posted at 10:45AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Cagney

30060. Why are posts that quote testimony from Seidlin's court now disappearing?

Why are leg humpers using Whack's name?

Why doesn't Ahava go back to her original name?

Mysteries of the blog.........

Posted at 10:50AM on Sep 30th 2007 by Gerbils, Inc.

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