Celebrity Justice
Larry Birkhead Testifies About Anna Nicole

Larry BirkheadLarry Birkhead is on the stand in the preliminary hearing involving Anna Nicole Smith and the defendants who allegedly fueled her drug habit.

Birkhead just testified between August 2004 and May 2006, he saw Anna take the following drugs regularly: Topamax, Lasix, Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, Potassium and Methadone.

He has not talked about whether Howard K. Stern or the two other defendants -- Sandeep Kapoor and Kristine Eroshevich -- helped facilitate Anna's drug use, but he did identify Dr. Kapoor as Smith's regular physician at the time.

UPDATE 3:20 PM ET
-- Birkhead testified he saw Anna's prescription bottles with several different names on them: Anna Nicole Smith, Michelle Chase, Vicki Marshall and Jane Brown. Larry also said the whole time he knew Anna he was concerned that she would take her meds inappropriately.

UPDATE 5:50 PM ET -- Birkhead testified he never saw anyone force Anna to take medication. He said he saw Anna with a duffel bag full of meds. Birkhead said he saw Stern give the bag to Anna Nicole, but didn't see him administer any drugs.

Tags: howard k. stern, HowardK.Stern, kristine Eroshevich, KristineEroshevich, larry birkhead, LarryBirkhead, sandeep kapoor, SandeepKapoor

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1. First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 1:41PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Simone (the real)

2. First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 1:40PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Simone (the real)

3. This homosexual opportunist need to speak the truth...hope they play the tapes and remind him about all the things he said about Stern when Debra Opri made him look like a choir boy forcing America to love him! Charge him with contempt if he says anything differently now that him and Stern are "back together."

By the way I hope Debra has him for breakfast!! Pay up you Opportunist,lazy, scheming, manipulative,camera-loving wanna-be

Posted at 1:50PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Firpo Carr is a con man & Gloria A is a media whore

4. This case is a joke.

Charges filed for being an enabler?

Slap his hand for having scripts in his name, then slap hundreds of other celebrities inner circle for the same thing!

Privacy issues is why that was done by many celebrities.

The doctors and Anna's inner circle did not harm this woman.
Nobody can control another adult's pain or depression completely.
Period.

CA DA and the DOJ have made FOOLS of themselves.

MJ's case is another matter, that doctor was doing things that should have only been done in a hospital.

No comparison there at all.

Posted at 1:57PM on Oct 16th 2009 by CA Justice is a JOKE

5.
#2. By the way I hope Debra has him for breakfast !!

Birkhead offered to pay Opri 300 thousand dollars, more than her bad adice deserved. More than her hours of counsel to him.

SHE DECLINED.

She will lose, the Judges have stricken her nonsense down in the Courts two times now.

She will end up not getting any fee's paid now.

Wait and see.

Posted at 1:58PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Opri has lost and will continue to lose

6. Keep us updated, TMZ. I hope Larry doesn't back-peddle because he and Stern have agreed to be civil to each other. Larry knows that Stern was Anna's drug dealer and Stern also claimed to be Dannilynne's father. Birkhead should bury him.

(I like Larry, and think he is a good father. However, if he knew Anna was on so many drugs, why didn't he keep going out with her?)

Posted at 2:08PM on Oct 16th 2009 by no such thing as reality tv

7. Anna was almost 4o yrs old.
She facilitated her own use of prescription medicines.

Until the country gets a complete data system for the doctors to see what one patient has been given abuse will continue to happen.
That would have to include other countries also being in that data system.

Heath Ledger may still have been here if there was a system like that.

This California case was brought about by Anna's mom's pro bono lawyers. Do any of you know any lawyers who spend almost a million dollars trying to get their hands on any money that may come from the old man, Marshall's estate?

That is the only reason anyone is in that California court in this case, the lies from Texas is why there is even a case to begin with.

Posted at 2:09PM on Oct 16th 2009 by pro bono? I think not.

8. My evil twin will be FIRST for the mental ward.

Posted at 2:09PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Simone

9. All these SIMONE's are disgraceful

Posted at 2:11PM on Oct 16th 2009 by o rly

10. Birkhead took the stand at about 10 a.m. wearing a pinstriped dark suit, blueish tie and makeup.

Posted at 2:15PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Ewwwwwww

11. A database will not help track anything when people use a lot of aliases. In fact, it could actually backfire and worsen the alias problem.


6. Anna was almost 4o yrs old.
She facilitated her own use of prescription medicines.

Until the country gets a complete data system for the doctors to see what one patient has been given abuse will continue to happen.
That would have to include other countries also being in that data system.

Heath Ledger

may still have been here if there was a system like that.

This California case was brought about by Anna's mom's pro bono lawyers. Do any of you know any lawyers who spend almost a million dollars trying to get their hands on any money that may come from the old man, Marshall's estate?

That is the only reason anyone is in that California court in this case, the lies from Texas is why there is even a case to begin with.

Posted at 2:09PM on Oct 16th 2009 by pro bono? I think not.



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Posted at 10:26PM on Oct 19th 2009 by susan

12. GO LARRY!

DONT LET ANNAS FAMILY TAKE YOU DOWN !

STOP THEM NOW !

PROTECT THE LITTLE GIRL FROM THEM !

YOU & HOWARD WILL KEEP DANNY LYN SAFE FROM THE VULTURES !

Posted at 2:22PM on Oct 16th 2009 by GO LARRY !

13. I think he should be A shamed of himeself he's not going to throw HKS under the bus because if it was not for HKS and the DR's. doing what they did to Anna and her son he would not have the millions that he has now.. someone should be watching Dannilyn's money so she will have some when she's bbigger...I think he is a great Dad..but He pimps out that little girl on magazine covers and all kinds of things he just not bad like jon and kate..HKS and DR's should be held responsible she was harmless..And they druged her and keep her that way..so they could get the money..HKS and LArry are on the same team...

Posted at 2:32PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Michelle

14.
TMZ rocks. Thanks for covering all this.
Larry is remaining rock solid. He tried to get Anna to stop before and during the pregnancy.

And remember, to confuse the public Stern maintained it was his baby for a long, long time.

Posted at 2:35PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Larry's little girl

15. Potassium? I suppose it's technically a drug, like other vitamins and minerals, but even if you took an entire bottle of potassium, you aren't going to get high or have some altered state. If they are reporting on potassium, why not multiple vitamins? T

Posted at 3:00PM on Oct 16th 2009 by Radactrice

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