After weeks of disturbing testimony unveiled during the preliminary hearing, a judge has ruled that Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich will stand trial for the death of Anna Nicole Smith.

The defendants, who will be facing 23 total felonies, are due back on court on December 11th.

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This story gets sadder and sadder!

Nadine Alexie, a nanny for Anna Nicole Smith, is saying that she saw Howard K. Stern and Dr. Khristine Eroschevich forcing drugs on the late Playboy model.

Alexie said the drugs would keep Anna Nicole asleep for days at a time causing her to wake up with vomit and feces in her bed!

This revelation comes after Department of Justice investigator Danny Santiago interviewed Alexie in September.

Disgraceful!

Lock 'em up!

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Is anyone shocked by this?

One of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors, Sandeep Kapoor, prescribed high dosages of Dilaudid, methadone and other sedatives to the late model. Dilaudid is described as "hospital heroin" and is an extremely dangerous drug, having the ability to stop people from breathing.

Kapoor was treating Smith for pain when her disease was mostly mental. He made visits to her home while she was on bed rest for a rib injury and continued to provide Anna with inappropriate amounts of medication for her particular ailment.

Although Kapoor wrote that he was "tapering off" the dosage of Dilaudid for Anna, records show that the dosages only increased. He only discontinued distribution of the drug to Anna at the end of that year, likely because of her infamous intoxicated appearance at the American Music Awards.

He also did not supply Anna with sedatives while she was pregnant, but after she was released Dr. Kapoor began writing prescriptions for her once again. Dr. James Gagne testified at Kapoor's trial saying:

"They're excessive. They're without medical basis, and they fly in the face of treatments. One presumes it was in response to requests from the patient for medication."

Sad, sad.

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As part of the hearing to determine whether Howard K. Stern, psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor should face felony charges in the death of Anna Nicole Smith, a California pharmacist Ira Freemen testified that he flat out refused to fill a prescription for Smith.

A mere four days after her son died in September 2006, Eroshevich prescribed Anna high doses of painkillers, muscle relaxants and sedatives, which he viewed as "pharmaceutical suicide."

"If she got ahold of these medications, it could have fatal consequences," he testified.

And five months later, the pharmacist's predictions came true. She died from an overdose!

The prescription called for eight times the recommended dosage of a hypnotic sedative called Dalmane, prompting a toxicologist to state, "she is way out of her league on this."

Earlier this week, another psychiatrist testified that Anna continued to abuse prescription drugs when pregnant with her daughter, despite her efforts to quit.

So sad.

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There may have been some debate over who her father was, but there is no question who her mother is - Danielynn is the spitting image of Anna Nicole Smith!

Very cute - and very big! Somewhere in the last three years she just shot up!

The little lady enjoyed an afternoon with her dad, Larry Birkhead, as they went pumpkin picking in Beverly Hills.

Thankfully, she seems happy, healthy, and bright! We think Anna would have been proud!

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The girl just can't get a break!

Even though Anna Nicole's been deceased for almost 3 years the IRS still wants her to pay up!

A tax lien has been filed against the Vickie Lynn Marshall Estate in El Lay for $125,112.86.

We know the government wants their money, but shouldn't they be hounding those who owe a little bit more and are still alive???

Like um, Nicolas Cage!? His bill is currently at $6 million and then some!

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The most anticipated testimony in the recent Anna Nicole Smith hearing finally began on Friday as Larry Birkhead, father of Anna Nicole's young daughter, took the stand against Howard K. Stern, Dr.Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor

Unlike Anna Nicole's former bodyguard, Maurice Brighthaupt, who took the stand before Larry and hashed out all the information he could, Larry surprisingly attempted to stay dignified and polite, answering questions as honestly and as straightforward as possible.

When asked about the drugs he could recall Anna Nicole indulging in, he replied with a list: “Topamax, Klonopin, Lasix, Valium and some sort of potassium pill. Methadone was a regular medication. I didn’t see Dilaudid. Vicodin was used throughout the relationship.”

He continued to explain that he suspected that Anna Nicole was taking extra prescriptions from two different doctors very early on in their two year relationship. He informed Dr. Kapoor of this theory, but nothing ever came of it.

He also divulged into the "working relationship" he now finds himself in with Howard K. Stern, though he recalls the times in which Anna Nicole was still alive, where things were "icy".

But mainly, Larry focused on the terrible quality of life that Anna Nicole endured during her detox from the massive amounts of drugs:

“She’d get up ‘to feed the dogs,’” Birkhead said of one of Smith’s middle-of-the-night awakenings during a detox visit, in which she imagined she was back at home. “The IV cart was still attached to her and I yelled, ‘Anna!’”

Larry will take the stand again today.

We have a feeling this will definitely go to trial, which will probably mean another year of this craziness.

So sad.

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Among the flurry of allegations being tossed around in the Anna Nicole Smith case, one claim that keeps coming up is her alleged affair with a female doctor.

Prosecutors began to stir up claims that there was a sexual relationship between Anna and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, who is on trial with Howard K. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor for illegally providing prescription drugs. The lawyers are suggesting that this affair was the motivating factor in the doctor's decision to prescribe medication for Anna illegally.

However, the judge has deemed the claim as irrelevant and has ruled against any further discussion of the topic. As he put it, he did not want this trial to turn into a "circus sideshow."

Too late for that.

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More details are surfacing regarding the sorted and dangerous relationship between Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K Stern and his role in her abuse of drugs, including an episode where Howard cooked a crushed Valium pill on a spoon and injected Anna with the drug.

Anna's former bodyguard, Maurice Brighthaupt, testified yesterday in the case against Howard, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor , and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, and revealed a shocking story about Anna's time in the Bahamas with Howard. He unveiled an incident in which Anna began "begging" for drugs to help her deal with the loss of her son Daniel. (He also overdosed.) Maurice watched the tragic model lie naked in an adjoining bedroom while Howard provided her what whatever drugs she wanted:

"I saw him drawing up liquid from the spoon that was being cooked. She couldn't swallow. Anna and Howard felt if they put it in the blood system that it would get into her system quicker."

Maurice confesses that he saw Howard do this for Nicole "four or five" times between then and the day of her death and also saw Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, deliver chloral hydrate to the Bahamas to inject Anna at least once.

So sad! It's hard to hear how bad it was for her in the very end, with clearly no one looking out for her well being.

They should all be ashamed!

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