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By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

While Us magazine named Britney Spears the top Hollywood meltdown of 2007, beating out, Owen Wilson’s suicide attempt and Paris Hilton’s jailhouse rock, we don’t see Anna Nicole Smith anywhere on its top 10.

Does that mean the Ultimate Meltdown, an accidental overdose leading to a Dead Celebrity doesn’t count? Would Elvis have made it? Anna Nicole Smith still ranks among the top three to five celebs hunted via the web’s hottest search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

From ETonline:

“ET has learned exclusively that ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s late son, DANIEL, was hospitalized to treat symptoms of depression and back pain just two months before he flew to the Bahamas to visit his mother and newborn sister, DANNIELYNN, according to medical records introduced at the inquest.

According to investigative journalist ART HARRIS, www.etonline.com reports Bahamian prosecutors introduced medical records showing the 20-year-old entered the intensive care unit of a California hospital in July of 2006, when he was treated for an “impaired mental status” that cited “the misuse of Valium” as a factor. Read the rest of this entry »

A Video Is Worth A Thousand Words: Characters From The Inquest

By Art Harris, © www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

While a Bahamian police forensics expert appeared more certain than any pathologist so far that methadone alone killed Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel, courtroom observers told me the real shocker at Tuesday’s inquest were medical records that showed he’d been hospitalized for depression and back pain two months before visiting his mother in Nassau.

According to Daniel’s medical records obtained by Bahamian police, Smith entered the intensive care unit of a California hospital in July of 2006, when he was treated for an “impaired mental status” that cited “the misuse of valium,” a powerful tranquilizer often prescribed for anxiety, as a factor.

While Wayne Munroe, attorney for Howard K. Stern, lawyer and boyfriend of his mother, said a physician had prescribed medication for his back pain, and his depression, as well as counseling or therapy sessions, the specific pain drug was not listed in the records.

Observers told me the records were introduced when most media were apparently out of the courtroom and also missed the magistrate’s announcement he would adjourn the inquest until January 28, citing scheduling conflicts with lawyers and witnesses. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

On the third day of the inquest in the Bahamas, Houston lawyer John O’Quinn Monday was busy in West Palm Beach, filing an amended motion asking a federal judge to dismiss the defamation suit Howard K. Stern filed against him for calling the Anna Nicole Smith executor a murderer on national television.

In a 17 page brief, O’Quinn argued whatever statements he made came on the heals of public discussion of the suspicious nature of two deaths, Anna’s and son, Daniel, and his status as a lawyer for Virgie Arthur, Anna’s mother, who had a bonafide interest in her dead progeny. Read the rest of this entry »