Anna Nicole Smith and her Crew

Come into my web said the spider to the fly, just thing of Anna Nicole Smith as the spider and those around her were a feast of flies.

Here is the picture enlarged.

Per the L. A. Magazine’s investigative journalist, Steven Mikulan, “Anna Nicole Smith was about Multiple lovers, piles of pills, paternity tests. Take a courtside seat in the eye-popping trial that followed the former Playmate’s fatal overdose.”

“There’d always been something outsize and outlandish about Anna Nicole Smith. She stood nearly six feet tall and at the time of her death in 2007 weighed 178 pounds. Her surgically inflated voluptuousness and ditzy sexuality transformed everything she touched into parody…”

…..but may as well have been created in Andy Warhol’s Factory. Her peripatetic life was a pop fable about the meteoric rise of a mediocre talent: During her 39 years, she’d been a stripper, a Playboy centerfold, a Guess Jeans model, and the star of her own reality-TV show….

…Anna did achieve a genuine homage of sorts to [Marilyn] Monroe, though, by dying of a prescription drug overdose in Hollywood—even if it was Hollywood, Florida. Among the dozen drugs identified in her system was chloral hydrate, a potent sedative that had been discovered in Monroe’s blood, too. In the last years of her life, Anna dined on a buffet of prescription opiates (pain suppressants) and benzodiazepines (tranquilizers). Her medicine cabinet included methadone, Dilaudid, Vicodin, Topamax, Xanax, Ambien, Klonopin, Demerol, Lasix, and Valium. She needed them, Smith said, for pains in her back, head, hands, and from her breast implants—just about everywhere—as well as for restless legs syndrome, insomnia, seizures, and migraine headaches. The ingestion of so many opiates left her severely constipated and beset with stomach cramps. Two doctors who examined Smith found her childlike and distant, uninterested in anything that did not involve her instant pharmaceutical gratification….

…Prosecutors produced paper blizzards of multiple and repetitive prescriptions written for Smith under a variety of names, among them Vickie Marshall, Jane Brown, Michelle Chase, Susie Wong, and Charlene Underwood; the doctors were additionally accused of writing prescriptions for Howard Stern and others that were intended for Smith. A typical charge was for the crime that occurred on November 24, 2006, when Dr. Eroshevich prescribed Valium, Vicodin, and Xanax for “Charlene Underwood,” even though the drugs were sent to Anna in the Bahamas. Eroshevich was also accused in this particular charge of using her former husband’s birth date, instead of Smith’s, to avoid the chance of the prescription being traced to Smith…

…The three were looking at less time after the judge tossed out a few of the charges and handed the case to the jury, which would have to read the minds of the three defendants: Were Anna’s friends fame moths and manipulative hangers-on? Or was Smith some charismatic goddess who attracted disparate personalities eager to do favors for her—like risking their careers writing out Vicodin scrips? For people who weren’t involved in the case, it didn’t matter. Anna Nicole Smith was a diversion, a trifle; even in death she managed to be encircled by calamity whose entertainment value obscured the tragedy of it all. …

Part two will be on Sunday December 26. It will include more of the article as well as my thoughts on how this journalist summarized the life of Smith….”

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13 Responses to “High Times with Anna Nicole Smith Part 1”
  1. heath says:

    Wesley Irwin…I didn’t remember anything about him….what did he do?

    Thanks Rose for the larger picture.. @};-

  2. Ken says:

    Just to let y’all know, the blog will be closing in about 15 minutes, in order to do some maintenance and updating. We’ll be back up as soon as possible.

  3. Kelly Green says:

    Apparently–and according to WikiLeaks–ANS brought down the Bahamian government!

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/wiki_anna_ko_gov_in_bahamas_AYLhWOgqmzTiFa7dlv7slO

  4. Sammy1 says:

    Heath #1 – I believe Wesley Irwin is Dr. E.’s husband and maybe a script was written in his name. I don’t recall any photos. I’m sure John can verify.

  5. Sammy1 says:

    Kelly #4 – to me, the released documents were repeating the media spin. We know the photo with Gibson was at a baby shower with several others. Howard admitted to taking the photos. The photo was cropped after the SC crew stole items from Horizons. Gibson denied receiving a watch from Anna. Gibson admitted to receiving the residency check written to the proper authority from Anna and Howard at Horizons. So many inaccuracies.

  6. Ken says:

    Sammy1 [5] The docs that were released about ANS were only a drop in the hat of around 250000 to 500000 documents that were leaked, that all came from out gov’t.

  7. Sammy1 says:

    Ken #9 – You’re right – just waiting for the next shoe to drop.

    I’m off to finish last minute grocery shopping, finish the laundry and then off to my sister’s for Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will be a full day with the ex-stepdaughter and her family.

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.

  8. hmm says:

    It would be something if wiki could go into some states records or computers for leaks I would bet that would be about the same level

  9. heath says:

    the wiki leaks thing has another ugly side. The comments are interesting….

    This guy deserves Christmas as well.

    http://www.news.com.au/features/wikileaks/wikileaks-suspect/story-fn79cf6x-1225976048184

    * WikiLeaks suspect suffering “abuse, isolation”
    * Friend warns his condition “deteriorating”
    * Army private accused of leaking secret files

    MONTHS of “inhumane” solitary confinement are taking a toll on the US Army private suspected of passing secret government files to WikiLeaks, a friend says.

    “It has become obvious to me that Bradley Manning’s physical and mental well-being are deteriorating,” David House wrote on the blog Firedoglake, recounting a visit to the military brig where the accused soldier is being held.

    “It’s become increasingly clear that the severe, inhumane conditions of his detention are wearing on Manning.”

    Held at a military brig in Virginia at the Quantico Marine base since July, Manning, 23, has been placed under a maximum-security regimen because authorities say his escape would pose a risk to national security.

    Under the strict rules, Manning is allowed out of his cell for only one hour a day for exercise outside or at an indoor gym, military officers say.

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    * WikiLeaks: Rape accusers ‘fans’

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    But Mr House said the Pentagon’s description of conditions was contradicted by what he learned from Manning.

    “He has not been outside or into the brig yard for either recreation nor exercises in four full weeks,” Mr House said.

    “When told of the Pentagon’s statement that he indeed receives exercise, Manning’s reply was that he is able to exercise insofar as walking in chains is a form of exercise,” he wrote.

    As a “precaution”, prison authorities have decided not to issue Manning cotton sheets and instead have provided two blankets and a pillow made of material that cannot be torn into pieces.

    Manning said that “his blankets are similar in weight and heft to lead aprons used in X-ray laboratories”, Mr House said.

    The army soldier was under a “Prevention of Injury” order that was the cause of some of the more strict conditions, Mr House said, even though Manning allegedly had been cleared by a military psychologist.

    “What Manning needs, and what his lawyer has already urged, is to have the unnecessary ‘Prevention of Injury’ order lifted that severely restricts his ability to exercise, communicate, and sleep,” he wrote.

    The Pentagon has rejected allegations Manning is suffering from any abuse and insists he is being treated in the same way as other inmates under the “maximum custody” regime.

    The WikiLeaks website has yet to disclose its source for a massive trove of classified US military and diplomatic documents published in recent months, but suspicion has focused on Manning, who worked as a low-ranking army intelligence analyst in Iraq.

    Manning was arrested in May, and US authorities have yet to say when he will be put on trial on charges of violating federal criminal and military law, including transmitting classified information to a third party.

    If found guilty, Manning faces up to 52 years in prison.

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    Read more: http://www.news.com.au/features/wikileaks/wikileaks-suspect/story-fn79cf6x-1225976048184#ixzz194JcyTRq

  10. hmm says:

    I know he is not being treated badly just like the Gitmo prisoners were not isolated and waterboarded(Snark) Merry Christmas everyone

  11. Rose says:

    #9 Heath I read the whole newspaper online we are getting NOTHING of this on our news anywhere close to what your news is covering… Are we going to be blocked from reading overseas news??? I thought we condemned China and other countries for that… Ken says he did see the video of the Army shooting the civilians and news people ONE time here… so where is the investigation on who ordered that and why???

  12. special report says:

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/greenwald-rips-bush-official-attacks-wikileaks/

    Listen at what this man have to say.It is true.It will give you infos. on what is going on in USA right now.

  13. Sammy1 says:

    To our California friends – hope you’re safe and sound from the rains and mudslides.

    To our friends in the northeast – stay warm and safe from all the snow.

    It’s been very cold and windy here in the midwest but warmer temperatures Thursday and Friday.

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