
Are you ready for this? It’s more over the top the Enron: The Musical (headed to broadway soon)
It’s Anna Nicole Smith — The Opera!!!

Not a musical, an opera…
Its about the tragic life and death of the former reality star, who’s death caused a tabloid sensation…
Anna Nicole the Opera premieres on February 17 and stars Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek…
Anna Nicole Smith died of an overdose in 2007. She was 39.

A nanny who worked for Anna Nicole Smith told an investigator the Playboy model’s boyfriend and psychiatrist persuaded her to take drugs that left her sleeping for as long as three days, the investigator testified Thursday.
Department of Justice investigator Danny Santiago read portions of his interview with nanny Nadine Alexie during a preliminary hearing.
The excerpts had been selected from a thick transcript by Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry, who said he had tried to excise the more inflammatory sections of the multi-hour interview on Sept. 29-30 in the Bahamas. -AP

AP – A doctor charged with illegally funneling drugs to Anna Nicole Smith wrote in a personal diary that he had to get off drugs himself and wondered if he was wrong to kiss Smith at a party four years ago.Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry read the explosive entries from a diary of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor on Wednesday at a preliminary hearing to determine whether Kapoor and two co-defendants should stand trial.Kapoor’s lawyer previously said he was gay and objected to prosecutors’ allegations that he had a sexual relationship with the former Playboy model that could have contributed [Wait!Theres Tons More…]

UsMag – Next time, on a very special episode of Millionaire Matchmaker: Larry Birkhead?The 36 year-old ex-boyfriend of the late Anna Nicole Smith and father to her daughter Dannielynn, 3, was asked to appear on Bravo’s reality hit. But he turned down the offer. Host Patti Stanger, 48, says she has a history with Dannielynn’s mom (who was once married to billionaire J. Howard Marshall). “I knew Anna Nicole. I fixed her up back in the day and I want that child to have a great mom,” she told Usmagazine.com at the Fox Reality [Wait!Theres Tons More…]

AP – An anguished bodyguard, saying he had to tell what he knew about Anna Nicole Smith’s death “or I’m going to die,” testified Wednesday that he saw her boyfriend-lawyer Howard K. Stern inject her with a sedative at a time before her death when she was begging for something to help her sleep. Maurice Brighthaupt said he had seen Stern inject Smith with medications four or five times in Florida and the Bahamas, and also watched the celebrity model’s psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, inject her once but did not specify the drug. He said he also saw Smith inject herself twice.Brighthaupt’s testimony came during a preliminary hearing to determine if Stern, Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor will stand trial for conspiring to illegally [Wait!Theres Tons More…]

Howard K. Stern’s lawyer said just because Anna Nicole Smith’s former bodyguard testified Howard liquefied Valium and injected it into Anna does not make it true. Steve Sadow said when he cross-examines “Big Moe” tomorrow, there will be plenty of reasons for “serious doubt.”

The first witness in the preliminary hearing over Anna Nicole Smith’s prescription drug death testified authorities found a baby bottle of Pedialyte on her bed, along with a bottle of Cipro.Pedialyte is used to rehydrate children when they experience diarrhea and vomiting. Anna had been battling the flu.Cipro is an antibiotic used to treat infections.Anna was found unresponsive [Wait!Theres Tons More…]

AP – Two doctors and the lawyer-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith are due in court to hear what government witnesses have to say about their alleged roles in supplying drugs that killed the celebrity model.A preliminary hearing for Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich is scheduled Tuesday before a judge who will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to order them to stand trial.All three have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances. The hearing is expected to take two weeks with a parade of witnesses including attorney general investigators, pharmacists, acquaintances of Smith and experts on the interaction of various drugs. [Wait!Theres Tons More…]

LA Times – A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith’s internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son died were “pharmaceutical suicide,” according to unsealed documents written by state officials.Smith’s doctors were warned about prescription drugs by three pharmacists, according to unsealed affidavits obtained Monday by the Los Angeles Times.The pharmacist refused to fill the prescriptions and later recalled thinking, “They are going to kill her with this.”The documents are part of an investigation of the role that Smith’s doctors, psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and internist Sandeep Kapoor, had in her overdose death in February 2007.The physicians and Smith’s boyfriend and attorney [Wait!Theres Tons More…]

E Online – That’s right, folks.It’s been nearly two years since TV journalist Rita Cosby released that steamy Anna Nicole Smith tell-all, and today a judge granted Smith’s former paramour, Howard K. Stern, the freedom to move forward with the defamation lawsuit he brought about so long ago.Let’s recap a bit:More than six months [Wait!Theres Tons More…]