Anna Nicole Opera Bound for London

WikiLeaks meets the gossip pages

(NEWSER) - A diplomat describes Anna Nicole Smith as a “Category 4 Hurricane” rampaging through the Bahamas, and two months later the government falls: coincidence? Maybe, but newly leaked WikiLeaks cables suggest that the former Playmate did more damage to the government than you might expect. In her wake she left “the Coroner's Court, the Department of Immigration, … formerly popular Minister of Immigration Shane Gibson, and possibly Prime Minister Christie's PLP government” in disarray. More»

He was drunk too, but that goes without saying

(NEWSER) - Kiefer Sutherland is known for drunken antics like head-butting a guy and racking up a $700 bar tab by 1pm . Add yesterday’s story to his list: The 24 star was drunk, of course, and by 4am had managed to lose his shirt and get unceremoniously tossed out the back door of a London strip club. Making this mental image even better, one of the four bodyguards escorting him out had Sutherland in a headlock, the New York Post notes. More»

Libretto is by 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' writer

(NEWSER) - Britain's Royal Opera House will stage the premiere of an opera about Anna Nicole Smith in 2011. The libretto of Anna Nicole is by Richard Thomas, a creator of the controversial Jerry Springer: The Opera. Covent Garden commissioned the opera about the former Playmate in 2008. It will focus on her life, not the legal battles that followed her death, Thomas tells the BBC . Smith died of a prescription drug overdose in 2007. More»

Carey's latest appearance marked by more ridiculous requests

(NEWSER) - Famous for her diva behavior, Mariah Carey kept thousands of London fans waiting for nearly an hour before she finally arrived at a holiday lighting ceremony. The Daily Mail runs down her demands for the appearance, all but one of which she got:

• One hundred white doves and 20 white kittens surrounding her (health officials said no)
• Indoor fireworks display
• Eighty security guards

Sandeep Kapoor wrote in diary about tryst with Anna Nicole Smith

(NEWSER) - Just in case anyone thought the Anna Nicole Smith hearing couldn't get any kinkier: It can, and it did. An investigator testified yesterday that Smith physician Sandeep Kapoor—who is facing charges along with psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and lawyer Howard K. Stern—had a less-than-professional relationship with Smith, "making out" with her and providing her with drugs, E! reports. More»