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HOWARD K STERN HEARING

 2nd Doc Hooked Up With Anna 

Sandeep Kapoor wrote in diary about tryst with Anna Nicole Smith

Oct 29, 09 9:37 AM CDT
(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... More »

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entertainment • Anna Nicole Smith • drug addiction • celebrity trials • celebrity • drug abuse • Howard K. Stern • celebrity death • drug overdose • Khristine Eroshevich • Sandeep Kapoor

HOWARD K STERN HEARING

 Birkhead: 
 Prosecutor 
 Pressured Me 

Anna Nicole Smith's former lover says he was told to 'ramp up' testimony

Oct 20, 09 4:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anna Nicole Smith's babydaddy Larry Birkhead took the stand again yesterday in the Howard K Stern hearing, and testified that the prosecution pressured him to "ramp up" his testimony because he appeared to be taking Stern's side. "I felt I personally did my best and I was being... More »

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entertainment • Anna Nicole Smith • Larry Birkhead • drug addiction • celebrity trials • celebrity • Howard K. Stern • celebrity death • drug overdose

MTV Show May Have Put DJ AM Over the Edge

Ex-addict got into close contact with drugs

Oct 17, 09 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that MTV is running the DJ AM reality show Gone Too Far—in which the recovering addict helped other addicts get clean—the question is tough to avoid: Did the show bring him too close to his demons and contribute to his death? It "could certainly have been... More »

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HOWARD K STERN HEARING

 Stern Gave Smith 
 Valium Shots: Guard 

Lawyer, shrink accused of drugging Anna Nicole

Oct 15, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Howard K. Stern injected Anna Nicole Smith with Valium “four or five” times in the months between her son’s death and her own, her bodyguard testified yesterday. “She couldn’t swallow,” he said. “Anna and Howard felt if they put it in the blood system... More »

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entertainment • Anna Nicole Smith • drugs • celebrity • Valium • Howard K. Stern • celebrity death • drug overdose

HOWARD K STERN HEARING

 Anna Nicole 
 Bottle-Fed 
 in Last Days 

Howard K. Stern's hearing offers a look into the drugged final days of Smith

Oct 14, 09 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anna Nicole Smith’s last days are getting the inevitable rehash thanks to the Howard K Stern hearing, and the details are about as disturbing as you might guess. The Playboy Playmate was so drugged she had to be fed Pedialyte with a baby bottle, and her final hours... More »

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entertainment • Anna Nicole Smith • drugs • celebrity • Howard K. Stern • celebrity death • drug overdose

 DJ AM Death Ruled Accidental 

'Acute intoxication' from cocaine, oxycodone, Vicodin, Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Benadryl, Levamisole

Sep 29, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York City Medical Examiner today closed the sad final chapter in the life of DJ AM, ruling his death accidental. Cause of death is listed as "acute intoxication" due to the combination of cocaine, oxycodone, Vicodin, Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Benadryl, and Levamisole. More »

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MTV Will Show DJ AM's Drug-Intervention Show

Gone Too Far features Goldstein as mentor to drug addicts

Sep 24, 09 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - MTV intends to air a drug-intervention reality show starring the late Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM. In Gone Too Far, Goldstein plays sober mentor to addicts. Given Goldstein’s recent death from a drug overdose, MTV was concerned the show could be seen as hypocritical or exploitative, but... More »

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entertainment • television • music • drugs • drug addiction • MTV • overdose • addiction • DJ AM • Adam Goldstein • drug overdose • Gone Too Far

 Anna Nicole, Doc Took Nude Pix 

Dr. Khristine Eroshevich is shown in several, er, compromising positions with Smith

Sep 23, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Not only did Anna Nicole Smith have a lesbian tryst with her psychiatrist, but there are pictures, TMZ reports. Legal documents describe photos of Smith and Dr Khristine Eroshevich, naked and contorted in various positions, including one in a bathtub. Radar also happened upon photos of Eroshevich—accused of supplying... More »

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entertainment • Anna Nicole Smith • lesbians • sex scandal • celebrity • overdose • Howard K. Stern • celebrity death • drug overdose • Khristine Eroshevich • Sandeep Kapoor

 Anna Nicole Had 
 Lesbian Affair With 
 Drug-Happy Shrink 

Pharmacists refused to fill drug cocktail order for Smith doc Khristine Eroshevich

Sep 22, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly unsealed documents in the Anna Nicole Smith investigation reveal the Playmate had a lesbian tryst with her psychiatrist, Khristine Eroshevich—the same psychiatrist who ordered a drug cocktail so dangerous that one pharmacist who refused to fill the order called it “pharmaceutical suicide,” the Los Angeles ... More »

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entertainment • Anna Nicole Smith • lesbians • celebrity • overdose • prescription drugs • prescription • prescription painkillers • drug cocktail • celebrity death • drug overdose

 Kevorkian: Blame 
 Jacko, Not His Doc 

Jackson got what he wanted, doctor didn't "have forethought"

Sep 3, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jack Kevorkian begs to differ with the coroner who ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide: The original Dr. Death told Fox News that Jacko "got what he wanted," the New York Daily News reports. "He is the one who said yes or no to take a drug,... More »

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homicide • Michael Jackson • Jack Kevorkian • Conrad Murray • celebrity death • drug overdose

 DJ AM Buried in Los Angeles 


Sep 2, 09 9:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Friends and celebrity mourners including Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker attended a funeral for DJ AM today in Los Angeles, Us Weekly reports. The disc jockey, also known as Adam Goldstein, died last week at age 36, of an apparent drug overdose. The ceremony at Hillside Memorial Park, the area’s... More »

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entertainment • OxyContin • Los Angeles • Travis Barker • DJ AM • Adam Goldstein • celebrity breakup • celebrity suicide • drug overdose • Hillside Memorial Park

Girlfriend: DJ AM and I Weren't Broken Up

'We were very much together,' says Hayley Wood

Sep 1, 09 10:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amid reports that DJ AM turned, fatally, to drugs to deal with a breakup, his last girlfriend tells Us Weekly they were still together when he died last week. “Any indication that this horribly tragic accident happened because of a rumored breakup is not only untrue but disgusting,”... More »

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 DJ AM Spent 
 Last Day on 
 Crack, Pills 

Adam Goldstein's apartment littered with drugs; he promised to start rehab

Sep 1, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - DJ AM lit up a crack pipe in front of his recovery sponsor the day before his death, the New York Post reports in an ongoing effort to piece together his final moments. Friends told investigators Adam Goldstein’s manager and sponsor flew from the West Coast to NYC... More »

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entertainment • drugs • drug addiction • celebrity • overdose • prescription drugs • drug abuse • crack cocaine • prescription painkillers • DJ AM • Adam Goldstein • celebrity death • drug overdose

 Details of DJ AM's 
 Final Day Emerge 

Adam Goldstein text messaged friends before death; Mandy Moore 'heartbroken'

Aug 31, 09 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Details of DJ AM’s final hours are beginning to come together, and police sources tell People he sent out his last text message at 1am the day he died. Two friends received the message, about his gig in Las Vegas that night—and 16 hours later, a friend... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • overdose • DJ AM • Adam Goldstein • Mandy Moore • Jay-ZTV • celebrity death • drug overdose

 DJ AM's Death Not Suicide: TMZ 

Plane crash likely triggered descent into drugs; breakup not blamed

Aug 31, 09 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - DJ AM’s death was not a suicide, and it had “absolutely nothing to do with his recent breakup,” law enforcement sources tell TMZ. They say Adam Goldstein developed a dependency on anxiety drugs following last year’s plane crash, which triggered a “recent” relapse into addiction.... More »

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 DJ AM 
 Talked of 
 Sobriety, 
 Crack Fears 

He hoped MTV reality program would help other addicts

Aug 31, 09 3:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - DJ AM boasted of his 11 years of "sobriety"—freed from crack cocaine, his "drug of choice"—on an interview aired on MTV shortly before he was found dead last week of an apparent overdose. But Adam Goldstein also discussed nearly falling off the wagon as... More »

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UPDATED

 NYC Cops: 
 DJ AM Death 
 Looks Like 
 Drug Overdose 

Crack pipe, prescription bottles found in apartment

Aug 28, 09 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A drug overdose looks to be the cause of death for DJ AM, the celebrity disc jockey found today in a SoHo apartment, New York police tell the Post. A crack pipe and prescription drugs lay near the bed where Adam Goldstein, 36, died sometime in the past few days;... More »

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entertainment • prescription drugs • crack cocaine • Soho • DJ AM • Adam Goldstein • Jay-ZTV • drug overdose • crack pipe

OBITUARY

 DJ AM Found Dead at 36 

Friends call NYC cops after not seeing Adam Goldstein for several days

Aug 28, 09 6:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - DJ AM, who less than a year ago survived a plane crash, was found dead this afternoon in a New York apartment, TMZ reports; his real name was Adam Goldstein, and he was 36. Police, called by a friend who hadn’t seen Goldstein in several days, found drug paraphernalia... More »

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entertainment • New York • obituary • Nicole Richie • Soho • DJ AM • Adam Goldstein • Mandy Moore • Jay-ZTV • drug overdose • disc jockey

 Coroner Confirms 
 Jackson's Death 
 Was Homicide 

Two sedatives blamed for entertainer's demise

Aug 28, 09 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Confirming reports leaked Monday, the LA County coroner's office said today that Michael Jackson's death was a homicide. The ruling means someone else caused the death but does not assign blame or even necessarily mean a crime was committed, MSNBC reports. The official cause of death is "acute intoxication"... More »

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entertainment • death • Michael Jackson • Los Angeles County Coroner • Conrad Murray • celebrity death • Propofol • drug overdose

 Jacko Doc 
 Disputes 
 Cops' Timeline 

Plus, more dirt on yet another Jacko doc

Aug 25, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - As a timeline of Michael Jackson’s final hours began to emerge, Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyer was was quick to question it, calling it “police theory” in a statement yesterday, the AP reports. “Dr. Murray simply never told investigators that he found Michael Jackson at 11am not... More »

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