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Netflix continues to lead the way with their documentaries reevaluating the cultural impact and personal lives of controversial blondes. Their latest is director Ursula Macfarlane’s “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me,” which seeks to tell the real story behind the voluptuous blonde bombshell who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007.

The documentary reveals that Smith was no angel, whose excesses ended up putting her on a path of destruction. In comparison to their previous documentaries, it’s easily one of the more negative and pessimistic explorations of femininity and fame. But for those looking for something new about Smith’s life it has its share of shocking new revelations. Below are five new discoveries revealed in “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.”

Anna Nicole Smith had a longtime lesbian lover.

A close friend of Smith, referred to only as Missy, lays out a friendship that started...

Perhaps it's fitting how much Dannielynn Birkhead loves rollercoasters when you consider the tedious climbs and sharp descents that marked her first year of life.  There was the untimely passing of half-brother Daniel Smith, who overdosed while visiting mom Anna Nicole Smith and her newborn daughter in a Bahamian hospital, and the eerily similar death of the larger-than-life former Playboy model just months later. And, of course, the custody circus that ensued with freelance photographer Larry Birkhead, Smith's attorney Howard K. Stern and even Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt staking their claim for the 5-month-old. The...

Prepare to feel old Af because Dannielynn Birkhead is practically an adult now. Anna Nicole Smith's daughter — whose father is Larry Birkhead — turns 12 years old today and honestly, where the heck did the time go?! Her mother, a former Playboy Playmate and actress, died after an accidental drug overdose in 2007, months after Dannielynn's birth. Larry battled Anna Nicole's former lover and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, over custody of Dannielynn but was eventually deemed the father after a DNA test. "I remember coming out of this door right here and they said, 'You can take Dannielynn home to Kentucky or wherever you're gonna move,'" he recalled in an interview with Us Weekly last year. "And I came out, I was so happy." Although we don't often see much of the father-daughter duo, we can tell these two are attached at the hip! Dani — who was named after her late half-brother,...

He grabbed her as she was jogging and punched her in the face until she stopped fighting — then he wrapped his hands around her neck, squeezing until her body went limp.

He let her fall face-down in a shallow puddle and watched as she slowly drowned, unconscious.

These were the brutal last moments of Karina Vetrano’s life in August 2016, as recalled by her accused murderer, 21-year-old Chanel Lewis, in a confession to New York City police soon after his arrest earlier this year, according to multiple news reports.

Vetrano’s battered remains were found by her father in a...

Larry Birkhead is sharing some of Anna Nicole Smith's most intimate secrets.

In an exclusive sit-down interview at his home in Kentucky with Et's Kevin Frazier, the 44-year-old shares memories from his relationship with the late model and actress, what it's like raising their 11-year-old daughter, Dannielynn, on his own and why he thinks people are still so fascinated with his former partner.

Frazier kicks off the interview by explaining to Birkhead that he first met him in Los Angeles the night of Smith's infamous slurred speech onstage at the 2004 American Music Awards.

"As bad as that seemed and people were making fun of her, behind the scenes, her phone was ringing off the hook," Birkhead recalls. "People were dropping off scripts, people were wanting interviews and I mean, unfortunately, that's the way it goes, people were talking about her."

More: Larry Birkhead: Dannielynn Gets Modeling Offers 'All The Time'

While Smith was no stranger...

Larry Birkhead is opening up about how Dannielynn, his daughter with late model and actress Anna Nicole Smith, is coping without her mother as she nears her teens and the doting dad had some surprising revelations -- like who the 11-year-old would like him to date.

Watch: Larry Birkhead Praises Daughter Dannielynn as 'Fearless' Like Her Late Mother Anna Nicole Smith

“She told me today, ‘I think you need to go out with Kylie Jenner,’” Birkhead tells Et’s Kevin Frazier during an exclusive interview at their Kentucky home. “I said, ‘Well, she's a little young,’ and she said, ‘Ok, what about Kim?’ I said, ‘Well, she’s married,’ and she goes, ‘Ok, what about the mom, Kris?’ I [asked why she’d] say that and she goes, ‘I remember she had a frozen yogurt machine in her house.’”

And that's not the only time Dannielynn has tried to pressure her dad into dating.

“We went to...

A Maryland man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend — and then weeping alongside her parents at a press conference while she was missing — was allegedly engaged to another woman at the time of the killing, People confirms.

On Wednesday, Tyler Tessier, 32, of Damascus, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Laura Wallen, 31, according to a statement from Montgomery County Police.

Wallen, a popular 31-year-old high school teacher from Olney, Maryland, was four months pregnant when her body was found in a shallow grave in Damascus on Wednesday, more than a week after she was reported missing,...

A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with allegedly murdering a Unc Charlotte professor believed to have been his girlfriend inside her apartment last Friday, People confirms.

Donny Franklin, 45, appeared in Mecklenburg County Court on Tuesday morning, less than a day after he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jeannine Shante Skinner, 35, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Franklin showed no emotion when the judge told him he could get the death penalty if found guilty of murder, local news station ABC Columbia reports.

Franklin’s attorney said he denies the charges against him,...

A former Missouri Dairy Queen manager charged in her teenage employee’s suicide made her first court appearance on Tuesday as the teen’s parents broke their silence — promising to bring the issue of bullying “to light.”

Authorities say 17-year-old Kenneth “Kenny” Suttner killed himself in December, with a gunshot to the head, outside his family’s home in Glasgow, Missouri.

Harley Branham was arrested on Jan. 31 after a jury in a coroner’s inquest found her to be “the principal” cause of Suttner’s suicide. The jurors concluded he had faced bullying and harassment at Dairy Queen, while Branham was a manager there,...

For months, it seemed as though Karina Vetrano’s killing might never be solved.

Detectives investigating her homicide last August chased down hundreds of leads but got nowhere fast. That all changed Saturday when police arrested 20-year-old Chanel Lewis, a Brooklyn man, on murder charges.

The day she was killed, about two hours after she went out for a jog, the 30-year-old was found beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled to death in a park near her neighborhood of Howard Beach, Queens.

Since Lewis was charged with the killing, his family members have insisted he’s not capable of such malice.

DNA led to the arrest of Karina Vetrano’s suspected killer, six months after her battered body was found in a New York City park in a seemingly random killing. But a police source tells People it was a neighborhood investigator’s hunch that really broke the case open earlier this year.

According to the source, who has knowledge of the investigation, N.Y.C. police Lt. John Russo played an instrumental role in capturing 20-year-old Chanel Lewis. He was arrested Saturday and is charged with Vetrano’s murder and sexual assault.

Russo, an observant cop with a sharp memory,...

As the 10-year anniversary of Anna Nicole Smith‘s sudden death approaches, her ex is sharing a look inside his life as father to the late model’s 10-year-old daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead.

In a new interview with Inside Edition, Larry Birkhead happily showed off his daily routine with Dannielynn.

Dannielynn – who looks just like her mother – was only 5 months old when Smith died at age 39 following a drug overdose in Florida on Feb. 8, 2007.

A high-profile custody battle ensued between Birkhead, Smith’s partner at the time of her death – Howard K. Stern – and Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur. Birkhead is Dannielynn’s biological father.

A 16-year-old Maryland girl is dead, her mother injured and their alleged 15-year-old attacker is in critical condition from an apparent suicide attempt following an early New Year’s Day shooting in the girl’s Maryland home, People confirms.

Mom Suzanne Zaremba, 52, of Ellicott City, heard “a scuffle” in her daughter’s bedroom around 2 a.m. Jan. 1 and went to investigate, according to a Howard County police statement.

As she entered the room, the male suspect allegedly fired a shot at her, and then at Zaremba’s daughter Charlotte, 16, before using the gun to shoot himself in the head, police said.

They have been on the hunt since mid-March, but investigators in Phoenix, Arizona, tell People they are no closer to apprehending the suspected serial killer believed responsible for fatally shooting at least seven people and injuring three more.

Phoenix police spokesman Jonathan Howard says “there are currently no active, specific, credible leads,” but investigators continue to follow up on “every lead that we encounter.”

Police believe all of the shootings were carried out at random. They say the killer’s crime spree began on March 17, when a 16-year-old boy was shot and injured as he walked down a street.

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Eight years after the tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith, the charges brought against the late star's longtime companion Howard K. Stern have been dismissed—for a second time. Stern was previously convicted on two felony charges in 2010 for conspiring to use fake names and for using false pretenses to score prescriptions (at the time of his conviction, he was also cleared of nine other charges). Smith was 39 years old when she died in 2007 in a Hollywood, Fla. hotel room after suffering a prescription drug overdose. "Howard Stern simply has been through enough ... I find there is no reason to permit this case to go forward," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry told...

The doctor who prescribed drugs to the late Anna Nicole Smith will face no jail time for the actress's death.

A judge shot down prosecutors' recommendations to sentence Dr. Khristine Eroshevich to prison, instead fining her $100 and allowing her to walk free, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Eroshevich and Smith's manager, Howard K. Stern, were convicted in 2010 on two counts of conspiring to obtain prescriptions under a false name, though Judge Robert J. Perry later tossed out those convictions, saying that prosecutors failed to show that the two intended to break the law.

But the convictions were reinstated in 2012 after prosecutors appealed the case,...

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Professional courtesy rules the blue carpet. The Broadcast Film Critics Association invited lots of outlets to cover the 20th annual celebration and left plenty of space for them to do their jobs.

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“Boyhood” stars Ellar Coltrane and Ethan Hawke speak to “Access Hollywood” and “Entertainment Tonight” side-by-side while rubbing shoulders. They have to shoot in opposite directions to avoid crossing shots of the competing shows.

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In accepting the non-televised award for Best Sci-fi film, “Interstellar” producer Lynda Obst refers to Anne Hathaway as “Annie.

Anna Nicole Smith (Agnes Bruckner) was a single mother from Texas who became one of the biggest supermodels in the world, but her sudden catapult to fame came with a price as drugs, alcohol and reckless behavior led her down a tragic path. Now in the new biopic drama Anna Nicole, you get to see the whole story as Anna's sexual desires, crippling addictions and her overwhelming need to be famous lead her from incredible fame and fortune to her unfortunate descent.

Anna Nicole is available on DVD this week. To help usher in the release, we caught up with acclaimed filmmaker Mary Harron for a look at how the cast and story came together. This isn't another caricature of the former Playboy model meant to illicit laughs. This is a hard knock look at a once beautiful life gone wrong.

Here is our conversation.

Before I start asking questions,...

New York City Opera's 2013-14 season and Bam's 2013 Next Wave Festival opened Sept. 17 with the U.S. premiere of Anna Nicole, an opera by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas based on the flamboyant life and tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith. This highly anticipated co-production includes seven performances at the Bam Howard Gilman Opera House, on September 17, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, and 28 at 730pm. Click below to go behind the scenes with the opera's cast and creative team...

New York City Opera's 2013-14 season and Bam's 2013 Next Wave Festival opened Sept. 17 with the U.S. premiere of Anna Nicole, an opera by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas based on the flamboyant life and tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith. This highly anticipated co-production includes seven performances at the Bam Howard Gilman Opera House, on September 17, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, and 28 at 730pm. Individual tickets are on sale at Bam.org or through Bam Ticket Services at 718.636.4100. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below...

Larry Birkhead was working as a reporter and photographer in 2004 when he began dating model and reality show star Anna Nicole Smith. Two years later, Smith shared the news that she was pregnant. On a recent episode of "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" Birkhead says the immediate joy over the pregnancy was short-lived, ultimately leading to arguments. "She was a diet pill spokesperson, so the fact that she was pregnant was supposed to be a big secret because there's not that many markets for a pregnant diet pill spokesperson," he says. "So that created some tension."

In July of 2006, Smith fled to the Bahamas and Birkhead says they rarely communicated. Two months later, she gave birth to a baby girl, Dannielynn, at a hospital in Nassau.

"I had to go onto Anna’s website and pay a monthly subscription just to see how she was telling her fans how the baby was,...

On September 7, 2006, Anna Nicole Smith gave birth to a daughter she named Dannielynn. Though Smith named her former lawyer Howard K. Stern as Dannielynn's father on the birth certificate, Smith's ex Larry Birkhead firmly believed he was actually the child's biological dad.

Following a lawsuit that Birkhead filed a month after Dannielynn's birth (and four months before Smith's death), an April 2007 paternity test revealed that Birkhead was indeed Dannielynn's father. Elated, Birkhead made a statement on the steps outside of the courthouse the day the news broke.

"I hate to be the one that told you this, but, I told you so!" he had said back then, raising his arms in triumph.

"Oprah: Where Are They Now?" recently caught up with Birkhead, who says he looks back on that life-changing moment with some embarrassment.

"When they had given me the results of the paternity test, I call that my 'douchebag moment,...

This weekend Lifetime aired Anna Nicole, a biopic of the tragic former Guess model turned catatonic reality star who fatally overdosed in 2007. Anna Nicole Smith unapologetically coveted the camera, and so the TV movie's director, Mary Harron (American Psycho), had plenty of footage to re-create, from Smith's early modeling shoots to her drugged-out E! reality show to truly grotesque home-video footage taken by her parasitic lawyer, Howard K. Stern (played in the film by Adam Goldberg). In this video, see how the Lifetime biopic restaged some of these infamous, often ghoulish, moments. ...

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Out Big Brother alum Ragan Fox has posted an open letter to Big Brother‘s production team challenging CBS’ tendency to leave any bigotry on the cutting room floor, “Characters like Andy, Candice, Howard, and Helen are reduced to mere tokens when production fails to include micro-aggressions that they have to endure on a day-to-day basis. What’s the point of casting racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities if production’s going to edit out the racism, ethnic discrimination, and homophobia that these people encounter inside the house?”

Ragan Fox

Stephen King left a message for fans upset that the TV version of Under the Dome changes the story, “If the solution to the mystery were the same on TV as in the book, everyone would know it in short order, which would spoil a lot of the fun.” That’s right, you can’t look up the ending on Wikipedia.

Last night, Lifetime premiered its destined to be Peabody-, Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and (why not?) Nobel Prize-winning film Anna Nicole. A prestigious (and I must add, courageous) group of EW staffers convened at my apartment to see whether the biopic could give Citizen Kane a run for its money. Read on for a sampling of our reactions to Anna Nicole.

8 p.m.: Any movie that starts with a dead woman defining herself as a “balls-to-the-wall party girl” is my kind of movie.

8:01 p.m.: The credits begin to roll, in Brush Script Mt font no less (classy!

A TV movie about the strange, short and ultimately tragic life of Anna Nicole Smith doesn't exactly inspire great expectations. But Lifetime's "Anna Nicole" disappoints both as a campy guilty pleasure and a movie with a surprisingly solid pedigree.

Lifetime didn't get just anyone to bring Smith's story to the screen. They landed Mary Harron, director of "American Psycho" and quirky, interesting biopics "I Shot Andy Warhol" and "The Notorious Bettie Page." Unfortunately, the odd coupling of filmmaker and network doesn't result in anything particularly memorable.

Harron gets decent performances from a strong cast -- led by Agnes Bruckner's game work in the difficult, nebulous central role -- provides a low-key, dreamy visual style, and ensures that the drama never gets too exploitative or laughable, but she's ultimately defeated by both TV movie conventions and the subject herself.

The narrative is standard little-girl-with-big-dreams stuff but Smith's life was a...

The new Lifetime original movie ‘Anna Nicole’ premiered June 29 and it was crazy, wild fun — check out our five most unforgettable moments from the movie!

Anna Nicole is the latest Lifetime movie to center around a real-life figure. Agnes Bruckner stars as the very troubled and eccentric Anna Nicole Smith, who was made famous from her time as a Playboy playmate and marriage to a Texas billionaire who was old enough to be her grandfather. In a movie that chronicles the sex symbol’s rollercoaster ride of drugs, alcohol, and tragedy, there were multiple moments we just couldn’t forget. Check out our five favorite parts from the movie — but beware of Major Spoilers!

5 Memorable Moments From ‘Anna Nicole’

1. Anna’s Crazy Antics

Anna flashing her boobs to a crowd of people seems tame compared to everything else she did in the movie. From pole-dancing on a football field in front of her son — yes,...

It’s no longer shocking when established film directors turn to TV — after all, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, and David Fincher have all done it recently to great acclaim.

Still, you may be surprised to learn that Lifetime’s upcoming Anna Nicole Smith biopic was directed by none other than Mary Harron — a filmmaker best known for her wicked work on controversial cult favorites like I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho. Thanks in part to Harron’s pedigree, the movie also managed to attract an unusually accomplished cast, including Oscar winner Martin Landau (as Anna Nicole’s wealthy husband J.

Since the days of American Psycho — a brilliant adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel starring Christian Bale in one of his best roles — director Mary Harron has been steadily working. She filmed a biopic about pinup queen Bettie Page, directed several TV episodes, and released the The Moth Diaries in 2011. Now she's returning with a biopic for Lifetime about Texas Playmate Anna Nicole Smith. The former Guess model died in 2007 from a prescription-drug overdose and left behind a string of messy relationships, including one with longtime attorney Howard K. Stern (who thought he was the father of her child Dannielynn for some time). Smith's story is rife with tragedy and broken dreams, which often found her on the front pages of the...

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The biopic follows the rise and fall of Smith and sees its premiere on June 29th. Starring alongside Bruckner are Adam Goldberg who plays Howard K. Stern, her lawyer and lover, as well as Martin Landau as J. Howard Marshall, her second husband who was 62 years older than her at the time of their marriage back in 1994. Also on board are Graham Patrick Martin, Cary Elwes and Virginia Madsen. Here's the official synopsis: Anna Nicole follows the swift rise and fall of Vickie Lynn Hogan, a Texas high school dropout and single mother with dreams of a better life. Realizing the power of her beauty, Vickie accepts a job as a dancer at topless bar, where she changes her name to Anna Nicole Smith and first makes her mark. With a new persona and a shocking marriage...

Sneak Peek the first images and full-length trailer from director Mary Harron's Lifetime biopic "The Anna Nicole Smith Story", airing June 29, 2013, starring Agnese Bruckner and Martin Landau:

"...'Private Practice' star Agnes Bruckner takes on the role of the late 'Playboy Playmate' Anna Nicole Smith aka 'Vickie Lynn Hogan'.

"The TV movie follows Smith's rise from a small-town girl in Texas to 'Guess?' jeans model and Playboy star, as well as her marriage to 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall (Landau)...."

Cast also includes Cary Elwes as Marshall's son, Virginia Madsen as Anna's mother, and Adam Goldberg as Anna's attorney and confidant Howard K. Stern.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Anna Nicole Smith" story...

No one's ever accused Lifetime movies of being subtle ("Liz & Dick," anyone?), but the upcoming "Anna Nicole Story" looks as though it might take the crown when it comes to unsubtle insanity -- if the first sneak peek is any indication. Let's take a look at the five wildest moments in the brief glimpse of the film.

5. Adam Goldberg's uncannily similar appearance to Howard K. Stern

The minute-long teaser is scant on glimpses of the supporting cast (which includes Martin Landau, Virginia Madsen and Cary Elwes), but the quick shot of Adam Goldberg ("The Unusuals") as Smith's lawyer/husband/enabler Howard K. Stern is chilling. Don't blink, or you'll miss it.

4. The dour cover of "Fame"

As if the audience didn't recognize already that the quest for, and maintaining of, fame played a major role in Smith's tragic demise, the trailer is set to a sad, downbeat cover of Irene Cara's "Fame.

Anna Nicole Smith may have been glamorous in front of the camera, but Lifetime's getting ready to tell the whole story with a new movie.

In the trailer for "The Anna Nicole Story" (above), a dramatic montage of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's (Agnes Bruckner) descent into alcohol and drug abuse is set to the tune of "Fame."

Lifetime's upcoming Anna Nicole Smith movie will chronicle the life of the woman formerly known as Vicky Lynn Hogan, and her transition into the spotlight. The movie also stars Adam Goldberg as Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer and lover, and Martin Landau as J. Howard Marshall, her much older second husband.

"The Anna Nicole Story" debuts on Saturday, June 29 at 8 p.m. Et on Lifetime.

"American Psycho" director may have seemed like an odd fit for a Lifetime Movie when the network's first announced it'd be working with her in October, but Mary Harron did chronicle the life of a famous pin-up in "The Notorious Bettie Page" -- Anna Nicole Smith may not be quite as iconic, but she's also not completely foreign territory for the filmmaker. Now Lifetime has set a date for "Anna Nicole," which Harron directed and which stars Agnes Bruckner ("Blue Car") as the model and actress. The film will premiere on Saturday, June 29, at 8:00pm, and co-stars Martin Landau as Smith's 89-year-old oil tycoon husband J. Howard Marshall, Virginia Madsen as Smith's mother Virgie Arthur, Adam Goldberg as Smith's attorney and lover Howard K. Stern, and Cary Elwes as E. Pierce Marshall, who fought Smith's claim to half of his father and her husband's estate after he passed away.

"Anna Nicole," Lifetime's TV movie about the weird and tragic life of model and sometimes actress Anna Nicole Smith, is set for a June 29 premiere.

Starring Agnes Bruckner ("Private Practice") as Playboy playmate and tabloid fixture Smith, the film also stars Oscar winner Martin Landau as Smith's 89-year-old oil tycoon husband, Oscar nominee Virginia Madsen as Smith's mother, Adam Goldberg as lawyer Howard K. Stern and Cary Elwes as Smith's unimpressed son-in-law.

But the most intriguing name involved is director Mary Harron, who was behind contemporary cult classic "American Psycho" and unusual bio-pics "I Shot Andy Warhol" and "The Notorious Bettie Page." Maybe "Anna Nicole" won't turn out to be a laughable "Liz & Dick" style camp-fest after all.

Lifetime had already set the premiere of quickie movie "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" for one week earlier, on Saturday, June 22.

Anna Nicole, which tells the rags to riches story of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, will premiere on Saturday, June 29, at 8 Pm, Lifetime announced today. Agnes Bruckner stars as Anna Nicole, alongside Martin Landau, Virginia Madsen, Adam Goldberg and Cary Elwes. Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Judith Verno executive produced the film which follows the swift rise and fall of Vickie Lynn Hogan (Bruckner), a Texas high school dropout and single mother with dreams of a better life. The biopic explores the sordid details that created Smith’s infamous persona, from stardom to her untimely death from a fatal combination of pills. Madsen portrays Anna’s mother Virgie, Goldberg is Anna’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern; Elwes plays Marshall’s son, E. Pierce; and Graham Patrick Martin (Two And A Half Men) stars as Anna Nicole’s son, Daniel. Mary Harron directed from a screenplay by John Rice and Joe Batteer.

She died of a drug overdose back in 2007, but Anna Nicole Smith's story lives on in a new opera titled simply “Anna Nicole.”

And the unique production is coming to New York City this fall, as the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the New York City Opera are teaming up for seven unforgettable performances.

After seeing the show at London’s Royal Opera House in 2011, New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini called it "a weirdly inspired work, an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving new opera."

“Anna Nicole” will run from September 17th through September 28th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House.

New York City Opera opens its 2013-14 season with the U.S. premiere of Anna Nicole 2010, a colossal co-production with theBrooklyn Academy Of Music Bam that launches the 2013 Next Wave Festival. Running for seven performances September 17-28 in Bam's 2,100-seat Howard Gilman Opera House, where New York City Opera has presented two critically acclaimed chamber operas this spring, Anna Nicole will provide a sensational beginning to the Company's 2013-14 season.

Washington, Mar h 15(Ani): The house where Anna Nicole Smith filmed 'The Anna Nicole' Show has been sold for 1.3 million dollars.

Howard K. Stern, who was dating the former Playboy Playmate before she died in 2007, sold the Mediterranean-style house for 440,000 dollars less than the asking price, Radar Online reported.

The interior decoration of the 4,700 square foot property still reflects the taste of its late owner, including a pink child's bedroom and an Andy Warhol-style portrait of Nicole.

The two-story home boasts hardwood and marble flooring, an iron staircase railing.

According to Redfin.com it.

Another piece reality TV real estate has just sold!The Studio City house where the late Anna Nicole Smith's life was filmed sold on Wednesday for $1.3 million."The Anna Nicole Show" was one of E! first forays into reality TV, and lasted two seasons. Of course, the network would later air "The Girls Next Door" and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians."Anna Nicole purchased the 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom under her real name, Vickie Marshall, in April 2005 for $1,335,000. The house passed to her daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, after Anna Nicole's death in 2007.However in April 2011, Howard K. Stern, Smith’s one-time lover and the executor of her will, gained the court’s permission to transfer the home under his name. In July 2011, Howard placed the home on the market with an asking price of $1.75 million. It went through a few price drops before finally selling this week.The master suite has...

Kanye is telling his pals that Kris better not even think about claiming that his child with Kim is his, saying it would be a ‘grave mistake for the NBA star to even go there! You must keep reading for exclusive details!

Kanye West is putting Kris Humphries on notice and warning the basketball player not to try to claim his child once pregnant Kim Kardashian gives birth in June, HollywoodLife.com is Exclusively reporting, even if Kris is still legally married to Kim.

“If that fool Kris even tried to pull some sh** like that, damn, Kanye would be hot as f**k and would probably go after his a** and I ain’t talking about in court, either,” a source connected with the prolific rap artist tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. “That would be some foul…sh** for someone to even think about doing and I, for one, would...

The late Anna Nicole Smith's mansion is about to be somebody's new home. E! News confirms that the former Playboy model and E! star's Studio City property is now listed as "offer pending," meaning one lucky person snagged the 4,700 square foot digs—and even got a bargain! The contemporary, Mediterranean-style house was originally listed at $1.7 million, but sold for a "mere" $1.3 million. So who's the new owner? The proposed buyer is not another celebrity hoping to live under the same roof Anna Nicole once did, but simply an admirer of the property identified as Rouzbeh Zoka. Smith's former lawyer Howard K. Stern, who is now the executor of...

Los Angeles -- Prosecutors refusing to accept an appellate court's ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith case asked the court on Friday to change its decision and allow her former boyfriend and manager to be retried.

California's 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled last month that Howard K. Stern could not be retried without violating the Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy. Attorneys in the office of District Attorney Steve Cooley filed a 19-page motion for rehearing that contends the court misinterpreted the law.

The court said a trial judge erred in dismissing conspiracy convictions against Stern and Smith's psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, in a case that partially revolved around obtaining prescription drugs for the celebrity model under false names. The defendants were not charged with causing her death.

Superior Court Judge Robert Perry found it was not unusual in the celebrity world Smith inhabited for fake names to be used to protect privacy.

The acquittal of two people in the Anna Nicole Smith case has been overturned. The late model's former companion and attorney Howard K Stern and her psychiatrist Dr Khristine Eroshevich were found guilty of conspiring to give Smith excessive amounts of prescription medication at a jury trial two years ago. Eroshevich was also convicted of a count of felony prescription drug fraud. However, the conspiracy convictions against the pair were quashed by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in January 2011 on grounds of a lack of evidence. Eroshevich's fraud charge was also reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor at the same hearing.

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Howard K. Stern is back in limbo. Anna Nicole Smith's onetime companion and attorney could end up being sentenced to prison time for conspiracy to use fake names and false pretenses to acquire prescription drugs after a state appellate court panel today overturned a previous decision to throw out his conviction. Stern was cleared in 2010 of nine felony charges connected with Smith's prescription-drug use but convicted on two counts of conspiracy. In February 2011, L.A. Superior Court Judge Robert Perry vacated the convictions against Stern and three of four against a codefendant, citing lack of evidence. A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal didn't agree with Perry's...

Howard K. Stern, the former lawyer and domestic partner of deceased actress/heiress/Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, suffered a blow Thursday in the ongoing legal saga over Smith's death, when a California court of appeal reversed his acquittal on two conspiracy charges. In October, a judge reversed Stern's earlier conviction on two felony conspiracy charges related to obtaining drugs for Smith under false names, saying there was insufficient evidence. Also read: Anna Nicole Smith Verdict Mixed; Howard K. Stern Convicted on Two Counts The appeals court, reversed that decision Thursday, and also reversed the...

Howard was cleared of two charges for conspiracy to supply Anna Nicole the drugs that lead to her untimely death in 2011. Now, he could be convicted on those charges after all! The case surrounding Anna Nicole Smith's death continues, as the 2011 acquittal of Howard K. Stern, her former partner, on two felony conspiracy counts has been overturned in a California appeals court on Thursday, Oct. 18, TMZ reports. Howard was originally charged with 11 felonies, most involving conspiracy to fuel Anna Nicole with drugs. Eight of the 11 drugs found in Anna Nicole's body when she died on Feb. 8, 2007, were not prescribed to her, but to Howard. When the trial ended, the jury had convicted Howard of just the two felony counts, but the judge in the case threw out both convictions on grounds of insufficient evidence. On Oct. 18, a California appeals court ruled that the trial judge was wrong, and...

New developments have arisen in the Anna Nicole Smith case today, as a state appeals court panel decided that convictions against Howard K. Stern, which were thrown out last year, can now be reinstated, Et has learned.

Related: Howard K. Stern Cleared of Charges in Anna Nicole Smith Drug Case

According to case documents obtained by Et, the court has overturned a judge's decision to throw out convictions against the former Playboy playmate's longtime companion, Stern, and her former psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.

In 2010, Stern was found guilty on two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime, while Dr. Eroshevich was found guilty on two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime, one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by fraud, and one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address. Both of Stern's convictions were thrown out at the 2011 sentencing hearing, while Dr. Eroshevich's charge...

Howard K. Stern has just lost Big in the never-ending Anna Nicole Smith case, because a court has just ruled the 2 convictions that the trial judge threw out can be reinstated.Stern was charged with 11 felonies -- most involving conspiracy to fuel Anna Nicole with drugs.  At the end of the trial, the jury convicted Stern of 2 felony conspiracy counts but the judge threw both convictions out on grounds there was insufficient evidence to nail Stern.

Only one woman in history has inspired a production at London’s Royal Opera House, a truly awful direct-to-dvd biopic, and an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent: pioneering train wreck Anna Nicole Smith.

Even five years after her death, something about Smith still fascinates a certain subset of the public. Perhaps it’s because her rags-to-riches-to-overdose story seems simple, but boasts plenty of weird wrinkles: Smith was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe before it became trendy. Her relationship with billionaire J. Howard Marshall led to a case that eventually reached the Supreme Court. She was one of the first...