
Oct 26 - By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
Three key players in the troubled world of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith have been ordered to stand trial after a hearing that plumbed the drug-fueled depths of her final years and the alleged roles of her boyfriend and two doctors in feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.

Oct 19 - By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
A witness has testified that Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist was prescribing excessive medication at a time when other doctors were giving the former Playboy model opiates and other drugs.

Oct 12 - By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter said Monday a prosecutor suggested that the child was developmentally damaged by Smith's narcotics use and that he should "ramp it up" in his testimony in the drug trial of Smith's former boyfriend.

Oct 7 - By Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Writer
The FBI investigated whether Anna Nicole Smith plotted to kill her tycoon husband's son as they battled for his father's fortune, newly released files show, but the former Playboy Playmate who died in 2007 was never prosecuted.

Sep 21 - By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
More charges were filed Wednesday against the lawyer-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, with prosecutors claiming he helped obtain the drugs that killed the former Playboy model.

Aug 12 - By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Writer
A jury can decide whether the author of a best-selling book about the death of Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith defamed her lawyer by making allegations that may be too outlandish to be true, including that he pimped her to up to 50 men a year, a judge concluded Wednesday.
Jun 27 - By Don Thompson, Associated Press Writer
California's budget woes could cut a third of the agents from a little-known unit that has played a key role in high-profile cases like Anna Nicole Smith's overdose death and the arrest of murderer Scott Peterson.

Jun 26 - By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer
Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood's best-known entertainers.

May 13 - By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and two doctors pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they conspired to provide thousands of prescription pills to the former model before her overdose death two years ago.

Apr 7 - By Greg Risling, Associated Press Writer
An attorney for Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend lashed out at prosecutors on Tuesday, calling the prescription drug case involving his client and two doctors misguided and overreaching.

Mar 25 - By Associated Press
Prosecutors in South Florida are taking a fresh look at evidence in the 2007 death of actress-model Anna Nicole Smith.

Mar 16 - By Associated Press
Psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich surrendered Monday to face charges of excessively prescribing drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before the former model's overdose death at 39.

Mar 13 - By Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.
Mar 12 - By The Associated Press
Some of the drugs prescribed to Anna Nicole Smith, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court:

Mar 12 - By Raquel Maria Dillon, Associated Press Writer
Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two doctors were charged Thursday with giving thousands of prescription drugs to the former Playboy Playmate in the years leading up to her fatal drug overdose in 2007.
Mar 9 - By Associated Press
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has turned down a plea for help from the estate of Anna Nicole Smith in a fight over a Texas oil tycoon's fortune.

Jan 6 - By Associated Press
Authorities say the former judge who presided in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's remains has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

Oct 3 - By Associated Press
A judge ordered a Texas doctor and his wife on Friday not to distribute videotaped footage of Anna Nicole Smith's breast augmentation surgery in 1994.

Jun 21 - By Kathleen Hennessey, Associated Press Writer
They're not traditional family heirlooms, but Larry Birkhead's is not a traditional family.

Mar 31 - By Associated Press
A Bahamas jury ruled Monday that Anna Nicole Smith's son died from an accidental drug overdose, just like his mother.

Mar 18 - By Tosheena Robinson-Blair, Associated Press Writer
A judge on Thursday postponed deliberations of a Bahamas jury charged with deciding what killed the son of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith.

Feb 8 - By Tosheena Robinson-Blair, Associated Press Writer
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-companion recalled her in worshipful terms Friday at a memorial in the Bahamas, the island nation where a bitter custody dispute broke out after the reality TV star's death in Florida a year ago.

Jan 30 - By Tosheena Robinson-Blair, Associated Press Writer
A former companion of Anna Nicole Smith said Wednesday that her attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern took several photographs of the collapsed body of her late 20-year-old son for profit.
Jan 29 - By Tosheena Robinson-Blair, Associated Press Writer
The late son of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith was a gifted but anguished 20-year-old who longed to be more independent of his celebrity mother, a family friend testified Tuesday at an inquest into his death.

Dec 21 - By David Koenig, AP Airlines Writer
Texas, where strip clubs have given rise to Anna Nicole Smith and many other less-generously endowed performers, is about to make it more expensive to watch a little bump and grind.