'LAW & ORDER' ANNA NICOLE 'KNOCK-OFF' NEXT WEEK
NY Post...By ANGELA MONTEFINISE... April 29, 2007 --
She's gone, but not even close to forgotten - and is now fictionalized in an episode of the ripped-straight-from-the-headlines series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
Plumped-up "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Kristy Swanson is playing an Anna Nicole Smith-like blonde bombshell in a segment of the NBC series airing NEXT WEEK.
The episode has Swanson starring as Lorelei Mailer, a chubby sexpot star whose adult son is killed tragically while taping his own reality show.
Shortly afterward, Lorelei herself is snuffed out, just as she stands to inherit millions from her dead oil-tycoon husband.
As detectives Logan and Wheeler, played by Chris Noth and Julianne Nicholson, investigate whether Lorelei was whacked, they encounter numerous suspects, including a photographer/manager/lover played by comedian David Cross.
The character seems to be based on the two men in Anna Nicole's life - her lover, photographer Larry Birkhead, who was eventually proven to be her baby's daddy, and Howard K. Stern, her lawyer and purported hubby who also claimed to be the child's father.
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