Bodyguard: ‘Stern Administered Drugs to Anna Nicole’
Anna Nicole Smith’s former bodyguard has dubbed her companion and lawyer Howard K. Stern a liar after he went public with denials he administered drugs to the tragic model/actress.
Moe “Big Moe” Brighthaupt was shocked when Stern insisted claims he gave his late girlfriend drug injections were “absolutely false” during a recent TV interview with Larry King — because he’d seen him do it.
The bodyguard tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood, “He lied about that and he can’t refute that because I’ve been there all the time.”
He recalled occasions when Stern injected Smith with drugs, adding, “(He told me it was vitamin) B12. On some occasions, yes, I believe it was B12, on other occasions it was something else.”
Brighthaupt tried to revive Smith as she lay dying in a Florida hotel suite in February.
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Anna Nicole Smith’s former doctor is seeking the return of computers, patient files and other items seized by authorities last week.
An attorney for Dr. Sandeep Kapoor made the request Friday during a brief hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court. The files contain privileged information about patients and he needs the records for his practice, according to his lawyer, Ellyn S. Garofalo.
The judge said Kapoor’s lawyer and district attorney officials should arrange to copy some of the files for him. Additionally, a district attorney prosecutor said information from Kapoor’s computers would be copied and the computers returned to him.
Another hearing in the matter was scheduled for Dec. 5.
California Department of Justice agents seized the items Oct. 12 while raiding the homes and offices of Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, Smith’s psychiatrist.
The searches were carried out in Los Angeles and Orange counties as part of investigation into “doctors who provided medical treatment or prescribed drugs for Anna Nicole Smith or her associates,” state Attorney General Jerry Brown has said.
Kapoor prescribed the painkiller methadone to Smith on Aug. 25 2006, more than five months before Smith died in February of a drug overdose in a Florida hotel. She was 39.
“We believe that the evidence gathered by investigators will show that Dr. Kapoor’s treatment of Anna Nicole Smith was at all times medically sound and appropriate,”
his attorney, Garofalo, said.
The attorney said that contrary, to some reports, Kapoor did not prescribe anything to Smith just before her death. The last was the August 2006 methadone prescription.
“There was nothing in the days or even weeks before her death, nothing,” Garofalo said.
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