Sideshow: Anna Nicole's pal charged with supplying her drugs
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said yesterday that Anna Nicole Smith's friend Howard K. Stern led a conspiracy to supply the late Playboy model with an array of prescription drugs between July '04 and January '07.
California Attorney General
Jerry Brown
said yesterday that
Anna Nicole Smith
's friend
Howard K. Stern
led a conspiracy to supply the late Playboy model with an array of prescription drugs between July '04 and January '07.
Stern, who turned himself in to authorities Thursday night, was charged with six felonies. Charges have also been filed against doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich, who allegedly conspired with Stern. Brown said Stern, who is out on $20,000 bail, got a celeb-related buzz from procuring drugs for Smith: "There's a certain psychic gain here, part of the glitz, the celebrity and the power."
Stern tells Entertainment Tonight that he will fight the charges.
Forget him; we want her
Actor-turned-TV-mogul
Nick Cannon
, 28, who on Thursday was anointed as an
execustar
- a celeb consultant - for Nickelodeon's TEENick, tells USA Today his minions at the network walk by his office at the Viacom building in Manhattan at an alarming rate.
But they're not there for him: "I've got coworkers tiptoeing past my door pretending like they're using the copier . . . but really they're just trying to see if [my wife] Mariah [Carey] is going to walk in."
Cannon, who is retooling Nickelodeon's 24-hour TV network for teens, says the office thing isn't really his thing: "I'm not really into the whole corporate feel." The Mariah feel is more like it. "We're definitely moving towards" having a baby, he says. The two wed in April 2008.
The economy: Matt Lauer chips in
Matt Lauer
is fighting the virus that has infected our once-proud economy. Matt will save NBC some coin by retooling
Today
's annual "Where in the World Is Matt Lauer" trip. Instead of flying to the Taj Mahal or the Pyramids, he'll explore bargain vacation spots in the U.S.
Jackson tix sell instantly
Organizers said yesterday that every one of
Michael Jackson
's 50 concerts this summer and fall in London sold out in hours.
A monstrous lawsuit
E!Online reports that
Sheri Gilbert
, an aspiring screenwriter, has filed a lawsuit against
Jennifer Lopez
,
Jane Fonda
, and other members of the team behind the romantic comedy
Monster-in-Law
, claiming the story was plagiarized
from a script she wrote in '98 based on her actual experiences with a monstrous mum-in-law.
Gilbert wants a chunk of the film's $154.8 million box-office earnings. Lawyers for the defendants say the suit has no merit.
Love among the ghosts
"I'm in love and I don't care,"
Jamie Kennedy
yesterday told
Ryan Seacrest
.
J.K. says he is dating his Ghost Whisperer costar Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Book critics issue awards
The National Book Critics Circle has awarded its top fiction prize posthumously to Chilean author
Roberto Bolaño
for
2666
, an 1,100-page novel involving the serial murders in and around Ciudad Juárez.
Ariel Sabar won for best autobiography for My Father's Paradise, an exploration of Sabar's roots in the Jewish community of Kurdish Iraq. (Sabar will speak at three Philly-area venues later this month. Info: www.jewishphilly.org/onebook.)
The Forever War, Dexter Filkins' book on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, won for general nonfiction, while the biography prize went to Patrick French's life of V.S. Naipaul, The World Is What It Is.