THE KILLING OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH is an unprecedented account by author JudgeLarry Seidlin who captivated America and the world, during the six-day trial in which he laid bare the devastating reality of prescription drug abuse among celebrities, the role enablers play in their addiction and sometimes their death. Was Anna Nicole Smith killed? Did she commit suicide? If she died from a drug overdose, was it accidental or intentional? And what about Anna Nicole’s son, twenty-year-old Daniel, a young man who did not have a drug problem, dead just a few months before from a methadone overdose? Was the overdose accidental or intentional?
Judge Seidlin provides a rare account of the six-day explosive trial, the second biggest U.S. television trial in history. Based on his observations, eye witness accounts, trial transcripts and confidential files, Judge Seidlin delivers a three year in-depth investigation into what really happened on February 8, 2007, the day Anna Nicole Smith died.
This book details dramatic courtroom events with testimony by Larry Birkhead—Anna Nicole’s ex lover—that her lawyer, Howard K. Stern slept downstairs on a couch while Birkhead and Smith made love upstairs. Stern admitted that he smuggled a duffle bag full of drugs into the hospital
room of a pregnant Anna Nicole Smith, while she was under a doctor’s care for her drug dependency. The account includes paternity claims from both Larry and Howard, that they are the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter.
You be the juror, helping to render a verdict based on the actual court testimony of the Anna Nicole hearing and subsequent trials. The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith details the drama following her death.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judge Larry Seidlin earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law and interned at the U.S. Attorney's office. Judge Seidlin served as a prosecutor in Florida’s Broward County State Attorney's Office and as a legal advisor to the Broward County Sheriff’s department. He was elected the youngest judge in the state of Florida, at age twenty-eight. One of the architects of the newly created Family Court for Broward County, he served as its first administrative judge. Now retired, Judge Seidlin is a popular lecturer in many colleges throughout the country and has appeared as a legal commentator on numerous television shows such as Good Morning America, Larry King Live and on Fox News.
