A United States Court of Appeals just ruled Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get a big ZERO from the estate of the late J. Howard Marshall.
Anna was asking for more than $300 million that she claims Marshall promised her during their marriage -- which lasted less than a year.
The court begged to differ.
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Dr. Sandeep Kapoor just wrapped up TMZ Live -- where he talked about his and Howard K. Stern's relationship with Anna Nicole Smith, his prescribing practices for Methadone, the case mounting against him and why he feels TMZ may be the reason he's being prosecuted.
Kapoor is one of the docs -- along with Howard K. Stern -- charged with conspiracy to fuel Anna's drug addiction.
The interview starts at the 4:30 mark.
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Howard K. Stern and the two doctors who treated Anna Nicole Smith have a date with a jury on August 4.
Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich face a total of 23 felonies -- including illegally funneling sedatives and opiates to Smith.
Smith died of an accidental overdose in February of 2007.
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Anna Nicole Smith's doctors are free to practice medicine and continue to write prescriptions for controlled substances to patients, even though they're on trial for allegedly fueling Anna Nicole's drug addiction.
The Board wanted the judge in the ongoing trial to immediately suspend the licenses of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich. The Board also wanted both docs to ante up all their prescription forms for controlled substances ... because it feared their patients were in immediate danger of harm.
Not the greatest argument, according to Ellyn Garofalo, Kapoor's lawyer, who says ... if the Board really felt that way it should have gone after Kapoor and co-defendant Eroshevich 2 1/2 years ago. The judge more than agreed.
Plus, the judge noted, neither doc has been convicted of anything.
By the way, the doctor duo and Howard K. Stern were re-arraigned today on 23 total charges ... they each pled not guilty.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith's doctors -- Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich -- will have their licenses temporarily yanked as a condition to bail, if the Medical Board of California has its way.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, the Medical Board wants the court in the Anna Nicole Smith drug trial to prohibit Doctors Kapoor and Eroshevich from practicing medicine, as a new condition to their bail. If the Medical Board gets its way, the doctors' licenses will be suspended while the trial proceeds.
The Medical Board states, "waiting for a possible conviction to take action puts the public at risk." But in her opposition papers, Kapoor's lawyer, Ellyn Garofalo, says, "Surely the Medical Board would have been reckless or grossly incompetent if it had any evidence that Dr. Kapoor posed a serious threat and it waited over 2 1/2 years to protect the public."
The Medical Board also wants the court to force Doctors Kapoor and Eroshevich to surrender their controlled substance prescription forms.In her documents, Garofalo notes Dr. Kapoor treats geriatric patients -- some of whom are in hospice and riddled with cancer -- and she says they are the real losers if he can't prescribe meds. Garofalo says there is no legal basis for the Board's request.
The court hasn't ruled on the Med Board's motion.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith, Exclusives
Howard K. Stern has settled his $60 million defamation suit against Rita Cosby ... TMZ has learned. 
A dismissal was filed late yesterday. We know the case settled and the terms of settlement are confidential.
Cosby -- in her book "Blonde Ambition" -- said, among many other things, Stern and Larry Birkhead had a sexual encounter that was caught on video. Both Birkhead and Stern said Cosby made it up.
Birkhead did not file suit.
Thus another chapter in the Anna Nicole Smith saga comes to an end.
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Anna Nicole Smith was so whacked out of her mind in 2006 that she mistook the baby growing in her womb for a case of bad gas -- and it's all on a tape that was entered as evidence in court on Friday.
The video was shot by Howard K. Stern at a little girl's birthday party. Snippets of the video were released two years ago, but now the entire 50-minute tape is being used in the drug case against Stern and Anna's former doctors.
In this particular clip, Smith can't seem to comprehend the fact that she's pregnant -- consistently denying there's a baby in her belly ... despite the fact she's showing.
It just gets weirder from there -- check it out for yourself. Then sadly, at the end of the clip, the little girl looks straight into the camera and says, "She's having brain trouble."
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith, Exclusives
The preliminary hearing in the Anna Nicole Smith drug case is over -- and a judge decided there was enough evidence for the three defendants to stand trial.
Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and their impressive 23 total felonies are due back in court on December 11.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith
Howard K. Stern and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich forced Anna Nicole Smith to take drugs that would knock her out for days ... this according to testimony today in the Anna Nicole case.
Department of Justice Investigator Danny Santiago claims Anna Nicole's former nanny, Nadine Alexie, told him she witnessed Stern and Dr. Eroshevich forcing drugs on Anna Nicole.
Santiago said the nanny claims Anna Nicole would wake up from the drug-induced slumber with feces and vomit in her bed.
We got Erosevich and her lawyer outside court -- where they called the nanny's stories "wild exaggerations."
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Larry Birkhead has settled his $620,492.84 billing dispute with attorney Debra Opri. 
You'll recall -- how can you forget -- that Opri billed Birkhead for repping him in his battle with Anna Nicole Smith back in 2007. Birkhead fired Opri, then got a Fed Ex present -- a bill that included $2,467.75 for a dinner that Birkhead didn't even attend. And there was $600 for 4 trays of lobster from Seafood World.
Birkhead sued Opri and she countersued him. TMZ has obtained legal docs which show the case has been dismissed with prejudice -- i.e., it settled.
The settlement is for an undisclosed amount.
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A private journal belonging to one of the doctors accused of supplying Anna Nicole Smith with drugs was read in open court today -- and it's filled with what appears to be admissions of drug use and a make-out session with his most famous patient.
Dr. Sandeep Kapoor's journal -- which he was forced to turn over in the Anna Nicole investigation -- contains an entry from June 13, 2005 which reads, "I was making out with Anna, my patient, blurring the lines ... I gave her methadone, Valium. Can she ruin me?"
The date of the entry corresponds with an L.A. gay pride parade which Kapoor attended with Anna.
Another entry in the journal, from November 2002, reads, "
"I also need to get off the drugs. The Buspar, Wellbutrin have to go. But first the Ambien has got to go. Oh God, it's so addicting. I have to get off that (expletive)."
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A state medical board investigator claims one of Anna Nicole Smith's former doctors -- who's currently charged with illegally giving prescription drugs to Anna -- has also been hiding some of her key medical records.
According to the testimony, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor kept a hidden stash of important medical records pertaining to Anna Nicole at his lawyer's office and at his home. The judge says this could be interpreted as "guilty knowledge" -- or the intention to commit a prohibited act.
Dr. Kapoor has already pled not guilty to illegally supplying Anna Nicole with prescription drugs.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith
The IRS takes no prisoners -- and even though Anna Nicole Smith's been dead for over two and a half years, they're still coming after her estate for a hefty chunk of change.
Records obtained by TMZ show the Internal Revenue Service filed a $125,112.86 federal tax lien against the Vickie Lynn Marshall Estate in Los Angeles County earlier this month.
The tax assessment took place in December 2008 -- Anna died in February 2007.
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