After his death, Smith battled his son, E. Pierce Marshall, who fought her tooth-and-nail on collecting his father's oil wealth, valued in the hundreds of millions. He died just three years ago of natural causes. There is evidence from a mostly whited-out FBI file that Smith had plotted the murder of the younger Marshall. The AP reports that the FBI files show a .357-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver was confiscated from Smith's home, along with a 3 1/2-inch stainless steel knife and, for reasons that were not explained, a black and orange hat described as "Dr. Seuss." Charges were never filed against the former stripper turned playmate.

In the meantime, Howard K. Stern along with two other doctors Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were charged with a total of eight felonies in relation to Anna Nicole Smith's death. Among the eight charges are "prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict."

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Shortly after Smith's death, footage emerged that depicted a pregnant and wasted Anna Nicole Smith confused and disoriented being filmed by a taunting Howard. K Stern. In the brief film, a pregnant Anna Nicole Smith talks to a doll in carriage while Howard asks her if she's on a "mushroom trip." With her face painted like a clown, Howard zooms in at Anna's dazed expression and says, "This footage is worth money."

To make matters worse for Stern, Anna Nicole's bodyguard, Maurice Brighthaupt, who was with her on the day she died, claimed that Stern had been acting "highly strange" hours before she collapsed in a Florida hotel room. He is also believed to have said that Stern administered her "some types of drugs" in the months leading to her collapse.

There was also the strange accidental overdose of Smith's son, Daniel. Rumors that Stern may have contributed to Daniel's death by providing the 20-year-old with methadone were circulating. One witness testified at the coroner's inquest into Daniel's death that Stern supplied Daniel with methadone and then flushed the remaining stash down a toilet after Daniel died. Moreover, just days after Smith's death, Stern reportedly made a cool $1-million by giving a "tell-all" interview to Entertainment Tonight.

And although both deaths had been ruled accidental, yesterday Stern along with two other doctors Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were charged with a total of eight felonies in relation to Anna Nicole Smith's death. Among the eight charges are "prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict."

Bail was set at $20,000 for each defendant and TMZ reports that both Stern and Kapoor bailed out Thursday night.

Somewhere, Puccini, Verdi and Mozart are rolling in their graves. (AP Images)

This seems totally logical: Let's make an opera out of Anna Nicole Smith's tragic life story! According to U.K. magazine Female First, Smith's story will be the subject of a new production to be staged at London's Royal Opera House.

The opera is the newest production from the co-creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera. Words will be by Richard Thomas, and the score will be written by Mark-Anthony Turnage. "It's an incredible story," Thomas told Britain's The Independent newspaper. "It's very operatic and sad.

"She was quite a smart lady with the tragic flaw that she could not seem to get through life without a vat of prescription painkillers," Thomas continued. "For me, it ends when she does. It's an American story. I love American culture. Especially for opera, the stories seem to work on a grander, more epic scale."

That probably means operas about Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan will soon follow.

Willa Ford is starring as Anna Nicole Smith in a new made-for-TV movie. (Courtesy YouTube)

The new Anna Nicole Smith biopic, creatively titled "Anna Nicole," stars ex Dancing with the Stars and lingerie bowl hottie Willa Ford. The Keoni Waxman-directed movie chronicle the life of Smith from age 17 until her death at 39 and covers important events in the late playmate's life, such as her marriage to oil baron J. Howard Marshall, her modeling career, as well as the death of her son, Daniel.

One commenter on the video "My celebrity07″ sums up our sentiments exactly:

"Looks extremely bad with horrible acting
and that voice over is hella creepy

it's gonna be a train wreck of a Film….Having said that, I Can't wait til it's released."

Well said, My celebrity07, well said.

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