1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Greetings, good people of Hollywood Land, and welcome once again 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: as we dip into our archive of stories at the 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: intersection of Hollywood and true crime. This week, we're bringing 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: you an episode on Anna Nicole Smith. She was known 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: first for her visual tributes to Marilyn Monroe and her 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: ubiquitous guest genes ads in the pages of Rolling Stone Magazine, 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: But then she tried to cut her own path with 8 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: her own show. Before long, she was being investigated by 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: the FBI before her own suspicious death was the center 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: of an intense investigation that asked the question, was everything 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: we thought we knew about her wrong? I hope you 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: dig this episode on Anna Nicole Smith, and I also 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: hope you'll come back in a few days when I 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: discussed this episode with all of you in the wrap party. 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: Hollywood Land is a production of Double Elvis Farrencison, Emma 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: Man was. 17 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: Called the. 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 2: Train and Lamb My f The stories about Anna Nicole 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: Smith are insane. Her curves caused one country to nearly 20 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 2: declare her a threat to public safety. She was investigated 21 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: by the FBI for an alleged murder plot against her 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: sixty year old step son. Her real son Daniel died 23 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: mysteriously from a toxic combination of prescription medications. She died 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 2: only a few months later under equally strange circumstances. Her 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: career defied definition. She was a playboy, bunny, a model 26 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 2: in a reality TV star rolled into one femme fatale. 27 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: She ascended from the stages of Houston strip clubs to 28 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: the world stage seemingly overnight, and fell from grace just 29 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: as fast, but before she succumbed to eternal beauty. Rest 30 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole Smith made well. She made films, not great films, 31 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: but she was in The Naked Gun thirty three and 32 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: a third. Unlike that clip I played for you at 33 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: the top of the show that wasn't from a film. 34 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: That was a fair use sample from the Library of 35 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: Congress of Clara Smith and her jazz trio performing Death 36 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 2: Letter Blues in nineteen twenty four. I played you that 37 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 2: clip because I can't afford the rights to Brian Robbins's Norbit. 38 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: And why would I play you that specific slice of 39 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: multiple Eddie Murphy's Cheese. Could I afford it? Because that 40 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 2: was the number one movie in America on February fifth, 41 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, and that was the day Anna 42 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: Nicole Smith checked into room six oh seven at the 43 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: hard Rock Hotel and never checked out. On this episode, 44 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: threats the public safety, alleged murder, plots, death under strange circumstance, 45 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 2: and the woman whose career defied definition an A Nicole Smith. 46 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Hollywood Land. The cop 47 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: thought the whole scene was ugliest sin. She dragged the 48 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 2: exotic dancer by her neck, first off the stage and 49 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: then out the front door of the Strip Giant. The 50 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: dancer entered the back seat of the cruiser with the 51 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: grace of a newborn fawn. All she was missing was 52 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: a pair of handcuffs. Well that in a pair of 53 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: decent pants to hide her g string, But the cop 54 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: didn't slap any cuffs on her. She hadn't committed a 55 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: crime yet. The dancer's name changed depending on her shift. 56 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 2: Some called her Robin or Nicky. With the cop driving 57 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: her scantily clad ass home, Tonight knew her as Vicki 58 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 2: Lynn Smith, her daughter Deputy's share of Virgie Heart didn't 59 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 2: raise their children to flaunt their bodies for money. Vicki Lynn, 60 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: on the other hand, thought she earned a decent, honest living, 61 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: just like everybody else, Thank you very much. She just 62 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 2: happened to do it with no clothes on. Her mother disagreed. 63 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 2: Honest work meant putting on her sheriff Stephie's badge every 64 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: morning and protecting the good citizens of the great State 65 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 2: of Texas. It also meant keeping your teenage daughter off 66 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: the pole Vicki Lynn sank into the back seat and 67 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 2: defeat the lights of Houston nightlife reflected in her superheels. 68 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: Another job down the drain, just like Red Lobster and 69 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 2: Walmert and Jim's Crispy friedhe two, Vicki Lynn's first job 70 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: after she dropped out of high school. That gig get 71 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: Jim's Crispy Fried Chicken wasn't a complete waste. At least 72 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: it gave her a husband and a baby boy in 73 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: just one year. First came the fellow dropout in Fry 74 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: Cook she fell in love with and married. Then came Daniel. 75 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: They're baby boy, born when Vicky Lynn was only eighteen 76 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: years old. As it turned out, Billy was a bully 77 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: and Vicki Lynn split after barely a year of their marriage. Daniel, 78 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 2: Daniel was her whole world. Daniel was also why she 79 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: needed steady work so badly. She had two miles to 80 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: feed in, zero special skills and no ged But Vicky 81 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 2: Lynn didn't need a diploma to tell her the math 82 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 2: was stacked against her when it came to employment. But 83 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: maybe she could squeeze out a few bucks from men 84 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 2: looking for women who were well stacked. Her new vocation 85 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 2: called to her like a siren from the side of 86 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: the road in Houston, a voluptuous woman outlined a neon 87 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 2: rising from the parsha Texas soil, rocked on her tiptoes 88 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 2: back and forth in her sky high heels, her smile 89 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 2: as pearly white as a bikini clinging to her curves. 90 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: It was an advertisement for the Executive Club, a gentleman's 91 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: bar in Houston. It was a sign Vicky Lynne needed literally. 92 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: Her shifts at Red Lobster and Walmart brought home nearly 93 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 2: fifty dollars a week, but Vicky could earn that amount 94 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 2: dancing in a single evening. Now she was going to 95 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 2: earn dittaly squat. Thanks to her mother, Virgie threatened to 96 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: come into the Executive Club every night to make trouble 97 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: if the owner didn't take Vicky off stage that very moment. 98 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 2: Vicky couldn't believe it. That lady in the white bikini 99 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: up on the sign probably never had a deal with 100 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 2: shit like this. But everything is bigger in Texas, especially 101 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 2: the gentleman's club business. There were plenty of other joints 102 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 2: to choose from. There was Puzzles and Gigi's on the 103 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: north side of town, ritzier joints like Baby O's in 104 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 2: the Colorado Club over in southwest Houston too. Vicki Lynn's 105 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 2: mind was made up before she could even peel her 106 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 2: ass in the backseat of the Cruisers upholstery. She was 107 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 2: going to pack her baby boy to her car and 108 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 2: leave home for good. If her mama didn't want her, 109 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: make it a good living to provide for her son. 110 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: Vicky Lynn didn't want to stick around. Stripping was here 111 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 2: to stay. You can hang your hat on that, at 112 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: least until Vicki Lynn met her future husband. She was 113 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 2: just about everything a Texas man wanted. Tall, tantalizing buxom, 114 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 2: maybe two buxom Buxham was bad for business. At the 115 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 2: best known gentleman's club in Houston, they liked the ladies 116 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 2: sticked in like the other girls in nineteen ninety one. 117 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 2: That meant Vicki Lynn Smith wouldn't be taking any evening 118 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: shifts at Gigi's. She could entertain the sad sacks who 119 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: haunted the place each afternoon instead, sad sacks like oil 120 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: tycoon Jay Howard Marshall. Vicky Lynn spotted the elderly gentleman 121 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: wilting in his wheelchair. She moved across the stage in 122 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 2: his direction with a little twinkle in her green eyes. 123 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 2: He smiled back reluctantly. The song on the pa the 124 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 2: Lady in Red did all the talking. Jay Howard Marshall 125 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 2: wasn't just lonesome these days. He was despondent. He lost 126 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: his wife to Alzheimer's and that was the first hit. 127 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 2: Then his young girlfriend on the side died on the 128 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: operating table while getting a facelift. Now he was a 129 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: bona fide billionaire with no one to spoil. He wouldn't 130 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 2: be lonely for long. The oil baron invited Vicky Lynn 131 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 2: to lunch the next day and slid an envelope stuffed 132 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 2: with cash across the table. He told her she'd never 133 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 2: have to work again, and Vicky Lynn graciously accepted the gift. 134 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 2: She accepted a lot of gifts from Jay Howard, Marshall, 135 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 2: Well Rolls, Royce, multimillion dollar trips to the Neman Marcus 136 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 2: Jewelry counter, a fifteen acre ranch in Texas complete with 137 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: Arabian horses, and there was one give Vicky Lynn wanted 138 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 2: to share with the world, her fourteen thousand dollars breast augmentation. 139 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: Now sized up with classic American bombshells like Maryland, James 140 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 2: Mansfield and Pamela Anderson, Vicki Lynn boasted the kind of 141 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 2: figure that was far too fine for just a few 142 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 2: lonely faces at a time. Forget the horny cowboys in Houston. 143 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 2: They could keep their stick thin it girls. Vicki Lynn 144 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 2: was ready for a much bigger close up. She didn't 145 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 2: tell Playboy as she used to be a stripper. Playboy 146 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 2: liked their girls quote unquote fresh, or whatever the fuck 147 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 2: that meant. She mailed the magazine a handful of nude 148 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 2: photographs and was on the cover of the March nineteen 149 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 2: ninety two issue Before you could Save Double D's. Two 150 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: months later, she was mismay. The centerfold could barely contain 151 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: her busty profile, and Vicki Lynn's curves transcended the laws 152 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 2: of physics. They transcended the limits of mere playmate fame too. 153 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 2: Guest jeans saw Vicki Lyn's naked photos and begged her 154 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 2: to put their pants on. Claudia Schiffer was out as 155 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: the face of the brand, and Vicki Lynn was in. 156 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 2: Unlike the wayfish models of the early nineteen nineties, Vicki 157 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 2: Lynn actually filled out the genes. Supersized billboards of her 158 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 2: supersized curves spread across the country, across other continents dig 159 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 2: this tall new glass Texas te in Norway. Her billboards 160 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 2: even cost enough of an uptaking car accidents that the 161 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: government nearly declared them a threat to public safety. Vicki 162 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: Lynn had the body, now she needed the personal brand. 163 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: Her name was a little too small town for her trajectory. Instead, 164 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: the founder of Guests crowned her Anna Nicole Smith, and 165 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 2: by the end of nineteen ninety three, Anna Na Cole 166 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: was named Playboy's Playmate of the Year. It was among 167 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 2: the most covetive titles for Bunny's and budding stars, and 168 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole Smith was both. Now that she had elevated 169 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 2: herself from stripper to socialite. She accepted a marriage proposal 170 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 2: from Jay Howard Marshall and the twenty two carrot diamond 171 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 2: ring that came with it. Her new husband was over 172 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: sixty years her senior. The scandal of their marriage fanned 173 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 2: America's fascination with their newest object of desire. Anna Nicole 174 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 2: crept closer to Hollywood as the tabloids tore a partner 175 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 2: on orthodox love life. She accepted small roles in movies 176 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 2: like To the Limit and The Naked Gun thirty three 177 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 2: and a third, The Final Insult. None of these movies 178 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 2: developed Anna Nicole as an artist. No one referred to 179 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: her as the actress Anna Nicole Smith. She was just 180 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 2: a sex symbol who was famous for being famous and 181 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 2: for becoming famous overnight. That that was the funny thing 182 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: about fame. He could catapult them fatales onto global billboards 183 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 2: and big screens in the blink of an eye, but 184 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 2: it could also crush them into fatalities. Just as fast 185 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 2: Mark Hatton repeated his response to the Feds, No, he 186 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 2: would not wear a wire around his ex girlfriend Anna 187 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: Nicole Smith. Final answer couldn't provide evidence for the case. Yes, 188 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 2: would it be a sweet dose of revenge for her 189 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 2: breaking it off with him. Fuck yes, but Mark still 190 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 2: wasn't doing it, so no, fuck the Feds. Mark Hatton 191 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 2: knew what was true and that was all that mattered. 192 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 2: His then girlfriend, Anna Nicole asked him to kill her 193 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: step son. Technically technically anyways, he was her stepson, but 194 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 2: the dude was sixty years old. Sixty years old, but 195 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 2: he was her rival. When Jay Howard Marshall croaked in 196 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five, the buck quite literally stopped right there. 197 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole wasn't even in her late husband's will that 198 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 2: sixty year old stepson got all one point six billion. 199 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole would just have to settle for the twelve 200 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: million dollars worth of gifts she received during her late 201 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 2: husband's lifetime. However, Anna Nicole Smith wasn't settling. Vigor was better, 202 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 2: after all, and that went for what she felt she 203 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 2: was owed. Her lawsuit over her dead husband's will wasn't 204 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 2: just a pat It was a year's long war, and 205 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 2: by June of two thousand it had reached a feverish high, 206 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 2: so feverishly high that Anna andn Cole just needed Mark 207 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 2: Hatton to take care of it, or at least find 208 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 2: someone who could discreetly resolve her problem. Mark refused. Maybe 209 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: a modern Marilyn Monroe could manipulate men into just about anything, 210 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: but murder was out of the question. She would have 211 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 2: to fend for herself, and so would the FEDS. The 212 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 2: FBI knocked on Anna Nicole's door on July third, two thousand. 213 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 2: She gave her statement, no, she would never even think 214 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 2: of arranging an atrocious thing like murder. She was innocent, 215 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 2: even if the three fifty seven Smith and Weston and 216 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 2: stainless steel knife retreat from her home suggested otherwise. Without 217 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 2: any iron cloud proof of a murder plot, thanks to 218 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: Mark's refusal to wear a wire, the FBI abandoned the 219 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: case in April of two thousand and one, but Mark 220 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 2: still had his suspicions. Not about Anna n Cole, about 221 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 2: Howard K. Stern. Hold up, I'm not talking about the 222 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 2: Howard Stern that you all know, the shock jock turned 223 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 2: king of all media. I'm talking about Howard kay Stern, 224 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 2: Anna Nichole's weird lawyer pal. He was most definitely not 225 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 2: a cutting edge radio personality, but Mark still suspected Howard K. 226 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 2: Stern might have something shocking up his sleeve, because first 227 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,359 Speaker 2: of all, who chums around with their lawyer? But more importantly, 228 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: Mark ut the sense that Howard wanted him out of 229 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 2: the picture, like a jealous boyfriend pushing away competitors. Howard 230 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 2: gave Mark two pills once and claimed they're aspirin. Yeah right, 231 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 2: Asper doesn't knock you unconscious for twenty four hours straight. 232 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 2: So if Howard k stern Anna Nicoles, Smith's friend was 233 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 2: giving Mark, her ex boyfriend those kinds of pills, what 234 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 2: the fuck was he giving in in Nicole? Daniel Smith 235 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 2: struggled to make eye contact with the detective. He stared 236 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 2: at the window of Patty's Restaurant and All Day Breakfast 237 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: joint into Luca Lake, California. It didn't seem like anyone 238 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: had followed him, not yet, at least. Steen curled from 239 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 2: Dani those coffee. He didn't order any food. He had 240 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 2: no appetite. Here. He was meeting of detective at an 241 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 2: inconspicuous diner, just like they did in the movies. This 242 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 2: shit could be in a James bondflick, maybe even The 243 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: Naked Gun, except there was nothing funny about what Daniel 244 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 2: needed to divulge about his mother. He locked eyes with 245 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 2: Jack Harding, the detective sitting across the table. Harding knew 246 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 2: all about Anna Nicole Smith. I mean, in two thousand 247 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: and six, who didn't Her early hots TV show, The 248 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 2: Anna Na Coole Show gave the world an inside look 249 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: at her inner circle, complete with that ditsy commentary. Sometimes 250 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 2: her voice slurred for no apparent reason. Other times she 251 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: put on a squeaky baby voice, just like the ones 252 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: she created during her exotic dancer days. The Anna Nicole 253 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: Smith Show earned e record setting ratings when it debuted 254 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 2: in two thousand and two to over seven and a 255 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: half million viewers. It was the largest reality TV debut 256 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: at the time. The Bubblegum pop theme song introduced the cast. 257 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: There was Anna Na Coole, Daniel, then a teen, her 258 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 2: assistant Kim, her dog sugar Pie, and Howard K. Stern, 259 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 2: title lawyer. He got higher billing than poor sugar Pie. 260 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: It all disappeared as fast as it came, went the 261 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: theme saw. And that's exactly what Daniel was worried about 262 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: these days. His mother wasn't just ditzy. Daniel thought she 263 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 2: was drugged, and not by her own accord. It was 264 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 2: all Howard's fault. Daniel said that lawyer who thought he 265 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: could play doctor. Daniel claim Howard fed Ann in a 266 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 2: cole quote unquote mind bending drugs to keep her in 267 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 2: a daze. He hovered around her with what friends called 268 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 2: a goodie bag brimming with pills to provide for Anna 269 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: and a cole as needed. Close friends said they had 270 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 2: seen Howard give in in a cole value viking it 271 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 2: even morphine. Daniel leaned in over the table to deliver 272 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 2: the kicker. He suspected Howard was doing this every day, 273 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: probably right at this moment, even though Anna Nicole was pregnant. 274 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: Anna and a Cole and her baby bump were laying 275 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: low in the Bahamas, living in a rental home with Howard. 276 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 2: I daddy was TBA or a TBD, even Daniel wasn't 277 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 2: sure right now. He had no direct line of communication 278 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 2: with his mother. Howard hung up on Daniel every time 279 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: he called. Other loved ones claimed they got the brush 280 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,239 Speaker 2: off from Howard too. Jack Harding leaned back in his 281 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 2: chair as Daniel stated his case. It was the perfect 282 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 2: setup for his Fengali. Anna Nicole was overseas and unreachable. 283 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 2: Soon Daniel's newborn baby's sister would be caught up in 284 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 2: this mess too, So the clock was ticking. Daniel needed 285 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 2: proof that his mother was in danger. Shit, he could 286 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 2: even be in danger himself if he was meddling in 287 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 2: Howard's affairs like this, and that's where Harding could step 288 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 2: in and gather some evidence. Harding put all his cards 289 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,239 Speaker 2: on the table. He would take the case, but he 290 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 2: needed three hundred dollars an hour, plus some dough for 291 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 2: airfare and lodging. No money, no deal. Daniel didn't have 292 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 2: the money for a down payment on anything. He had 293 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: just enough to buy himself a plane ticket to the Bahamas. 294 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 2: So Daniel would just do it himself. But he really 295 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 2: should have waited him. He should have Jack Hardy. Anna 296 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 2: Nicole Smith was wailing from her hospital bed. No more 297 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 2: sugary baby talking now, it was just howls of pain. 298 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole's newborn daughter was perfectly healthy and sleeping in 299 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 2: the nursery. Her twenty year old son, Daniel was not. 300 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 2: She crowded at the foot of the hospital bed and 301 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 2: tugged on her son's limp leg. Doctors scattered around the scene. 302 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 2: He's not breathing. Can we resuscitate him? Clear hospital staff 303 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 2: moved the second hospital bed from the room to make 304 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 2: room for more doctors, with more medical equipment and even 305 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 2: more questions. No matter how many people crowded inside the room, 306 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 2: no one could get in and Nicole to budge. She 307 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 2: clung to her son and pleaded for Jesus to take 308 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 2: her instead, but her Savior had already made up his mind. 309 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 2: Daniel Smith was dead. Anna Nicole's last evening with her 310 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 2: son was blissful, simple, private, nothing like those days when 311 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 2: a camera followed them around for reality TV fodder. When 312 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 2: Daniel's playing touchdown in the Bahamas in September of two 313 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,719 Speaker 2: thousand and six, Anna Nicole had already delivered her new 314 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 2: baby sister via c section and was recovering in her 315 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 2: hospital room. Howard accompanied in Nicole to the hospital. Naturally, 316 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: he and Daniel played nice for the occasion. While In 317 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: and Nicole and Daniel binge late night reality TV, Howard 318 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 2: picked up a dinner of fried chicken strips for the family. 319 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 2: That's when Daniels started to feel winded. No one thought 320 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 2: anything of it. Sudden exhaustion was easy to blame on 321 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 2: jet lag. Everyone passed out after a greasy feast. Anna 322 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 2: Nicole and Daniel shared one hospital bed and Howard curled 323 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 2: up on the other. Only two of them woke up 324 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 2: the next morning. Daniel was declared dead at ten oh 325 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 2: five am on September sixth, two thousand and six. The 326 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 2: case baffled doctors. Healthy twenty year olds didn't just drop 327 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 2: dead in their seat, especially when they had access to 328 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 2: celebrity level healthcare. Without a clear cause of death, Bahamian 329 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 2: law mandated an autopsy. Medical examiner couldn't find anything. No alcohol, 330 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 2: no cocaine, no opiate's, no amphetamines. Instead, investigators placed the 331 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 2: blame on a toxic combination of lexipro, zoloft, and methadone. 332 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 2: Only two thirds of that checked out. Daniel had prescriptions 333 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 2: for lexipro and zoloft, which are both commonly used to 334 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 2: treat depression and anxiety. Daniel didn't have a heroin problem, 335 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 2: so he didn't have a prescription for methadone, but Anna 336 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 2: Nicole did. In fact, someone had methadone on them the 337 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 2: night Daniel died. Investigators found two pills tucked into the 338 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 2: bed Howard used during his stay, the same one they 339 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 2: pulled into the hallway to make more room for the 340 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 2: doctor's rushing to revive Daniel. One was a muscle relaxing, 341 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: the other was methadone. And in Daniel's shirt pocket, investigators 342 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 2: found something else, a business card for Detective Jack Harding. 343 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this. 344 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 3: We're we're where. 345 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 2: Imagine for a moment, you're one of the most beautiful 346 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 2: women in the world in undeniable ten five feet eleven 347 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 2: inches tall blonde locks, cascade down your elegant neckline and 348 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 2: pull everyone's gaze to your forty one inch bust double 349 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 2: ds at least with seven hundred milli liters of fluid 350 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: in each. Your slim, twenty six inch way struggles to 351 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 2: keep all that weight upright your spine. It has to 352 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 2: actively work against the force of gravity that threatens to 353 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: topple you over, keeping your head high and your shoulders back. 354 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 2: It's actual work. The way to your body's beauty. Yanks 355 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,959 Speaker 2: on your shoulder blades, begging you to bend over and 356 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 2: snap like a pretty little twig. Not that Anna Nicole 357 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: Smith was anything close to a twig. There's literal weight 358 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 2: to being one of the great beauties of the world. 359 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,919 Speaker 2: Marilyn felt it. Anna Nicole Smith was saddled with a 360 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 2: similar burden. If she was going to stand tall during 361 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 2: photo shoots with her implant, she was going to need 362 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 2: a little reinforcement like vicodin or xanax. The prescription started 363 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 2: coming in the mid nineties and never stopped. Anna A 364 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,719 Speaker 2: Cole couldn't afford to stop. It wasn't just the implants. 365 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 2: Her body cramped up with discomfort every day, restless leg syndrome, insomnia, seizures, migraines. 366 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 2: Name a body part and it probably hurt like hell. 367 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole famously asked like my body as a spokeswoman 368 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 2: for trim Spa in the early hodts, and in reality 369 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 2: her hot bod was a hot spot for misery. In 370 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 2: the Bahamas, Nanny's claimed Annon a Cole took pills and 371 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 2: paper cups every day, six to ten pills per cup, 372 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: one cup every four hours, a grand total of twenty 373 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 2: four different prescriptions at once. The weaker Anna and a 374 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 2: Cole became, the more pills she was prescribed. It wasn't 375 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: about being high. It was about the absence of pain, 376 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 2: the absence of all that weight. Anna Nicole Smith would 377 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: do anything to shrug off that weight. February fifth, two 378 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 2: thousand and seven, Hollywood, Florida. Anna Nicolesmith's head rolled against 379 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 2: the back seat of the limmo. Her legs were jelly 380 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 2: America's blonde bombshell looked ready to detonate. Her longtime bodyguard 381 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 2: lifted her out of the limo and carried her inside 382 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 2: the hard Rock Hotel. She was checked into her usual 383 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 2: sixteen hundred dollars a night sweet under her usual alias 384 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 2: Friend and Wilma Flintstone, but nothing else about her stay 385 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: at the hard Rock Hotel would be usual. She was 386 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 2: in Florida to pick up for new yacht, a thirty 387 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 2: nine footer she had christened the Cracker. In addition to 388 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 2: Howard and her bodyguard, Anna Nicole's psychiatrist and personal nurse 389 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 2: rounded out her crew. She needed a crew, not just 390 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 2: to pick up a boat, to keep herself from capsizing. 391 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 2: In the months after Daniel's death, she floated between the 392 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: bed and the couch every day in a non drowsy rut. 393 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 2: There was the grief, and there was also the twenty 394 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 2: four different prescriptions. She allegedly juggled the pain just woulden' 395 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 2: nase up. It likely stemmed from her daily injection of 396 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 2: B twelve and human growth hormones that supposedly kept her 397 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 2: energy high and her body fat low. So much for 398 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: trim spot, and by the time she reached room six 399 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: oh seven at the hard Rock, her body was boiling 400 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 2: with one hundred and five degree fever. You don't sweat 401 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 2: out of fever that's severe, You're more likely to die. 402 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 2: But Anna and a cole knew what happened the last 403 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 2: time she was in a hospital room. The memory of 404 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 2: Daniel's final night would have chilled her to the bone 405 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 2: if she wasn't burning up so badly. Daniel's absence burdened 406 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: in in a coal every day. His death was the 407 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 2: latest addition to the pile of weight she balanced every day, 408 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 2: the weight of her body, the weight of the tabloids 409 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 2: poking and prodding into her life. Yet again, another trip 410 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 2: to the hospital meant more intrusion and media attention. More 411 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 2: attention meant more weight, and in a coal couldn't take 412 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 2: any more weight. She felt depress her into the mattress 413 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 2: in the master bedroom. The springs threatened give way. It 414 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 2: felt like she could sink through the bed, then the floor, 415 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 2: then through every story below her, until she landed with 416 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 2: a thud at rock bottom. Even though it felt like 417 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 2: she'd already found on rock bottom, right here, right now, 418 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 2: in room six oh seven. It all disappeared as fast 419 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: as it came. Anna Nikole made a decision. From the 420 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 2: depths of her stupor. No hospitals, no ambulances, absolutely nothing 421 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 2: to draw attention, her team created a different treatment. Her 422 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,719 Speaker 2: bodyguard sung Anoni Coole's feverish body into a bath of 423 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 2: ice and cold water. Her psychiatrists recommended some tama flu in, 424 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 2: a potent antibiotic, but there was another drug that was 425 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: sure to help Anna Nikole safely slip into dreamland. Tonight 426 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 2: chlorohydrate aka knockout drops, a popular sedative in the nineteen thirties, 427 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 2: not so much in two thousand and seven. It was 428 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 2: an odd choice. Almost as odd was the dosage five 429 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 2: thousand milligrams, ten times more than the recommended dosage. Anna A. 430 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: Coole was in fact knocked out by the drops not 431 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 2: long after ten pm, and it worked sort of, so 432 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 2: her team kept the chlorohydrate coming. She took more five 433 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 2: thousand milligram doses on Tuesday, in between violent vomiting and diarrhea. 434 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 2: Debris now polluted the posh sweet vomit caked in the 435 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: bathroom sink, soiled towels on the floor. Hannona Coole's night's 436 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 2: name was a graveyard of soda cans and slim Fast, 437 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 2: mixed with discarded packs of gum, Nicorette and jarresipedia light. 438 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 2: She was borderline infantile. Her weak, babyish body matched her 439 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 2: baby voice. She crawled around like a toddler. On Wednesday, 440 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 2: her bodyguard found her naked in the bathtub minus the bathwater. 441 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 2: It felt like something worth mentioning to the shrink, but 442 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 2: the dock had already returned to the real Hollywood earlier 443 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 2: that day. Despite the number of people around her, no 444 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 2: one on her team would say for sure if Hanna 445 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 2: Nicole took more chlorohydrate Wednesday evening, and they didn't need to. 446 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 2: The adutopsy results would reveal everything. Thursday, February eighth, two 447 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 2: thousand and seven. No one could understand why Howard k. 448 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 2: Stern wouldn't pipe the fuck down. He delegated with authority. Howard, 449 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 2: the bodyguard and the new captain of the Cracker would 450 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 2: pick up Anna Nicole's yacht at noon. Her nurse and 451 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: the captain's wife would stay with Anna Nicole in the meantime. 452 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 2: That plan was well and good, but it was also 453 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 2: kind of loud. Howard had been nothing but overprotective and 454 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 2: considerate for the past twenty four hours. He slept by 455 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 2: Anna Nicole's side all night on Wednesday. On Thursday afternoon, 456 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: Howard ordered the bodyguard a nurse to fetch the yacht 457 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 2: captain and his wife from the airport, specifically so he 458 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 2: could remain by Anna Nicole's side. But now out of 459 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 2: the blue, he wanted to split, and he couldn't even 460 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 2: muster a whisper while Anna Nicole got some rest in bed, 461 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 2: and there was no time to argue with Howard's inconsistencies. 462 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 2: It was yacht a clock at Royal Palm Yacht Basin, 463 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 2: six miles from the hard Rock Hotel. The three men 464 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 2: were out the door before anyone could protest, and there 465 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 2: was only one problem. Howard had no reason to rush. 466 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 2: The appointment was for one pm, not for the captain's 467 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 2: wife knew something was wrong from the look on Anna 468 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 2: Nicole Smith's face. It was her mouth. Her lips were 469 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 2: frozen in an o shape. It was that a sigh 470 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: of relief or a gasp of terror. The captain's wife 471 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 2: tried to force Anna Nicole's stiff Josh shut Rigor Mortis 472 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 2: wasn't having it. She cried out to the nurse for help, 473 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 2: and the woman ripped the heavy comforter away from Anna 474 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 2: Nicole's body. The purple splotches all over her face and 475 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 2: body were easy to spot. She was buck naked. She 476 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: never slept naked. She collected oversized T shirts, so she 477 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 2: never had a sleep naked. Stop it. There was no 478 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 2: time to over analyze. The nurse on Innannicole's chest to 479 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 2: perform CPR in bed, and the captain's wife tweaked Anannicole's 480 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 2: toes and waited for a reaction. Nothing. Now was the 481 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 2: time to raise their voices. They screamed and cried for 482 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 2: Annonacole to do something anything. They splashed water on her face, 483 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 2: They pulled back in Nicole's eyelids, and they ran their 484 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 2: hands over Antonichole's body for. 485 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: A reki ritual. 486 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: They tried everything, everything except calling nine to one. One 487 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 2: twelve forty four pm. The nurse rings the bodyguard, not once, 488 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 2: but four times. One twenty two pm. The bodyguard calls 489 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,479 Speaker 2: the nurse. One twenty four pm. The bodyguard calls Howard 490 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 2: one twenty six PM, Howard calls the bodyguard one thirty 491 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 2: one PM, the bodyguard dials the hotel liaison. Then Howard 492 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: calls the bodyguard four times in three minutes. It wasn't 493 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 2: until one thirty eight PM that anyone bothered to call 494 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 2: emergency services. Anna Nicole's warm body grew colder and stiffer 495 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 2: over the course of nearly an hour. By the time 496 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 2: police and first responders arrived, there was little they could 497 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 2: do for Annonnicole aside from senator to the hospital, and 498 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,719 Speaker 2: all the hospital could do was pronounced her dead. At 499 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 2: two forty nine PM. Alone at the hard Rock Hotel, 500 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 2: Howard crouched down in the hallway and covered his face 501 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: with his hands. Somehow he had more calls to make. 502 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 2: He rang Trim Spaw, an attorney, and entertainment Tonight. In 503 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 2: that order. MSNBC aired three hours of coverage surrounding Anon 504 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 2: Nicole's death that day. The news claimed she collapsed. Bullshit. 505 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 2: Annon Cole didn't fall or faint suddenly. She was tucked 506 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: away in bed when she died. Weakened, deflated, defeated. Annona 507 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 2: Cole didn't collapse that day. The weight piling on top 508 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 2: of her did. We'll never know whether or not it 509 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 2: was an accident. We can't say a doctor was negligent 510 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: or if a pier had nefarious intentions, But we can't 511 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: pinpoint the blame on one thing. For certain, chloral high 512 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 2: these knockout drops can be deadly if they react with 513 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: the wrong combination of chemicals found in prescription drugs. Chlorohydra 514 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: in a little carelessness is a killer that steals stars overnight. 515 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 2: At least that's what the toxicology report said. Marilyl Monroe 516 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 2: died of an acute barbituate poisoning courtesy of a deadly 517 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 2: dose of chlorohydrate in them batal. That's right, Chlorohydra was 518 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 2: also in Marilyn Monroe's body when she died. For more 519 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 2: details on that, check out our two part episode on 520 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 2: Norman Gene from season one of bad Lands. But I 521 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: digress and chlorohydrate was also swimming in in a col 522 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 2: system when she was whisked away on her gurney. On 523 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 2: February eighth, two thousand and seven, investigators found a pharmacy 524 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 2: of pills in rooms six oh seven at the hard 525 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 2: Rock Hotel, eleven different prescriptions tucked in dresser drawers, on 526 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 2: the nightstand and in Howard's so called goodie bag. Nine 527 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 2: medications were in Anna's body when she died, all of 528 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 2: them from her own prescriptions, all except one. The name 529 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 2: on the bottle of chlorohydro was Howard K. Stern. Not 530 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 2: only was the chlorohydrate not hers, she'd been taking ten 531 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 2: times the normal dose for thirty seven days before her death. 532 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 2: Maybe the ritual would have continued if a crazy cocktail 533 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 2: of drugs during a feverish haze hadn't pushed her over 534 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 2: the edge. Two blonde bombshells, two deadly doses, the same 535 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 2: sudden tragedy. It's a coincidence so uncanny it ought to 536 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 2: be in pictures. 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