Anna Nicole Smith Round-Up: It Never Ends
· After a brief stall for undisclosed legal reasons, the Bahamian inquest into the death of Daniel Smith is finally under way, with a jury of seven women selected to determine the circumstances surrounding the death that started it all. 40 witnesses are set to testify, including Stern, Birkhead, and hospital staff members who reportedly witnessed Howard K. Stern flushing methadone down a toilet soon after Daniel's body was discovered. It remains to be seen how an all-female jury might influence the proceedings, though we doubt they could get any more emotional during the verdict-reading than Judge Seidlin did. [CourtTV]
· A new theory about Anna Nicole's death (because it's still so easy to shoot holes in that whole "nine drugs in her system" one) was that she caffeined herself to death. More specifically, the combination of the antibiotic Cipro and tons of caffeinated soda in her system gave her intense insomnia, leading her to overdose on sleep-aid chloral hydrate. Take heed, Britney Spears: Coke's sweet syrupy release can potentially be deadly. [Fox911]
· An extremely confident Larry Birkhead is so sure Dannielynn's got his DNA fingerprints all over her, he was spotted at a Miami baby boutique buying a new wardrobe for his daughter. A few weeks ago, Birkhead was caught leaving The Ivy, saying he was on his way to Babies 'R' Us to buy some furniture for the nursery. And in September of last year, he was photographed holding three bags of stuffed animals from a New York Toys 'R' Us. Ever get the feeling this dude just really likes shopping for baby stuff? [TMZ]