Instead of stealing billions and bankrupting thousands like Madoff did, Stern’s crime was to facilitate the murky downfall of a pill-happy shiksa whose greatest contribution to society was a trainwreck reality show. When Anna Nicole died in a Florida hotel room, investigators found 11 drugs in her system, including human growth hormone and sleeping medication.

Stern and two fraudulent doctors have been charged with various creepy drug offenses, including “prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict.” 

Given certain loopy moments from The Anna Nicole Show, we wouldn’t be surprised if Stern was dosing himself too in a one-for-me-two-for-you kind of style, but that’s neither here nor there.  Regardless of the outcome of the case, the Stern-Smith partnership, for all its flaws, may still go down as one of the great, unsung gay marriages of a generation.

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Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend Howard Stern, doctors charged (CNN)