He isn’t about to for give “Stuttering John” Melendez, who left the Stern show six years ago to be the an nouncer on Jay Leno’s show. In an interview Monday on BlogTalkRadio.com, Bob Andel man asked Melendez if Leno would still em ploy him when he moves to the 10 p.m. slot with a new NBC show in September. “I don’t know yet,” Melendez said. “But I really do hope that I am. I really enjoy working with Jay.” Then, yesterday, Stern responded on his Sirius Sat ellite show: “Well, I’m going to make an offer to John right now: If Jay doesn’t hire him back, he can stay in LA . . . and we’ll hire him to go to some of those pre mieres and ask questions again. He can do that. It’s a dollar for every question.” Last year, Me- lendez ripped Stern on Adam Carolla’s radio show, saying Stern never paid him fairly and didn’t fight to keep him. “He resented me doing any outside work,” Melendez said. Stern called his ex-underling a “no-talent ingrate . . . He’s delusional . . . He can go [bleep] himself. I’ve had it with him . . . All he did was stutter.”
Anna Nicole Smith’s longtime companion and attorney Howard K. Stern and two psychiatrists were charged today with conspiring to furnish drugs to the one-time Playboy playmate in the years leading up to her 2007 death from a prescription medication overdose.
Stern, 40, and Drs. Sandeep Kapoor, 40, and Khristine Eroshevich, 61, were each charged with a single count of conspiracy, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Arraignment dates have not yet been scheduled.
Eroshevich was Smith’s personal psychiatrist.
The charges allege that the trio conspired to furnish drugs to Smith between June 5, 2004, and Jan. 26, 2007.
Kapoor and Stern were also charged with one count of “prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict.” Eroshevich was charged with the same crime in a separate count.
Kapoor and Stern were also charged with a single count of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 9, 2004, and Sept. 22, 2006. Meanwhile, Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 5, 2004, and Jan. 26, 2007.
Kapoor and Eroshevich were also charged with one count each of obtaining a prescription for opiates by “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” They were also charged with a single count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address.
The charges were filed in downtown Los Angeles as part of a felony complaint for arrest warrant for all three, prosecutors said. The entertainment news Web site TMZ.com reported that Stern planned to surrender to authorities , but it was unclear where or when.
Smith, who was 39, died in Hollywood, Fla., on Feb. 8, 2007, of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs shortly after the birth of her daughter and death of her son, who also died of a drug overdose.
Following Smith’s death, a legal battle erupted over who was the father of her daughter, Dannielynn Hope. DNA tests determined the father was photographer Larry Birkhead, who now has custody of the girl. Stern had also contended that he was the girl’s father.
The criminal charges filed today were the result of an investigation that involved not only the District Attorney’s Office, but the state Attorney General’s Office, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, California Medical Board and state Department of Insurance.
In October 2007, investigators served warrants at various medical offices and other locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties as part of the probe. The offices of Eroshevich and Kapoor were both searched.
“These individuals repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose,” state Attorney General Jerry Brown said. “There is ample evidence that Doctor Eroshevich and Doctor Kapoor violated their ethical obligations as physicians, while Mr. Stern funneled highly addictive drugs to Ms. Smith.”
Brown said the trio furnished Smith with pills including opiates, benzodiazapines and other controlled substances.
Newlywed shock jock Howard Stern was on hand to cheer his new bride complete the New York City Marathon in style.
Beth Ostrosky finished Sunday in 4 hours, 15 minutes – much better than the five-hour target the 36-year-old former model was aiming for.
“This was the happiest day of my life,” said Ostrosky, who ran to raise money for Long Island’s North Shore Animal League. (not marrying Howard? I would have thought that was the happiest day – guess not)
“Isn’t she beautiful?” Stern gushed as daughter Ashley, 15, also hugged her stepmom.
Stern, 54, who married Ostrosky last month, had done his part that morning: Making a carb-loaded breakfast of bagels stuffed with peanut butter and bananas.
“She ate a ton,” he said.
More food was on the way after the race. “We’re going to celebrate with some sushi and some pasta,” Ostrosky said. “A lot of sushi and pasta.”
Ostrosky said what kept her going most through the more than 26-mile course was, “I just kept thinking about seeing Howard and Ashley on the finish line.”
Howard Stern and his longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky were married in New York City on Friday night, according to guests who attended the celebration.
The guest list for the wedding, held at the restaurant Le Cirque, included Joan Rivers, Barbara Walters, Billy Joel and wife Katie Lee, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and Stern’s radio co-host, Robin Quivers.
Stern, 54, and Ostrosky, 36, were joined in a ceremony officiated by Mark Consuelos, the husband of Kelly Ripa, who also attended. Billy Joel sang two songs, and Chevy Chase delivered a raunchy roast, said one guest.
“Beth is the most beautiful bride I’ve ever seen,” said Stern pal Dominic Barbara. (Ostrosky wore Marchesa.) “The vows were from each others’ hearts. It was gentle and soft and beautiful. People were crying.”
After 11 p.m., Joan Rivers walked out holding a bouquet of cream roses. “I danced with Howard,” she said. “The wedding was fabulous, everyone had a great, great time.”
A Very Long Engagement
The ceremony follows a long engagement – and a change of wedding venue – for the couple.
In March, Ostrosky said they’d decided to revise their plans to get married in Hamptons and to have a city wedding instead. “We’re going to get our friends together at a restaurant, very low-key,” she said.
Stern first announced the engagement on his Sirius Satellite radio show on Valentine’s Day last year.
When he proposed, Stern presented Ostrosky with a 5.2 carat diamond ring. “I love you. You’re everything to me,” Stern said he told her. “I’m asking you to spend the rest of your life with me.”
This is the first marriage for Ostrosky and the second for Stern.
The shock jock and his leggy lady have booked the whole restaurant (the first time anyone has ever taken over the entire place) for a sit-down dinner for 180 guests, including Donald Trump. Beth’s wedding gown was designed by Georgina Chapman. And guess who’s going to perform the ceremony? Mark Consuelos, husband of Kelly Ripa, is “certified” to supervise their vows.
The Sirius shock jock’s bachelor party was a small affair that started and ended early and didn’t feature a single stripper, one attendee tells Page Six. The 15 stags – including Gary Dell’Abate, Ronnie (The Limo Driver) Munn and other Stern show regulars – toasted their bachelor boss in a private room at Nobu 57 which featured a cake shaped like a microphone. “Artie Lange, who’s on the wagon right now, got there midway through and says, ‘Never in my life did I think I’d be late for a bachelor party by arriving at 9 p.m. – or that I’d be drinking a Diet Coke,’ ” our source said. “Chris Rock stopped in to say hello and the party broke up around 10:30. Howard’s fiancée, Beth Ostrosky, came in later with [Nobu owner] Richie Notar’s wife and they actually stayed later than Howard and his gang did. Can you imagine?”
SHE won’t be prancing around naked this time, but Howard Stern’s daughter, Emily, is about to get back onstage. She’s starring in “Earth Sucks,” Jonas Oppenheim’s new rock musical about an Earth girl who falls for an alien and helps fight off an evil pop diva. It opens Oct. 4 at Hollywood’s Art/Works Theater. In 2006, Emily appeared nude in the Jewish Theater of New York’s “Kabbalah,” prompting Stern to claim she was being exploited.
Look for Howard Stern to shock again on Tuesday morning when he’s due to kick off the auction of a 22-year-old beauty’s virginity.
Expected to step on the block, so to speak, of Stern’s Sirius radio studio is a San Diego woman who says she wants to sell her maidenhood to pay her college tuition.
“I don’t have a moral dilemma with it,” says the pretty brunette, who’s using the pseudonym of Natalie Dylan “for safety reasons.”
“We live in a capitalist society,” she tells us. “Why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?”
Dylan was introduced to Stern by Dennis Hof, proprietor of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Nevada’s famed legal brothel (seen on HBO’s hit series “Cathouse.”)
Hof says the auction will be conducted online via bunnyranch.com, and that the deal will be consummated at the Bunny Ranch, where Dylan’s sister already works. “I think it’s a tremendous idea,” he says. “Why lose it to some guy in the backseat of a Toyota when you can pay for your education?”
There won’t be any questions about Dylan’s virtue: The lass says she’s willing to submit to a polygraph test and a gynecological exam to confirm her virginity.
According to Dylan, she and her sister were forced into the skin trade partly because their stepfather allegedly took out student loans in their names without their permission, leaving them unable to finance their education.
She says she’s already earned her bachelor’s degree in women’s studies at Sacramento State and that in January she’ll start her master’s work in marriage and family therapy there. She hopes to get a doctorate.
Meanwhile, her mother, a “conservative” fourth-grade teacher, doesn’t approve of what she’s doing, “but she supports me.”
More worrisome is the potential media storm. “I understand some people may condemn me,” Dylan says. “But I think this is empowering. I’m using what I have to better myself.”
Dylan told us she got the auction idea after reading about a Peruvian woman who needed to pay for her mother’s medical bills. A Canadian man made a whopping $1.5 million bid, but the woman reportedly decided not to go through with the sex.
Dylan says the winner won’t necessarily be the highest bidder. “I want someone with chemistry. We’ll take bids until I find a suitor I’m happy with.”
Howard Stern is revisiting “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.”
The shockjock is producing, along with Larry Levinson, a remake of the 1979 film. Alex Winter, best known for playing alongside Keanu Reeves in “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” has been hired to script it.
Pic was about a group of rebellious students who, with the help of punk rock band the Ramones, thwarted a repressive, rock-music-hating principal.
Stern, while busy hosting and programming two daily channels on Sirius Satellite Radio, is now partnered on two films with Levinson. They also are working on a remake of the raunchy Bob Clark-directed 1982 comedy “Porky’s” that could start production in the fall.
Stern got involved because he was a fan of both pics.
While Winter still acts, he spends most of his time as a writer and director. He has directed numerous musicvideos and commercials, created segments for Jimmy Kimmel’s latenight show and helmed “Ben 10: Race Against Time” for the Cartoon Network. Winter also scripted a feature about Napster and its creator, Shawn Fanning, for MTV Films.
“I’ve now done so much stuff in musicvideos, and the Napster movie, that the chance to bridge music and comedy was something that intrigued me,” Winter said. “This movie seemed so ripe for a remake.”
Development is being funded by Levinson’s Stonewerks Motion Picture Group, whose Dan Gross will also be involved as a producer.
