Virgie Arthur Peddling Graveside Pictures

Anna Nicole Smith's mother Virgie Arthur is attempting to sell pictures of herself grieving at the side of dead grandson Daniel's grave. Here's the truly inspired part though: the pictures haven't even been taken yet.

"She'll go to the Bahamas if you want," says an email the photo agency repping Virgie sent to Entertainment Tonight. "She would like to visit the grave, and it would make pretty emotive pics of her doing so."

Was Virgie planning on taking these pics with the giant piece of chocolate cake still clutched in her hand, or was she going to set it down first?

And we wonder how people like Anna Nicole grow up to be the fucked-up people they are. If half your genes are from a person like Virgie Arthur, you pretty much have no chance.

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Daniel Smith Was Probably Murdered

A medical examiner has told an inquest that Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel had to have died from an "intentional" overdose of methadone - but downplayed suicide as a possible explanation.

The quantity of methadone found in Smith's body indicated the ingestion of a large dose in a short time - something Dr. Lee Hern said, during testimony, was not consistent with the usual behavior of abusers.

"It's not common for people in recreational use to take large quantities all at once," Hern said. "In my study of drug abuse patients people don't take such a quantity of pills to get high. They take one or two and if the effects are not there they may take more."

Smith, according to Hern, showed no signs of methadone tolerance, meaning he was not a heavy user of the drug, and would therefore not have needed such a large dose to achieve the desired effect.

Hern all-but-discounted the possibility that Smith knowingly took the pills. To establish suicide, Hern said the case would need proof of "self destructive statements or suicidal thoughts heard by people that were close to [Smith]." There is no such evidence.

Hern then outlined how methadone could be dissolved in a liquid to mask its taste, meaning a person could take eight tablets - the number Smith is believed to have ingested - without even knowing it.

"So what we are left with is homicide," Hern flatly stated.

Howard K. Stern flushed methadone tablets down a toilet shortly after Smith's body was discovered.

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