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 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead testified Thursday that he tried to curb the former centerfold's drug use as the judge questioned whether her longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, was "maybe an enabler."
Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin began the sixth day of a hearing to decide the fate of Smith's body with a long diatribe, saying she lacked a strong support system. The judge speculated that her relationships with estranged mother Virgie Arthur and Birkhead soured because of she overused of prescription drugs.
"We have Stern. Is he a bad guy or is he a fellow that has some form of a love for her? We don't know," Seidlin said. "Whatever relationship he had with her, he would be called maybe an enabler."
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