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Legal documents and salacious allegations criss-crossed last week as hearings proceeded in the death of model/actress/TV personality Anna Nicole Smith. Her lawyer/lover, Howard K. Stern has been charged along with two of her doctors with felony conspiracy to furnish drugs to Smith and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict (Smith.) Eleven prescriptions were found in her hotel room following her death in February 2007, all apparently signed by her psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.
Also found at that time were a number of photos showing Dr. Eroshevich sharing a bathtub and “various intimate embraces” with Smith. Clearly this was not a conventional doctor/patient relationship. Eroshevich claims she was a friend/neighbor of Smith’s before their friendship evolved into a medical relationship. No comment was forthcoming in regard to the lesbian photographs, which were found on a computer in Smith’s hotel room.
The other doctor charged, Sandeep Kapoor was also accused of having a physical relationship with his buxomy patient. This would be a true testament to the sex appeal of the woman who was the widow of 90-year-old John Howard Marshall III, as Dr. Kapoor claims to be gay.
These are in addition to earlier allegations that Stern was involved in a homosexual relationship with one of Smith’s other boyfriends, Larry Birkhead. DNA tests established that Birkhead fathered a child with Smith that had once been claimed by Stern as his daughter.
Stern and the doctors have all pleaded “not guilty” and face a hearing October 5.
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The sailor accused of murdering gay seaman August Provost has been found dead in his cell at Camp Pendleton in California. Petty Officer Jonathan Campos had been charged with murder in the June 30 shooting of Provost, who was killed while on sentry duty at the base. Provost’s body was set on fire at his guard post after he was killed.
Campos apparently committed suicide and authorities have reported his death was due to asphyxiation.
Military investigators have said Provost’s sexuality was not a factor in his slaying, but his family has been pressing for answers. Provost had been harassed by fellow sailors for being gay. Provost’s aunt Rose Roy believes Provost may have been killed to keep him from outing Campos. “This guy went the extra mile to make sure that my nephew would never be able to speak about his [the killer’s] sexuality. … My nephew died for reasons other than what the military is saying.”
Seaman August Provost
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This weeks marks the 12th anniversary of the murder of Mary Caitrin “Caity” Mahoney, an outspoken young lesbian activist who was killed along with two co-workers at a Starbucks coffee shop in Georgetown, D.C. Though the case is officially marked “closed” there are a number of troubling aspects surrounding their murders.
In addition to being one of the co-founders of Baltimore’s “Lesbian Avengers,” a political activist group, Mahoney worked on Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, and in the White House she was considered the “den mother” of female interns, including Monica Lewinsky. Mahoney’s murder on July 6, 1997 occurred just three days after Lewinsky informed Clinton that she was going to tell her parents about their affair, prompting him to remind her that “It’s a crime to threaten the President.” Conspiracy theorists list Mahoney as one of the victims on supposed Clinton “body counts.”
Authorities were under intense pressure to solve the murders, which occurred in an upper-class neighborhood, in a Starbucks frequented by political heavyweights. In an unusual move, the FBI was brought in to pursue the murders as a federal case. With Carl D. Cooper, the DC police believed they got their man, and after intense grilling he provided a detailed confession. He was later convicted of a string of crimes including the Starbucks murders, but testified that, after confessing to DC police, he told the FBI “I swear on my father’s grave and my son’s life that I didn’t do Starbucks.” According to Cooper’s lawyer, his client told police several different stories about the Starbucks murders; once blaming an acquaintance for the killings, another time claiming he was merely a lookout. But after 54 hours of questioning Cooper, who was facing other murder and attempted murder charges, buckled and confessed all.
Although Cooper implicated two other men, and two guns were involved in the murders, no one else was ever charged.
Although robbery was the supposed motive, nothing was taken from the store, even though Mahoney had the keys to the safe containing a large amount of cash.
Mahoney was slain execution-style. Of a total ten shots, she was shot five times in the head and face.
Mahoney’s activism included founding a women’s issues discussion group at Towson State University in 1993 and sitting as a board member of the 31st Street Bookstore in Baltimore, a Lesbian/feminist cooperative. In 1994, Mahoney and others raised more than $1,000 for Baltimore’s Pride festival. Before moving to D.C., Mahoney worked at City Cafe, a gay owned coffee house in Baltimore. She was the manager of the Starbucks on Wisonsin Avenue in Georgetown.
Whatever the circumstances surrounding her death, Mahoney should be remembered as a bright, energetic, outspoken person pursuing a political future, whose life was cut short.
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Two Spirits is making the festival circuit, with screenings at Frameline 33 in San Francisco on June 21, and at Outfest in Los Angeles on July 16. It’s the story of Fred Martinez, a 16-year-old Two Spirit who was brutally murdered in Cortez, Colorado in 2001. Martinez was a Native American who was biologically male but with a feminine spiritual essence. It’s believed that his gender identity as a nádleehí was a factor in his murder.
American Indian cultures recognize gender roles that do not have precise equivalents in western culture. Two Spirits are considered special people who are appreciated and given important roles in society as teachers, healers, and mediators. Matt Kailey, the Examiner’s “Denver Transgender Issues Examiner” has more extensive coverage here. 
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