Johnny Depp’s longterm girlfriend and mother of his two children, French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, has her first album out in seven years, called Divine Idylle. It features a lovely painting of Vanessa on the cover made with black lines and splotches of muted pink, light yellow and orange.

It turns out that album portrait of Vanessa was painted by Johnny himself. It’s a very good likeness and I never knew he was also a talented artist:

Johnny Depp… has added artist to his resume. He painted a portrait of the mother of his two children, French pop star Vanessa Paradis, for her upcoming album, Divine Idylle! His beautiful rose- and gold-toned album cover isn’t the only family member’s contribution to Vanessa’s first pop record in seven years! Their 5-year-old son, Jack, sings a few lines in “Jackadi,” the last song on the album.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 8, 2007]

I’ve never heard that Johnny Depp dabbled in art in his free time, and I couldn’t find anything about his hobby online or in his Wikipedia entry. He seems to be a multi-talented guy who doesn’t talk about his skills.

While Depp helped his wife out in her professional life by painting for her album, she is said to have given him singing lessons so he can do his own vocals in the upcoming Sweeney Todd musical. It is due for release on December 21, 2007.

Depp is going to star in the film Shantaram, which begins filming in January. It’s based on the true life story of a convict who escaped from an Australian prison to live in Mumbai.

According to IMDB, he also has three other films in the works, The Rum Diary and Sin City 2 and 3.

Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are shown at a Mont Blanc event in Geneva, Switzerland in April of 2006.

Lindsay Lohan has been at rehab in Cirque Lodge in Utah for about two months, and she’s not getting out any time in the foreseeable future. There was news that she might get released last weekend, but that didn’t happen, and last week’s tabloids had her in for 2-3 more months.

Lohan might be staying in rehab and sitting on her ass in meetings, but whether rehab is really sinking in for her remains to be seen. There’s a story in Star Magazine that not only did she test positive for cocaine recently, she’s combining prescription drugs to get high and has arranged for people to sneak vodka to her in water bottles while she’s attending AA meetings in the community. Oh and she predictably has a new boyfriend too.

Just like the scary tale of how Lohan hijacked a car and took two guys on a multi-car chase, telling them “I’m a celebrity, I can do whatever I want,” she is said to have told fellow patients in rehab that she’s above the requirements there, too:

Now, Star can exclusively reveal that the troubled actress has good reason for seeking extra help: An insider says she tested positive for cocaine! “She admitted that it wasn’t the first time she had done it while at Cirque,” an insider reveals. “No one can figure out who’s slipping it to her.”

Another source… claims Lindsay “gets a buzz” by combining the diet pill Fastin with the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. “I’ll think she’ll take whatever pills they allow her,” says the source. “It’s obvious to me she’s high, because she acts loopy and can’t seem to walk in a straight line!”

“She had a friend of hers sneak vodka in an Aquafina bottle into one of the AA meetings she goes to,” the insider says… “She smells like booze, and the staff does nothing about it. When they’re not around, she tells people she’ll drink as much as she damn well pleases.”

“She’s been sneaking out to Cirque’s North Lodge to hook up with a cute guy!” says the insider. “She seems to really like him…”

The insider adds that Cirque staffers have already put the duo on a strict “no contact” policy that forbids even a simple hello between them!

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 8, 2007]

And the magazine quotes the insider as saying she asked Lohan if she intended to stay sober, and she just looked at her like she was crazy.

Lohan’s hard working spindoctor, Leslie Sloan Zelnick, says “this story is the result of haters and people not wanting Lindsay to succeed.”

Not that she didn’t say that it’s not true, just that people don’t want Lindsay to succeed. People seem to have good reason to hate on her.

Lohan is going to take a five day sabbatical from rehab to spend time with her dad in a remote lodge. He’ll probably try to proselytize to her and talk a bunch of meaningless platitudes about how she’s got to turn her life over, and when he’s done he’ll milk as much publicity out of it as he can, telling various media outlets that she’s doing so much better.

Lohan will not change until she gets an attitude readjustment, and that will take some major soul-searching or a life changing event. At least she’s stayed put in rehab for this long, but it’s doubtful that it’s doing much good for her when she so steadfastly refuses to change her behavior.

Lohan is shown smoking a cigarette outside an AA meeting on 9/30. Thanks to Splash News for this picture.

Lou Pearlman has been in a Florida jail since June after he was finally arrested for a ponzi scheme in which he took hundreds of millions of dollars from investors and just moved it around without investing it, taking at least $150 million for himself. He was on the run from the law for eight months on that charge, having been seen in June Indonesia by German tourists, who tipped off authorities.

He’s best known for starting the careers of several successful boy bands, including NSYNC, The Backstreet Boys, Take 5, and LFO. Pearlman screwed all the musical acts he represented out of significant shared of income, using legal tactics and methods to take 75% of revenue off the top, and insure he received an ongoing percentage of merchandise and tour revenue. Every musical act he’s worked with except one has sued him.

Pearlman also started a talent search agency that bilked people out of millions. It was the subject of multiple lawsuits and was eventually closed by the state of Florida.

Not only is Pearlman an accomplished con artist, he’s said to be a pedophile too. There’s an upcoming story in Vanity Fair, covered by Page Six today, that details alleged incidents of molestation of the young boys Pearlman worked with:

“I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Lou’s game was,” Steve Mooney, an aspiring singer who was Pearlman’s assistant, told VF’s Bryan Burrough. “Some guys joked about it. I remember [one singer] asking me, ‘Have you let Lou [fellate] you yet?’ ”

Mooney said he once asked Pearlman, who was known as “Big Poppa,” what it would take for him to get into a band. “I’ll never forget this as long as I live. He leaned back in his chair, in his white terry cloth robe and white underwear, and spread his legs,” Mooney told Burrough. “And then he said, and these were his exact words, ‘You’re a smart boy. Figure it out.’ ” Mooney added that a singer groped by Pearlman told him, “Look, if a guy wants to massage me, and I’m getting a million dollars for it, you just go along with it. It’s the price you got to pay.”

Phoenix Stone, an early member of the Backstreet Boys, tells Vanity Fair Pearlman was “definitely inappropriate” with Nick Carter. Nick’s mom, Jane Carter, wouldn’t get into specifics, but said, “Certain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothers . . . I tried to expose him for what he was years ago.”

Tim Christofore, a member of Take 5, recalls that during a sleepover at Pearlman’s house, the music czar swan-dived onto his and another boy’s bed and wrestled with them wearing only in a towel, which came off. “We were like, ‘Ooh, Lou, that’s gross.’ What did I know? I was 13,” Christofore told Vanity Fair.

Rich Cronin, lead singer of LFO, recalled Pearlman told him of an “ancient massage technique that if I massage you and we bond in a certain way, it will strengthen your aura.”

[From NYPost.com]

And as I was researching this story, I came across a statement by Justin Timberlake in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone. Timberlake got his start in the business in the band NSYNC, managed by Pearlman. He said “Looking back at those days… I was being monetarily raped by a Svengali.” [From Wikipedia]

This guy should go away for the rest of his life. It turns my stomach to think of someone taking advantage of young boys like that. The only way he could be a lower form of human is if he was a serial killer, but he’s not too far from that level.

Some plot details have already been revealed for the new Sex and The City movie, and I’ll rehash them here just for people like me who can’t resist spoilers, but will still see the films and TV shows if they’re worthwhile. This is also for people who don’t care because they aren’t going to see the film anyway.

We’ve heard so far that Charlotte has a baby, Miranda has another baby, and that Big and Carrie are doing well. Now Page Six is reporting that there’s a wedding in the works, and I bet it will be at the end of the film, although I’d like to see it happen sometime at the beginning so we can see that things don’t turn out so happily ever after. Despite his long-standing commitment problems, Big is going to marry Carrie. Do you think that will end well?

Mr. Big and Carrie definitely tie the knot - and it’s no small-time affair. Cast and crew are shooting today from early morning until 9 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the wedding takes place. Carrie and her gal pals will be wearing jewels borrowed from H. Stern. Sarah Jessica Parker even gets a congrats written into the script: “Mazel Tov! I read it in Page Six,” reports a woman who played a well-wisher during filming yesterday.

[From Page Six]

I have no urge to see this movie in the theater, although I might catch it when it comes on DVD. They should have been more careful to keep it under wraps because I’ve seen so many pictures and have heard so much about it that I really won’t care once it’s out. As it is, I’ve already reached Sex and the City saturation, am sick of these characters and think that the time to make this film was several years ago after the series wrapped.

Sarah Jessica Parker is shown in the header image with actor Willie Garson filming a scene for the new Sex and the City The Movie in NYC. According to photo agency Splash News “The two run into an old friend named Bitsy who was a socialite in the series.”

I really reported on this because I wanted to include an artist’s rendition of a potential Sex and The City plot: Mr. Big gets a sex change and has Miranda’s baby. Thanks to Scottish artist Derek for sending in the picture below, which he calls “Sex Change and the City.” He says that he won’t see the film unless they do something outrageous.

Comedian Chris Rock’s older brother, Charles Ledell Rock, was an alcoholic who lived in a homeless shelter and died penniless of pneumonia in February, 2006, The National Enquirer claims. A promising young man, Charles had an MBA and was the only one of the eight Rock children to hold a college degree. He ruined his marriage and career with heavy drinking and was rarely sober. He ended up so down on his luck that he was working as a maintenance man in a hospital and living in a homeless shelter when he fell ill. He was just 52 when he died alone in the hospital and it was nearly a month before one of his coworkers identified the body.

Chris tried to save him many times, and in 2005 he paid for him to go to rehab, but Charles dropped out and continued his downward spiral:

Chris’ large family - he has seven siblings - has long been tortured by Charles’ stormy life.

“Charles spent a lot of years in jail for robbery, breaking into cars and such,” said a family insider.

But Charles was highly educated. He is the only one of the Rock siblings to graduate from college. In fact, he held a master’s degree in business administration. Eleven years older than Chris, Charles was initially a role model for him and his siblings as they grew up in Brooklyn, NY…

But as Chris’ comedy career took off, drinking took over Charles’ life.

“His drinking ruined his married. He’d come to family functions drunk. He’d call up Chris and his other brothers dead drunk and ramble on. He had a lot of friends in Harlem, and that’s where he’d spend a lot of his time, drinking,” said the family insider.

Over the years, Chris kept in close touch with Charles, urging him to get sober, reminding him he had people who loved him dearly. But his words were ignored. Chris simply could not save Charles.

Charles’ business career went down the tubes. And for the last seven years of his life he was a maintenance worker at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

“Chris stepped in and tried to help Charles by paying for him to go to an alcohol rehab residence. That was in 2005. But Charles walked out of that residence and never came back,” said the insider.

Although he still went to work each day at Bellevue, Charles wound up living in a homeless shelter on Ward’s Island in New York’s East River, where nearly a thousand of the city’s down-and-out sleep.

On January 29, 2006, Charles became deathly ill and was taken from the shelter to a Harlem hospital. He had pneumonia. It worsened, and on Feb. 4, 2006, Charles died.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 8, 2007]

That’s incredibly sad and my heart goes out to his family and to Chris. I can’t imagine having a family member who you just can’t help like that. I read a very good memoir a few months ago by Jeanette Walls, the MSNBC The Scoop journalist who used to dish the gossip but recently retired to focus on writing books. It was called The Glass Castle and was about her difficult life growing up as one of four children with neglectful parents who ended up homeless on the streets of NY City. No matter how much she tried to help her parents, and she and her siblings were successful and able to provide for them at that point, they didn’t want to leave the streets. Sometimes people just can’t accept help or change, and it’s got to be heartbreaking for those who love them.

Contrary to the National Enquirer’s report, Wikipedia has Chris listed as having five younger siblings and does not list a Charles Ledell among them. There is a picture in The Enquirer of a young Chris with a man identified as Charles, so it’s possible the source for Wikipedia was incorrect.

The sitcom Everybody Hates Chris is loosely based on Chris Rock’s life growing up in Brooklyn and now on its third season on UPN. His young character has just two siblings on the series.

Photo of Charles Rock’s memorial service announcement, below, is a scan from The National Enquirer. Chris Rock is shown on 2/25/06 at the NAACP awards, thanks to PRPhotos. It was hard to find a picture of him where he wasn’t smiling.

Everyone thought that the blurry far away pictures of Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom in swimwear in Mexico meant that Aniston’s love life must be on the upswing. It turns out that while they may have been swimming in the same vicinty, they weren’t on a romantic vacation together. Aniston and Bloom were attending the wedding of someone who works in their management company. Natalie Portman, Laura Linney, and Kate Bosworth were also there so it wasn’t exactly a lovematch:

Sure, the blurry shots show little more than the single stars soaking up harmful UV rays in the same general patio area, but that was enough to touch off talk of an A-list hookup.

Alas, it looks like there’s no need to christen Jen, 38, and Orlando, 30, with an annoying nickname (Blaniston? Jorlando?) anytime soon.

“This is 100 percent not true,” Bloom’s spokeswoman pooh-poohs to MSN Entertainment of the love connection chatter.

According to the rep, the pretty pair was south of the border with their shared manager, Aleen Keshishian, to witness a vow-swap, a story confirmed by Aniston’s mouthpiece.

.”They were both in Mexico along with many others to attend a wedding of a friend who works at the management company where … [they] are represented,” he tells us.

The “many others” on hand for the destination nuptials reportedly included Natalie Portman, Laura Linney, Zoe Saldana and Orlando’s repeat ex, Kate Bosworth.

[Entertainment.MSN.com via ONTD]

Bloom was quietly dating his Pirate’s co-star, Naomie Harris, this summer and it’s possible they’re still together. Aniston was linked briefly with her He’s Just Not That Into You costar, Bradley Cooper, but Cooper is said to be Cameron Diaz’s latest conquest now.

Star reports that Cooper hurt Aniston’s feelings “when she found out he was hosting ’singles parties’ and not inviting her.” If that upset her, she’s got to be more than a little miffed to see that he’s carrying on a high profile romance with Diaz.

Still, a woman doesn’t need a guy to be happy or fulfilled, and it’s got to be thrilling to hang out on the beach with a shirtless Orlando Bloom even if that porn stache isn’t going anywhere near your body. You know I’m thinking about that. *sigh*

Here’s a better picture of a shirtless Bloom:

Bai Ling is one of those people that are only interesting because she’s so freaking delusional. She can’t act worth beans, prances around in the most moronic outfits in Hollywood, and thinks everyone knows and loves her, when it’s more like everyone knows her as that lady that doesn’t really make sense and always flashes her nipple. I don’t really want to encourage her manic delusions or anything, but this one is sort of funny: she thinks she and Angelina Jolie had crazy chemistry and should have gotten it on… and now that Brad’s in her life, Bai is fine with him jumping in on the good times too.

“Angelina Jolie is so hot that she even drives her female costars wild! Actress Bai Ling, who worked with Jolie on two projects — Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Jolie’s documentary A Place in Time says that the two shared a ‘special attraction’ during filming.

“‘I felt this energy between us, when we look at each other there’s an energy, an attraction,’ Ling told Us Weekly at our Hot Hollywood party on September 26. ‘Her eyes transfer a sexual energy to me that makes her irresistible.’ Ling said that Jolie, 32, made her a promise while on the set of Sky Captain. She recalled: ‘Angelina said, ‘Next time we’ll play lovers.’”

“So did the twosome get physical off-camera? ‘We could have hooked up, but it just wasn’t the right time or place. But she told me, “My heart’s open to you.” Ling continued: ‘She is like me. She is totally open sexually.’

“The China native said that the last time she saw Jolie was at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. She added: “I’ve always thought Brad [Pitt] was the sexiest man on the planet. So now that Brad and Angelina are together, now maybe I could experience both at the same time!’”

[From Us Weekly]

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Gross. Not two women together, or even a threesome, but just the thought of Bai Ling with absolutely anything other than a ravenous tiger makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. That woman is cra-to-the-z. I just made that up, and I’m going with it. Let’s hope it catches on. Seriously, there is this level of delusional that’s funny, there’s a level of delusional that needs medication, and then on top of both those levels, there’s Bai Ling. A bit of (unintentionally hilarious) history of Bai Ling’s delusions:

“Many of the events in Bai’s past have only been verified by Bai herself; her past in China is especially in doubt. No independent source besides Bai has verified her claims of her time spent in the Chinese army. The same is true of her time spent in New York as a visiting scholar, when her age would have made her a suspiciously young candidate for such an honor, especially given the paucity of her academic achievements. Finally, her participation in the Tiananmen Square protests would have been quite remarkable, given the fact that she attended the 1989 Moscow International Film Festival one month later as a member of an official Chinese movie group.

“Bai once claimed publicly that she was engaged to Nick Carter, but Carter immediately denied it and the two have never married. She has further claimed that she was “cut out” of Star Wars due to her appearance in Playboy magazine while also insinuating a large role for her character; George Lucas denied this, citing the facts that the edit had been done months before the Playboy appearance was known and stating that Bai’s role was only a few lines of unimportant dialogue. Additionally, Go Fug Yourself has documented Bai numerous times appearing publicly in revealing outfits that happen to “slip” and show her nipples in pictures, despite the fact that she was attending as a guest at events with no overt sexual content.”

[From Wikipedia]

Now I know Angelina Jolie has been pretty public in the past with the fact that she goes both ways – and she used to be pretty messed up, drugs and cutting and wearing vials of Billy Bob Thorton’s blood around her neck or some such thing. Though to be fair, most of us have at least half a beaker of Billy Bob Thorton’s blood somewhere in our homes, so that’s not all that bizarre, in and of itself. But given Bai’s longstanding history of lying about random shit (yeah I really believe you were at Tiananmen Square you crazy, self-serving wacko) I really doubt much of any of this is true. But I look forward to hearing about how she was actually Neil Armstrong.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s some assorted Bai Ling skankiness. I spared y’all the nipple shots. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Kanye West has actually been pretty good to bloggers. While a lot of stars go off on the press and especially bloggers, Kanye mentioned one of our favorite sites, bossip as the site he goes to for gossip… and now he’s started his own blog, Kanye Universecity. I wonder if he’s getting paid for it, since he lists some of his favorite stores and brands, like a post on the Goyard x Alexis Mabille collab. Yeah, I didn’t recognize one of those words either, but I’m not fancy like Kanye. He’s got some pictures of himself and his fiancé Alexis at various events, mixed in with some links for Nike shoes.

“Now that awards show crybaby Kanye West is giving MTV the silent treatment, he won’t shut up on his new blog.

“The hip hop artist swore off MTV after losing out yet again at the channel’s Music Video Awards, and since then, he’s been working overtime to post on his site. Yesterday alone, Kanye posted five times. He’s a regular Michael Crichton.

“What’s Kanye blogging about? Everything from his fave YouTube clips (he’s a big fan of Feist and Brit indie band Bat for Lashes), to his favorite sneakers. But Kanye’s favorite subject? Himself, of course. The blog is chock full of pics, videos and news clips confirming Kanye as ‘the king of rap.’”

[From TMZ]

It pretty much seems like a lot of self-promotion coupled with swag/bling promotion, but it’s not like you’re going there expecting hard-hitting interviews. Celebitchy noted the other day that Kanye has incredibly good taste in decor, and he seems to be sharing some of his taste on his blog. Along with clips of himself on “Saturday Night Live.” He seems to be pretty generous to the other blogs though, thanking them for mentioning him. And he’s not on there blogging away about all the famous industry people he’s pissed at. So all around props to Kanye, and we look forward to seeing how your blog grows.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Kanye at the Emmys. Header image at the in-store signing for his new CD, “Graduation” on September 13th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Here’s an article filled with lots of obvious statements: Ben Affleck now admits that dating J-Lo probably hurt his career. You know what else probably hurt his career? “Gigli.” Yeah, it’s been a while since you heard a “Gigli” joke, huh? I’m right on it. I’ve heard Ben Affleck referred to as the poor man’s Matt Damon, though I think Ben is a lot nicer to look at. But Matt Damon’s got the smarts, and a lot of people (including the writers at “Family Guy” – in whom I place a lot of trust) think that the bulk of “Good Will Hunting” is really attributable to Damon, not Affleck. But Affleck had a few years there when he got a lot more attention – though not necessarily for good things. The worst one, of course, being J-Lo. I kid, I love J-Lo with a ferocity I can’t explain. Really, I have no idea why, but I think she rocks the monkey. But there’s no denying that dating her really didn’t help Affleck’s career, and made him come across more as a playboy and a dilettante than a legitimate actor and writer. Ben gave an interview with this month’s “Details” where he talks about some of his mistakes. The best part of the interview? Affleck was late. Why? His German Shepard got into a container of Metamucil and got sick all over the house. I’ve been there, my friend. I’ve been there.

On dating Jennifer Lopez:
“It was probably bad for my career. What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. I ended up in an unfortunate crosshair position where I was in a relationship and [the media] mostly lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of selling magazines. And I paid a certain price for that. Then, in concert with some movies that didn’t work…”

On Gone Baby Gone:
“I feel like (Gone Baby Gone) is the linchpin for my life. My career. I have a lot riding on it. I want [the film] to work. Badly. I mean, a shitty movie comes out on 2,800 screens? I’ve been there and it’s embarrassing.”

On why he likes directing:
“That’s why there’s something really great about directing-about having authorship over something. If you don’t like this movie, I’m the guy to see. I’m the guy to criticize. I take some measure of comfort in that. It’s fair, at least.”

On his directorial debut:
“Listen, I’ve gone out and directed a movie and made it really f—king good. If the movie’s good, people will like it and go see it. All the rest of it is bullshit.”

On what’s at stake with his new film:
“It’s pretty simple. If people don’t go see it – I’m f—ked.”

On his decision to direct:
“I guess I just thought, I’ve seen it done enough. I’ve been on the sets enough. I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. I guess I just thought the sum of these parts would come together and I’d be able to do it.”

On living in L.A.:
“I’d be surprised if I’m still living here in a couple of years. Professionally it would be difficult. But that’s not as important as that other thing.”

[From Us Weekly]

Oh Ben. You’re sort of a hack, but I still love you. And I’ve been told by many of our readers that I have to love your wife or they’ll kick me, so I love her too. Whatever happened to all those rumors that he was going to run for the senate? Those were clearly post J-Lo rumors, during the current Jennifer Garner administration. I was wondering how those would gel with all those “I’ve spent too much time at the Playboy Mansion” rumors. I’m guessing that having dated J-Lo is about the same as having killed a hooker, in terms of political weight. Maybe he’s coming forward and admitting his mistakes so he can move on. And clean up that Metamucil.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Ben looking surprisingly thin at the Annual Deauville American Film Festival on September 9th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

First off, we’re publishing these photos with extreme trepidation. Hence the whole warning in the title. It’s pretty hard to keep photos of dead celebrities private for long anymore. Most of them eventually get leaked through the internet. Possible morgue shots of Anna Nicole Smith were leaked in March, but it seems that we might have a photo of Anna either right before or right after she died in her hotel room. It’s hard to know who would take a photo like this – could this be from someone in Anna’s inner circle, an EMS person, or cops? There was so much going on at the time, and it’s impossible to know.

I will note that I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies before (no I’m not gross, I have a criminology degree so it happens) and if this is real, it’s one of the cleanest shots I’ve ever seen. To me it’s really hard to tell if Anna Nicole has just died or is just about to die – or if this was possibly taken hours or even days before her death, as it was well-documented that Anna had been sick for several days. Considering the lack of support behind her head, I would expect that if she were actually dead, her neck would be leaning backwards, forwards, or flopped to the side - not held up like it is. Rigor mortis wouldn’t have time to set in the (reportedly) brief time Anna was alone before the paramedics were called. Even if it had, her neck muscles would have first relaxed from that position, resulting in her head leaning in some direction.

Here are the pictures – obviously use extreme caution. Thanks to Drunken Stepfather for the images.

Update by Celebitchy: Thanks to commentors who mentioned that she really doesn’t look dead here as JayBird observes too. Lisa notes that the headboard in this picture is the same that appears in the photos where she’s in bed with the Bahamian immigration minister, so that means she was in the Bahamas when this picture was taken. Since she died in Florida, these weren’t taken around the time of her death.

And IDLYITW has the supposed background story behind the photos:

These photos were allegedly taken by Howard K. Stern with Anna Nicole’s camera in the Bahamas less than a month before Anna died. It appears as though Anna was pretty damn drugged up when they were taken. Our source informs us that in a brief moment of clarity, Anna saw these pictures on her digital camera and was terrified not only at her state of intoxication when the photos were shot, but more concerned with why someone would take pictures of her in this state. Anna allegedly relied on “Big Moe,” who was her bodyguard as well as her close friend. Anna reportedly gave these photos to Big Moe as a “gift” and intended them to chronicle her last days, as she feared her impending death upon realizing her advanced, addicted, intoxicated downward spiral.

Our source would also like people to know that he sent these photos to bloggers because he felt this was the best way to help Anna Nicole “speak from the grave” and tell her story, specifically that she was taken advantage of and exploited by those closest to her prior to her death while in an obvious incoherent and vulnerable state, and he also hopes bigger, more reputable media outlets will investigate his story. The source didn’t ask for any monetary compensation and assures us these photos belong to Big Moe, Anna’s bodyguard and close friend.

[From IDLYITW]