NAMES & FACES

Lawyer, MDs Charged in Anna Nicole Smith Case

Two years after Anna Nicole Smith's fatal drug overdose, new developments: Authorities in Los Angeles have charged Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two of her doctors with conspiracy to provide the former Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her death, the Associated Press reports.

Charges against Stern and physician Sandeep Kapoor -- who were released Thursday on $20,000 bond -- include conspiracy, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict. Investigators found 11 medications in Smith's hotel room at the time of her February 2007 death, some under aliases and others in Stern's name.

The second doctor, Khristine Eroshevich, is expected to surrender to authorities Monday. Her attorney acknowledged Eroshevich wrote some prescriptions using fake names for Smith, but said it was done for privacy reasons, not to commit fraud.

But prosecutors allege that all three "repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose." Stern faces six felony counts, and the doctors face seven each.

'Dog Whisperer' Has News to Shout About

"Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan is now an American citizen. The Mexican-born National Geographic Channel star took the oath of U.S. citizenship Thursday morning at a ceremony in Montebello, Calif., the AP reports.

Millan, who became a legal resident in 2000, passed his citizenship test earlier this year. In the book "Cesar's Way," he wrote about his childhood in Mexico and how he illegally crossed into the United States as a young man.

Millan's wife, Ilusion, and sons Andre, 14, and Calvin, 10 -- all U.S. citizens -- were at the ceremony to cheer him on.

Jacko's Shows Sell Out

That was fast! Nearly 1 million tickets for Michael Jackson's 50 just-announced concerts in London sold out within hours, organizers said yesterday.

After 360,000 advance tickets sold out earlier this week, roughly 500,000 tickets were made available Friday, organizers told the AP. Hundreds of people waited outside London's O2 arena hoping to get theirs.

Maybe the interest isn't surprising: Jackson, 50, hasn't undertaken a major tour since 1997, and his last album of new material was "Invincible," released in 2001. The London concert series -- titled "This Is It" -- will start in July and stretch into February. During a press conference earlier this month, Jackson said these will be his last shows in the British capital.

Of course, the so-called secondary market is in full swing. One reseller is asking $4,217 for two tickets to the tour's second show, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

End Notes

Dating: Actors Jennifer Love Hewitt, 30, and Jamie Kennedy, 38. The two share a bond that is "more than love," Kennedy said on Ryan Seacrest's radio show yesterday. Hewitt broke off her engagement to Scottish actor Ross McCall in December.

Expecting: Swiss tennis star Roger Federer's longtime girlfriend, former tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec, is pregnant with the couple's first child, Federer wrote on his blog Thursday. The couple met while playing for Switzerland at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Quoted: "We've had some guests who've broken some things, but not the kids. And they know who they are." -- First lady Michelle Obama, after ABC News's Robin Roberts asked if daughters Sasha and Malia had accidentally broken anything in the White House yet.

-- Marissa Newhall, from staff, wire and Web reports.