Amy Winehouse could be dead within three months after developing emphysema.

The “Rehab” singer – who was admitted to hospital after collapsing at her home last week – has been warned she must quit drugs or face using a wheelchair and oxygen supplies to help her breathe as the deadly lung condition worsens.

Amy’s father Mitch said: “To think this could be my beautiful 24-year-old daughter’s life is preposterous.”

“But if drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it.”

“The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her.”

“It’s in its early stage but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.”

Emphysema eats away at lungs leaving sufferers breathless and frail.

Despite doctors’ warnings Amy is still determined to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert in London’s Hyde Park on Friday (June 27, 2008) and the Glastonbury music festival on Saturday (June 28, 2008).

A special St John’s Ambulance crew will be on permanent standby for the star on Friday.

Concert organizers are also refusing her request for alcohol in her rider, and her backstage area will feature a private hospital suite.

Source: BANG Showbiz

Mariah Carey is planning a $4 million second wedding.The 38-year-old singer is planning to tie the knot again with new husband Nick Cannon and is determined to have an over the top celebration. The couple’s original nuptials were a relatively low key affair in Barbados earlier this month. A source said: “It’s going to be held in New York City in the next six weeks.

Picture a wedding on the scale of Liza Minnelli’s to David Gest and you’ll be on the right track.” “She wants over 2,000 guests. The budget will be well over $4 million and she’ll have at least 14 bridesmaids.” Mariah married Nick after dating him for just a month, after the pair met on the set of the video for Mariah’s latest single “Bye Bye.” Following the ceremony, the “Touch My Body” singer said she is already planning to have children with the 27-year-old rapper. She said: “It’s part of the whole purpose of getting married. I just want our children to have the best childhood and upbringing they possibly could.”

The “Feedback” singer was presented with the Vanguard Award at the 19th Annual GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Awards in Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater by openly homosexual US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.

Upon receiving her award, Janet said: “I love it. I never expected it in a million years so when I heard they wanted to honor me, I was really taken aback. It’s just for the work that I’ve done with AIDS and acknowledging the gay and lesbian community through my music and so on. I’m just very appreciative.”

Janet has always been vocal about gay rights, and even wrote her number one single “Together Again” as a tribute to a close friend who died from AIDS.

She added: “Even when I was younger, when I was growing up, my mother was very religious but there were a lot of kids who were dancers that she brought into the home and now that I think about it, they were gay.”

“They all called her ‘Mother’ and she treated every one of them like they were her children. And that’s where it kind of started, I suppose. I’ve been around the community all my life.”

Other recipients of accolades included TV shows “Ugly Betty” for Outstanding Comedy Series and “Brothers and Sisters” for Outstanding Drama Series.

Musician Rufus Wainwright was presented with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award by Sharon Stone, for being an openly homosexual professional who has helped promote equal rights for gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals.

Previous recipients of the Vanguard Award include Charlize Theron, Antonio Banderas, Liza Minnelli and Whoopi Goldberg.

19th Annual GLAAD Awards – full list of recipients:

Vanguard Award - Janet Jackson
Stephen F. Kolzak Award – Rufus Wainwright
Pioneer Award - Herb Ritts
Outstanding Drama Series – “Brothers and Sisters”
Outstanding Comedy Series – “Ugly Betty”
Outstanding Reality Programme – “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List”

Larry Birkhead has defended Anna Nicole Smith’s lover Howard Stern.

The photographer, who was locked in a paternity battle with lawyer Stern for custody of the late Playboy model’s daughter Dannielynn, has revealed Stern has been a great help to him since he was revealed to be the biological father.

Larry said in an interview with America’s OK! magazine: “It seems unlikely, but he’s been a great help. He’s been with Dannielynn the last several months.”

“He knows her likes and dislikes and things that could help me. He gives me credit when I’m doing good things and gives me tips on things I should do a little different.”

“People blame him a lot, but Anna had her own mind too. She had a choice and we were arguing and that’s what happens. I’m thankful that everyone can get along for Dannielynn. How could you not?”

Stern was named as seven-month-old Dannielynn’s father on her birth certificate, and tried to evade DNA tests for several months.

As well as the custody battle for Dannielynn, Birkhead, Anna Nicole’s mother Virgie Arthur and Stern also fought for custody of the actress’ body.

She has finally been laid to rest in the Bahamas. Arthur is now solely fighting Birkhead, 34, for custody of her granddaughter.

He said: “It’s puzzling for her to display affection to me and then for the attorneys to say she’s going for custody and Larry was just a sperm donor and a one-night stand.”

“Then they all come and shake my hand. You’ve gotta scratch your head and say, ‘What’s going on here?’”

“I’m willing to listen to see what people want, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to agree. I hope I don’t have to fight for the baby.”

The father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter will be revealed soon.

A DNA test to determine five-month-old Dannielynn’s father was ordered by the Bahamas Supreme Court yesterday (Mar 20, 2007).

Anna Nicole’s former lover photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims he is Dannielynn’s father, was overjoyed by the ruling.

Birkhead, who pumped his fists in the air and jumped up and down as he emerged from court, said: “I feel great. It was a great day in court for me. Bahamian people, thank you so much!”

Asked if he thought he would see Dannielynn soon, he smiled and winked.

Anna Nicole’s lover and lawyer Howard K. Stern – who is listed as Dannielynn’s father on her birth certificate – was left devastated by the judge’s decision. He said: “I’m doing the best I can.”

Stern, who is currently caring for Dannielynn, was ordered not to leave the Bahamas with her before the custody ruling.

Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of legendary Hollywood beauty Zsa Zsa Gabor, also claims he could be Dannielynn’s father.

Dannielynn has been at the center of a paternity battle since her mother collapsed in a Florida hotel room and died aged just 39 last month.

She could inherit millions from the estate of Anna Nicole’s late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall.

Anna Nicole had been fighting his family for his estimated $500 million fortune since he died in 1995.

A lawyer for one of three men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby girl, Dannielynn, asked a judge Tuesday to order late Playboy model’s partner, Howard K. Stern, to come to California and provide a DNA sample.

Attorney Debra Opri, who represents Smith’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, said after a closed hearing that she wants the DNA to determine if Stern is the baby’s father. His name is on the little girl’s birth certificate.

“Put up or shut up, that’s what we’re asking for,” Opri said outside court.

Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider refused to make Stern a part of the paternity court action but said he would review the matter in two weeks after he considers the law more closely, Opri said.

Stern was living with Smith at the time of her death. He and the baby, Dannielynn, currently reside in the Bahamas.

Opri said Birkhead needs a paternity ruling from California to present in the Bahamas to strengthen his case for claiming paternity of the child.

“Without it, we have a weak argument,” she said.

Ron Rale, a lawyer who had represented Smith, argued against the DNA request, saying Stern’s name is already on the birth certificate as the father.

“Howard Stern doesn’t have to go to Larry Birkhead for anything,” Rale said.

Schnider originally asserted jurisdiction in the paternity suit in California because Smith had connections in Los Angeles and Birkhead claimed the baby was conceived in California.

Smith, 39, died of unknown causes Feb. 8 after collapsing at a Florida hotel.

A court in the Bahamas is currently dealing with custody issues involving the child. A judge has barred Stern from taking the girl out of that country until a custody ruling is made.

Birkhead attended the hearing in Los Angeles and said he was confident he would be declared the father.

“I’ve been putting a nursery together so I’m smiling. I’m in a good mood,” Birkhead said outside court.

Meeting the child in the Bahamas, where Smith was buried, “was one of the greatest things in my life,” he said. “That was my delivery room just to get to meet her.”

Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be the father.

Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.

A private plane carrying Anna Nicole Smith’s body arrived Friday in the Bahamas, where the pinup model will be laid to rest after weeks of legal wrangling over the burial site.

Jim Joseffy, managing director of IBC Airways, which operated the flight, confirmed the plane landed around 8:05 a.m. EST.

The flight left Florida with her casket after authorities escorted a black hearse to Miami International Airport, as news helicopters tracked the procession from the medical examiner’s office in Fort Lauderdale.

But the funeral might not bring an end to the saga: her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, will likely try to get the body out of the Bahamas, said her lawyer, Tom Pirtle. He would not elaborate about possible legal action.

“We are not exactly sure what shape it is going to be,” Pirtle said Thursday in a telephone interview, just hours after saying Arthur had decided to drop her legal challenges in Florida courts.

The funeral is to take place later Friday at the Mount Horeb Baptist Church in Nassau, and she is to be buried at the Lakeview Memorial Gardens, said Richard Milstein, the court-appointed advocate for Smith’s 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn. A judge gave him control of the starlet’s remains.

Both services are closed to the public, Milstein said in a statement issued Thursday by a public relations firm. He didn’t return phone messages left at his office and on his cell phone seeking additional comment.

Smith’s Feb. 8 death in a hotel room at age 39 set off legal disputes in California, Florida and the Bahamas. Her boyfriend, mother and an ex-boyfriend have argued over who should get the body and who should take custody of Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars.

Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward medical examiner, said he will announce Smith’s cause of death next week.

“This was a complex case,” Perper said. “It was an unusual case from a medical point of view.”

Smith will be buried in a tiara and custom-made, beaded gown next to her 20-year-old son Daniel following an “over the top” memorial service, said a friend helping to organize the memorial.

The service, with about 300 guests, will feature large amounts of pink flowers, her favorite color, and music by a well-known singer whose name organizers were not ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif.

“It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off,” Simpson said Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. “Of course it will be over the top because it’s Anna Nicole.”

The burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said. Arthur, boyfriend Howard K. Stern and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will temporarily put aside their differences to attend the services.

Ron Rale, an attorney for Stern, would not disclose any funeral information.

“We want her to have a beautiful funeral, something she would have wanted,” Rale said by telephone from the Bahamas.

Arthur had wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas, and fought last week’s ruling from Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin that gave control of the body to Milstein.

But Stern insisted the former Playboy Playmate wanted to be buried next to Daniel, who died of apparent drug-related causes last year. Milstein agreed.

On Wednesday, a Florida appeals court upheld Seidlin’s ruling. Perper said after the appeals court ruling that he was not sure if Smith’s body would be suitable for a viewing. He had told Seidlin during the hearing that she was decomposing.

Perper said embalmers would have to take another look at the body. Stern, Arthur and others have already viewed the body at Perper’s office.

Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy Playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.

Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeals has denied the appeal of Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, to take custody of her estranged daughter’s remains.

According to E! Magazine, the decision clears the way for a Bahamian burial for Smith, scheduled to take place Friday at 10:30 a.m. In its written opinion, the panel declared that being buried next to her son Daniel in a Nassau cemetery was Smith’s “last ascertainable wish.”

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that Smith will be buried in a custom-made gown alongside her 20-year-old son, following an “over the top” memorial service with a tightly controlled guest list.

Roughly 300 guests will gather at an undisclosed church, filled with an assortment of pink flowers (Anna’s favorite color). A well-known performer is also set to perform, said Patrik Simpson, a friend helping to organize the service.

“It will be a very beautiful Anna Nicole send-off,” Simpson told the AP. “Of course it will be over the top because it’s Anna Nicole.”

Since Smith’s death at the age of 39 last month, a battle over her burial and custody of her daughter, Dannielynn, has been waged among her partner, Howard K. Stern, her mother, Virgie Arthur, and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead.

Dispute over the paternity and custody issues of Anna Nicole Smith’s 5-month-old-daughter, Dannielynn, shifted to the Bahamas Monday.

A hearing was scheduled before Supreme Court Justice Stephen Isaacs, who may consider whether to consolidate the paternity and custody-related matters regarding Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, the Bahamas Journal said.

Lawyers for Smith’s companion, Howard K. Stern, Smith’s ex-lover Larry Birkhead, and her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur all seek custody of the child, who was born in the Bahamas and currently lives there.

Stern and Birkhead both claim paternity, as do two other men.

Desmar Whitfield-Henfield, one of Arthur’s Bahamian lawyers, said Arthur wanted to “secure the safe custody and guardianship of Dannielynn. So ultimately she intends to be the sole guardian — she is not interested in joint custody.”

A Broward County, Fla., judge Thursday ruled that the Smith’s body would go to her daughter for purposes of burial. The daughter’s court-appointed guardian decided that Smith, who died Feb. 8, would be buried in the Bahamas beside her son, Daniel, who died in September. Arthur’s attorneys filed for a stay to block the burial in the Bahamas.

A new puzzling video has surfaced showing a completely out-of-it Anna Nicole Smith sporting full-on John Wayne Gacy makeup while talking to a doll in a baby carriage as if it were real.

The cameraman on this disturbing home movie – Howard K. Stern, who’s currently fighting for paternity rights over Smith’s 5-month-old daughter DannieLynn.

In the video, Smith’s lawyer/life partner can be heard asking three times, “Is this a mushroom trip?” while Smith responds “huh?” in her trademark little girl voice.

Later, the camera captures the following exchange:

Howard: “This footage is worth money.”
Anna Nicole: “Why? What footage?”
Howard: “This thing you’re looking into –”
Anna Nicole: “It’s a camera.”
Howard: “Exactly.”

Stern who was first married for 20 years, divorced in 2000. He met Ostrosky a year after the divorce and has been exclusive with her ever since. The two have been living together after she moved into Stern’s massive apartment in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

“Do you want your Valentine’s Day gift now?” Stern said this morning on his popular program on Sirius Satellite Radio, recalling how he proposed last night. MTV then gives the particulars of the Stern Valentine’s Day proposal. When the model told Stern she wanted her present early, he instructed her to strip down. Stern said she protested, insisting that she was too “fat” to disrobe. His first thought, he said, was “any girl who looks like that and thinks she’s fat — I’ve got a chance with her.”

When Ostrosky did go nude, Stern said he handed her a 5.2 carat diamond ring. “I love you. You’re everything to me,” Stern recalled saying. “This is so gay. … I’m asking you to spend the rest of your life with me.” Ostrosky said “Yes,” and Stern said the couple made love immediately after; Ostrosky claims she had her “hand up and was looking at my ring the whole time” the two were in bed.

Stern says all he wants is what’s best for Dannielynn – that, and the money he reportedly stands to get from ET. And the money Anna Nicole left behind. And, oh, yes, the heartache stuff.

Howard K. showed so much heartache on ET tonight it even hurt us. It’s one thing to watch a grown man cry out of real anguish; it’s yet another to see someone’s lawyer/lover weep for ratings. But maybe we’re being insensitive in his time of grief. If so, shoot us up with some methadone and we’ll take a long nap.

Howie also has it out for Anna Nicole’s mother, telling ET, “As long as I have a breath in my body, that woman will not see Dannielynn.” Except on television.