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Much like Ozzy, Smith's frailties are her most fascinating features. In the past two months, she's had nine root canals because stress causes her to grind her teeth. She often complains of insomnia, suffers from ulcers, and has a true fear of the press (reporters are asked to take notes because of her aversion to tape recorders). Heck, even her poodle, Sugarpie, is a Prozac popper.
But Smith, 34, loves being a celebrity -- which is why she welcomed a small army of E! videographers (some of whom helped shoot ''The Osbournes'') into her life. Joining her before the lens is her omnipresent (and curiously named) personal attorney, Howard K. Stern; her 23-year-old assistant Kim Walther; and her surprisingly well adjusted straight-A-student son, Daniel, 16 (from her teen marriage to Billy Smith, who worked with her at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken).
Since Smith's home life -- which is based in a five-bedroom bachelorette pad she reportedly leases for $1.3 million a year in an L.A. suburb -- isn't nearly as interesting as Casa Osbourne, the cameras mostly follow her at colorful events like the West Hollywood gay-pride parade and a birthday party for a transvestite named Jasmine. And let's not forget her trip to a tattoo parlor, where she has flowers etched into her right shin (next to existing tattoos of Jesus, a naked Indian, and a flaming Bible).
Meanwhile, an adoring crowd awaits Smith wherever she goes. ''They say, 'Girl, you get that money!''' says Smith. ''At the gay-pride parade, especially. One guy was like, 'Oh, I just want to touch a millionaire's hand.' I'm like, 'Okay.'''
One person who may not be okay with Smith and her latest endeavor is E. Pierce Marshall, her late husband's son, who's sparring with Smith in court. As soon as the Texas-based businessman learned of her show, his people fired off a letter to E! threatening a lawsuit if she lobs any negative sound bites his way.
''We're happy for her to do a show,'' says Marshall's rep David Margulies. ''Our hope is that she does what her husband wanted [for her], which was to have a successful career. But if she makes allegations that Pierce stopped J. Howard from giving her money, or Pierce cut her off, or Pierce used guards to prevent her from seeing her [dying] husband, that's slanderous because it isn't true.''
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