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Judge: Anna Nicole Smith Associates Will Face Trial
Originally posted 10/30/2009 05:15PM
Three people who allegedly furnished drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before she died will stand trial for a long list of felonies, a judge ruled Friday after a 2 ½-week evidentiary hearing.
Prosecutors say Smith's lawyer and boyfriend Howard K. Stern, 40, her psychiatrist and neighbor, Khristine Eroshevich, 61, and her physician, Sandeep Kapoor, 41, fed a steady stream of deadly drugs to the famous model, who died two years ago at age 39.
"I do find the proof is sufficient to bind them over for trial," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry ruled as he brought the trio's preliminary hearing to a close Friday.
Stern is charged with 11 felony counts, including prescribing a controlled substance to an addict;
obtaining a prescription by deceit; fraud and conspiracy. Eroshevich and Kapoor each face six felony counts.
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Pharmacist Says He Refused to Fill Anna Nicole Prescription
Originally posted 10/23/2009 08:10AM
A California pharmacist testified Thursday that he refused to fill a prescription for Anna Nicole Smith written by Smith's psychiatrist in 2006 because the high doses of medication amounted to "pharmaceutical suicide."
Ira Freeman said he received a request for painkillers, muscle relaxants and sedatives on Sept. 15, 2006, four days after Smith's son died, the Los Angeles Times reports. He declined to fill the prescription.
"If she got ahold of these medications, it could have fatal consequences," he told a judge in Los Angeles.
Smith died five months later of an overdose.
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Psychiatrist Reveals Anna Nicole Ditched Rehab
Originally posted 10/20/2009 09:10AM
Pregnant with her daughter, Anna Nicole Smith tried to go "cold turkey" from her addiction to prescription pills in 2006, but later changed her mind and refused to kick her habit, a psychiatrist who treated her testified Monday.
Dr. Nathalie Maullin, who prescribed hospitalization for the ex-Playboy playmate, was speaking in court in the trial against Smith's lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors, who prosecutors say illegally supplied her with drugs.
"She said, 'I'll do anything for my baby,' " Maullin said of the beginning of Smith's week at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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INSIDE STORY: Anna Nicole Smith's Tragic Last Days
Originally posted 10/16/2009 02:30PM
As the new spokesmodel for Trimspa diet pills in 2003, Anna Nicole Smith was a bubbly picture of health. But just four years later, at 39 years old, the former blonde bombshell drifted out of consciousness in a Florida hotel room – too weak to walk, sit up or even drink from a glass, until her heart stopped.
What had happened?
Prosecutors blame a battery of 44 different medications provided by some of the people closest to her: the man who claimed to love her more than anyone in the world; a psychiatrist who claims she was trying to help the former Playmate endure the recent death of her son, Daniel; and Smith's own physician.
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Additional Charges for Howard K. Stern in Anna Nicole Smith's Death
Originally posted 09/23/2009 01:15PM
Howard K. Stern, the longtime companion of Anna Nicole Smith, was charged Wednesday with five more felonies stemming from the one-time Playboy Playmate's 2007 death.
The additional charges – which had already been filed against Smith's psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, and her internist, Dr.Sandeep Kapoor – are four counts of obtaining fraudulent prescriptions and one count of prescribing, administering or dispensing controlled substances to an addict.
Stern has pleaded not guilty to the latest charges.
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Howard K. Stern Pleads Not Guilty in Anna Nicole Smith Case
Originally posted 05/13/2009 01:20PM
Three of those in Anna Nicole Smith's most-trusted circle pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide the drugs that killed her in 2007.
Howard K. Stern, 40, the Playboy model's lawyer-boyfriend, her physician Sandeep Kapoor, 40, and Smith's neighbor and psychiatrist Kristine Eroshevich, 61, entered the pleas before Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau, who ordered the three back on June 8 to set a summer date for a preliminary hearing.
Attorneys estimate the preliminary hearing will last at least two weeks.
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Attorney: Howard K. Stern Innocent of 'Baseless' Allegations
Originally posted 04/07/2009 02:40PM
Two of the people accused of contributing to Anna Nicole Smith's drug death made their first court appearances Tuesday as their attorneys alleged the felonies were filed for political reasons.
Howard K. Stern, 40, boyfriend and lawyer of the Playboy model, and Kristine Eroshevich, 61, Smith's neighbor and psychiatrist, appeared before Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau, but said they were not ready to enter pleas. Lousteau ordered the pair back May 13 for arraignment.
Steve Sadow, one of three attorneys representing Stern, told reporters outside of court that state Attorney General Jerry Brown's allegations Stern was Smith's "principal enabler" in acquiring the toxic prescription drugs that led to her death two years ago are a "blatant attempt to advance his own political career."
"He is innocent of the baseless allegations made against him in the criminal complaint," Sadow said. "Both Anna and Howard believed in their doctors and relied in good faith on their medical judgment."
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Authorities Re-Opening Anna Nicole Smith Probe
Originally posted 03/26/2009 12:50PM
Anna Nicole Smith isn't done with us yet.
The reality star's Feb. 8, 2007, death is being reexamined by the Broward County State Attorney's Office in Florida, less than two weeks after Smith's boyfriend and two doctors were arrested for allegedly giving her thousands of prescriptions pills before she died in Hollywood, Fla., at age 39.
"We are now examining that evidence to see where it might lead in relation to Ms. Smith's death here in Broward County in 2007," a Broward County spokesman told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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Anna Nicole Smith's Psychiatrist Booked on Felony Charges
Originally posted 03/16/2009 04:55PM
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a psychiatrist to Anna Nicole Smith, was booked Monday on seven felony charges for allegedly conspiring with another doctor and Smith's boyfriend to prescribe excessive drugs under fake names.
Eroshevich, 61, who also was Smith's neighbor in Studio City, Calif., traveled extensively with Smith before her death in February 2007 of an accidental drug overdose.
Last week, the psychiatrist was charged along with Howard K. Stern, 40, and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, 40, with participating in a conspiracy to furnish the former Playmate with toxic drugs – including methadone, chloral hydrate and clonazepam – often by using fake names or by prescribing the drugs to Stern.
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Lawyer Says Howard K. Stern Hurt by Lies and Gossip
Originally posted 03/13/2009 08:30PM
The Florida attorney who represented Howard K. Stern two years ago in the tug-of-war over the remains of Anna Nicole Smith says he's a victim, not a felon.
"The television, tabloid and Internet trial of Mr. Stern in the court of public opinion has been based on sensational lies, speculation, rumor and gossip," Krista Barth claims in a statement to Entertainment Tonight. "Unfortunately, it appears that criminal charges have now been brought by the state of California based on this same type of misinformation."
California Attorney General Jerry Brown told a news conference Friday that Stern was the "enabler" in a conspiracy to feed Smith's drug addiction. Stern, 40, and two doctors were charged Thursday with felonies for allegedly furnishing illegally obtained prescription drugs to the Playboy model prior to her overdose death.
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