May 13th, 2009
More than two years after Anna Nicole Smith passed away from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, her lawyer and former boyfriend Howard K. Stern is still wrapped up in a case involving her death.
Stern and two of Anna’s doctors, Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor pleaded not guilty today in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges that they illegally supplied her with prescription drugs for years before her passing, Reuters reports.
All three were charged in March with conspiracy and prescribing painkillers, sleeping pills, anxiety medicines and other drugs to Anna for three years, before she died in 2007, using aliases. The defendants all maintain the drugs were prescribed for legitimate medical reasons.
A preliminary hearing could happen in June that will decide whether there is enough evidence to merit a trial.
March 16th, 2009
One of the doctors who allegedly prescribed Anna Nicole Smith with meds is now behind bars, TMZ is reporting.
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a psychiatrist who is being accused of conspiring to pump Anna Nicole full of illegal prescription drugs, was booked at Van Nuys Jail in California at 11:11 a.m. PST.
Like Howard K. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor before her, her bail is set at $20,000. Both Stern and Kapoor bailed themselves out last week. They were charged with one count each of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance, and Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 2004 and January 2007.
The two docors were each charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by "fraud, deceit or misrepresentation," as well as one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address.
