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Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged over her drug use at 18:58 on March 13, 2009, EDT.
By Thomas Watkins, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" with thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday. Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors after a two-year probe by the attorney general, state medical and insurance officials and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "What we have in this case is a conspiracy among three individuals," Brown told a news conference. "Howard K. Stern is the principal enabler, and Dr. Erosevich and Dr. Kapoor are prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names, all in violation of the law and all in furtherance of a conspiracy." In addition to conspiracy, the charges filed Thursday included unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each. Each count carries a potential sentence of three years, Brown said. Smith's life had become a tabloid fixture by the time the former Playboy Playmate died Feb. 8, 2007, in Florida. Embroiled in a battle to inherit millions of dollars from her late billionaire husband's estate, her own son had died shortly after she gave birth to a girl. Asked what may have been the motive for the alleged conspiracy, Brown suggested the potent allure of wealth and glamour. "There's a certain psychic gain here, part of the glitz and the celebrity and the power. There's a lot of money floating around," he said. "Is it self-indulgence? Is it some power trip? Is it just getting some contact high off of celebrity? That remains to be seen." Stern and Kapoor turned themselves in Thursday night and each posted US$20,000 bond. Eroshevich was expected to surrender Monday. Her lawyer, Adam Braun, acknowledged Eroshevich wrote some of the prescriptions using fictitious names for Smith, but asserted it was for privacy reasons and not intended to commit fraud. Braun said Eroshevich began treating Smith in September 2006 when she suffered a nervous breakdown stemming from the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, from an accidental drug overdose three days after his mother gave birth to a girl. Brown declined to comment when asked if there was a trail leading to Daniel Smith from doctors in California, nor did he comment on whether other individuals may face charges. "We have given you the evidence that we think is ready for the prosecution," he said. Eroshevich travelled several times over six months to the Bahamas, where Smith was living with Stern and wrote the prescriptions. The criminal complaint also alleges Kapoor gave her excessive amounts of sleep aids, opiates, muscle relaxants and methadone-like drugs used to treat addiction, knowing she was an addict. Kapoor saw Smith in the spring of 2006 when she was treated at a Los Angeles County hospital for opiate withdrawal and prenatal care for the pregnancy of her daughter Dannielynn, according to the complaint. Stern's lawyer, L. Lin Wood, said he anticipated releasing a statement about the case sometime Friday. Kapoor's lawyer did not return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment. Smith was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Fla.. The former Playboy centrefold and Guess jeans model died the same day at a hospital. Her death was ruled an accidental drug overdose. Aside from her time in the pages of Playboy, Smith gained notoriety for her marriage to J. Howard Marshall II, the Texas oil billionaire 63 years her senior, whom she met while dancing at a Houston club. The pair married in 1994; she was 26, he was 89, and Marshall died the following year. In 2002, Smith debuted her own reality TV show - the tagline for which was "she's so outrageous" - in which cameras followed her through her daily life, often showing her in incoherent states. The star struggled with her weight and in 2003 became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet pills. Brown, who is contemplating a run for governor next year, used his time at the podium to denounce abuse of prescription drugs. "Doctors do not have a licence to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals," he said. "These cocktails of methadone and antidepressants and sleeping pills and Xanax - you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes." Arraignments had been set for May 13, he said. Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Dannielynn, later gave up custody of the girl after DNA tests proved Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father. The little girl has been named the sole heir of her late mother's estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over Marshall's oil fortune. On Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy turned down a plea for help from Smith's estate in the legal battle over the Texas oil tycoon's fortune. Kennedy refused to lift a court order that prevents Smith's estate from collecting $88.5 million that once belonged to Marshall. The money has been tied up in the court fight between Smith and Marshall's youngest son, E. Pierce Marshall. Both Smith and the younger Marshall are now dead, but their estates have continued the battle. Stern had asked Kennedy to lift the order that was put in place by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Elaine Marshall, Pierce Marshall's widow, had argued that the order preventing Smith's estate from collecting the money should remain in place while the appeals court tries to sort out the tangle of competing claims. Pierce Marshall died in 2006. - Raquel Maria Dillon and Greg Risling in Los Angeles and Matt Sedensky in Miami contributed to this report. ©The Canadian Press, 2009 
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moderatorconspiracy to eliminate her to get to her money?   'why y'all trying to say goodbye? I didn't go anywhere, I'm right here, im all around you,always..'
in a line from my dream, I heard a voice and saw a silhouette in a chair.. | |
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God how I miss that hot, trippy, trainwreck... 
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I hope I am wrong, but I'd not be shocked if Howard K. Stern didn't survive this latest round. He's never impressed me as the strongest person in the world. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
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the guy is a shmuck!
im surprised nobody tried to step in & HELP anna nickole while she was alive...she was always so out of it.  | |
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sonic said: the guy is a shmuck!
im surprised nobody tried to step in & HELP anna nickole while she was alive...she was always so out of it. too much $$$ to be made off her antics...  A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon |
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It's about fucking time, she was obviously on some major shit for YEARS - what sane doc would prescribe all that???   I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it | |
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luv4u said: at 18:58 on March 13, 2009, EDT.
By Thomas Watkins, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal [b]enabler[/b] in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" with thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday. Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors after a two-year probe by the attorney general, state medical and insurance officials and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "What we have in this case is a conspiracy among three individuals," Brown told a news conference. "Howard K. Stern is the principal enabler, and Dr. Erosevich and Dr. Kapoor are prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names, all in violation of the law and all in furtherance of a conspiracy." In addition to conspiracy, the charges filed Thursday included unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each. Each count carries a potential sentence of three years, Brown said. Smith's life had become a tabloid fixture by the time the former Playboy Playmate died Feb. 8, 2007, in Florida. Embroiled in a battle to inherit millions of dollars from her late billionaire husband's estate, her own son had died shortly after she gave birth to a girl. Asked what may have been the motive for the alleged conspiracy, Brown suggested the potent allure of wealth and glamour. "There's a certain psychic gain here, part of the glitz and the celebrity and the power. There's a lot of money floating around," he said. "Is it self-indulgence? Is it some power trip? Is it just getting some contact high off of celebrity? That remains to be seen." Stern and Kapoor turned themselves in Thursday night and each posted US$20,000 bond. Eroshevich was expected to surrender Monday. Her lawyer, Adam Braun, acknowledged Eroshevich wrote some of the prescriptions using fictitious names for Smith, but asserted it was for privacy reasons and not intended to commit fraud. Braun said Eroshevich began treating Smith in September 2006 when she suffered a nervous breakdown stemming from the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, from an accidental drug overdose three days after his mother gave birth to a girl. Brown declined to comment when asked if there was a trail leading to Daniel Smith from doctors in California, nor did he comment on whether other individuals may face charges. "We have given you the evidence that we think is ready for the prosecution," he said. Eroshevich travelled several times over six months to the Bahamas, where Smith was living with Stern and wrote the prescriptions. The criminal complaint also alleges Kapoor gave her excessive amounts of sleep aids, opiates, muscle relaxants and methadone-like drugs used to treat addiction, knowing she was an addict. Kapoor saw Smith in the spring of 2006 when she was treated at a Los Angeles County hospital for opiate withdrawal and prenatal care for the pregnancy of her daughter Dannielynn, according to the complaint. Stern's lawyer, L. Lin Wood, said he anticipated releasing a statement about the case sometime Friday. Kapoor's lawyer did not return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment. Smith was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Fla.. The former Playboy centrefold and Guess jeans model died the same day at a hospital. Her death was ruled an accidental drug overdose. Aside from her time in the pages of Playboy, Smith gained notoriety for her marriage to J. Howard Marshall II, the Texas oil billionaire 63 years her senior, whom she met while dancing at a Houston club. The pair married in 1994; she was 26, he was 89, and Marshall died the following year. In 2002, Smith debuted her own reality TV show - the tagline for which was "she's so outrageous" - in which cameras followed her through her daily life, often showing her in incoherent states. The star struggled with her weight and in 2003 became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet pills. Brown, who is contemplating a run for governor next year, used his time at the podium to denounce abuse of prescription drugs. "Doctors do not have a licence to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals," he said. "These cocktails of methadone and antidepressants and sleeping pills and Xanax - you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes." Arraignments had been set for May 13, he said. Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Dannielynn, later gave up custody of the girl after DNA tests proved Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father. The little girl has been named the sole heir of her late mother's estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over Marshall's oil fortune. On Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy turned down a plea for help from Smith's estate in the legal battle over the Texas oil tycoon's fortune. Kennedy refused to lift a court order that prevents Smith's estate from collecting $88.5 million that once belonged to Marshall. The money has been tied up in the court fight between Smith and Marshall's youngest son, E. Pierce Marshall. Both Smith and the younger Marshall are now dead, but their estates have continued the battle. Stern had asked Kennedy to lift the order that was put in place by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Elaine Marshall, Pierce Marshall's widow, had argued that the order preventing Smith's estate from collecting the money should remain in place while the appeals court tries to sort out the tangle of competing claims. Pierce Marshall died in 2006. - Raquel Maria Dillon and Greg Risling in Los Angeles and Matt Sedensky in Miami contributed to this report. ©The Canadian Press, 2009 It's very interesting to me the terminology they're using to indite Stern... I wonder if, (should he be convicted), this case will become a hardcore legal precedent, and if it will cited over and over again. I don't know the hows and whys of what this dude did...but if he goes down, looks like we'll able to prosecute anyone who witnesses drug use/abuse and enabler is a term that's going to stick in the courts. In all sinceritry I don''t know if it's too early, too late, or even unwarranted, but when I see this case, it makes me think of all the people we've lost in prematurely in showbiz. I wonder if such a case (using enabling as an cause for inditement) would have gotten to people who surrounded stars like Garland, Monroe, Joplin, Hendrix, Sam Kennison, John Belushi, ect..... | |
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I knew it was him all along.Despite all of her infamy and fame, she was still a person. She was still somebody's baby and a family's missing link. Watching her show, I felt sorry for her. She seemed to be very sad for a long, long time. Instead of being blessed with honest people, she sadly died at the hands of not only an addiction but a team of people who really did her incredibly wrong in the end.
We're supposed to trust our doctors. Knowing how these sick, slick people worked with Howard further perpetuates the idea of the sinister doctor. I guess anyone will do anything for the right amount of money. Too bad no one was trying to help her fight the addiction. Karma will get them all. | |
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Poor girl. Too bad her family did not step in and stop this quack. | |
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Ottensen said: luv4u said: at 18:58 on March 13, 2009, EDT.
By Thomas Watkins, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal [b]enabler[/b] in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" with thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday. Howard K. Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors after a two-year probe by the attorney general, state medical and insurance officials and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "What we have in this case is a conspiracy among three individuals," Brown told a news conference. "Howard K. Stern is the principal enabler, and Dr. Erosevich and Dr. Kapoor are prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names, all in violation of the law and all in furtherance of a conspiracy." In addition to conspiracy, the charges filed Thursday included unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each. Each count carries a potential sentence of three years, Brown said. Smith's life had become a tabloid fixture by the time the former Playboy Playmate died Feb. 8, 2007, in Florida. Embroiled in a battle to inherit millions of dollars from her late billionaire husband's estate, her own son had died shortly after she gave birth to a girl. Asked what may have been the motive for the alleged conspiracy, Brown suggested the potent allure of wealth and glamour. "There's a certain psychic gain here, part of the glitz and the celebrity and the power. There's a lot of money floating around," he said. "Is it self-indulgence? Is it some power trip? Is it just getting some contact high off of celebrity? That remains to be seen." Stern and Kapoor turned themselves in Thursday night and each posted US$20,000 bond. Eroshevich was expected to surrender Monday. Her lawyer, Adam Braun, acknowledged Eroshevich wrote some of the prescriptions using fictitious names for Smith, but asserted it was for privacy reasons and not intended to commit fraud. Braun said Eroshevich began treating Smith in September 2006 when she suffered a nervous breakdown stemming from the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, from an accidental drug overdose three days after his mother gave birth to a girl. Brown declined to comment when asked if there was a trail leading to Daniel Smith from doctors in California, nor did he comment on whether other individuals may face charges. "We have given you the evidence that we think is ready for the prosecution," he said. Eroshevich travelled several times over six months to the Bahamas, where Smith was living with Stern and wrote the prescriptions. The criminal complaint also alleges Kapoor gave her excessive amounts of sleep aids, opiates, muscle relaxants and methadone-like drugs used to treat addiction, knowing she was an addict. Kapoor saw Smith in the spring of 2006 when she was treated at a Los Angeles County hospital for opiate withdrawal and prenatal care for the pregnancy of her daughter Dannielynn, according to the complaint. Stern's lawyer, L. Lin Wood, said he anticipated releasing a statement about the case sometime Friday. Kapoor's lawyer did not return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment. Smith was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Fla.. The former Playboy centrefold and Guess jeans model died the same day at a hospital. Her death was ruled an accidental drug overdose. Aside from her time in the pages of Playboy, Smith gained notoriety for her marriage to J. Howard Marshall II, the Texas oil billionaire 63 years her senior, whom she met while dancing at a Houston club. The pair married in 1994; she was 26, he was 89, and Marshall died the following year. In 2002, Smith debuted her own reality TV show - the tagline for which was "she's so outrageous" - in which cameras followed her through her daily life, often showing her in incoherent states. The star struggled with her weight and in 2003 became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet pills. Brown, who is contemplating a run for governor next year, used his time at the podium to denounce abuse of prescription drugs. "Doctors do not have a licence to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals," he said. "These cocktails of methadone and antidepressants and sleeping pills and Xanax - you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes." Arraignments had been set for May 13, he said. Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Dannielynn, later gave up custody of the girl after DNA tests proved Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father. The little girl has been named the sole heir of her late mother's estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over Marshall's oil fortune. On Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy turned down a plea for help from Smith's estate in the legal battle over the Texas oil tycoon's fortune. Kennedy refused to lift a court order that prevents Smith's estate from collecting $88.5 million that once belonged to Marshall. The money has been tied up in the court fight between Smith and Marshall's youngest son, E. Pierce Marshall. Both Smith and the younger Marshall are now dead, but their estates have continued the battle. Stern had asked Kennedy to lift the order that was put in place by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Elaine Marshall, Pierce Marshall's widow, had argued that the order preventing Smith's estate from collecting the money should remain in place while the appeals court tries to sort out the tangle of competing claims. Pierce Marshall died in 2006. - Raquel Maria Dillon and Greg Risling in Los Angeles and Matt Sedensky in Miami contributed to this report. ©The Canadian Press, 2009 It's very interesting to me the terminology they're using to indite Stern... I wonder if, (should he be convicted), this case will become a hardcore legal precedent, and if it will cited over and over again. I don't know the hows and whys of what this dude did...but if he goes down, looks like we'll able to prosecute anyone who witnesses drug use/abuse and enabler is a term that's going to stick in the courts. In all sinceritry I don''t know if it's too early, too late, or even unwarranted, but when I see this case, it makes me think of all the people we've lost in prematurely in showbiz. I wonder if such a case (using enabling as an cause for inditement) would have gotten to people who surrounded stars like Garland, Monroe, Joplin, Hendrix, Sam Kennison, John Belushi, ect.....  i was pondering on this as well-but i think one of the major differences in this case is because of the HUGE amount of moola that was hanging in the balance which is something the other folx u mentioned didnt have...i mean i know they were obviously wealthy but im speaking of the still pending multimillion dollar lawsuit regarding her ex-husbands estate
also factor in the fact that he (stern) claimed to be the childs father...for what other reason would he claim that fact? definitely sounds like he had a game plan in place due to the content i suggest you like this... | |
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shanti0608 said: Poor girl. Too bad her family did not step in and stop this quack.
I think Howard kept her away from her family. The only time he tried to convince her to see a family member was when her toothless cousin came around. He knew it would be great for her reality show. But her family kind of sound like trash so who knows if she would have been better off. I miss Anna Nicole. Shake it til ya make it  | |
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Anyone notice the strange resemblance to Quagmire? This sig is just a fig of your imago-neigh-shun | |
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I Hated That HOWARD GUY who THOUGHT HE WAS GOING to get her MILLIONS and I think he did PURPOSELY TRY to make her look bad. And he did NOTHING TO EVER REALLY HELP HER. I'm glad what is HAPPENING to HIM NOW and I Hate the fact he also has THE HOWARD STERN'S NAME ..THE KING OF ALL MEDIA whom I LOVE> | |
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I am not surprised as he's a sleazball and only out to get what he could and didn't have the balls to get his own. Prince's Sarah | |
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I can't believe it took them so long to figure this stuff out. Thank good he did not get that baby! | |
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to articulate my thoughts, it seems would be to interfere.  THE B EST BE YOURSELF AS LONG AS YOUR SELF ISNT A DYCK[/r]
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same thing with the steroid cases. 
we should find alternatives to coming up with ways to screw each other!!! THE B EST BE YOURSELF AS LONG AS YOUR SELF ISNT A DYCK[/r]
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