Howard K. stern was charged with obtaining drugs for late model and reality star, Anna Nicole Smith along with two doctors who wrote prescriptions for her. Anna Nicole Smith died of a prescription drug overdose in 2007.
Psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor are facing one count apiece of felony conspiracy to furnish drugs to Smith and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict along with Stern. Kapoor’s office was raided by Drug Enforcement Agency officials last month at the behest of the California Medical Board.
“These individuals repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose,” California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a statement. “There is ample evidence that Dr. Eroshevich and Dr. Kapoor violated their ethical obligations as physicians, while Mr. Stern funneled highly addictive drugs to Ms. Smith.”
Stern and Kapoor both sillingly surrendered to the police. Both were released after the posted bail of $20,000 each. Eroshevich is expected to turn herself in Monday, according to the spokesman for Jerry Brown.
Stern had released a statement last month claiming that he had never tried to procure drugs for Smith from Dr. Kapoor. “Dr. Kapoor never prescribed medications for Anna Nicole in my name and that is what the medical board will find out,” he said.
On the other hand, all 11 medications found in the Florida hotel room where Smith died were prescribed by Eroshevich, eight in Stern’s name, two to someone named Alex Katz and one to Eroshevich herself.
