Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith was provided with a pipeline of pills in the months before her death that amounted to a “conspiracy” to provide powerful prescription drugs to a “known addict,” officials said today.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said three people, including Smith’s lawyer Howard K. Stern and two doctors, used phony names and fraudulent prescriptions to provide Smith with a constant flow of pills.
“The abuse in this case is serious,” said Brown, whose office investigated for several months the medical records of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich.
The three are charged with multiple felony counts of violating California law.
Smith died of a drug overdose in 2007. At a news conference in Los Angeles, Brown called the case “damn serious” and said he hopes the courts will make an example of the defendants in an effort to demonstrate the dangerous and excessive use of otherwise legal prescription drugs.
“We’re talking thousands and thousands of pills,” Brown said.