A Los Angeles jury convictedAnna Nicole Smith‘s lawyer boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and her psychiatrist but acquitted her doctor in a prescription drug conspiracy case.
The split verdict came Thursday afternoon, after 58 hours of deliberations over 13 days.
Lawyer Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and shrink Khristine Eroshevich were charged with providing excessive prescriptions to the pill-popping Playmate.
Stern – who was Smith’s lawyer, manager and lover and falsely claimed to be the father of her baby – was convicted of giving false names to obtain prescriptions but cleared of seven other charges.
He tried to look on the bright side.
“Everything relating to the appropriateness of the medication I was acquitted of,” he said.
None of the three were charged with the reality TV star’s 2007 death from an accidental overdose of at least nine medications in a Florida hotel.
Howard K. Stern is turning himself in tonight — he’s being arrested for allegedly illegally obtaining prescription drugs for Anna Nicole Smith.
California drug officials recently raided the Los Angeles office of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, looking for evidence against Stern.
Stern has denied doing anything illegal in connection with drugs and Anna Nicole.
Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich are being charged with a total of eight felonies.
According to the L.A. County D.A., the conspiracy counts allege the three defendants conspired to furnish controlled substances to Smith from between July 2004 and January 2007.
Stern and Kapoor were charged with one count of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance.
Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance between June 2004 and January 2007.
Kapoor and Eroshevich were each charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” They were both also charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address.
Kapoor and Stern were also charged with one count of “prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict.” Eroshevich was charged with the same crime for separate prescriptions.
Too much, too little, too late…. no?
Update: Here’s Howard’s mugshot — attractive. He looks like he was on a few drugs himself.
