Two Doctors, Lawyer Ordered to Stand
Trial in Anna Nicole Smith Drug Case

October 30, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith’s longtime companion and two doctors were ordered today to stand trial on charges they conspired to furnish drugs to a known addict.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry ruled there was enough
evidence to require Smith’s companion, Howard K. Stern, and doctors Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor to stand trial. All three defendants return to court on Dec. 11 in Department 102 for arraignment.

Stern, a 40-year-old lawyer, is charged with 11 felony counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict, and obtaining a prescription for opiates by deceit, fraud or misrepresentation.

Eroshevich, 61, and Kapoor, 41, each face six felony counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance, and prescribing and administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict.

The 39-year-old Smith died Feb. 8, 2007, in Florida of a prescription drug overdose.

The case is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorneys Renee Rose and Sean Carney with the Major Narcotics Division. The case was filed in March following an investigation by the offices of the California State Attorney General and Los Angeles County District Attorney, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the California Medical Board and the California Department of Insurance.

If convicted of all charges, each faces more than five years in state prison.

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