Anna Nicole Smith's Boyfriend Found Guilty in Drug Case
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Howard K. Stern is now a convicted felon.
On Thursday, an L.A. jury -- after 58 hours of deliberations -- finally reached its verdict in the drug conspiracy case related to the 2007 drug overdose death of Anna Nicole Smith.
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Smith's boyfriend Stern and her doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were all accused of illegally providing drugs to Smith -- excessively prescribing opiates and sedatives to an addict, and using fake names to obtain prescriptions; all three had pled not guilty.
While Kapoor was acquitted on all charges, both Stern and Eroshevich were found guilty on several counts. Attorney Stern was convicted on two of nine counts for giving false names and acting by fraud to obtain prescriptions. Eroshevich was convicted of unlawfully prescribing painkiller Vicodin by fraud.
Playboy model and E! reality star Smith died on February 8, 2007 at age 39.
The trio -- whose lawyers argued they were trying to relieve Smith's emotional and physical pain, not feeding her addiction -- was not charged in her death.
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6I feel sad about this because I think Howard really and truly loved her and grieves for her and is already a crushed and broken man because he loved her. I feel he will suffer her loss the rest of his life, regardless of whether he was convicted or not. Now, his freedom and livelihood have been taken away from him.
thank God. Kristy Estrada, let me tell you something. I live with an addict. I moved in with my cousin because she was killing herself. now, before she gets high, yes, she does know how many pills she's getting ready to take, but when she's high, she forgets she takes them, but what's more, she doesn't realize how MANY she has in her hand getting ready to take. that was when I first moved in with her 2 years ago. today, she's all but clean. you know why she's clean? because I had to ride her and continually encourage her not to do it. I had to say things that hurt her feelings in order to keep her alive and be real, not be complacent and say 'oh she knows what she's doing' or be a yes person to get what I want, because she did have that in her life before as well...people wanted her high in order to get all they could from her, which I dare say is exactly what howard stern was doing, stealing, and that other person, and probably others. i'm glad that what they did has finally caught up with them, and I hope they get it, because essentially, they helped murder her.
Oh give me a break. That woman knew what she was doing, noone forced the drugs down her throat. She brought it on herself. People are just looking for scapegoats, but I guess it's too much to lay the responsibility in the grave with the person that it belongs to!
I don't see how only these two were able to provide all the drugs to her...I hope the Kapoor's name will at least forever be tarnished by this. Unfortunately, there will always be people who will want to see him just for the tabloid aspect (like those who still see Dr. Conrad Murray for their care)...
And they will get a simple slap on the hand for killing a human being with drugs. Why, because people viewed Anna Nicole as a "w.h.o.r.e" and not a nice woman. That is why they are going to get away with it.
oh please!!!! she drugged up herself! get over it ppl!