3/12/2009

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Charges have been made against three people as being allegedly responsible for Anna Nicole Smith's death: her boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors.

Shaina Wizov

*Playboy* playmate and TrimSpa spokesperson Anna Nicole Smith passed away in 2007 due to a prescription drug overdose. Until recently, no one knew who gave Smith the drugs; however, today that changed. Howard Stern and two psychiatrists, Drs. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich have been charged with conspiring to give drugs to Smith, according to MSNBC.  
  
A long list of charges were made against the doctors and Stern, including prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining a prescription for opiates by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation and by giving a false name or address, MSNBC reports.  
  
Had the doctors followed the correct regulations, Smith's excessive prescription drug use would have been evident to the media. *People Magazine* reports that Eroshevich, who was Smith's personal psychiatrist, used fake names on Smith's prescriptions to keep the media away.  
  
The three alleged conspirators are due in court on May 13.