Anna Nicole Smith’s Psychiatrist Surrenders To Police
Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist surrenders to police after being charged with falsifying prescriptions and funneling piles of pills to her celeb client.
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, who was Smith’s next-door neighbor, faces six felony counts. Bail was set at $20,000.
Prosecutors say Eroshevich, Smith’s boyfriend Howard K. Stern, 40, and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, 40, gave Smith thousands of pills in the years before her overdose death at a Florida hotel in February 2007.
Eroshevich prescribed “excessive amounts of controlled substances” – including chloral hydrate and Klonopin – to Smith.
Eroshevich also wrote several fraudulent prescriptions after Smith had a nervous breakdown after her 20-year-old son Daniel died of an overdose in September 2006. At the time, another doctor warned that Smith should be on a heart monitor and in rehab.
“Anna was the center of a cruel tabloid feeding frenzy,” lawyer Adam Braun said. “In the face of this, Dr. Eroshevich did her best to help the patient while protecting what little privacy Anna had left.”
