The continuing saga that is the life and premature death of Anna Nicole Smith starts a new and decisive chapter today as a Los Angeles court will host the preliminary hearing for three defendants accused of supplying the late model with illicit drugs. In March, LA authorities charged two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich, plus Anna’s boyfriend and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, with ‘conspiring to provide controlled substances.’ All three pleaded not guilty Search warrants served on the Doctors have proven that at the time of her death on February 8, 2007, Anna had prescriptions for no less than 44 medications, under nine different names – all of them fake. An autopsy revealed she had nine different drugs in her bloodstream that night, and her death was even recorded as being the result of ‘acute combined drug intoxication.’
