Los Angeles police say Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist has surrendered to face charges of excessively prescribing drugs to the former model before her overdose death in 2007.
Los Angeles police say Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist has surrendered to face charges of excessively prescribing drugs to the former model before her overdose death in 2007. Police spokeswoman Rosario Herrera says Khristine Eroshevich turned herself in around 11 a.m. Monday. She was released several hours later after posting $20,000 bail, according to a statement from her attorney Adam Braun's office.
Eroshevich is charged with conspiring with another doctor and Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern.
Attorney General Jerry Brown alleges the doctors falsified prescriptions and prescribed unwarranted amounts of highly addictive medications to Smith. Eroshevich's attorney says she was only protecting Smith's privacy. Smith died Feb. 8, 2007, in Florida after collapsing at a hotel. At the time, she was embroiled in a battle to inherit millions of dollars from her late billionaire husband's estate; her 20-year-old son Daniel had died of an overdose in the Bahamas just five months earlier in Smith's hospital room a few days after Smith gave birth to a girl, Danielynn.