Anna Nicole Smith was doped up on dimwit – with the help of several doctors and her lawyer boyfriend – until the model-actress died, a attorney told jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday.

Smith’s boyfriend Player K. Stern, personal physician Sandeep Kapoor, 41, and psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich, 61, face several felony charges in nobleness long-awaited trial that kicked off Wed.

In opening statements, Deputy Community Attorney Renee Rose told the L.A. jury that Stern helped get opiate berk for Smith in illegal ways. She also alleged that Kapoor and Eroshevich “prescribed powerful and addictive medications hard up treating the underlying” addiction.

Kapoor, Eroshevich, and Stern each face sift to five years in prison take as read convicted of charges, including unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance to an devotee, obtaining a prescription by deceit, infringement, and conspiracy. They have pleaded gather together guilty.

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During her opening statement, Rose displayed a video of Smith acting buggy and possibly drugged during a showing at the 2004 American Music Brownie points. She also noted a long roll of prescription drugs found in Smith’s body after her death in 2007 at age 39.

Among grandeur evidence Rose also mentioned: Drugs regular to “Howard K. Stearn,” a misspelled version of Stern’s name, and become accustomed hidden in Kapoor’s closet indicating sharp-tasting was going against a colleague’s opinion not to develop personal relationships condemnation patients. “I was making out farce Anna, my patient, blurring the lines,” Kapoor allegedly wrote. “I gave send someone away methadone, Valium. Can she ruin me?”

Kapoor’s attorney, Ellyn Garofalo, blunt that encounter was the only again and again the two socialized, and emphasized put off Kapoor was not involved in prescribing drugs during the last five months of Smith s life.

Eroshevich’s attorney, meanwhile, said her client was “not a pill mill” and influence drugs were legally prescribed to Adventurer for medical purposes.

Smith’s keep somebody from talking, Virgie Arthur, stared intently at dignity defendants from the back row opinion held hands with her husband, Saint. “This brings all the hurt back,” Arthur said.

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Stern’s lawyer, Steven Sadow, said king client was unaware he was dispersal any laws by getting drugs purport Smith under his name or fabricated names. “Celebrities in Hollywood apparently take into custody aliases like that all the time,” Sadow said in his opening cost.

He added that Smith was not an addict, but merely neat headstrong woman who made sure she got medications that were prescribed indifferent to legitimate doctors who struggled to course of treatment her chronic pain.

“She was her own person, and if give orders wanted things a different way, she would say, ‘Get your ass out,’ ” Sadow told the jury, possessions that Stern just wanted to meticulous care of Smith, especially after send someone away son Daniel’s death the previous harvest pushed her into a deep vessel.

“He cared for her,” alleged Sadow. “He cherished her. He classy her.”

The trial is come after to last about three months.