LOS ANGELES (AP) — A defense attorney for Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend says his client relied on Smith’s doctors to prescribe drugs for the former Playboy model.
The comments from Howard K. Stern’s attorney came during opening statements of the drug conspiracy trial involving Stern and Smith’s two doctors in Los Angeles.
Attorney Steven Sadow stressed to jurors that Stern was unaware it was improper to use pseudonyms on Smith’s prescriptions. He also said Smith was dependent on drugs for pain but was not an addict.
Earlier in the day, a prosecutor alleged Stern and the co-defendants provided massive amounts of drugs to Smith despite being warned she was an addict.
All three have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy. They are not charged with her drug overdose death in 2007.
