Jury convicts Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, psychiatrist

A jury convicted Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and boyfriend Howard K. Stern of conspiracy counts Thursday, but acquitted the doctor who prescribed drugs for the former Playboy model of all charges.

Prosecutors contended during the nine-week trial that the defendants were dazzled by Smith's glamour and filled her demands for prescription drugs to protect their insider status in her personal life and her celebrity world.

The jury deliberated about 58 hours after being asked to decide if the three defendants were trying to relieve Smith's emotional and physical pain or were feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.

The only conviction against Stern was for giving false names and acting by fraud to obtain prescriptions. Eroshevich was also convicted of unlawfully prescribing Vicodin by fraud. The jury acquitted defendant Dr. Sandeep Kapoor of all charges.

The jury found the prosecution did not present enough evidence to convict Kapoor of six charges that he provided excessive prescription drugs to Smith.

The defendants were charged with conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict, and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names.

The defendants were not charged in Smith's 2007 accidental overdose death in Florida.

Stern, 41, had been Smith's lawyer, manager, lover and friend since they met in 2001. Testimony showed they were inseparable, even when she was involved with other men.

Each defendant faced a possible maximum sentence of 4 years in prison if convicted of all the charges. They also could lose their professional licenses.