

Sandeep Kapoor for conspiring to provide Anna Nicole excessive amounts of opiates and sedatives (Stern and Eroshevich were initially convicted, but the charges were later overturned), more details later came out about the blonde’s final days. Many of the labels had pseudonyms for Smith, including Michelle Chase, Susie Wong, and Jean Smith.īecause charges were later brought against Stern, Eroshevich, and Dr. The bottles contained painkillers, opiates, and sleeping medications. The recommended dose of the drug was one to two teaspoons Anna Nicole drank it from a baby bottle.Ī month after she died, Eroshevich turned over to authorities 44 different prescription drugs from Smith’s home in the Bahamas. One of them was the seldom-prescribed sedative chloral hydrate, which was also a contributing factor in the 1962 overdose death of Anna Nicole’s idol, Marilyn Monroe. Her official cause of death was accidental overdose - on at least nine prescription drugs. The Associated Press reported that the one-time model died after “a miserable last few days in which she endured stomach flu, a 105-degree fever, pungent sweating and an infection on her buttocks from repeated injections … The hotel suite littered with pill bottles, soda cans, SlimFast, nicotine gum and an open box of Tamiflu tablets.” In March, the autopsy results were made public. Of course, it took time for the truth to come about what was going on in that suite. Smith, Ronald Rale, said she had complained of flulike symptoms earlier in the week and was “run down” from her recent troubles, including the death of her 20-year-old son and a paternity suit over her infant daughter. Smith was not breathing when he and other rescue workers arrived in her suite, and that they had tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to restore her heartbeat… A lawyer for Ms. The office of the Broward County Medical Examiner was to perform an autopsy on Friday morning.Ī paramedic with the Hollywood Fire Rescue Department told WTVJ-TV that Ms. Smith’s bodyguard arrived a few minutes later and tried to revive her with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as did paramedics, who arrived after 2 p.m., they said, but she was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 2:49 p.m. Smith alone and unconscious in her sixth-floor suite, the police said.

Smith called the hotel operator at 1:38 p.m.
