Trial ordered in Anna Nicole Smith drug case

A judge today ordered Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend and two doctors to stand trial on charges of illegally supplying prescription drugs to the former Playboy model.

The ruling in Los Angeles follows a three-week preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence to try Howard Stern, Dr Sandeep Kapoor and Dr Khristine Eroshevich. All three pleaded not guilty.

The hearing delved deeply into Smith’s troubled life and the role the defendants allegedly had in feeding her drug addiction before she died of an accidental overdose in 2007.

Prosecutors tried to show the doctors blurred the line between being physicians and friends to the celebrity model.