Miami – One doctor authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Anna Nicole Smith’s hotel room the day the former Playboy Playmate died of a drug overdose, according to documents released by the medical examiner’s office Wednesday.
More than 600 pills – including about 450 muscle relaxants – were missing from prescriptions that were no more than 5 weeks old, according to information obtained by The Associated Press through a public-records request.
It was unclear whether Smith took all of them.
Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a psychiatrist and friend of the starlet’s, authorized all the prescription medications in the Hollywood, Fla., hotel room where Smith was found unresponsive shortly before her death Feb. 8, the medical examiner’s office said. Eroshevich had traveled with Smith, 39, to Florida.
Calls to Eroshevich in Los Angeles were not immediately returned Wednesday. Candis Cohen, a spokeswoman for the California Medical Board, would not comment on any probe into Eroshevich; she said investigations of doctors are not public record.
Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County’s medical examiner, said two other doctors also prescribed Smith drugs, but those medications were not found in her hotel room.
The drugs found in Smith’s system were disclosed with her autopsy report last week, but the quantity of drugs she had was unclear until Wednesday’s release of additional records.
