by Zack Mandell

Created on: November 02, 2010

More than three years after her untimely death, two people have been convicted of conspiring to provide the late Anna Nicole Smith with prescription drugs, The L.A. Times reported. Howard Stern and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich were each convicted on two counts of conspiring to obtain controlled substances by fraud and by providing false names. Eroshevich, a friend and psychiatrist to Smith, was also convicted of two additional counts involving obtaining medication by fraud.

After the ruling, lawyers for the defendants gave statements contesting the meaning of the verdicts. An attorney for Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, a third defendant who was acquitted on all counts, said the jury did not find that Anna Nicole Smith was an addict. Meanwhile District Attorney Steve Cooley stated that he was "pleased that the jury reached guilty verdicts."

Looking back on her life, what can be said about Anna Nicole Smith with certainty is that she was a memorable character.

As a curvaceous blonde, the strikingly beautiful Anna Nicole was a model and eventually became a Playboy playmate in the year 1993. From there she would go on to appear in numerous other magazines and on television. In 2002 she got her own reality series on the E! channel, "The Anna Nicole Show". Along with her striking good looks Anna Nicole was known for being badly-behaved. Bizarre antics and outrageous comments often accompanied Smith's public appearances, leading many spectators to believe that she was intoxicated. The circumstances of her passing in February of 2007 fueled this opinion, as Anna Nicole Smith's death was found to be the result of "combined drug intoxication".

As a young model, Smith gained notoriety in 1994 when she married 84-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall. The public was appalled that Anna Nicole, then 26 years old, was marrying a man 63 years her senior. Speculation was rampant that it was all because of his estate, which was worth an estimated $1.6 billion. In the face of critics, Anna claimed she loved J. Howard Marshall and asserted that age wasn't a factor. Following his death just thirteen months into their marriage, Anna Nicole claimed that J. Howard had promised her half of his estate if she married him. Upon this statement a long court battle would ensue with one of the late Howard Marshall's sons, who fought Smith tooth and nail in an effort to make sure she didn't get a fraction of what she believed she was due. After several different rulings, the final payout to Smith would

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