Two guilty of plot over Anna Nicole Smith

But Sandeep Kapoor, the doctor who prescribed drugs for her, was cleared of all charges.

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 three had been charged with conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names.

The Los Angeles jury was asked to decide if they were trying to relieve Smith’s emotional and physical pain or feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.

They were not charged directly in connection with Smith’s 2007 accidental overdose death in Florida.

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

Prosecutors had said 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.

Stern, 41, had been Smith’s lawyer, manager, lover and friend. They were inseparable, even when she was involved with other men.

In 2006 Smith donned a wedding gown and she and Stern had a commitment ceremony on a catamaran off the Bahamas. They exchanged rings and vows but were never legally married.

At the heart of the drug case was the question of whether Smith became dependent on opiates and sedatives after being diagnosed and treated for chronic pain syndrome and illnesses including seizures, migraines and spinal pain.

Judge Robert Perry told the jury a doctor who had a good-faith belief that a patient was in pain was not guilty of a crime for prescribing controlled substances to relieve suffering.