Top Five Doctors Who Killed Celebrities

[caption id="attachment_101380" align="aligncenter" width="447" caption="Michael Jackson's doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with involuntary manslaughter today."][/caption] In a decision that has The Colonel rolling over in his grave, Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of the King of Pop. That's one. Let's look at the other doctors who will go down in infamy as celebrity killers.

"Dr. Nick" Killed Elvis Presley

In 1977, when King of Rock-N-Roll Elvis Presley died of an overdose of prescription drugs, his personal physician, George Constantine Nichopoulos, otherwise known as "Dr. Nick", had a lot of 'splaining to do. Especially when it was revealed that, in 1977 alone, Nichopoulos had prescribed over 10,000 doses of amphetamines, barbiturates, narcotics, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, laxatives, and hormones for Elvis. But, while the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners found Dr. Nick guilty of overprescription, they decided he had acted in the best interest of the patient when he testified that he had tried in vain to reduce Elvis' dependency on drugs, going so far as to have manufactured 1000 placebos. The board also found that Nick was not unethical and he was acquitted of all charges and given three months' suspension of his license and three years' probation. The character of "Dr. Nick" on The Simpsons is based on Nichopoulos.

Dr. Sandeep Kapoor & Dr. Khristine Eroshevich Killed Anna Nichole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007 of what toxicologists termed "combined drug intoxication". She was on at least nine medications when she was found, unresponsive, in a Florida hotel. An investigation by the California Medical Board later charged that Dr. Sandeep Kapoor & Dr. Khristin Eroshevich, along with her lawyer Howard K. Stern, had prescribed and funneled the star illegal drugs for years. Their trial is set for August 4. [caption id="attachment_101396" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Sandeep Kapoor & Khristine Eroshevich await trial for the death of Anna Nicole Smith."][/caption]

Whoever Gave Heath Ledger His Cocktail Of Death

While a DEA investigation found that Heath Ledger's two doctors, one in California and one in Texas, were not the source of the oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine he overdosed on, someone gave them to him.