Hearing in Anna Nicole Smith case under way

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The final days of the life of Anna Nicole Smith have been described in a Los Angeles courtroom as being marked by illness and confusion.

The testimony Tuesday has come in a preliminary hearing of charges against Smith's former lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two doctors who are accused of conspiring to supply controlled substances to the celebrity model.

California Department of Justice investigator Danny Santiago says Stern had to physically support Smith as they entered the Florida hotel where she suffered her fatal drug overdose in 2007.

Santiago says Stern was giving Smith the children's electrolyte formula Pedialyte in a baby bottle and at one point she was so confused she began asking where her baby was.

The baby, Dannielynn, had remained in the Bahamas during the trip to Florida.