LATEST! ANNA NICOLE SMITH TRIAL: EMPTY DRUG BOTTLES, CASH STUFFED DUFFEL BAG

UPDATED: Police detective testifies, describing death scene - sobbing boy friend, empty pill bottles and a duffel bag full of cash as the ANNA NICOLE SMITH enabler trial continues.

Detective Katherine Frank was sworn in today and described the scene in the Hollywood, Florida hotel room February 2007, where the troubled blonde's corpse was found.

Frank testified that Smith's lifeless body was found and removed on a stretcher, her boyfriend Howard K. Stern became hysterical, falling to his knees his body racked by sobs and convulsively crying.

Amidst the debris of empty prescription pill bottles there was a duffel bag stuffed to the brim with more than $8,000 in cash.

Maurice Brighthaupt, Smith's bodyguard, told detectives he was owed the money and demanded Smith and Stern hand it over but they refused,  Detective Frank told the packed courthouse.

UPDATED: 3:00 PM EDT

PREVIOUSLY: One of the last persons to see tragic beauty ANNA NICOLE SMITH alive - her bodyguard - will testify in the drug conspiracy trial of two doctors and Smith's lawyer-boyfriend.

Bodyguard Maurice Brighthaupt was listed as a prosecution witness slated to take the stand today.

He valiantly tried to revive the comatose Playboy centerfold and reality TV starlet who died from a drug overdose in 2007. Reportedly, his accounts of what happened that day varied.

The trial opened as prosecution and three defense attorneys made passionate opening statements to the jury whether the codefendants conspired to enable Smith with prescription drugs to feed her habit.

The accused, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Howard K. Stern have all plead not guilty to over prescribing drugs. 

They are not charged with causing the death of the blonde beauty who died from an accidental prescription drug overdose at age 39 in a Hollywood, Florida hotel in 2007.

First posted: 10 AM EDT