A hairstylist and yoga instructor accused of stealing nearly $3million from a doctor while posing as his caregiver had him pumped with ketamine and transformed his mansion into a five-star narcotics spa before he died of an overdose.

Anthony Flores, 46, and his ex-girlfriend Anna Moore, 39, are said to have manipulated vulnerable David Sawusch to take over his life and finances.

The couple were indicted by a grand jury on December 15 on multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, according to court documents.

Now extraordinary testimonies from those who worked at the doctor’s Malibu beach house have revealed how Flores and Moore isolated Sawusch from his family in Florida while keeping him on a cocktail of drugs and embezzling his cash.

One of half a dozen therapists who was commanded to provide Sawusch, who was a successful investor with a $60million fortune, with up to six massages a day told The LA Times that the couple ‘just kept him drugged’.

Yoga instructor Anna Moore, 39, (left) and her hairstylist ex-boyfriend Anthony Flores, 46, are accused of stealing $3million from bipolar doctor David Sawusch, 57, (right)

As well as being an eye surgeon, Sawusch was a successful investor with a $60million fortune, but he handed over his power of attorney to Flores so he could bail him out of jail

Flores, a hairstylist from Fresno, California, and Moore, a yoga instructor who lives in Monterrey, Mexico, moved into the eye surgeon’s home just days after they met him at an ice cream shop off Venice Beach in June 2017.

Sawusch, 57, had operated his medical practice for more than 30 years but suffered from severe bipolar disorder and had been left unable to perform surgery after burning his hands the previous year, according to a civil lawsuit filed in LA by his mother.

He had been voluntarily hospitalized several times between 2015 and 2017, prosecutors said.

Shortly after the trio met, Sawusch experienced a severe mental breakdown and was arrested on multiple occasions on charges including public intoxication and vandalism.

At Twin Towers jail in downtown LA he was handcuffed and chained to a bench where he talked to himself, sang at and cursed jail guards and refused medication.

It was then that Flores suggested to Sawusch he grant him power of attorney so he could withdraw enough money from his accounts to post him bail.

Sawusch did so despite having kicked Flores and Moore out of his home in a fit of rage just three weeks after they moved in, describing them as ‘white collar tax fraud criminals who tried to steal my Tesla and home’.

But after Flores bailed him out of jail he invited them back into the beach house.

It was then that Flores hired a raft of massage therapists and more than 20 housekeepers, handymen and other staff to work at Sawusch’s 1,200-square-foot home, telling them he wanted it to be like a five-star spa.

By early 2018, the doctor was getting up to six massages a day lasting around two hours each, with talking discouraged.

Assistants worked in an office where they ran the medical, legal and financial affairs of Sawusch as well as Flores and Moore’s window-washing business in Fresno, the records show.

Extraordinary testimonies from those who worked at the doctor’s Malibu beach house have revealed how Flores and Moore isolated Sawusch from his family in Florida while keeping him on a cocktail of drugs and embezzling his cash

Flores and Moore have denied the charges and the former’s attorney, Ambrosio E. Rodriguez, has said it is untrue that Sawusch was ‘seduced and duped’ by the couple

During this time, Flores and Moore were allegedly transferring money from Sawusch’s accounts to their own personal accounts, prosecutors said.

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Some of it fuelled their taste for LA nightlife and they threw an Oscars viewing party at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills.

It also funded the couple’s ‘shopping sprees’, according to massage therapist Dora Peterson.

The couple prohibited his friends and county case workers from making visits and told his mother not to try to contact her son, authorities said.

They also allegedly took Sawusch to a doctor for weekly infusions of ketamine to treat depression and back pain – and provided him with marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms and LSD, prosecutors said.

Two weeks before Sawusch died, the couple invited a shaman, Alan, into his home for a Mother’s Day acid trip.

He supplied liquid LSD in a vial with a dropper for doses under the tongue, Flores testified.

It was while Sawusch was under the influence of LSD that Flores allegedly switched the two-step authentication on a brokerage firm account to his own number so he could access the $60million account, prosecutors said.

Sawusch evicted the couple from his home again after LSD caused his mental state to deteriorate further, prosecutors said.

When the LSD caused Sawusch’s mental state to deteriorate further, he evicted Moore and Flores from his home again.

But it appears they anticipated this and Flores and some assistants spent several days beforehand packing boxes, according to Jessica McDermoot, another massage therapist.

Flores also added cameras to the home surveillance system and used it to watch Sawusch’s final decline before his death.

He spent several days disoriented, ‘flipping out’ and in a ‘manic state’, according to staff who worked there and texts from Flores.

At one point, the cook on duty told Flores that Sawusch had left his bedroom long enough for him to clean it up. ‘Good job!’ Flores told him. ‘Watching this all happen is really interesting.’

Most of the footage of his final days have disappeared, but the three hours that survived show Sawusch dying on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in 2018.

It has not been publicly released, but Adam Streisand, a Los Angeles lawyer for the Sawusch family, called it ‘the most horrific thing that I’ve ever had to watch in my career’.

Flores and Moore allegedly turned Sawusch’s Malibu beach house into a five-star narcotics spa

The LA County coroner found it was an accidental death caused by ketamine and alcohol intoxication.

But a pathologist who did an autopsy found that ketamine and alcohol ‘did not significantly contribute to the immediate cause of death’ and that Sawusch died as a result of two heart conditions: dilated cardiomyopathy and a congenitally narrow coronary artery.

Flores and Moore moved back into Sawusch’s beach house after his death, according to court documents, and allegedly withdrew large amounts of money from his bank accounts.

In January, the FBI arrested Flores in Freson and Moore a few days later in Houston. They pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors argue the couple used ketamine, massages and marijuana to subdue and stop Sawusch from discovering they were stealing millions of dollars from him. 

But Flores’ attorney, Ambrosio E. Rodriguez, has said it is untrue that Sawusch was ‘seduced and duped’ by the couple.

He suggested prosecutors were overstating the mental incapacity of Sawusch, whom he described as ‘a very successful, financially savvy person who was in the middle of a middle-age crisis and enjoyed having my client and Anna at his home.’

Flores and Moore were both denied bail and locked up in separate units at the U.S. Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. to await trial.