Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Cunningham appointed a temporary guardian to manage Meisner's drug prescriptions and health ahead of a follow-up hearing scheduled for September.

The 68-year-old was in court to oppose the order, but spoke only to confirm his name. Meisner said in May that his long-time friend James Newton was lying when he said that Randy's wife Lana keeps her husband in a "state of near-constant inebriation" because "he is easier to control when he's drunk."

Newton filed papers in April seeking a legal intervention known as a conservatorship - an American legal concept where a guardian and protector is appointed by a judge to manage the financial affairs of another due to physical or mental limitations or old age.