| 12th September 2006 04:57 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Anna Nicole's Son: Death Was Not Natural
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2006 03:20PM EST
People.aol.com
By Linda Trischitta
The death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, in the Bahamas Sunday was not due to natural causes, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.
"The cause of death is not natural," Her Majesty's Coroner Linda P. Virgill tells PEOPLE. "However, we wish to reserve the cause of death at this time pending the toxicologist examination and report for confirmation of cause of death. Friday is the likely release date for the autopsy and toxicology report."
Daniel Smith was found sitting upright in a chair after going to see his mother and his new half-sister in the private Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, told reporters late Monday.
"It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep. She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive and she sounded the alarm," Ferguson said.
According to Virgill, a coroner's inquest with a jury will take place, and Anna Nicole Smith will likely be asked for her testimony. "All persons who are relevant witnesses, like his mother and hospital staff and airline personnel who had contact with him, would have to testify," Virgill says. "The inquest would happen late October or early November to determine how, when and by what manner Daniel came to his death."
She continued, "The family wishes to return the body to the United States, but it won't be released until the reports are in."
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| 12th September 2006 07:20 PM |
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| texile |
it doesn't how he died - that's very sad. |
| 12th September 2006 07:31 PM |
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| glencar |
Well, it's unusual for a 20-year-old to die of natural causes. |
| 12th September 2006 11:49 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Reports conflict on death of Anna Nicole's son
POSTED: 11:20 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2006
(CNN) -- Sources investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel, told a Bahamian newspaper that the 20-year-old had antidepressants and other drugs in his system at the time of his death, said a reporter for the paper.
"They said that was probably the cause of his death," Nassau Guardian reporter Inderia Saunders told CNN's "Larry King Live" on Tuesday.
However, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police, said authorities had not yet determined a cause of death, but that an autopsy was under way.
"So far, no foul play is suspected in this matter," he said.
The chief medical examiner in the case told People magazine that Daniel died of "unnatural causes," but with a 20-year-old, that could include a heart attack, said the magazine's staff editor Larry Sutton.
The Nassau Guardian initially reported Monday that Daniel Wayne Smith died of a heart attack. He was in his mother's hospital room when it happened, Ferguson has said.
"Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being. Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace," read a statement on her Web site.
Daniel Smith died Saturday at Doctor's Hospital in Nassau, where he was visiting his mother -- a model and reality TV star -- after she had given birth to a girl three days earlier.
Anna Nicole Smith is recovering well from the Caesarean section and was "laughing, giggling, smiling, etc." after the operation, said Dr. Hubert Minnis, her obstetrician.
"One cannot have expected anything else. It was a nice, smooth, non-complex, non-complicated delivery and she is doing just fine, perfect," he said.
The death of her son, however, has left her "emotionally stricken," said Minnis.
"If one had acted differently, then one would be very concerned," he said.
Alex Goen, CEO of Trimspa, a line of weight-loss products endorsed by Anna Nicole Smith, said he had spoken to her on the phone for about an hour. She was so emotional that it was hard to understand all but five minutes of the conversation, during which she was talking about her new daughter, said Goen.
The 38-year-old has kept herself in the headlines, most recently when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in May that she could continue fighting for her share of her late husband's estimated $1.6 billion estate.
Anna Nicole Smith met oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall when she was an exotic dancer and married him a few years later. She was 26, and he was 89 at the time of the marriage.
Marshall died the following year, setting off a decade-long court battle between Anna Nicole Smith and the tycoon's son, E. Pierce Marshall, over the estate. Marshall died in June.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge initially awarded Anna Nicole Smith $474 million, but the amount was later reduced to about $90 million. A federal appeals court eventually dismissed the entire award.
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| 13th September 2006 01:18 AM |
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| pdog |
O.D.
Mom was a great examples of better living through chemicals.
Sad story, I do feel very bad for her and this situatuion. |
| 13th September 2006 01:24 AM |
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| pdog |
quote:
CraigP wrote:
Two words: "diet" pills.
My guess would be a cocktail of psychotropics and some opiate based narcotic or maybe just good ol' barbituates! |
| 13th September 2006 01:38 AM |
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| mojoman |
quote:
pdog wrote:
My guess would be a cocktail of psychotropics and some opiate based narcotic or maybe just good ol' barbituates!
i want to you to cater my next party bro!!! |
| 13th September 2006 07:29 PM |
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Official: Smith's Son's Death Suspicious
Bahamas official calls death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son 'suspicious'
NASSAU, Bahamas, Sep. 13, 2006
By JESSICA ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer
(AP) Authorities on Wednesday revealed that a third person was in Anna Nicole Smith's hospital room at the time of her 20-year-old son's "suspicious death," and said that an inquest might lead to criminal charges.
A third person not employed by the hospital was in the room when Daniel Wayne Smith died, said Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force. He refused to reveal the person's identity, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.
Authorities said they believe they know what killed Smith three days after his mother gave birth to a baby girl, but they were waiting for a toxicology report to confirm the findings.
Anna Nicole Smith, a reality TV star and former Playboy model who went to the U.S. Supreme Court this year to sue for an inheritance, was in seclusion in the Bahamas with family and friends, said Michael Scott, her Bahamian attorney.
"You would expect any parent who sustained this kind of loss" to seek seclusion, Scott said.
A jury inquest, which will be open to the public, is scheduled to start Oct. 23, and Anna Nicole Smith will be required to attend, coroner Linda P. Virgill said.
"Whenever there is a suspicious death we would have an inquest to determine how the person died," Bradley Neely, chief inspector of the coroner's office, told Associated Press Television News.
The autopsy and toxicology reports will not be made public until the inquest is held, to avoid prejudicing the jury, Virgill said.
Jurors will meet in a courtroom inside a weathered, pink-pastel judicial building in the seaside capital, Nassau. If the inquest, which will be open to the public, determines a crime was committed, the case would be sent to the attorney general's office.
Virgill said there was no sign of physical injury to Smith, who was seen helping make his 38-year-old mother comfortable before he died. Anna Nicole Smith noticed him slumped in a chair Sunday morning and called for help. Hospital staff unsuccessfully tried CPR and other measures to revive him.
Scott dismissed media reports that Anna Nicole Smith's son had antidepressants or other drugs in his system.
"It's sheer speculation. It's irresponsible speculation, may I point out," he told reporters.
Ferguson, the assistant police commissioner, told the AP that no drug paraphernalia or traces of illegal drugs were found on Daniel Smith, in the hospital room or near the room.
Police believe Daniel Smith went directly to Doctors Hospital in Nassau after arriving in the Bahamas by plane, Ferguson said.
Daniel Smith was the son of Anna Nicole and Bill Smith, who married in 1985 and divorced two years later. The son had small roles in her movies "Skyscraper" and "To the Limit." He also appeared on the E! reality series "The Anna Nicole Show."
Anna Nicole Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year.
She then feuded with Marshall's son, Pierce Marshall, over her entitlement to the tycoon's estate before he died in June at age 67.
Smith won a $474 million judgment, which was cut to about $89 million, and eventually reduced to zero. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Smith could continue to pursue her claim in federal courts in California, despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir.
Associated Press writer Andrew Selsky contributed to this report from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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| 13th September 2006 07:37 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
pdog wrote:
O.D.
It doesn't look that way now. |
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