Anna Nicole’s Son Death Ruled Overdose

Actress and son deaths now ruled accidental by Bahamians, so they say bring back the tourists

Those looking for closure on the Anna Nicole Smith’s son case are no closer – a Bahamian court ruled her son died from an accidental drug overdose, just like his mother.

The seven-member jury, which deliberated for less than two hours, recommended no criminal charges in the September 2006 death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith.

The son of the former Playboy playmate died after coming to the Bahamas to meet his new baby sister on Sept. 10, 2006. His mother died early the next year in Florida from an accidental drug overdose at age 39.

Police had said there was no evidence of homicide, and autopsies found that Daniel died from a combination of drugs, including methadone and antidepressants. But Bahamian authorities ordered the inquest amid widespread speculation over the circumstances surrounding his death, said AP.

In its ruling, the jury said the cause of death was “nondependent use of drugs,” meaning that Daniel Smith was not addicted and was not aware the drugs in his system would kill him.

Neil McCabe, an attorney for Anna Nicole’s mother, Virgie Arthur, said she was disappointed in the ruling because she suspected foul play was involved. Arthur has claimed previously that Anna Nicole’s boyfriend and attorney Howard K. Stern played a role in both deaths, but she did not provide evidence.

“We don’t think it makes any sense,” McCabe said. “The boy was not a drug user, the judge said so. Why would he all of a sudden take a massive dose of methadone?”

Stern, who has denied giving Daniel any drugs, said outside court that he was not sure whether the jury’s decision would bring an end to the case.

“I have no control over them,” he said of Arthur and her attorneys.

Magistrate William Campbell said the jury’s decision ended the case as far the courts in the Bahamas were concerned.

The inquest began in November and heard from more than two dozen witnesses

Anna Nicole’s former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, testified that Daniel was a troubled young man who struggled with drugs and alcohol. But Stern said he was surprised at the autopsy report and said he had never seen Daniel using drugs.

Stern, who came to the Bahamas with Anna Nicole during her pregnancy in 2006, initially claimed he was the father of her infant daughter, Dannielynn, He gave up custody last spring after DNA tests proved Birkhead was the father.

Dannielynn has been named the sole heir of her late mother’s estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the oil fortune of Anna Nicole’s late second husband, J. Howard Marshall.

Source: Hollywood Today

Read More......

Anna Nicole Smith: DEAD! According to her lawyer!

SPLASHNEWSONLINE HAS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OF ANNA NICOLE HAVING CPR ADMINISTERED. STAY TUNED!

Anna Nicole Smith has died after collapsing at a Florida hotel according to her attorney Ron Rail.

The former Playboy model was “not breathing and unresponsive” when paramedics arrived at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, where she was staying with her attorney boyfriend Howard K. Stern.

Paramedics were seen pumping her chest and desperately trying to revive her as she was rushed on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance.

“It didn’t look at all good for her. She seemed totally lifeless,” said a witness, who saw him dash into Smith’s hotel suite minutes after she collapsed.
“Her bodyguard flew past me like a bat out of hell.

“Howard Stern was running about like crazy. He was in a total panic. It looked like he didn’t know what the hell to do. He was in total panic.”
A nurse was called to 39-year-old Smith’s hotel room on Wednesday afternoon when she complained on feeling unwell.
She arrived at the hotel the previous evening on a private jet from her now home in the Bahamas.
She told hotel staff she was feeling “great” and wanted to know if there were any events going on that she could attend.
But people who witnessed her arrival said she was looking ‘tired and strained.’

Smith is embroiled in a number of bitter court battles and is due to give evidence at an inquest into her 20-year-od son’s mysterious death from a drugs overdose. Daniel died three days after she gave birth to the daughter she has always longed for. Daniel Smith had been with his mother and visited his baby sister just hours before his death in the Bahamas. This tragic turn of events has come four months after Nicole Smith won the latest round of her long-running court battle that could eventually see her become richer than the Queen.

The blonde star has been given the right to fight for half of her late oil baron husband’s GBP 800million fortune in the US Supreme Court.
If she wins, her fortune will be GBP 100m more than the Queen’s GBP 300m. The US Supreme Court said the former Playboy Playmate of the Year should have a fresh chance to pursue her claim in federal court.

She was 26 when she married 89-year-old wheelchair-bound oil tycoon J Howard Marshall II in 1994. When they met two years earlier, she was working as a topless dancer in a club in Houston, Texas. Marshall’s death 14 months later triggered a legal battle between Nicole Smith and Marshall’s son Pierce, who died unexpectedly earlier this year, aged 68. She claimed her husband promised half of his estate, but Pierce Marshall said his father only wanted her to have the GBP 3m-worth of gifts she received in 1994.

Legal experts say Nicole Smith, who has not received any money from her late husband’s estate since his death in 1995, was now looking the likely winner of the bitter battle over her late husband’s fortune.

In a string of court battles, she has accused Pierce of killing his father and trying to kill her. He alleges she was a gold digger who only married
The model and actress is one of the most famous faces in the world, with her rag to riches life taken straight from the pages of a Hollywood movie script.

She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 18 1967 in Houston, Texas, to parents Donald Hogan and his wife-t0-be Virgie Mae.
As a child Smith’s family moved to the small town of Mexia, Texas, and when her parents divorced in November 1969, Smith was raised by her mother and her aunt, Elaine.

Read More......