Anna Nicole Smith’s son’s death probed
The cause of death of Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son in the Bahamas remained under investigation Tuesday, and police said they had no evidence that drugs were involved.
Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, dismissed a local newspaper report that Daniel Wayne Smith had died of a heart attack. “That’s just talk, we have no evidence at this time to suggest that,” he said, when asked whether drugs were a factor.
Smith died Saturday while visiting his celebrity mother in the hospital three days after she gave birth to a girl. Police said they were waiting for a pathologist’s report to determine the cause of death.
The body was identified at the morgue Monday by Smith’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern, who is handling arrangements with a funeral home hired by the family to receive the body after the autopsy is completed. His remains were to be returned to California.
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