Page 1 of 1

Anna Nicole Smith

Posted: September 11, 2006 7:41 pm
by shakerofsalt
This is odd.....


Anna Nicole Smith's son dies visiting mom in hospital
POSTED: 6:18 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2006
Adjust font size:
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday.

Daniel Wayne Smith was visiting his mother in her room at Doctors Hospital in Nassau when he died Sunday, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, told The Associated Press. He said an autopsy was under way.

Smith arrived Saturday night in the Bahamas, and apparently went directly to the hospital where he spent the night in his mother's room, Ferguson said.

"It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep," he said. "She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive, and she sounded the alarm."

Medical personnel arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, Ferguson said.

Anna Nicole Smith, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce girl at the hospital Thursday, her Web site said.

"Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being," a statement on the site said. It said that drugs or alcohol were not believed to be a factor.

Her son had traveled to the Caribbean country "to share in the joy of his baby sister," the statement said. "Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace."

Daniel Smith was the product of Smith's 1985 marriage to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, divorced in 1987.

Daniel Smith had small roles in his mother's movies "Skyscraper" and "To the Limit."

Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for Trimspa, the diet products company that has been endorsed by Smith, said she did not know the name of the baby girl's father.

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 the age of 67.

In the long-running dispute, Smith had won a $474 million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million and eventually reduced to zero. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Smith could continue to pursue the fortune in federal courts in California despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir.

Posted: September 11, 2006 8:48 pm
by ragtopW
:( that's sad...

Posted: September 11, 2006 8:58 pm
by NYCPORT
She was smokin hot a while back. Not to say I still wouldn't...
Weirdness seems to follow her.

Image

Posted: September 11, 2006 8:59 pm
by SMLCHNG
She is an odd one.. but this is very sad... :(

Posted: September 12, 2006 10:52 am
by CapnK
this is sad, but am I the only one who's shocked she had a 20-yr old child? She seems like such a child herself.

Posted: September 12, 2006 10:58 am
by ~Hippolyte~
CapnK wrote:this is sad, but am I the only one who's shocked she had a 20-yr old child? She seems like such a child herself.
Isn't that partly why she had a 20 year old son?

I had no idea she was pregnent. That's the part that shocked me. I figured she was too busy in her court battle to, well, you know. And if she's trying to win that court battle, you'd think she'd try to look as up-standing as she can.

I liked the part where her representative didn't know the identity of the father, that was good.

Posted: September 13, 2006 3:11 pm
by CapnK
as you may have expected. Looks like there is more to this story.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/1 ... topstories

Posted: September 13, 2006 3:52 pm
by ph4ever
Common sense tells us that it's not normal for a 20 year old person to have a heart attack. It has happened both with and without the use of illegal drugs. Neither are less painful for the families left behind. Anna Nicole must be going thru a barrage of mixed emotions right now that no parent ever expects to have to go thru. My heart goes out to her. Dispite the fact that she really capitalized on the dumb blonde image as a mother her heart must be breaking. And for it to happen right during the birth of her daughter makes it so sad.

Posted: September 13, 2006 6:02 pm
by kitty
I agree with what Connie said...just because she has behaved in a way that most people don't agree with...doesn't mean she deserves to be heartbroken. It seems that somehow people take some kind of pleasure in seeing some celebs in pain.
And to the comment that someone was surpirsed she had a baby because she should keep her image clean...what part about having a child tarnishes ones image and makes you less upstanding? Is it the fact that the media doesn't know who the father is? That is no one's business but hers.
Leave her alone and let her grive for her son.

Posted: September 13, 2006 6:18 pm
by Dezdmona
From everything I've heard, her son was one thing she was very proud of.
Her love for her son was genuine and showed through in photographs and video of them together over the years.

Regardless of the circumstances, it seems obvious that she is heartbroken over his death.

I can't imagine the range of emotions she must be having at the joy of a new child and the loss of another.

What a tragedy.

Posted: September 13, 2006 7:45 pm
by pbans
Not a fan, but even watching her trainwreck of a show.....the love she had for her son always came through. It's just a weird situation to say the least.....and my heart goes out to her as a Mom.